Kenneth Corbin

President Obama today announced his pick to oversee copyright enforcement, putting an end to a nearly year-long guessing game in the intellectual property community. Obama named Victoria Espinel, a lawyer and veteran Hill staffer with experience in the nonprofit and academic communities, to serve as the nation’s first Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, a position created […]

In response to an ongoing review by antitrust authorities at the Justice Department, a federal judge in New York has postponed a hearing to weigh the merits of the settlement agreement Google had reached with authors and publishers over its controversial Book Search project. Judge Denny Chin of the District Court of New York’s Southern […]

Advertisers have more than doubled the amount of money they’re spending on social networking Web sites since last year, according to a new analysis from market researcher the Nielsen Company. The roughly $108 million advertisers spent on social sites like Facebook and MySpace in August marked a 119 percent increase from the same month last […]

Yahoo today unveiled plans to launch an ambitious global branding campaign, seeking to define itself as the center people’s online lives. The campaign, which carries the tagline “It’s you,” seeks to articulate a vision that’s been percolating through various company initiatives over the past couple years, focusing on delivering a personalized Internet experience and defining […]

Advertising success hasn’t come easily for Facebook. The social network, the world’s runaway leader in the category, has agreed to shutter its controversial Beacon as part of a settlement of a lawsuit over the privacy complaints stemming from the service. Separately, Facebook today is announcing a multi-year major partnership with market research firm Nielsen Company […]

The [Net neutrality debate came roaring back this morning](/government/article.php/3840111/FCC+Chair+Throws+Weight+Behind+Net+Neutrality+Push.htm), and, judging by the fast-and-furious reactions that have been pouring in throughout the afternoon, we just might be in store for the same hoary debate about protecting innovation and regulating the Internet that has been bouncing around Congress and the FCC for the better part of […]

WASHINGTON — Citing concerns over the emerging “breaks and cracks” in the open architecture of the Internet, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission today unveiled a proposal to bolster the agency’s support of the core principle of Net neutrality. Speaking at the Brookings Institution, a prominent Washington think tank, Julius Genachowski said he plans […]

We’ve known that Net neutrality was going to resurface in the new FCC, and it’s looking like the official word could come on Monday. Chairman Julius Genachowski is scheduled to speak at the Brookings Institute, where he “will announce some key elements of his ambitious broadband policy agenda.” The FCC said the chairman “will affirm […]

Yes, you read that right. If Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey is to be taken at his word, one of his legislative priorities is the drafting of a bill that would seek to establish some uniform standard for the power cords that recharge mobile handsets. “You buy a new car, they don’t change the way you […]