Kenneth Corbin

In a far-ranging oversight hearing that ran the gamut of issues facing the Federal Communications Commission, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman announced his intention to sign on as a co-sponsor of a Net neutrality bill introduced in August, signaling that the long-debated issue could again come to a head as Congress settles in […]

Google is purchasing a fraud-prevention startup that offers the duel purpose of making the Web more secure while also aiding its Book Search and News Archive projects. The company is called reCAPTCHA, a startup spun off from a research effort Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science department. The technology is similar to the classic CAPTCHA model, […]

Jeff Bewkes has been talking loudly about leveling the barriers to access to Time Warner’s TV content across multiple platforms for at least the better part of the year. But, lest we get ahead of ourselves, the media conglomerate’s chief executive took the opportunity of his speaking engagement at a Goldman Sachs investors conference this […]

Dell has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, agreeing to pay the state $4 million to resolve charges of false advertising, fraud and deceptive business practices. The agreement follows the May 2008 decision of the New York Supreme Court of Albany County to uphold Cuomo’s lawsuit against the PC giant and […]

Facebook has reached a pair of significant milestones in the social networking giant’s ongoing growth, suggesting that the maturing company is getting better at turning its surging popularity into a viable business. By traffic count, Facebook announced that it had signed up its 300 millionth user sometime earlier this week, just two months after it […]

The Obama administration today unveiled a sweeping cloud-computing initiative, pledging to remake federal IT operations in the model of the private sector by replacing expensive and often redundant infrastructure with more efficient, Internet-enabled systems to cut costs and lower energy consumption. Vivek Kundra, the federal government’s first CIO, made the announcement at a press conference […]

The New York Times Company has scrambled to address a security threat that emerged over the weekend in the form of a malicious ad on the newspaper’s Web site. The ad appeared as a pop-up box containing a security warning, advising users that their machines were infected and directing them to a Web site purporting […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — In her first public address since leaving the White House, Melissa Hathaway issued an urgent warning about the severity of the cyber threats facing America’s digital networks, a message she tempered with a cautious optimism about the mounting political will toward addressing the challenges. Hathaway, the former White House acting senior […]

You’ve got to hand it to Google. Heading into a House oversight hearing on its controversial Book Search settlement, Google knew it was going to be at the top of the tech news cycle. So, then, the question became how to spin. And this is where I applaud the search giant’s image custodians for their […]

With usage soaring and third-party apps on the rise, Twitter has updated its terms of service to reflect the new ways people are using the service. The company may have also provided a glimpse into its plans to edge toward profitability, with co-founder Biz Stone noting that the policy change does not rule out an […]

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission pledged to move the agency into the Web 2.0 era, committing to bring the same social media tools that have transformed the private sector to the regulatory body that oversees the nation’s communications systems. “We’re trying at the FCC to bring it into the 21st century,” […]