Kenneth Corbin

So at what point does a public-service announcement cross the line from making its scared-straight point to a maudlin, violent spectacle that young children would find supremely upsetting? A hopelessly subjective question, just the sort that’s ripe for debate on TV shows like the Today Show. The controversy comes from Wales, where the police department […]

True to their word, a handful of the biggest players in tech have thrown their lot in with the Internet Archive to derail Google’s settlement with authors and publishers concerning its Book Search project. Word of the Open Book Coalition surfaced last week, with the expectation that the group would have its inaugural partnerships in […]

A new study by the country’s largest telecom union has found that the average U.S. Internet connection speed posted a modest increase over the past two years, but that the nation still lags well behind its foreign competitors. According to the “Speed Matters” test conducted by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the average U.S. […]

With the wireless industry facing mounting scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators, many observers took the recent inquiry into Apple’s policies governing the App Store for its popular iPhone as a down payment on a broader regulatory probe. The Federal Communications Commission’s review centered on the Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) decision to keep Google Voice, an application […]

What is to be done about the pirates? Copyright owners around the world have for years been appealing to trade groups, courts, policymakers and just about anyone who will listen to their pleas to help curb the misappropriation of their work over the Internet. They have evidently found a sympathetic ear in the United Kingdom, […]

Wikipedia is moving closer to a major policy change that could help keep embarrassing gaffs off the site, like changes to the entries on Edward Kennedy and Robert Byrd earlier this year that pronounced the senators dead after an incident at the presidential luncheon on inauguration day. As of this writing, both men are still […]

Yahoo has made a taken a major step to boost its global presence, this morning unveiling the purchase of Maktoob.com, an online hub serving the Arab world that boasts more than 16.5 million users. “This will be Yahoo’s biggest geographic expansion in years,” Keith Nilsson, Yahoo’s senior vice president of emerging markets, wrote this morning […]

A pair of investigative reports have charged senior officials at the IT office of the Department of Veterans Affairs with nepotism and abuse of power, claiming that the agency awarded more than $24 million in bonuses from 2007 to 2008, a time when it was straining under a severe budget shortfall. The reports, prepared by […]

Amid all the sturm und drang surrounding the broadband debate in Washington, the agency sitting at Ground Zero decided it might be worth its while to define the term. As it presses ahead with its work developing a national broadband strategy, the Federal Communications Commission has issued a public notice asking for input on what, […]

Twitter is rolling out a new API that will enable users to tag tweets with latitude and longitude information, making it the latest to tap into the craze for location-based services. Developers working on the Twitter platform have created geolocation apps in the past, but those programs required users to input their location manually. “Most […]

The application deadline for the first round of funding for projects under the broadband stimulus program has come and gone with barely a flicker of interest from the country’s largest Internet service providers. The nation’s four largest ISPs have each confirmed to InternetNews.com that they don’t intend to apply for any of the $7.2 billion […]