Kenneth Corbin

Apple’s announcement yesterday that Google CEO would give up his seat on its board might have been a necessary step to avoid an ugly confrontation with regulators in Washington, but the companies are still under the microscope. For Schmidt was but one of the companies’ shared directors. Arthur Levinson, the chief executive of biotech giant […]

So much of the campaign played out online, it’s only fitting that the biggest battle President Obama has fought to date should take center stage on the Web Responding to what the administration sees as distortions and scare tactics aimed at derailing President Obama’s plan for health care reform, the White House new media machine […]

Melissa Hathaway, a veteran intelligence official of the Bush administration who spearheaded President Obama’s recent cybersecurity review, is resigning from her position as White House acting senior director of cyberspace security (or, in the vernacular, cybersecurity czar), according to the [Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124932480886002237.html). Hathaway had long been rumored as a top candidate for the permanent […]

Just short of eight months into the 111th Congress, the first full-throated attempt to make Net neutrality the law of the land has materialized in the House. It came from Reps. Ed Markey and Anna Eshoo, both Democrats. Markey has attached his name to Net neutrality efforts in the two previous Congresses. The Internet Freedom […]

After reports surfaced that Apple had rejected Google’s Voice application and related offering from third-party developers from its iPhone app store, the Federal Communications Commission didn’t waste any time before stepping in to demand answers. But to many observers, the FCC’s swift response suggests that something bigger could be going on at the agency than […]

What a litigious week it’s been. Sure, people get sued all the time. In tech, real estate, every industry. But this week brought a pair of cases that seem especially bizarre, even for today’s standards. Start in Chicago, where a real estate management firm has sued a tenant over what it claims was a libelous […]

Social networking giant MySpace is launching a global roll-out of its new e-mail client, aiming to leverage its sizable community into a Webmail hub. The revamped MySpace e-mail offering is an effort to make the traditionally static messaging platform more social, something that market leader Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has also been experimenting with. For its […]

In what was by all accounts a feisty event (one attendee told me I missed “fireworks”), a House hearing yesterday saw lawmakers renew their calls for a bill that would set some baseline security requirements for peer-to-peer networks to prevent against people inadvertently exposing files on their computer that weren’t meant to be shared. Edolphus […]

Is it any wonder entertainment executives are worried? In a new survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project has found a meteoric rise in Americans’ interest in online video, with the number of adult Americans who’ve watched a video on sites like YouTube nearly doubling since December 2006, when it conducted a similar survey. […]

It would seem that the push and pull between government officials trying to get sound data about broadband deployment and the providers who aren’t too eager to divulge their trade secrets continues. Dow Jones is reporting that leading industry associations, including US Telecom, NCTA and CTIA are appealing to the director of the National Telecommunications […]

Yahoo has spent much of the past year and change talking up its efforts to reach out to the developer community, offering up access to some of its choice Web properties as it evangelizes about the innovation that sprouts from such a culture of openness. So what happens now? Two of Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) signature […]