Kenneth Corbin

CBS has joined forces with Comcast, signing on as the first broadcaster to participate in the cable provider’s On Demand Online trial, which delivers free TV content on the Web to Comcast’s subscribers. The news of CBS’ (NYSE: CBS) participation in the program closely follows yesterday’s announcement that Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) had expanded its partnership […]

The embattled social network MySpace today announced the first step in its international reorganization, saying it plans to farm out advertising operations in several foreign countries in an arrangement with a division of its parent company, News Corp. Fox International Channels (FIC), the media conglomerate’s unit that develops TV and Web content overseas, is taking […]

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers move toward another effort to enact privacy legislation that would restrict how much information Web sites and advertisers can collect about their users, opponents of such a bill staged an event this afternoon seeking to highlight the connection between targeted ads and high-quality online content. “For the last 10 years, the […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt may be moving toward stepping down from his role as a member of Apple’s board of directors, a relationship that has come under federal scrutiny for conflicts of interest stemming from the areas in which the two companies compete. Speaking at a press briefing at Allen & Co.’s annual conference for […]

In response to the recent flurry of street-level updates from citizens using social media during the unrest that followed the disputed Iranian election, a lawmaker is calling for a congressional inquiry to ensure that those services don’t go dark under pressure from repressive governments. Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) has appealed to the leadership of […]

WASHINGTON — A Senate committee yesterday passed a bill that would direct two federal agencies overseeing the nation’s wireless spectrum to conduct an inventory to determine how the various bands of airwaves are being used. The Radio Spectrum Inventory Act, introduced by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), cleared the Commerce Committee by […]

WASHINGTON — A far-ranging coalition of IT and telecom firms, advocacy organizations and other stakeholders this morning unveiled a broad set of recommendations for how to protect children online. The new report from the Point Safe, Click Smart task force calls for a lax regulatory approach, emphasizing the importance of educating children and their parents […]

The Times-Picayune, the newspaper of record in New Orleans, has called for a criminal investigation into Mayor Ray Nagin and his staff. A criminal investigation into a New Orleans politician? Yes, yes, there’s a first time for everything, right? But this isn’t about nepotism or payola (although Nagin might be on the hook for that […]

Overstock has added its name to the list of online retailers taking their protest against new tax laws to the people. The Utah-based firm has terminated its affiliate advertising programs in California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island as those states edge closer to passing statutes that would require it to being collecting sales taxes. […]

WASHINGTON — With its work on the transition to digital television winding down, the Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with its next great task: developing a forward-looking national broadband strategy. At the first meeting under incoming Chairman Julius Genachowski, the commissioners heard updates on both issues this afternoon. “Broadband is not a solution to […]

Not two weeks after its chief privacy officer appeared before a pair of House subcommittees to defend Facebook’s commitment to privacy, the world’s largest social network today unveiled plans to simplify and strengthen the mechanisms it gives people to control their information online. “We’re committed to giving people even greater control over the information they […]

The agencies administering the broadband stimulus programs took a big step toward getting that money flowing today, announcing the application guidelines for the first tranche of funding. The secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce joined Vice President Joe Biden in Erie, Penn., today to kick off what the White House is billing as the National Rural […]