Kenneth Corbin

The impact of the huge release of confidential government files, the so-called Wikileaks scandal, continues to percolate. While journalists and others continue to review the thousands of pages of correspondence between diplomats and other government agencies, some in Congress are expressing frustration with the government’s response to the security lapse. Wikileaks has also hampered efforts […]

The past year has seen a flurry of debate and discussion about what policymakers should do to protect Web users’ privacy. Then again, so have the past several years, with each bringing new calls from public-interest advocacy groups who want lawmakers and regulators to get serious about the issue. And so began 2010. Facebook was […]

The recent blizzard may have been a pain for thousands of stranded travelers up and down the East Coast, but with millions of Americans homebound in the days following Christmas, online retailers saw sales blossom. Over the past week, online retailers saw sales spike 17 percent over the same period last year, enough to lift […]

When the Federal Communications Commission passed its first binding network neutrality rules earlier this month, it brought a sort of closure to a long-running, raucous debate that had left nearly all participants exasperated, if not exhausted. But one would be hard pressed to find an observer who really thinks the FCC’s Dec. 21 order will […]

The judge asked for specifics, and that’s what Paul Allen delivered. Allen’s firm, Interval Licensing, has renewed its lawsuit alleging many of the biggest names in tech of infringing on four patents that date back to the 1990s. In response to a judge’s ruling earlier this month dismissing the suit for its overly vague claims, […]

It is perhaps fitting that the net neutrality debate, long marked by such intense rancor and partisanship, came to a resolution, of sorts, that pleased virtually no one. For the past year — 15 months, really — the fight has been raging in Washington and across the Web, with advocacy groups like Free Press and […]

The Small Business Administration’s website has long been a well of information for entrepreneurs looking for a loan, funding or any number of other services. But, like many government websites, the SBA’s suffered from information overload and a navigation that left something to be desired. With its redesign, unveiled this week, the SBA is looking […]

When it convenes tomorrow for its final meeting of the year, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve rules of the road governing Internet service providers. Senior FCC officials describe the version of the open Internet order that the commission will vote on tomorrow as a stronger version of Chairman Julius Genachowski’s initial proposal. […]

Many holiday shoppers went down to the wire this year, taking advantage of online retailers’ offers of free shipping through the end of the week, which saw four days net ecommerce sales of more than $900 million. Online metrics firm comScore reported that ecommerce sales last week were 14 percent higher than the comparable period […]

House and Senate Republicans have been stepping up their rhetoric opposing a controversial net neutrality plan at the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is planning to bring to a vote at next week’s meeting. GOP members have signed their names to letters opposing the plan, threatened rigorous oversight when they retake the House next […]

Sen. John Rockefeller is celebrating a legislative victory that promises to put an end to a shady ploy that resulted in a handful of Web firms grabbing more than $1 billion from consumers, who were found often not to know what they were being billed for. The House has passed Rockefeller’s Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence […]

Well, he has arrived. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 26-year-old founder and CEO, graces the cover of this week’s Time magazine in its annual tribute to the Person of the Year. “In less than seven years, Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity into a single network, thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as […]