Kenneth Corbin

This saga just gets more and more interesting. Craigslist, in the face of increasingly shrill (and politically charged) calls to close the valve for prostitution on its site, has filed suit against one of its more vocal critics: South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster. McMaster has been rattling his saber against Craigslist, threatening criminal prosecution […]

Microsoft is planning to take the wraps off its long-awaited search engine upgrade, codenamed “Kumo,” next week at an industry conference in Southern California, according to various unconfirmed reports. The development of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) new search engine has been a loosely-kept secret, from the early reports that Microsoft had purchased the Kumo.com domain name […]

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s nominee for the nation’s first chief technology officer is getting his day in court. Two, in fact. The Senate Commerce Committee today held a confirmation hearing to consider President Obama’s nominations for a pair of key technology posts in the new administration, along with three other nominees for positions within its […]

WASHINGTON — For all the nervous talk these days about the future of news, newspapers and quality journalism in the digital age, the old pearl about throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks seems to get at the heart of it. At panel discussions like the one the Brookings Institution held today, smart […]

Craigslist’s CEO has come out swinging against the South Carolina attorney who has threatened criminal prosecution against the online classifieds site for failing to remove pornographic images and ads for prostitution. In a feisty blog post entitled “An Apology Is in Order,” Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster pointed to a laundry list of other sites advertising […]

In tech circles, few if any political appointments have been the subject of the degree of anticipation and speculation that accompanied the run-up to President Obama’s nomination of Aneesh Chopra to serve as the nation’s first federal chief technology officer. But the question remains: What, exactly, will Chopra’s job be? Next Tuesday, the Senate Commerce […]

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has tried to lay to rest the recent controversy over a change to a feature on the popular microblogging site, penning an apologetic blog post telling users that he mishandled the affair. “We screwed up from a communications perspective this week,” Stone wrote. The disputed change involved the way people’s replies […]

WASHINGTON — Internet policy folks who style themselves as progressives have high hopes that the new administration will reverse some of the deregulatory policies that have left the media and telecom industries operate under their own devices. Here at the Newseum, where the media-reform group Free Press held its annual “Changing Media” conference, the speakers […]

What Twitter described as a “small settings update” was anything but. Darn near cataclysmic, it seemed. The popular microblogging site has now said it is implementing changes to bring back the “serendipity” of discovering what the people you follow are saying to the people you don’t, which it so egregiously snatched away Tuesday night. Here’s […]

This “tug of war” has a familiar ring. The L.A. Times has a lengthy story laying out the increasing concern cable companies are feeling over the rise of Hulu, a free video site packed with premium content introduced to the public by NBC Universal and News Corp. a little more than a year ago. Essentially, […]