Kenneth Corbin

Unlicensed software cost the industry $53 billion last year, up 11 percent from 2007, according to an industry trade group. In its annual study of software piracy, the Business Software Alliance estimated the that global rate of unlicensed software rose to 41 percent. The group reckons that illegal copies account for one fifth of the […]

Is it any surprise that Google finds itself under increasing antitrust scrutiny? Now the subject of [two federal antitrust inquiries](/government/article.php/3818816/Apple+Google+Facing+Antitrust+Scrutiny+Report.htm), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been meeting with lawmakers and regulators in an attempt to convince them that it is not, as some would claim, moving toward a global takeover by locking down a monopoly on […]

WASHINGTON — ICANN’s got some decisions to make. The organization responsible for assigning Internet names, known in longhand as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will see its agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department expire at the end of September, and its fate going forward has been the subject of escalating debate. Here […]

For an Internet reporter, the press table at a Senate hearing on the gloomy future of journalism is an odd thing. You’re surrounded by print reporters who are all too aware that their medium is on its way out. They joke about being dinosaurs and grumble about the union dispute that nearly shuttered the Boston […]

WASHINGTON — AT&T might not want to give up its exclusive iPhone deal. But what if Congress forced its hand? As they begin work on legislation that could change the way wireless companies do business, members of a House subcommittee today heard testimony from witnesses who diagnosed the various ails of the mobile market. Their […]

After meeting with representatives of Craigslist in New York on Tuesday, the leader of a coalition of state attorneys general is threatening legal action if the company does not stamp out ads for prostitution and other illegal activity on its site. “In our meeting today with Craigslist, we urged the site to swiftly shut down […]

When President [Obama announced his intention](http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/05/obama-looks-to-crack-down-on-o.html) earlier this week to “level the playing field” for U.S. labor by ending tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, we knew that tech would be one of the sectors with the most to lose. But it’s not just jobs. Major Web companies like eBay and Google have […]

WASHINGTON — A House panel heard testimony today about the ongoing vulnerability of peer-to-peer networks, including the alarming contention that data about the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program is still vulnerable. Two weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal splashed a story on its front page detailing how intruders were able to access design data about […]

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation to determine whether sharing board members is a violation of antitrust laws, according to an unconfirmed report in the New York Times. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt and former Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson sit on both companies’ boards. Under U.S. antitrust law, companies are […]

So now it’s Apple, eh? This is rich. Valleywag has floated the rumor that Apple (NASDAQ: APPL) is in “serious negotiations” to buy Twitter for as much as $700 million, with the hope of announcing the deal June 8 at its Worldwide Developers Conference. This latest comes after the failed Facebook acquisition, the most likely […]

Making good on a campaign promise, President Obama today called for a sweeping reform of the international tax code that would crack down on overseas tax havens and raise the tax rates for U.S. companies with overseas operations. For companies in the tech sector with substantial workforces in countries like India, the plan would amount […]