Kenneth Corbin

Every year, Time ignites a spirited conversation with its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Lists like these are meant to be provocative, not authoritative. They are representative, dividing their selections into groups like “leaders and revolutionaries,” “builders and titans” and “scientists and thinkers.” In that sense, the editors are trying to hold […]

Nielsen Online is standing behind the controversial analysis of the Twitter community it released last week, which found that for all the hype surrounding the microblogging phenom, most people who create an account end up abandoning the site within a month. Nielsen’s report was widely picked in the blogosphere and other online media outlets, drawing […]

WASHINGTON — A Friday afternoon in spring might not be the best day to hold a hearing on the Hill if you’re looking for a strong turnout, even if the subject is something as important as cyber threats to the nation’s infrastructure. Nonetheless, New York Democrat Anthony Weiner sat alone on the dais last week, […]

For the second time in two weeks, microblogging site Twitter has suffered a high-profile security breach, this time at the hands of a hacker who gained access to the accounts of several celebrities’ accounts. A post under the handle “Hacker Croll” appeared on a French Web site containing screen shots of the back end of […]

With the nomination of Mignon Clyburn to the Federal Communications Commission, President Obama has moved one step closer to finalizing the makeup of the regulatory agency with broad jurisdiction over the telecom industry. Clyburn, the daughter of House Majority Whip James Clyburn, has served on South Carolina’s Public Service Commission since 1998. She currently heads […]

BALTIMORE — When officials from the Obama administration talk about their plans for technology in government, it must sound a little like the presentations IT consultants across America make to the techno-challenged companies they’ve been hired to rehabilitate. They are at once inspired by the possibilities of what technology can help the organization achieve, and […]

BALTIMORE — The dream of an effective and open e-government, a great hope of the Obama administration, rides on the ability of government officials to emulate the Web 2.0 model in the private sector, where some of the biggest success stories have been built through a decentralized, crowd-sourced model, a White House official said today. […]

Twitter certainly has all the trapping of an Internet fad. Exorbitant media coverage. Celebrity endorsement. Ballooning traffic numbers. And, according to a new analysis from Nielsen Online, a weak retention rate. By Nielsen’s reckoning, more than 60 percent of Twitter users in a given month don’t return to the site the following month. Given the […]

Time Warner said today it is planning to separate all or part of AOL, the Web unit that has been a blight on the media conglomerate’s balance sheet. “Although the company’s board of directors has not made any decision, the company currently anticipates that it would initiate a process to spin off one or more […]

President Obama came into office promising a new era of transparency where government data would be readily accessible to the public on the Internet, but a new study suggests that Americans have actually soured on government Web sites since the administration set up shop. The University of Michigan maintains a scoring system called the American […]