Kenneth Corbin

The polls have closed, and now all the businesses, public agencies and watchdog groups concerned with where the $7.2 of broadband stimulus money will go can do is wait. The period for submitting comments to the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), the agencies administering the broadband stimulus funding, ended […]

The Obama administration announced several policy changes aimed at loosening the flow of information between the United States and Cuba which could have a significant impact for U.S. telecom and Internet providers. In addition to easing restrictions for U.S. residents looking to visit or send money to relatives on the island, the administration is moving […]

It almost seems intuitive, doesn’t it? A pair of academic researchers has just wrapped up a study that led them to the arresting conclusion that college students who spend more time on Facebook and less time studying earn lower marks than their peers who steer clear of the social networking site. At the same time, […]

Microblogging phenom Twitter found itself under attack by several variants of a well-known security vulnerability over the weekend which flooded the site with nearly 10,000 spam messages. Early Saturday morning, Twitter was hit with a cross-site scripting worm , a self-replicating chain of code that spread links to the Web site StalkDaily.com. In a blog […]

WASHINGTON — At the intersection of new media and politics, the idea that the Obama campaign changed the way politicians use the Web has been written into the canon. But when it comes to paid online advertising, a panel of experts at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Washington office said last year’s election was no great […]

The news industry, understandably frustrated at the enviable growth rates news aggregators and search engines are enjoying, is reviving talk about trying to lean on the Googles of the world to recoup some of the revenue news outlets feel they are losing to the online portals. First, Rupert Murdoch raised some eyebrows when he quipped […]

Facebook has hit an important milestone in the young company’s growth, signing up user No. 200 million some time Wednesday. To commemorate the occasion, CEO Mark Zuckerberg penned a high-minded blog post talking up his creation not for its famously diversionary trivia quizzes and games, but for its ability to create meaningful connections among people […]

Giving the CEO of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) the last word at the newspaper convention seems a fitting end-cap to the ailing industry’s annual show. Eric Schmidt closed down the Newspaper Association of America’s show in San Diego with a keynote address urging his audience to come to grips with the irreversible trend of user-generated content […]

WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission today took up its charge to begin work on drafting a national broadband strategy, unanimously approving a notice of inquiry seeking comments from interested parties about the steps the government should take to expand and improve deployment and adoption of the nation’s digital infrastructure. The idea of a national […]

Rep. Howard Berman took advantage of the two-week recess in Congress to hold a field hearing on copyright in the digital age on his home turf in Van Nuys, Calif. With Hollywood as his constituency, Berman has a keen interest in attaching his name to legislative efforts to curb digital piracy by shoring up the […]