Kenneth Corbin

Complaints about cyber crimes and Internet fraud saw a dramatic spike in 2008, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the nonprofit White Collar Crime Center, maintains a Web site where victims of Internet fraud can lodge complaints, this week reporting a 33 percent spike in […]

Social networking giant MySpace has teamed with the popular online local guide Citysearch to launch MySpace Local, billing the new feature as a “social directory of small business profiles.” Citysearch, a division of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), is a comprehensive directory of business listings in cities across the country, featuring restaurant listings, reviews, events guides and […]

As it continues to expand its wildly popular developer platform, Facebook has teamed with Adobe Systems to roll out an open source support library for developers to write applications using Flash technology. The ActionScript 3 client library, expected to be made public today, will provide developers with 60 APIs to write Flash apps for both […]

It had to happen sooner or later. A British university has developed a masters program in social media, offering a one-year degree program beginning in September that aims to instruct students in “interacting and disseminating ideas through websites, blogs, Twitter and other social media as well as at networking events.” The program at Birmingham City […]

The news for the newspaper industry isn’t getting any better. The latest in the gloomy parade of layoffs, closures and content reductions come from the New York Times, which has grudgingly terminated 100 employees from the business side of the company’s operations, and is cutting newsroom salaries by 5 percent. This comes after the [much-bemoaned […]

ISPs are trying to put a lid on a fresh wave of speculation that they are in league with the entertainment industry with plans to shut off service to people suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted content. Earlier this week, executives from several ISPs participated in a panel discussion on the proper role of their companies […]

President Obama hosted an online town hall meeting today, fielding questions submitted through the Internet from the East Room of the White House. Today’s meeting was the maiden voyage of a new feature the Obama administration has added to WhiteHouse.gov. In an effort to make the presidency more accessible and tech savvy, the Obama teamed […]

It seems, these days, anyone of consequence needs a Twitter presence. Businesses are doing it. Media outlets are hooked. Even members of Congress have been known to rattle out tweets on their BlackBerries throughout a somber presidential address. But underneath all that hype is there a business model? Twitter co-founder Biz Stone thinks so, telling […]

Chic new smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and HTC’s Android-powered G1 have brought the hype about the mobile Web to a fevered pitch, but a new study from the Pew Internet Project suggests that Americans remain deeply divided in their views on always-on connectivity. Pew found that 39 percent of survey respondents have “positive and improving […]

Access to YouTube remains blocked for at least the third day in China after footage appeared on the site depicting Chinese police beating shackled Tibetan protesters following a demonstration last March. Google spokesman Scott Rubin told InternetNews.com that it is still working to bring its video-sharing site back online and identify the cause of the […]

Facebook users are nothing if not passionate. In the few weeks since the social networking giant took the lid off of its plans to redesign the site with a more real-time feel, members of the community have been in an uproar, forming groups and launching apps demanding Facebook bring back the old layout. Facebook listened, […]

The bread line is getting long as the government moves closer to handing out billions of dollars in economic stimulus money for new broadband projects. After a morning session on oversight and accountability for the forthcoming broadband stimulus grants, the Commerce Department turned its attention this afternoon to the selection criteria for grant recipients, hearing […]