Kenneth Corbin

From left: Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell; Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association; and Donna Morea, Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) board chair and president of CGI. Source: NVTC McLEAN, Va. — Some rumors are just too sticky to let go. Michael Dell gave here today what may be the […]

Taking a look at Google Earth yesterday, you might have thought the product offered a pretty comprehensive look at the planet. You could find your house, your neighbor’s house, and, only recently, you could even see a satellite image of the Naval Observatory, home of the vice president. But, to the oceanographically inclined, it was […]

It’s become the “forward slash” heard ’round the world. Bloggers, software designers and tech pundits are talking about what kind of “human error” led Google to label every site in its search results badware for a time on Saturday. The debate follows the glitch that hit Saturday morning, when, from about 9:30 AM eastern to […]

Ever wonder why more politicians haven’t hopped on the Web 2.0 bandwagon? Sure, a lot of them have blogs, and President Barack Obama has earned high marks for building a vibrant online community in the campaign and for bringing some of that tech-savvy to the White House. Still, when it comes to the nuts and […]

For the second time in a week, the Senate voted unanimously in favor of a bill to delay the transition from analog to all-digital television (DTV) broadcasts until June 12. The bill, approved late Thursday, now heads to the House, where it is expected to pass next week. House Republicans shot down a similar DTV […]

They say that even in the worst of economic downturns there are still a few winners, and in the current slide, e-commerce giant Amazon is looking like one of the bright spots. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported fourth-quarter earnings today after the market closed, blowing away analysts’ estimates. The day after Christmas, Amazon announced that the […]

There’s an old saw about the Super Bowl that the game itself is really just an excuse to watch the ads. That might be a bit of a stretch, but the numbers don’t lie. Nielsen Online’s Blogpulse, a buzz-tracking tool that analyzes content in more than 100 million blogs, found that the day after last […]

WASHINGTON — Information about how ISPs manage their networks is famously hard to come by, but Google’s on the case. Pioneering Internet architect Vint Cerf, who now serves as Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) vice president and chief Internet evangelist, unveiled an ambitious project called Measurement Lab, which aims to collect information about connection speeds around the […]

The dawn of a post-partisan era, eh? As expected, the House tonight passed a massive stimulus package in a desperate attempt to help pull a sinking economy out of the mud. The margin: 244 to 188. Not a single Republican voted for the bill. Depending on where you stand, the bill could be good news […]

After a long day of contentious debate, the House passed the $819 billion economic stimulus package — moving one step closer to a large portion of those funds landing in the laps of tech companies. The stimulus bill that hit the floor Wednesday morning would funnel billions of dollars to clean energy, health IT and […]

Now that both chambers of Congress have produced drafts of an $825 billion economic recovery package, the role that broadband will play in that massive stimulus effort is becoming a little clearer. Just a little. The Senate bill would send 50 percent more money than the House bill to ISPs to build out their networks […]

Yahoo CEO Carol BartzSource: Yahoo Yahoo had an expensive fourth quarter, with severance costs and write-offs swinging the company’s balance sheet into the red. The pioneering Web portal reported a net loss of $303 million in the fourth quarter, or 22 cents per share, down from net income of $206 million, or 15 cents per […]