Kenneth Corbin

Following a technical report that gave a green light to opening the unused television spectrum to a new class of wireless devices, TV broadcasters are now challenging the Federal Communication Commission’s “white spaces” timetable on procedural grounds. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), along with the four major television networks and two other industry associations, […]

Could it be that technology isn’t so dehumanizing after all? A new study has found that the Internet and cell phones have earned themselves a spot at the family hearth, as married couples with children are more likely to own and use those technologies than other household types. The research (PDF) from the Pew Internet […]

As the digital television transition approaches, the Federal Communications Commission is going to great lengths to ensure that you would have to be living in a cave somewhere on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border not to get the message that you might lose your signal if you’re still working off a rabbit ears. The five commissioners and […]

A digital-rights advocacy group is challenging a controversial law that granted immunity to telecom providers that participated in the government’s domestic surveillance program. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday filed a brief with a federal court in California seeking to overturn the amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which shields companies such as […]

Google, long thought to be nearly recession-proof, proved its strength once more amid a battered economy. The company turned in a solid third quarter, today reporting revenues of $5.54 billion, a 31 percent increase from the same period a year ago. Net revenue — that is, revenue after about $1.5 billion in payouts to publishing […]

Researchers studying the aging process have found that surfing the Web may improve the memories of middle-aged and older adults. The new study, conducted by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles Center on Aging, suggests that searching the Internet stimulates the parts of the brain that control reading, language and memory, which could […]

The long list of media outlets offering live coverage of tonight’s presidential debate just got a little longer, with Hulu jumping into the mix. Hulu, a joint venture of Fox parent News Corp. and NBC, will offer live streaming of tonight’s debate, the second of three contests between the principals, on its new election page. […]

These are nervous times for marketers. With words like “crisis,” “recession” and “free fall” lodged in headlines around the world, jittery companies are trimming fat wherever they can find it, and advertising budgets commonly find themselves on the short list of areas to cut. But advertising is a big, multifaceted business, and analysts point out […]

I remember writing stories last holiday season about how e-commerce was hitting record numbers, that Black Friday was a killer, Cyber Monday was even better, and there were a couple other days leading up to Christmas that were just off the charts. And how amazing it was that all of this was happening amid a […]

Amid an ongoing antitrust investigation of a controversial advertising tie-up between Google and Yahoo, the companies have agreed to postpone the deal to give regulators more time to complete their investigation. “When we announced our advertising agreement with Yahoo in June, we agreed to delay its implementation until October to give regulators time to look […]

Of the many economic riddles the Web has posed to traditional businesses, few are more challenging than the free vs. paid conundrum. Now, a marketing professor from Columbia Business School is testing out a mix of free and paid where it’s bound to meet with a chilly reception: college textbooks. Starting today, Noel Capon will […]

Social-networking pioneer Friendster is striking an agreement with rival Facebook to roll out support for Facebook’s developer standard. Now, developers that build applications through either Facebook or the OpenSocial standard will be able to easily port them to Friendster. “Tens of thousands of developers can now introduce the applications and features they’ve built on the […]