Kenneth Corbin

Anyone who believed that Apple might actually shut down iTunes if it had to pay songwriters more money for the songs it sells can breathe a sigh of relief. In a highly anticipated decision, the three-judge council that oversees music royalties and copyright-licensing issues held the royalty rate that copyright owners receive from digital music […]

You didn’t think the Web was ready to let Sarah Palin go, did you? Not by a longshot. On the eve of the lone vice-presidential debate of this year’s election, when the Alaska governor goes go toe-to-toe with Delaware Senator Joe Biden, the Web again finds itself lit up with opinions aplenty about how tonight’s […]

With a major decision looming about the royalty rates that music publishers receive from online sales, the digital-music arena could be headed for a meltdown. Tomorrow, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) is expected to issue a ruling on whether to raise, lower or hold steady the fees that songwriters receive from digital music stores such […]

Lying beneath the escalating noise about what steps the government needs to take to ensure that all Americans have access to a decent, affordable broadband is a debate about just how bad the problem is. Congress took a step in that direction with the House passage yesterday of the Broadband Data Improvement Act, a bill […]

Google’s Larry Page WASHINGTON — If you were to name the subject of a Capitol Hill tech-policy discussion as TV white spaces, or, in longhand, the unused spectrum that currently sits as a buffer zone between television channels, it would fail the man-on-the-street test. People’s eyes would glaze over. But if you were to describe […]

NEW YORK — CBS, one of the founding fathers of the television era, hasn’t generally been seen as a willing entrant into the world of new media. But listening to Leslie Moonves, the president and CEO of CBS Corp., describe the august network’s recent rethinking of the digital proposition is something close to a spiritual […]

NEW YORK — At big-production tech conferences like the Web 2.0 Expo here, there is never any shortage of opinions about how technology will reshape the future. Companies that fashion themselves cutting edge trot out executives to talk up how new ways of communicating and expressing ourselves on the Internet are transforming how we socialize, […]

Let it never be said that Web 2.0 doesn’t draw a partisan crowd. Yesterday we had Tim O’Reilly professing his support for Barack Obama to hearty applause from the audience. Today we have Arianna Huffington riffing on Fox News to their reprised delight. The forum, appropriately enough, was an on-stage interview with O’Reilly, whose eponymous […]

Broadening its fight against the government’s “unconstitutional and illegal dragnet surveillance” of millions of Americans, a watchdog group today filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency, the president, vice president and other government agencies and officials involved in the domestic surveillance program. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) already has a pending case against AT&T […]

NEW YORK — The headlines are ominous these days. Banks are collapsing, the climate’s growing dangerously volatile, and ahead of one of the most consequential presidential elections in decades, the media are giving us talking points about pigs and lipstick and moose stew. Amid this backdrop, and in the spirit of finding opportunity in challenge, […]

It’s been a tumultuous decade and a half for the tech industry here in New York City. Fred Wilson, one of the founders of the NYC VC firm Union Square Ventures, gave attendees here at the Web 2.0 Expo a breezy history of the boom, bust and rebirth of Silicon Alley. And with that, in […]

NEW YORK — Nokia, the world’s largest handset maker, today offered a glimpse into its ambitious vision for the mobile Web. In a presentation here at the Web 2.0 Expo that was equal parts a roadmap for Nokia’s Symbian strategy and a sales pitch for its S60 platform, Nokia senior product marketing manager Oren Levine […]