Kenneth Corbin

Mobile payments in a brick-and-mortar retail setting have been far longer on hype than delivery, at least in the United States. But a new coalition of rival carriers is looking to change that with Isis, a platform for mobile commerce that will be available to subscribers of AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. With a subscriber […]

The glut of new smartphones that have hit the market in recent years and the apps developers have built to run on them have ushered in a bright new era of mobile Internet connectivity. But amid that heavy use, wireless companies and policy makers warn that there is insufficient spectrum available to power the networks, […]

Comcast has been front and center of the net neutrality tussle since the very beginning, arguing that government regulation will cause more harm than good in the long run. As Enterprise Networking Planet reports, Comcast EVP David Cohen again made the case that self regulation was the best course of action at this juncture to […]

In the coming weeks, two government bodies will issue reports detailing recommendations for online privacy. This we’ve known: one will come from the Commerce Department, the other from the Federal Trade Commission. Now vague word comes from the Wall Street Journal that the Commerce report will advocate legislation to clarify how much data Web companies […]

As a startup that saw its user base swell rapidly, Facebook historically leased its data centers. But now as the company matures and finds its cash position improving, it is changing gears and building a new data center in North Carolina, the second the company will own and operate. That’s good news for North Carolina, […]

The Federal Communications Commission has reportedly open an investigation into Google’s inadvertent collection of Internet data over unsecured Wi-Fi networks, exploring whether the search giant violated the Communications Act when it dispatched its Street View cars with an experimental piece of software that mistakenly vacuumed up information such as e-mail messages and passwords. (UPDATE: The […]

WASHINGTON — Frequent conference goers appreciate the rare keynote session that delivers a dose of comic relief. Conventions are, at their core, drab affairs with long, snaking lines queued up behind the coffee urns, corporate totebag giveaways and thick programs describing sessions with titles that read like a catalog of senior thesis submissions. It’s a […]

Stellar growth in the smartphone sector drove robust increases in global sales of cell phones in the third quarter, according to new figures from market research firm Gartner. Among the many players jockeying for position in that growing market, Google’s Android mobile operating system took a great leap forward, while Apple enjoyed a strong quarter […]

Google has made some of its more dramatic upgrades to its core search product in recent months. First, in September, came Google Instant, which surfaced results as a user typed out his query. Now, the firm is adding image previews, so users can actually see different elements of a website before they click through. Google’s […]

Sure not everyone can afford the monthly tab for high-speed broadband services. But is cost the only factor limiting wider adoption of broadband services? The answer is no, according to the results in a new government report. The Digital Nation II report compared census results among those with similar incomes and discovered a racial and […]

Momentum in the health IT space writ large has been building for some time, with some of the biggest names in tech, ranging from Google to Cisco, IBM to AT&T, chasing what is undeniably a growth industry. After all, technologies to securely store and transmit patient records promise to reduce costs and improve outcomes, while […]

Google has slogged through a wave of bad publicity this year amid revelations that its Street View fleet, the camera-mounted cars that collects curbside imagery for a mapping projects, accidentally collected data about people’s Internet activities. That information, it has since come to light, included whole emails and passwords. In response, Google has implemented new […]