Kenneth Corbin

With five months remaining before television broadcasters flip the switch from analog signals to digital, lawmakers want to know if the nation is ready for what’s been described as the biggest transformation TV has seen since color. Following up on last week’s conversion in the test market of Wilmington, N.C., the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications […]

The financial services market, already reeling from a year that has seen the collapse of Bear Stearns, Countrywide and the quasi-government mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, was dealt another blow over the weekend with the bankruptcy filing of Lehman Bros., the nation’s fourth-largest securities firm. Add to that the news that Bank of […]

(L-R) John Horrigan, Dan Burton, Mike Nelson, Ari Schwartz WASHINGTON — Most Internet users know what Webmail is. Many are familiar with YouTube, or at least the concept of watching videos online. But how many of them understand that they those applications live in the clouds? A new study from the Pew Internet and American […]

Government and private sector executives pointed to today’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to warn lawmakers about protecting a critical piece of the nation’s infrastructure: its electricity grid. “This is not hyperbole,” Kevin Kolevar, assistant secretary of the Department of Energy, told the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality today. “Let me […]

In a letter to the country’s four largest wireless carriers, the chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee asked why the text-messaging rates of each of the four providers had doubled in the last three years and warned that consolidation in the industry could be undermining competition. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., asked the chief executives of AT&T […]

Source: Reuters Amid the clamor of Apple’s showy unveiling of its next generation of iPods, Microsoft is planning to refresh its own line of personal music devices, the Zune. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to roll out a software upgrade that will allow Zune owners to download and stream music over a Wi-Fi connection, and tag […]

In response to growing privacy concerns from U.S. and European lawmakers, Google announced that it will cut the amount of time it stores users’ IP addresses on its servers in half, reducing the retention period from 18 months to nine months. After that period, the server logs will be anonymized so it becomes impossible to […]

As the DOJ appears to be intensifying its antitrust review of Google’s advertising deal with rival Yahoo, analysts wonder if the companies might find themselves defending the partnership in court. The DoJ’s antitrust division has retained Sandy Litvack, one of the most prominent antitrust attorneys in the country, to advise its review as it determines […]

Remember a couple weeks ago when sports fans and patriots were up in arms over NBC’s refusal to stream live coverage of events that it was televising? The fear was that online viewers would cannibalize the television ratings. Fast forward to the next great sporting event (opening weekend of the NFL doesn’t as “event,” for […]

Television broadcasters in Wilmington, N.C., today flipped the switch on the digital television (DTV) transition in a sort of test-drive for what many have called the biggest shift in television since the introduction of color. Wilmington will serve as a test market to work the kinks out of the transition in advance of the nationwide […]

Jerry Seinfeld has a long and storied history as a shill, and an unapologetic one at that. Think back to the 1990’s: care for a Snapple? Then there are the HP commercials, which he used as a promotional vehicle for his own Bee Movie. He’s a proven quantity, for certain. But for Microsoft to tap […]

A new analysis of the two presidential candidates’ online advertising campaigns has found that Barack Obama has taken a far more aggressive approach to promoting himself on the Web than opponent John McCain. Despite that tally, however, video views on McCain’s site have outpaced video views on Obama’s site, according comScore. The online metrics firm […]