Kenneth Corbin

WASHINGTON — Looking ahead to the next major global conflict, the more appropriate question might be to ask whether the United States will be able to defend against a major cyberattack, rather than if one will occur. Students of information warfare point out that physical attacks rarely, if ever, transpire any longer without a cyber […]

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has launched an investigation into the pricing agreements between publishers and the leading makers of ebook reader devices, suggesting that Amazon and Apple could use their market power to freeze prices and crowd out potential competitors. Blumenthal this week released letters his office sent to the general counsels at Amazon […]

Citizens’ satisfaction with the government websites has declined incrementally over the past three quarters, yet the latest survey shows that overall satisfaction remains near an all-time high, according to a leading index of consumer sentiment. In a survey conducted by ForeSee Results, government websites earned a 74.7 on the 100-point American Customer Satisfaction Index, a […]

The Federal Communications Commission and Food and Drug Administration have joined forces in an effort to promote the development and deployment of wireless technologies to improve health care and lower costs while also taking care to protect patients’ safety. Through the partnership, the agencies aim to streamline the approval process and regulatory requirements for wireless […]

WASHINGTON — Google is taking what it sees as a major step forward in its efforts to drive cloud computing in the government, releasing on Monday a version of its hosted suite of applications that meets the primary federal IT security certification. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) touts the new edition of Google Apps, nearly a year […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) on Tuesday reported second-quarter profits that topped analysts’ expectations, but overall sales fell short and company shares took a hit in after-hours trading. For the quarter, Yahoo reported earnings of $0.15 per share, a penny higher than analysts were expecting and 53 percent ahead of the same period last year. Net income […]

WASHINGTON — It may be a slow process, but the federal migration of government IT systems to the cloud is building steam, a panel of senior government officials said Wednesday here at the Brookings Institution, a prominent Washington think tank. They described a thicket of issues impeding the shift to the cloud, particularly concerns over […]

WASHINGTON — As federal agencies put their budgets under the microscope looking for items to trim, under-producing IT projects could land on the chopping block. Federal CIOs are under pressure from the White House tech team to eliminate inefficient tech deployments, and either overhaul or abandon projects that are running over budget or behind schedule. […]

Google has confirmed that it has secured permission from China to continue operating its search engine, bringing some closure to a six-month showdown over Internet censorship. Friday morning, the search giant updated its corporate blog to announce that the Chinese government had renewed Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Internet Content Provider license, a necessary condition of doing […]

You’ve got to take the good with the bad on the Internet, it seems. As researchers at the Pew Internet Project and Elon University continue their work polling technology luminaries on what the Internet will look like in 10 years’ time, they have turned their attention to the social dimension of the equation. Their latest […]