Kenneth Corbin

The White House is stepping up its efforts to bring government technology more in line with the private sector, unveiling an updated Web portal for government information and a spate of mobile apps designed to broaden access to federal data. The General Services Administration on Friday debuted a revamped USA.gov, boasting a new user interface […]

WASHINGTON — The migration of government IT to a cloud-computing environment might be charitably called a gradual process. Even the most exuberant proponents of revamping the federal computing infrastructure to a more efficient and lower-cost cloud model, such as federal CIO Vivek Kundra, consider it a decade-long transition. But here at a House hearing probing […]

At risk of losing its commercial license to operate in China, Google is taking a step back from its tough stance against online censorship in that country. The search giant announced late Monday that it will no longer automatically redirect Web users in mainland China to the Hong Kong version of its site where it […]

The White House has released the draft of a comprehensive policy framework for securing identities online, outlining a broad set of recommendations for combating Internet fraud and calling for comments from the public. The National Strategy for Trusted Initiatives in Cyberspace (NSTIC) describes an “identity ecosystem” that promotes security, privacy and a consolidation of the […]

Two self-styled privacy hawks in Congress have turned their attention toward Apple, asking the company for answers about how it is collecting and using information about its users’ geographical location. In a letter to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs, Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) posed a string of questions about a […]

A Senate panel took up debate on one of the central planks of the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband plan Thursday morning, but as with many of the commission’s recent activities, much of the debate turned on a controversial proposal to re-impose regulatory oversight of the Internet services sector. The nominal focus of today’s hearing was […]

The White House’s top intellectual property cop outlined the administration’s plans to crack down on piracy at a Senate oversight hearing Wednesday morning, pledging stronger coordination with domestic and foreign law-enforcement authorities and committing to elevate IP issues in negotiations with U.S. trade partners, particularly China. Victoria Espinel, who serves as the country’s first intellectual […]

A pair of senators is urging the Federal Communications Commission to wrap up its proceeding to open unused wireless spectrum that sits between TV channels for unlicensed broadband networks. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) requested that the commission set the final rules for the […]

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made Internet censorship a key pillar of its foreign policy and now factors the issue into its diplomatic relations with every other nation, a senior official from the department said on Friday. In every meeting with foreign dignitaries, “this issue is on the table,” Alec Ross, senior advisor for […]

China is reaffirming its policy of restricting access to objectionable content on the Web, outlining the government’s agenda of broadening Internet access and usage while maintaining a strict legal framework in a white paper released Tuesday. In the English translationof the document, the Chinese government provides a lengthy defense of its Internet policies, at once […]