Kenneth Corbin

WASHINGTON — A hefty portion of the national broadband planthat saw first light Tuesday morning is devoted to the use of communications technology for what Congress dubbed “national purposes” — policy areas like clean energy and health care where high-speed Internet connections could reduce costs or improve outcomes. For Bill Clinton, global purposes might be […]

The standoff between Google and the Chinese government took another turn this weekend, with state officials saying that the search giant had not come forward with a formal complaint about the hacking attacks that prompted it to threaten to shutter its operations in the country. The state-run news agency Xinhua and newspaper China Daily both […]

WASHINGTON — A top Senate Democrat on Tuesday criticized the technology industry for its unwillingness to stand up to foreign governments that restrict access to online content, pledging to introduce legislation that would impose penalties on Internet companies that facilitate human rights violations in repressive regimes. “The bottom line is this: with a few notable […]

WASHINGTON — Intel CEO Paul Otellini today unveiled an ambitious private-sector job-creation initiative, outlining a broad-based coalition formed to pump billion of dollars in investments into new technology startups and a commitment from more than a dozen leading IT firms to ramp up hiring. Speaking here at the Brookings Institution, Otellini described the initiative as […]

Google has a media event planned for Tuesday morning at the Googleplex where it plans to unveil “innovations in two of our most popular products,” the company said in an e-mail to InternetNews.com. But some details are already leaking out. A number of publications and rumor sites have reported that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) plans to […]

As administration officials begin making the rounds today on Capitol Hill pitching President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget, the focus is on creating jobs and reviving the battered economy, but scattered throughout the 670 pages of fiscal expenditures and analysis are several key IT initiatives that aim to advance the ambitious White House technology agenda. The […]

Comcast this week filed the requisite paperwork with two federal agencies to begin a formal review of its proposed merger with NBC Universal, sparking a new wave of criticism from some of the advocacy groups that have launched a concerted campaignto scuttle the transaction. Earlier this week, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) provided the Justice Department with […]

WASHINGTON — For all the uncertainties about what the combined company would look like if Comcast and NBC Universal are permitted to join forces, one thing is clear: Comcast will be a much more active participant in the debate over how to deal with pirated content on the Internet. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts this morning […]

WASHINGTON — Microsoft today made an emphatic pitch in the nation’s capital urging Congress to enact legislation to support cloud computing, calling for a federal mandate to codify security and privacy protections for data stored on remote servers. Here at the Brookings Institution think tank, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) General Counsel Brad Smith argued for the […]

President Obama and more than a dozen senior administration officials met with the CEOs and top executives from more than 50 companies this afternoon for a White House forum to probe reforms the government can implement to bring it more in step with the private sector. The government officials and corporate chieftains billed the brainstorming […]