Kenneth Corbin

With its first birthday fast approaching, the Obama administration is holding a series of events today that amount to a paean to the president’s campaign promises of using technology to transform government and live up to the ideals of openness and transparency. This afternoon, Obama is holding a forum to hear from the CEOs of […]

Fresh on the heels of a brisk holiday sales season, Amazon is planning to roll out the large-screen model of its popular Kindle line of e-readers to more than a 100 countries later this month. The global launch of the Kindle DX, which made its domestic debut last May, follows the international roll-out of Amazon’s […]

For consumer groups that concern themselves with Internet privacy, the efforts to press policymakers to enact regulations or pass laws setting boundaries for collecting data online recall the plight of the long-suffering Brooklyn Dodgers fan: “Wait ’til next year” serves as a fitting mantra for both. So 2009 came and went with little movement on […]

U.S. regulatory authorities today filed a lawsuit against Intel, alleging a 10-year history of monopolistic behavior that saw the world’s largest chipmaker use its dominant market power to crowd out cheaper, potentially superior alternatives. The Federal Trade Commission complaint details a pattern of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) using a system of threats and rewards to strike […]

Google passed a pair of mile markers on the road to real-time search this week, debuting the much-hyped Twitter integration for both consumers and enterprise users. The No. 1 search engine had put the world on notice that real-time results were coming to its flagship Google.com site, holding an event on Monday at the Computer […]

Senior government officials overseeing the nation’s cyber defenses told a Senate panel this morning that agencies are doing more to coordinate their far-ranging efforts, but that even in the best-case scenario, the hackers are often one step ahead. “The harder we can make the general network environment, the easier it’s going to be to detect […]

Nearly one-third of federal agencies confront cyber threats every day, with many of the vulnerabilities stemming from foreign attacks and lax internal policies and employee habits, according to a study released today by IT contractor CDW-G. In its polling of 300 cybersecurity professionals across military and civilian federal agencies, CDW-G found that the threat rate […]

Social news service Reddit is in the process of recovering from a worm that pummeled the site with malicious comments. The cross-site scripting (XSS) worm emanated from the account of a user with the handle “xssfinder,” who discovered that Reddit wasn’t consistently filtering out JavaScript when a user moused over a link. Xssfinder developed a […]

Under pressure from Canadian regulators, Facebook said today that it would implement a host of changes to its privacy practices, including a new policy governing the site’s third-party applications. The policy changes came in response to concerns raised by Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, who had threatened to take Facebook to court if it did […]

In the search market, Google has a commanding share of the volume, but a new study suggests that Microsoft actually monetizes a far higher percentage of its search ads. Search-marketing firm Chitika culled through the clickthrough rates of more than 50,000 sites in its network in July and found that people using Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) […]