Kenneth Corbin

An Illinois sheriff is suing Craigslist in an attempt to stamp out prostitution and child exploitation from the popular online classifieds site. Cook County sheriff Thomas Dart announced the federal lawsuit at a press conference in Chicago, telling reporters that his office is replete with cases where illegal activities were facilitated through Craigslist, which he […]

If you can’t buy ’em … beat ’em? That might not be how the saying goes, but it may sound a lot like Facebook’s current line of reasoning. Just months after talks between Facebook and Twitter broke down, the social networking giant is revamping its profile pages based on a new feature that may look […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks last week in Barcelona.Source: Reuters With the grim economic climate weighing on all sectors of its business, Microsoft this week reiterated warnings about slowing revenues and profits for the second half of the year, but vowed prudent spending as the company looks ahead to new fronts in its war with Google. […]

Privacy advocates are lashing out at a renewed effort by lawmakers to impose requirements on ISPs and wireless network operators to keep records about the identities of Internet users. The new bills are an effort to combat child pornography and other types of exploitation. Under the law, network operators would have to retain the network […]

Two controversial moves this week by streaming video site Hulu highlight the obstacles that remain for distributing premium content like TV and movies across the Web. Hulu, a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp., pulled its content from TV.com, a competing video site owned by CBS since last June, which it acquired through […]

WASHINGTON — If the hopes for a cleaner, more efficient energy economy are riding on the back of the Internet, it shouldn’t be any surprise that a company like Google is positioning itself at the center of the debate. Here at Google’s D.C. office, the search giant co-hosted a seminar with GE to press for […]

The needle on the creeped-out meter just moved a notch for privacy advocates with the release Wednesday of Google Latitude. Using GPS (define) and cell-tower triangulation, Google’s tracking service lets people share their location with their friends using a mobile device. Unlike most Web-based behavioral targeting schemes, users have to opt-in to Latitude before friends […]

The end of the year is a wonderful time for predictions. But instead of looking ahead to 2009, the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently canvassed leading Internet experts for their thoughts on what the digital landscape will look like in 2020. Their predictions: the mobile phone will be the primary device for connecting […]

Gloom and doom predictions abound this holiday season. But in crisis there may be opportunity, according to a new survey from Shop.org, the trade group representing online retailers. Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, polled its members and found that online merchants are planning to pull out all the stops to draw shoppers […]

WASHINGTON — The drive for a national broadband strategy just got a new wrinkle. How about an entirely new question for the debate over broadband access? What if the individual subscriber were brought into the ownership equation? Columbia University law professor Tim Wu and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) policy analyst Derek Slater are proposing just that: […]