Kenneth Corbin

IBM has announced a technology to secure enterprise mashups — the applications built from cobbling together data from multiple sources. SMash — short for “Secure Mashup” — compartmentalizes the underlying code of the applications combined in a mashup. The partitioned code is then brought together through a secured channel. Mashups are a part of IBM’s […]

Four years ago, municipal Wi-Fi rode in on a great wave of promise: free Internet for all residents! It offered a utopian vision of whole cities becoming hotspots where people could surf the Web from a park bench, closing the digital divide in the process. That promise has gone largely unfulfilled. After signing Internet companies […]

Oh, the inevitability of it all. In an internal e-mail sent earlier today, Kevin Johnson, Microsoft’s president of platforms and services, reminded his employees of the strategic advantages that will come from acquiring Yahoo, and addressed issues about the integration of the two companies such as staffing, corporate culture and branding. With the two sides […]

NEW YORK — With the $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence provider Cognos formally concluded last Thursday, IBM wasted no time unveiling a slew of new products and its plan for integrating the company into its information-on-demand (IOD) strategy. Addressing analysts and press in the rooftop suite of the St. Regis Hotel here in Midtown […]

It’s almost game time. Patriots vs. Giants. New York vs. New England. An undefeated season and a claim to the best team in football history hang in the balance. Yet looking at the towering ad buzz swirling around the Super Bowl, you can’t help but feel like the countdown to kickoff is something of a […]

Declaring that Internet search is currently broken, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales is trying to fix it. And he wants your help. After several months of development and acquisitions to assemble the infrastructure needed to build a viable search engine, Wikia Search service goes live today. Wikia Search is a product of Wikia Inc., a for-profit […]

ChaCha, the human-powered search engine, is now applying its “search+brainpower” motto to the cell phone. Through its mobile answers service launched today, users can submit a question by texting 242242 (“ChaCha” spelled on a phone keypad), and a ChaCha guide will text back with an answer within minutes, accompanied by a URL to the site […]

Just where do the politics of IT workers lie? With the presidential election less than a year away, the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) took a look at the political concerns of a cross-section of technology professionals. Topping the list, 29 percent of survey respondents identified the war in Iraq as the greatest challenge facing […]

With the credit squeeze poised to slow growth in technology spending across the banking industry for the first time in years, financial institutions will nonetheless continue to explore new models of conducting their business in the online environment, according to research and consulting firm Celent. Celent had earlier predicted that 2010 will be the year […]

The professional networking site LinkedIn on Monday announced a sweeping redesign of its Web site and a new developer platform that allows partners to build companion applications on their sites. In reaching out to external sites, LinkedIn is hoping to expand the reach of its members’ professional networks, and, in the process, further entrench its […]