Kenneth Corbin

Members of a House Judiciary subcommittee on crime Tuesday expressed bipartisan support for new rules that would direct Internet service providers to retain information about their users for a set period of time, a move backed by law-enforcement agencies that have complained that providers too often delete information that could be used to build cases […]

For as long as Twitter has been a household name, a favorite guessing game in tech circles has been to speculate on how the wildly popular microblogging service might turn the endless stream of abbreviated musings into a profitable business. Would it be simple advertising? Perhaps a custom, premium version of the service geared for […]

Search giant Google reported a double-digit increase in fourth quarter revenues on Thursday, topping analysts’ forecasts, but the company overshadowed its rosy financial performance with the announcement of a major shakeup in the ranks of its top executives. CEO Eric Schmidt will step aside and assume the role of executive chairman, with co-founder Larry Page […]

Among the far-ranging agreements secured during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington this week was a commitment to crack down on the sale and distribution of pirated software and other intellectual property violations that U.S. firms have long pinned on China. But for one of the leading anti-piracy lobbies, the Business Software Alliance, […]

After more than a year spent selling a blockbuster media merger to financial analysts, a skeptical public interest sector and government regulators, Comcast has won approval from the federal government to complete its $30 billion takeover of NBC Universal. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission, which had been working closely together […]

Propelled by the rise of social media hubs, the Internet has become a primary vehicle for Americans to organize in communities and engage in volunteer activities and other forms of group participation, according to new research from the Pew Internet Project. In their latest survey, Pew researchers found that 80 percent of adult Internet users […]

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), an outspoken critic of Internet regulations and a rising star in the Republican Party, on Tuesday predicted that the new Congress would overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s open Internet order, and then proceed with legislation that would set explicit limits on the agency’s authority over broadband providers. Speaking at […]

A prominent House lawmaker is ratcheting up pressure on the Obama administration to take action against Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. In a letter delivered this week, Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to add Assange to the department’s Specially Designated National and Blocked […]

The U.S. Justice Department has sent a court order to microblogging service Twitter seeking information about users involved in its criminal investigation of Wikileaks, a probe initiated in response to last year’s release of hundreds of thousands of secret government and military documents. The DoJ secured its court order on Dec. 14, but it was […]

At the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, vendors from across the tech industry showcased sleek new mobile devices, promising that the latest smartphones and tablets would deliver ever-more-robust mobile computing capabilities. It was an appropriate setting for the nation’s chief telecommunications regulator to issue a sober warning that without an abrupt […]