Kenneth Corbin

Every two years, a new session of Congress begins flush with promises and renewed legislative vigor. This year, the 112th Congress dawns with a new House majority for Republicans, who are vowing to refocus on cutting government spending, create jobs and undo much of President Obama’s accomplishments of the past two years. And you won’t […]

A prominent House Republican positioning himself as a leading White House watchdog lashed out at Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday for his response to the publication of sensitive U.S. diplomatic and military documents on the whistleblower website Wikileaks. In an appearance on Fox News, Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), the incoming chairman of the Oversight […]

A company owned by Paul Allen, the billionaire investor and Microsoft cofounder, has reintroduced a patent-infringement lawsuit against some of the nation’s biggest Internet companies, including Google and Apple. The renewed filing, which names Allen’s Interval Licensing as the plaintiff, comes in response to a federal judge’s decision earlier this month to dismiss the original […]

Comcast appears poised to win the blessing of one regulatory body reviewing its proposed $30 billion takeover of NBC Universal, as officials at the Federal Communications Commission have indicated that the agency could approve the merger as early as next month. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has circulated an order among the commissioners that would grant […]

The net neutrality rules the Federal Communications Commission appears poised to approve tomorrow morningwill go farther than originally expected to prevent Internet service providers from playing favorites with the content traveling on their data networks, according to two senior FCC officials. Speaking with reporters on the eve of the vote, the officials said that Chairman […]

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted on party lines to approve rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from unreasonable discrimination against lawful content on their networks, the first time the agency has enacted binding net neutrality regulations. In a three-to-two vote over forceful opposition from the Republicans on the panel, the FCC approved […]

Senior Obama administration officials vowed on Tuesday to step up their efforts to combat the trafficking of fake goods, taking particular aim at the online flow of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and other potential health hazards. Speaking this morning at a White House forum, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel announced the formation of a nonprofit […]

On Thursday, a House panel plans to explore an update to a nearly century-old spy law as a path to prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange following his group’s release of thousands of classified diplomatic cables late last month. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the full committee hearing would consider the “Espionage Act and […]

A prominent Senate Democrat is calling on the Democratic members of the Federal Communications Commission to back the chairman’s plan to enact a net neutrality framework that falls short of the rigid rules they have advocated. In a letter to Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), a supporter of rules to […]

In its four-year history, microblogging service Twitter has become something of a household name, a favorite vehicle for celebrities to connect with their fans and a popular target for late-night comedians. But how many Americans actually use Twitter? Just 8 percent, according to a new survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the […]