Kenneth Corbin

Having pioneered in the SaaS market long before it was fashionable, Salesforce now sets its sights on a new niche. Kenneth Corbin reports. Salesforce.com, the leader in customer-relationship management services, has launched a cloud-based database service that figures to bring the firm into closer competition with Oracle. Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) heralds the new Database.com as […]

Two prominent House Democrats are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to impose conditions to preserve affordable broadband service and fair access to online content on any approval of the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to FCC Chairman […]

Social networking site Facebook has rolled out one of the more ambitious redesigns in the company’s history, unveiling on Sunday revamped profile pages designed to present a snapshot of users at a glance, what the company describes as “a new introduction.” Under the new design, Facebook is bundling basic information about users into their profiles, […]

After being effectively booted off the Web by its U.S. domain name system (DNS) provider, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks has managed to reemerge on the Swiss domain, where it continues to publish classified cables detailing the activities of U.S. diplomats around the world. EveryDNS.net, a group providing free domain name services, terminated WikiLeaks’ service followed […]

More than a year after first announcing plans to develop binding rules aimed at protecting the free flow of services and applications over the Internet, the head of the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday said he will bring a net neutrality order to a vote when the agency meets later this month. FCC Chairman Julius […]

European antitrust authorities have launched an investigation into Google’s search business, probing whether the Web company has used its dominant position to unfairly crowd out competitors. The European Commission said it opened the investigation following complaints from specialty search providers that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been lowering the page rank of their services in favor […]

Included in the massive trove of classified diplomatic cables the website WikiLeaks began releasing on Sunday is evidence reportedly linking Chinese authorities to a massive computer hacking campaign that included a high-profile assault on Google nearly a year ago. The whistleblower site released the materials in advance to its media partners, including the New York […]

Is the Internet the playground of the rich? Higher-income households report markedly higher rates of Internet and cell-phone usage than those of more modest means, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Pew’s data from a series of phone surveys conducted earlier this year suggests a strong link between […]

McLEAN, Va. — In perhaps its most dramatic move yet toward reshaping the federal IT apparatus, the Obama administration on Friday announced a multipronged strategy to improve efficiencies and eliminate waste from the government’s sprawling technology operations, including a mandate for all agencies to embrace cloud computing. Speaking here at an event hosted by the […]

The delay is over, you can now download the Google Voice app for the iPhone (requires users to be running Apple’s iOS 3.1 or a later version). Kenneth Corbin provides the details: After spending nearly a year and a half shut out of Apple’s App Store, Google Voice has finally been allowed through the gate. […]