Kenneth Corbin

WASHINGTON — For Cisco CEO John Chambers, one of the more politically outspoken IT executives, the United States is in a precarious spot. In a far-ranging on-stage interview here at an event hosted by the Association for Federal Information Resources Management, Chambers expressed a mixture of frustration at current policies he sees curbing growth and […]

WASHINGTON — In an era when the winners and losers in the global economy are determined increasingly by their IT and scientific industries, the United States is falling dangerously behind on basic science, technology, education and math education, President Obama cautioned on Monday. In an address in the East Room of the White House this […]

Solid growth across Google’s core advertising business lines helped lift the search giant to a 32 percent annual increase in profits for the third quarter, a performance that handily beat analysts’ expectations. Google (NADASQ: GOOG) turned in net income of $2.17 billion, or $6.72 per share, ahead of a consensus forecast of $6.67. Net revenue, […]

Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience, and one of the most visible members of the company, is taking a new position, moving to head up the search giant’s local and location-based services, InternetNews.com has confirmed. “Marissa is moving over to an exciting new role covering geo/local, which is crucial to our […]

For more than two years of closed-door negotiations among the United States and 36 other nations, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has been mired in controversy, with digital-rights groups and some Web companies fretting over the prospect of harsh and invasive new rules put in place to curb Internet piracy and other intellectual property violations. […]

Social networking colossus Facebook rolled out an ambitious set of new features on Wednesday, each aimed at giving users finer-grained control over their activities and interactions on the site. The changes include an overhaul of Facebook Groups, which the company is retooling to make more suitable to smaller, more closely connected sets of people, such […]

Can the Droid Pro take market share away from the entrenched Blackberry? Upping the competitive stakes, early in 2011 Motorola plans to begin offering encryption for the Droid Pro device and its SD card. Motorola is stepping up its bid to compete in the enterprise mobile market with its latest smartphone, the Droid Pro, an […]

Web pioneer Yahoo on Thursday rolled out an update of its search engine, offering new features that aim to bring users closer to popular news and entertainment content. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) is calling the service “immersive search,” integrating sorted displays of video, images, news stories and Twitter content into its results. Shashi Seth, Yahoo’s senior […]

WASHINGTON — The top White House copyright cop said on Tuesday that the administration is working aggressively to implement a wide-ranging strategy to crack down on digital piracy and the flow of counterfeit goods, saying that protecting U.S. intellectual property interests is a central pillar of the government’s efforts to nurse the economy back to […]

Computing giant Hewlett-Packard has named former SAP boss Léo Apotheker its next president and CEO, filling the void left by the resignation of Mark Hurd amid an investigation involving inaccurate expense reports relating to a female contractor. Apotheker will join (NYSE: HPQ) HP and take a spot on the board of directors Nov. 1, replacing […]