Kenneth Corbin

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a prominent digital-rights group, is hailing the Senate Judiciary Committee’s decision to delay consideration of a controversial bill that would give law enforcement new authorities to combat Internet piracy. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act would create a legal avenue for the Justice Department to take action against websites […]

This week’s war-game simulation comes amid a heated debate over the role that the Department of Homeland Security should play in safeguarding the nation’s digital infrastructure. As politicians debate, is the United States ready for an advanced cyber attack? The Department of Homeland Security this week is convening officials from across the federal government, private […]

The top White House official overseeing intellectual property issues on Tuesday said that the administration is meeting with a broad array of Internet companies in an attempt to craft policies to curtail the flow of online pirated content. Victoria Espinel, who serves as the nation’s first intellectual property enforcement coordinator within the Office of Management […]

Media coverage of the technology sector appears to be a two-horse race, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. In a 13-month period ending June 30, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was the subject of 15.1 percent of technology stories, followed by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), which found itself at […]

Computing giant HP has settled its corporate tiff with Oracle, agreeing to a settlement to resolve its lawsuit over the hiring of outgoing CEO Mark Hurd. HP (NYSE: HPQ) had sued over the appointment of Hurdas president of the database giant, claiming that he would carry with him trade secrets and other confidential information. HP […]

For Big Blue, the acquisition will expand its business intelligence and analytics offerings, extending to clients an easy-to-deploy solution that can glean sharp insights into massive stockpiles of unstructured data. “IBM is bringing analytics to the masses,” Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM’s Software and Systems division, said in a statement. […]

What does antitrust law look like in the Internet age? A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Thursday held the first of a planned series of hearings probing the state of competition in the Internet sector, raising questions about whether current antitrust laws give regulators sufficient authority to guard against abuses in the fast-moving tech […]

Twitter is rolling out a wholesale redesign of its website, aiming to make the microblogging service easier to use and providing more content tailored to the short-message format. Over the next few weeks, users will begin to see their Twitter profiles split into two panes as the company phases in the redesign. The traditional Twitter […]

Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube, the runaway leader in online video, has begun trials of a new live-streaming service, potentially laying the groundwork for a new heavyweight in the Webcasting space. YouTube is alpha-testing its live-streaming service with four content partners this week, and product managers Joshua Siegel and Christopher Hamilton emphasized the preliminary nature of […]

President Obama won praise from some prominent tech-sector groups this week when he called for Congress to expand and make permanent the corporate tax credit for research and development, a longstanding policy priority for many IT firms. In a campaign-style address on Wednesday in Parma, Ohio, Obama sharply criticized the economic proposals of congressional Republicans, […]