Kenneth Corbin

Social networking giant MySpace is launching a global roll-out of its new e-mail client, aiming to leverage its sizable community into a Webmail hub. The revamped MySpace e-mail offering is an effort to make the traditionally static messaging platform more social, something that market leader Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has also been experimenting with. For its […]

Could the worst be behind us? The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is set to deliver some hopeful news to the IT industry this week, when it plans to release a report highlighting some early signs of a recovery, according to the New York Times. The OECD, a multinational economic forum based in […]

A new study from the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen and Hamilton has warned of severe shortcomings in the federal government’s defenses against cyber threats, highlighting a critical shortage of skilled security professionals and a lack of coordination among the agencies. “With most Americans, it would hardly set off alarms to hear that […]

WASHINGTON — With the federal government’s cybersecurity policy in flux, lawmakers and officials are exploring different paths to improve collaboration with the private sector, including the possibility of providing incentives to software firms that can demonstrate a baseline level of security. “It’s incumbent on us to try to engage the private sector,” Ellen Doneski, chief […]

After opening the floodgates to its highly-anticipated vanity URLs, Facebook has converted the addresses for millions of its users from a random string of numbers to a personalized Web address. Facebook opened its username registration page at 12:01 ET Saturday morning, and doled out more than 500,000 user names in 15 minutes, according to Bloomberg […]

President Obama’s promise to take the lead in shoring up the government’s cybersecurity efforts has drawn high praise from all corners of the tech world. Members of Congress, industry groups and activist organizations have heralded his announcement this morning and the report that accompanied it as a mighty step forward in a long-neglected and critically […]

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has tried to lay to rest the recent controversy over a change to a feature on the popular microblogging site, penning an apologetic blog post telling users that he mishandled the affair. “We screwed up from a communications perspective this week,” Stone wrote. The disputed change involved the way people’s replies […]

Facebook has said it plans to adopt new governing documents after throwing them open to a vote by its users. The new policies specify, among other things, that Facebook’s members own the content they put on the site, an issue that stoked a heated controversy earlier this year. In February, Facebook amended its usage agreement […]

WASHINGTON — Enthusiasts of cloud computing like to describe it as the next great paradigm in the IT industry, following on the heels of proud predecessors like the mainframe, the PC and the Internet. The idea that data and applications will reside in the ether and computing power will become a resource distributed over a […]

CEA CEO Gary Shapiro at an NVTC event last month. Source: NVTC RESTON, Va. — Could the cure be worse than the disease? Gary Shapiro, the outspoken president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, warned that the massive government spending programs the Obama administration has steered through Congress pose a greater threat to the long-term […]