http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/ Policy Fugue - Tracking the loveless marriage of technology and government. en-us Copyright 2010 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:12:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Comcast CEO Brian Roberts headed back to Capitol Hill on Thursday to defend his company's proposed merger with NBC Universal, offering what by now are familiar assurances that the combined company won't use its market power to bully smaller cable... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/comcast-ceo-defends-nbc-deal-u.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/comcast-ceo-defends-nbc-deal-u.html Brian Roberts Comcast DoJ FCC Hulu NBC Senate merger Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:12:00 -0500 Federal government Web sites will soon begin allowing users to sign in with their account credentials furnished by Google, PayPal and Equifax. The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) debuted today as the certification body to authorize private firms offering Web credentials... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/feds-tapping-google-paypal-equ.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/feds-tapping-google-paypal-equ.html Equifax Google government OIX OpenID PayPal security Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:23:18 -0500 And oft-heard refrain from opponents of government meddling in highly technical fields such as IT goes that bureaucrats lack the engineering chops to make informed decisions about the industries they regulate, so they're best advised to take a hands-off approach.... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/sens-introduce-bill-to-probe-t.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/03/sens-introduce-bill-to-probe-t.html engineers FCC Kaufman net neutrality Senate Snowe Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:54:27 -0500 This is getting out of hand. What began as a series of official denials about Chinese involvement in the cyber attacks that targeted Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and more than two dozen other U.S. companies has snowballed into a mocking report... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/chinese-media-mocks-report-tra.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/chinese-media-mocks-report-tra.html China cyber attacks Google New York Times Xinhua Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:32:53 -0500 Leaders of the federal task force developing a national broadband plan today outlined some of the recommendations they will make to Congress next month outlining policy reforms that could capitalize on high-speed Internet technology to advance broad-ranging national goals, such... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/fcc-outlines-national-purposes.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/fcc-outlines-national-purposes.html broadband e-rate FCC national broadband plan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:33:46 -0500 The CEO of Boxee, the software startup that connects Internet video with the TV set, has shot back at the head of NBC, who testified yesterday before a House subcommittee that Boxee had illegally appropriated content from Hulu last year.... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/boxee-disputes-nbcs-explanatio.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/boxee-disputes-nbcs-explanatio.html Boucher Boxee Comcast Hulu NBC online video Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:09:03 -0500 President Obama today followed up on last week's State of the Union address with an interview streamed live on YouTube, fielding questions submitted by the public and moderated by Steve Grove, YouTube's head of news and politics. Obama took 12... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/obama-endorses-net-neutrality.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/02/obama-endorses-net-neutrality.html Google net neutrality Obama YouTube Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:57:05 -0500 No, it might not prevail in the war, but the cable giant appears to be on solid footing after a court hearing last week, when a panel of federal judges heard with pointed skepticism arguments from the Federal Communications Commission... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/why-comcast-will-win-the-net-n.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/why-comcast-will-win-the-net-n.html BitTorrent Comcast court FCC Net neutrality Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:50:16 -0500 The Federal Communications Commission has asked Congress for a one-month extension for delivering its national broadband plan. If granted, the extension would push the due date for the broadband plan back from Feb. 17 to the following month. The mandate... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/fcc-seeks-extension-for-broadb.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/fcc-seeks-extension-for-broadb.html broadband Congress CTIA FCC spectrum USF Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:51:44 -0500 With word late Tuesday from Byron Dorgan that he plans to retire from the Senate, Congress is going to lose one of its more technology-minded members. Not every lawmaker concerns himself with technology, indeed, many remain self-proclaimed illiterates. Dorgan, a... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/senate-tech-shakeup-dorgan-out.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/senate-tech-shakeup-dorgan-out.html Blumenthal child safety Dodd Dorgan Net neutrality privacy Senate Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:52:26 -0500 Google is reasserting itself as one of the driving forces behind the move to open the vacant spectrum that sits between TV channels to broadband use. In a filing Monday with the Federal Communications Commission, the search giant threw its... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/google-pitches-white-spaces-da.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2010/01/google-pitches-white-spaces-da.html broadband FCC Google spectrum white spaces Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:42:23 -0500 Here's something you can expect to hear more than a few times in the coming year: "We know that closer scrutiny has been one consequence of Google's success." The latest utterance of what has become a stock line for Google... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/ftc-taking-closer-look-at-goog.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/ftc-taking-closer-look-at-goog.html AdMob antitrust FTC Google mobile Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:32:27 -0500 In the great Internet blame game that has settled in as a sturdy subplot to the story of the decline of newspapers, Eric Schmidt is on the short list of bad guys right up there with Craig Newmark and Arianna... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/google-teams-with-nyt-wapo-on.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/google-teams-with-nyt-wapo-on.html Google journalism New York Times newspapers Washington Post Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:31:10 -0500 Federal antitrust regulators are reportedly looking into Google's $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob. A report in the Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter," suggests that the review at the Federal Trade Commission could be... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/ftc-reviewing-googles-admob-ac.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/ftc-reviewing-googles-admob-ac.html AdMob antitrust DoJ FTC Google mobile Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:13:11 -0500 Amid mounting criticism from at least one outspoken newspaper publisher, Google said today that it would offer news Web sites more control over how their content is indexed and made available through Google News. That one publisher, of course, is... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/google-gives-publishers-more-c.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2009/12/google-gives-publishers-more-c.html Google Google News journalism Murdoch newspapers Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:56:23 -0500