Articles by Katherine Noyes

Even as Apple suffers the continuing pains of its iPhone 4 "Antennagate" brouhaha, it appears at least one competing device is now facing problems of its own: Motorola and Verizon on Tuesday acknowledged faulty screens on some Droid X handsets and offered affected consumers a free replacement device "We are aware of a very small number of Droid X u...

Rackspace Hosting on Monday announced the launch of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform designed to foster technology standards and cloud interoperability. NASA is collaborating on the project....

Opera Software on Wednesday released its Opera Mini 5.1 browser for the Android mobile platform, concluding a beta period that began in March Opera Mini 5.1 offers improved page layout on high-end Android handsets with large screens, its Norwegian maker says. Among the software's features are tabbed browsing, a password manager, bookmarks and speed...

Microsoft will roll out multiple Windows 7 slate devices "over the course of the next several months," company CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed in a keynote speech on Monday "This year one of the most important things that we will do in the smart device category is really push forward with Windows 7-based slates, and with Windows 7 phones," Ballmer said...

A manned solar-powered airplane took off in the early hours of Wednesday morning for a 24-hour trip that will include its first nighttime flight After being postponed last week, the flight began at 6:51 a.m. local time, when the Solar Impulse HB-SIA aircraft took off from the Payerne airbase in Switzerland with Andre Borscherg, CEO and cofounder of...

Cisco on Tuesday unveiled the Cisco Cius, an Android-powered tablet that targets business users ...

The Obama administration on Monday released a new space policy for the U.S. that emphasizes international cooperation and the advancement of the commercial space industry "No longer are we racing against an adversary; in fact, one of our central goals is to promote peaceful cooperation and collaboration in space, which not only will ward off confli...

When Samsung's Android-powered Galaxy S makes its U.S. debut in the coming months, it will do so as five different phones tailored for five different carriers ...

Google is getting ready to launch a brand-new social network called "Google Me," according to a rumor circulated Saturday on Twitter by Digg Founder Kevin Rose "Ok, umm, huge rumor," Rose wrote in his tweet. "Google to launch facebook competitor very soon 'Google Me', very credible source."

Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard users' personal information, the FTC announced Thursday In what was the agency's first such case against a social networking service, the FTC charged that serious lapses in Twitter's data security practices ...

Dell is talking with Google about the possibility of using the search giant's Chrome OS on its laptop computers, Reuters reported on Monday Dell wants to be a "leader" when it comes to implementing Chrome and Android, Amit Midha, Dell's president for Greater China and South Asia, told Reuters.

Barnes & Noble's on Monday rolled out a new, low-cost Nook device and lowered the price on the existing 3G-compatible version of its e-reader Available this week, the new Nook WiFi device is priced at just US$149. The price on the existing Nook 3G, meanwhile, was slashed from $259 to $199, making it the first under-$200 dedicated e-reader with bot...

It's hard to imagine a topic more central to the argument for or against free and open source software than security Hardly a day goes by without news of some fresh exploit in the Windows environment, after all -- but what about Linux and other open software? Can they do better?...

Verizon and Motorola are planning to unveil the next Droid device at a launch event that will take place just a day before eager Apple fans will get their hands on iPhone 4 Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Google and Adobe will share the stage on June 23rd in New York, with Verizon Wireless Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer John Strat...

The question of security is one that has plagued proponents of proprietary and open source software alike for as long as there has been a choice Is free and open source software more secure by virtue of all the many pairs of eyes that can see the code, identify vulnerabilities and fix them? Or is "security through obscurity" the safer route for the...

Ask fans of FOSS what keeps them loyal to free and open source software, and security will likely be high on the list of advantages they cite. Ask proponents of paid, proprietary software, however, and they may well say the same thing Therein lies a paradox that has brought no small amount of consternation to parties on both sides for many years....

AT&T and HTC on Monday announced the new HTC Aria, a pocket-sized Android smartphone that will be available exclusively through AT&T starting later this month ...

AT&T and HTC on Monday announced the new HTC Aria, a pocket-sized Android smartphone that will be available exclusively through AT&T starting later this month ...

Jive Software on Monday launched tools designed to bring social networking capabilities further into the enterprise, along with strategic partnerships with both Google and Twitter Jive What Matters is a tool that aggregates relevant information from social business applications, existing enterprise tools and the external social Web into a single pa...

In response to a recent revision to Apple's developer agreement for its iOS mobile operating system, a Google executive on Wednesday lashed out at the company, arguing that the new terms are "not in the best interests of users or developers." The change drawing Google's ire apparently prohibits some third-party ad networks from collecting ad perfor...