Articles by Katherine Noyes

A new FiOS (fiber optic service) from Verizon features upload and download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mb/s), the company announced Tuesday Using a 20Mb/s upstream broadband connection, the symmetrical service could enable a consumer to upload a 250 MB file of 200 photos in about 90 seconds, Verizon said, compared with about 47 minutes ...

Setting its sights squarely on Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft announced Tuesday its first dedicated mobile device management server aimed at enterprise users The Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is a new mobile-dedicated server solution that helps companies manage Windows Mobile phones much the way they do Windows-based lapto...

Online stores could soon become a lot more like their real world counterparts thanks to new, 3-D immersive technology announced Monday by Kinset Kinset 3D Store technology allows retailers to create and operate retail stores that look and feel like those in the brick-and-mortar world. Shoppers in Kinset's 3-D stores can browse through virtual aisle...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording labels, available from Napster. The service complements AT&T'...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording labels, available from Napster. The service complements AT&T'...

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday The new service, which will begin in mid-November, will allow AT&T customers to select from more than 5 million full-track songs, representing all major recording labels, available from Napster. The service complements AT&T'...

Two executives from Village Voice Media, parent company of The Village Voice and other alternative newspapers, were arrested Thursday night on a misdemeanor charge for revealing in The Phoenix New Times that they had been subpoenaed for a raft of reporters' notes and documents as well as information about online visitors to The Phoenix New Times' Web site...

SAP has had a wealth of good news to share this week, as it announced a planned acquisition, reported rosy earnings and scored a significant coup First, with an eye toward ramping up its capabilities in business rules management, SAP announced Wednesday that it plans to acquire Yasu Technologies....

In a move echoing one made by rival Facebook earlier this year, MySpace plans to open its platform to third-party application developers The wildly popular social networking company owned by News Corp. plans to formalize its relationships with developers and will release a MySpace application programming interface (API) development platform in the ...

There are many reasons why a company might opt to conduct virtual meetings rather than face-to-face ones. Cost is one, particularly with fuel costs soaring; having a widely dispersed base of employees, clients or partners is another common one An increasing number of companies are also meeting up in the virtual world because of concern about the en...

MySpace users will soon be able to chat by phone thanks to a new partnership between Skype and the popular social networking site, the companies announced Wednesday MySpaceIM with Skype is a new product that integrates MySpace's instant messaging client with Skype's free voice-calling capability using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Launching ...

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced Tuesday an agreement that calls for increased enforcement of safeguards aimed at protecting children and adolescents on the site from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook will begin enforcing its safety procedures by responding t...

Within just three days of issuing its global, online appeal for public help in identifying a suspected pedophile last week, Interpol had already determined the suspect's name, nationality, date of birth, passport number, and current and previous places of work, the agency announced Monday Images of the man had been posted online showing him sexuall...

Broadcom announced on Monday a new, single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) processor that integrates multiple 3G cellular and mobile technologies on a single, low-power, 65 nanometer complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die The "3G phone on a chip," which Broadcom says is the world's first such single-chip solution, enables manufactu...

Chinese Internet company Alibaba.com will try to raise as much as US$1.33 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) slated for next month, according to reports In what promises to be the largest such offering in history by a Chinese technology firm, the business-to-business operator will reportedly sell 858.9 million shares, or 17 percent of its ...

"Free software" is a term that's often used interchangeably with "open source," and often understood simply to mean software that is obtained without charge. However, the idea of free software is neither about openness nor about price; it is a matter of freedom, and its implications extend into the political, philosophical and ethical realms So arg...

Armchair tourists traveling the globe via Google Earth can now watch YouTube videos related to each destination they visit, Google announced Thursday A new YouTube layer in Google Earth's Featured Content folder allows users to zoom in on any location and view YouTube videos related to that place. For example, by zooming in on Maui, Hawaii, a user ...

Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are the joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday The 10 million kronor (US$1.5 million) award was jointly made for the recipients' efforts to increase and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundati...

Two committees within the U.S. House of Representatives have approved a bill put forth by Democrats this week as an alternative to the broad surveillance legislation rushed through in August to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 Known as the "Restore Act," short for the Responsible Electronic Surveillance that is Overse...

Few industries in this online era can lay claim to a longer or more venerable history than newspapers can -- but today, it's no secret that newspapers are in trouble The rise of the Internet has wrought changes to the competitive landscape that are drawing away both readers and advertisers, leaving newspapers in a struggle to survive. Traditional p...