Articles by Katherine Noyes

As part of its ongoing Project Big Green initiative, IBM announced Wednesday that it is replacing 3,900 computer servers in its datacenters with 30 System z mainframes running Linux, for an expected energy reduction of 80 percent over the next five years The move represents one of the most significant transformations in a generation for the company...

Time Warner's profits for the second quarter were up about 5.2 percent, thanks largely to the strength of its cable division, the company reported Wednesday Net profit for the quarter was US$1.067 billion, or 28 cents per share, up from $1.014 billion, or 24 cents per share, a year earlier, the company reported. Revenue was up 6 percent to almost $...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung Sync and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music service lets customer preview and purchase music via their wire...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung Sync and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music service lets customer preview and purchase music via their wire...

AT&T wireless customers gained a new way to get music Tuesday, when the company announced a new, over-the-air download service with eMusic Currently available only on the Samsung a717 and a727 as well as new versions of the Samsung Sync and the Nokia N75 handsets, the AT&T Mobile Music service lets customer preview and purchase music via their wire...

Sirius Satellite Radio further shrunk its net loss in the second quarter, thanks in large part to 561,493 new subscribers and a revenue growth of 51 percent over the same quarter a year ago, the company reported Tuesday Revenue reached US$226.4 million, while the number of subscribers rose to 7.1 million, the company said. Sirius's net loss improve...

With the Federal Communications Commission due to vote Tuesday on how to auction off the wildly anticipated 700 MHz (megahertz) band of wireless spectrum, speculation is running rampant about the likely outcome The stakes are about as high as they come -- an estimated US$15 billion, according to reports -- and so is the tension. AT&T and Verizon ha...

As part of its ongoing effort to develop an open search engine that will compete head-on with the likes of Google, Wikia has purchased the Grub Web crawler tool and released it under an open source license, the company announced Friday Wikia, founded in 2004 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales along with Angela Beesley, announced the open search proje...

Ask anyone what comes to mind when they think ofTJX, and they'll almost certainly mention the infamous data breach earlier this year that exposed more than 45 million customer credit and debit cards to hackers That's the kind of publicity most companies can do without, but it's also the inevitable result of being a large, well-known company and exp...

Joseph Nacchio, the former CEO of Qwest Communications convicted of 19 counts of insider trading, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison plus financial penalties totaling US$71 million At Nacchio's hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado in Denver, U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham ordered Nacchio to forfeit the $52...

The European Commission on Friday confirmed that it sent a statement of objections to Intel charging the microprocessor giant with engaging in anticompetitive practices The letter, which was sent Thursday, accuses Intel of abusing its dominant market position in order to deliberately exclude AMD, its principal rival, from the x86 CPU (central proce...

For startup e-commerce companies, protecting customer data doesn't always come naturally. Small matters such as getting a business idea out of the starting gates and into the race -- not to mention winning those very first customers -- tend to overshadow the many liabilities associated with collecting and storing customer data However, liabilities ...

The opposing camps in the high-definition DVD wars were in the midst of a fresh round of fire Thursday, when Microsoft announced a US$20 price drop and free bundled movies on its Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Starting Aug. 1, the price of the Xbox 360 add-on will fall from $199 to $179, the company announced at Comic-Con International. In addition, in an ...

Colleges and universities narrowly escaped being forced to implement campus antipiracy technologies in exchange for funding Tuesday when a scaled-back version of a proposed piece of legislation, substituted at the 11th hour, won Senate approval The original amendment to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act (HERA), proposed last week by Senate M...

A joint sting operation by the FBI and the People's Republic of China netted more than half a million dollars' worth of counterfeit software, the FBI announced Monday The unprecedented cooperative effort, code-named "Summer Solstice" and dating back to 2005, resulted in the arrest of 25 people and the seizure of assets in China worth over US$7 mill...

You don't need Microsoft's high-powered marketing staff or sophisticated statistics to know where the power currently lies in the portable media player market. Very simply, the score reads something like this: Apple's iPod, 100 million units shipped; Microsoft's Zune, 1 million Yes, the iPod entered the market a full five years before Zune did; and...

Eyeing an October release, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced Monday that it has authorized the mass production of the final beta version of its rugged XO laptop aimed at children in developing countries Featuring the AMD Geode LX processor, OLPC's XO B4 laptops are designed to withstand even the harshest environmental conditions, including use ...

Wal-Mart is among the retailers now carrying a new US$298 PC from Everex featuring OpenOffice productivity software, Everex announced Friday Billed as a "back-to-school" offering aimed at students, the Everex Impact GC3502 is powered by the energy-efficient 1.5 GHz VIA C7-D processor and comes preloaded with the Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic o...

Google will bid US$4.6 billion or more in the Federal Communications Commission's auction for the 700 MHz (megahertz) band of wireless spectrum, the company announced Friday -- but only if certain conditions are met Specifically, Google wants the FCC to adopt rules for the auction that it outlined in a July 9 filing with the commission, requiring f...

After months of controversy and global outcry, Google's proposed US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick will undergo congressional scrutiny later this year in a planned closed hearing before the House of Representatives' Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), chairman of the subcommittee, on Tuesday announ...