Articles by Katherine Noyes

One-third of all teens who use the Internet have been the victims of cyber-bullying, or harassment online, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project Girls are more likely to be cyber-bullied, as are teens who lead active online lives, the study finds....

YouTube may be the dominant player in the video-sharing arena today, but MySpace is stepping up its own bid to compete in that realm as it relaunches and renames the video portion of its social networking site MySpaceTV, as the company renamed it Thursday from MySpace Video, is available to all Internet users, whether they have MySpace accounts or ...

A team of Israeli researchers have created a new map of the Internet that reveals the worldwide network in more detail than ever before "The Internet evolves in a distributed manner, and therefore its structure is unknown," Shai Carmi, a physicist at Bar-Ilan University who participated in the research, told TechNewsWorld. "The goal of this project...

T-Mobile on Wednesday launched its converged cellular and WiFi service HotSpot @Home that lets cell phone users switch seamlessly between T-Mobile hotspots and their own wireless routers Cellular phones often don't work as well inside as they do outside, which is frustrating for many given that an average of 41 percent of wireless minutes are used ...

Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook may seem fairly similar from the outside, but the two sites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to a new report In a nutshell, MySpace tends to be populated by teens who are younger and from lower-income families with less education, while Facebook is often the choice for the college ...

Internet radio listeners looking forward to another day of their favorite music Tuesday found only silence on many stations, as webcasters and broadcasters nationwide observed a day of silence to call attention to the crisis currently facing Internet radio Tens of thousands of U.S. webcasters participated in the event, including Yahoo Launchcast, L...

Viral marketing may be relatively new on the Internet, having emerged roughly a decade ago in its high-tech form. However, it's by no means a novel promotional technique, and it certainly doesn't depend on technology "Viral marketing is about generating buzz," Orvel Ray Wilson, coauthor of the legendary Guerrilla Marketing series of books, told the...

Are video games truly addictive -- or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday As part of the meeting, the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and addictive potential of video games, concluding with a ...

Following a 10-day tiff in which eBay pulled out of Google AdWords, the online auctioneer has apparently set its grievances aside and on Friday returned to the pay-per-click advertising program "We are now slowly turning AdWords back on, in a much more limited way than before," eBay said....

Three new robotic vehicles designed by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will embark on an expedition next month to search for life on the Arctic Ocean floor The vehicles -- two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and a tethered, remote-controlled sampling system -- were designed specifically for the challenges of operating in A...

The Pentagon took an undisclosed number of computers offline on Wednesday after it detected a cyber-attack on its systems earlier this week, Pentagon spokesperson Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chito Peppler told the E-Commerce Times. This resulted in some of the Pentagon's e-mail systems being taken down Peppler declined to say how many computers were affected, b...

Every time Congress has passed legislation to ease stem cell restrictions in recent years, President Bush has vowed he would veto the bill, and that's just what he did again on Wednesday "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers -- for the first time in our history -- to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos,...

French government officials may no longer use BlackBerry devices to send and receive e-mail, according to the French newspaper Le Monde Citing security concerns -- specifically, snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) -- French government security experts have reportedly banned the ubiquitous devices in ministries and the presidential p...

A computer failure at United Airlines prevented the takeoff of all the air carrier's flights worldwide for about two hours on Wednesday Flights scheduled to depart between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. EDT were grounded, causing backups and delays around the globe. Twenty-four domestic flights were canceled, and approximately 268 domestic and international fl...

YouTube is adding a local twist to its popular video-sharing site with new versions tailored specifically to the local culture in nine countries, the company announced Tuesday Users in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom can now enjoy fully translated, local home pages and search functions when t...

There's little doubt blogging and podcasting have changed the way many people communicate today. With content ranging from what was for breakfast to insightful and engaging discussions of key social and political issues, examples currently span the spectrum in terms of the value they provide Whether they will endure is another question. As the nove...

Computers aboard the international space station (ISS) are up and running once again, thanks to the efforts of flight controllers over the weekend, so the Space Shuttle Atlantis received the green light from mission managers to undock from the space station on Tuesday morning Two of three lanes on each of the two problematic computers are now opera...

With all the press rogue Internet pharmacies have received in recent months for selling prescription drugs illegally, it's tempting to assume that there must be similar sites -- or maybe even the same ones -- trafficking in illicit drugs as well After all, with all the anonymity the Internet provides, if you can buy Vicodin online without a prescri...

After working overnight to try to restore two failed computers aboard the international space station (ISS) to full operation, flight controllers have made little progress in identifying or fixing the problem Operating on the theory that the pair of new solar arrays being installed on the starboard side of the station might be creating electrical i...

Thieves who broke into a car belonging to an intern for the state of Ohio on Sunday now have access to data on all the state's 64,000 employees -- at least theoretically The data, which was on a backup device, included the names and Social Security numbers for all employees of the state, Gov. Ted Strickland announced Friday. Fortunately, it was enc...