Articles by Katherine Noyes

LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves Set in the year 2161, "Fracture" puts players in the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert fighting for a group called "Atlantic Alliance," which ...

Ask any journalist today how the Internet has changed journalism, and the most likely reply will be, "how hasn't it?" "The question is so basic now, it's like asking how the telephone changed the world," Sreenath Sreenivasan, associate professor of professional practice at the Columbia University School of Journalism, told TechNewsWorld....

Just days before a May 9 congressional oversight hearing into the Bush administration's violations of the Endangered Species Act and censorship of science, a top-ranking Interior Department official resigned Monday Julie MacDonald was the assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, responsible for overseeing the entire U.S. Fish and Wildlife S...

The 2008 presidential campaign season may be gearing up, but there's also another race afoot that has nothing to do with politics. It's the race for consumers' hearts and wallets that's being run by cable companies and telcos, and triple play bundles are the most recent heat "Over the last several years, we've seen the cable companies really attack...

When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight RIA (rich interactive application) platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market The availability of Silverlight will undoubtedly create more choice for devel...

Forget joysticks: New toys in the works at San Jose, Calif.-basedNeuroSky reportedly use players' brain waves to control the action The toys include a sensor, which is placed on the player's forehead to read the brain's electrical signals. Moves are dependent on the player's concentration....

World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One The flight took off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Central Florida. Zero Gravity cofounders Peter...

Just one day after Siemens CEO Klaus Kleinfeld announced he would not renew his contract with the company, the German engineering and technology giant admitted Thursday that it is the focus of an expanding, multinational probe over allegations of bribery and corruption German prosecutors are investigating the company on suspicion of embezzlement, t...

MySpace and TV producer Mark Burnett announced Friday that they are working on a new reality TV show focused on finding the next great American politician The new, interactive series, called "Independent," will use online, offline and on-air tactics to find the politician viewers feel best represents the voice of young Americans. Though not yet pic...

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago The San Antonio-based company reported net income of US$2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1.4 billion, or 37 cents per share, a year ago....

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago The San Antonio-based company reported net income of US$2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1.4 billion, or 37 cents per share, a year ago....

AT&T reported strong financial results for the first quarter of 2007 on Tuesday, including doubling its earnings over those from the same quarter a year ago The San Antonio-based company reported net income of US$2.8 billion, or 45 cents per share, for the period ending March 31, compared with $1.4 billion, or 37 cents per share, a year ago....

The 2008 presidential campaigns have already been notable for several "firsts" in their use of technology, and on Monday a new one was added to the list when Yahoo, Slate and The Huffington Post announced they will host the first-ever online-only debates this fall PBS host Charlie Rose will moderate the two debates -- one for the Democratic contend...

In a case considered by many to be the first of its kind, the World Organization for Human Rights USA announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo and its subsidiaries for what it calls the Internet giant's complicity in human rights abuses and acts of torture in China Plaintiffs in the case, which was filed in the U.S. District Cou...

Just two days after it accepted a sweetened merger agreement with a private investment group, Clear Channel Communications announced Friday that it will sell its TV group Rhode Island-based Providence Equity Partners will buy the group of 56 TV stations for US$1.2 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year, subject to...

Internet shoppers who appreciate a good pun will be sorry to note the passing of Google's Froogle product search service, which the company said Wednesday it had decided to rename. In its place we now have Google Product Search -- not nearly as fun a moniker, but infinitely more descriptive "Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helpe...

Clear Channel Communications accepted a new, increased bid to buy the company Wednesday, but there is widespread skepticism on whether the offer will be enough to satisfy shareholders Clear Channel, the largest radio broadcaster in the United States with nearly 1,200 stations, was offered US$39 a share this time by a private investment group led by...

As the midnight filing deadline loomed large for America's taxpayers Tuesday, users of TurboTax were frustrated by delays in the software's electronic filing system that caused many to miss the deadline. Luckily for them, the Internal Revenue Service understands In the third such extension this filing year, the IRS announced Wednesday that users of...

In yet another not-so-subtle challenge to the dominance of Microsoft's Office software suite, Google announced on Tuesday that it will be adding presentation software to its Google Apps suite of office software Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the new presentation software at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Due this summer, it will com...

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) delivered a severe blow to Internet radio operators Monday when it upheld its earlier decision regarding royalty rates that must be paid to artists for music played online The result is -- unless Congress intervenes -- royalty rates webcasters must pay will increase on May 15 between 300 and 1,200 percent, retroact...