Articles by Katherine Noyes

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can download a mobile banking application directly to their cel...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can download a mobile banking application directly to their cel...

Roughly two weeks and 2 million viewings since the controversial "Hillary 1984" video was posted on YouTube, its maker has stepped forward: It's Phil de Vellis, an Internet professional, and he's "proud of it." In a post on the Huffington Post Web site on Wednesday afternoon, de Vellis -- a strategist with an Internet company that has ties to the B...

Rumors have been circulating for months about a black Xbox 360, and now they appear to be confirmed: The Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, due at the end of April, will reportedly be shipped in black -- but just for a limited time With HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) output and a 120 GB hard drive, the US$479 Xbox 360 Elite will include an HDMI...

Rumors may abound about a tantalizing Google phone in the works, but Yahoo Tuesday made its own, definitive bid for the hearts of mobile Web users by bringing the oneSearch service to mobile phone users Yahoo oneSearch, which was first launched on Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, now delivers locally relevant answers to cell phone users' search questions, ...

Imagine a home with cheerful splashes of natural sunlight in every room at once -- even the interior ones -- all day long. Now imagine a world in which all citizens have access to the very best medical care, regardless of where they live. These are just two of many new applications of fiber optics technology, which is beginning to touch consumers' lives in more and more ways...

Internet auction fraud accounts for close to half of all the complaints made to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, according to a report released Friday Of the 207,492 complaint submissions made to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2006, Internet auction fraud accounted for 45 percent, the Internet Fraud Crime Report found. That ...

Making good on its promises to expand Flickr into other languages, Yahoo said Friday that it plans to launch a Chinese language version of the photo-sharing service later this year The site will initially target Hong Kong users, according to reports, extending to Taiwan after that. It will reportedly offer the same set of features as the current En...

When Google announced Wednesday that it will adopt new privacy measures designed to make it harder to connect searches with the individuals who request them, it promoted the move as a big step Whereas last year the search engine giant went head-to-head with the U.S. Department of Justice over just this question when it was subpoenaed for a list of ...

Now that IBM and Intel have both created chips using 45nm process technology, it's clear chip technology will continue at least a little longer on the path predicted by Moore's Law, with ever-tinier creations coming out every two years or so High-k metals, in particular, appear to help solve one of the biggest problems that have dogged chip designe...

In a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission was accused of overstepping its authority in its recent actions regarding the cable TV industry At the end of 2006, the FCC -- led by Commissioner Kevin Martin -- approved in a 3-2 vote new video franchising rules designed to increase competition in the cable in...

The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced Tuesday that it is targeting online moms with a new, "one-stop" resource for parents Disney Family.com, which will debut this week in a beta version, is aimed at parents in general and mothers in particular, offering community and objective information on a variety of topics such as education, food, t...

Wireless handset users looking for a little more style than the usual black and silver need look no further than AT&T, which announced Monday the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Pearl and Palm Treo in shades of red Research In Motion's BlackBerry Pearl is now available from all AT&T (formerly Cingular) stores in a dark ruby red, while Palm...

If one were to conduct a survey of technology publications over the past decade or so, it's a good bet there would be at least one instance in each of those years in which someone declared that "this is the year of biometrics." Full of promise but long constrained by a diverse set of obstacles, biometrics -- or the use of body or physical character...

For some, it may seem like a dream come true. For others, it may feel like an April Fools' Day joke come early, but make no mistake about it: The beer-launching fridge has arrived John Cornwell, who graduated last year from Duke University with a degree in electrical and computer engineering, is the mastermind behind the innovation that's sure to b...

In a modern-day continuation of an ages-old battle, the Turkish government has banned YouTube in Turkey because of offensive content posted by a Greek contributor Greeks and Turks have been battling on Google's video-sharing site in recent weeks, trading insults in their video posts. When a Greek user posted a video portraying Mustafa Kemal Ataturk...

When Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin on Tuesday accused Google of taking a "cavalier approach to copyright" and of using its Book Search project to make money off other people's copyrighted creations, he ignited a fiery debate over the ethics of information access, the meaning of copyright and the very rules of free-market competition Rubin's comme...

Google's Book Search project "systematically violates copyright" and deprives content owners of the opportunity to make money from their creations, according to a top Microsoft attorney In a prepared speech to be given Tuesday to the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) in New York, Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate gene...

More than 40 percent of U.S. households with televisions now also have video game consoles, according to a new report released Monday by Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services By the fourth quarter of 2006, 41.1 percent of all TV households -- representing 45.7 million homes -- had video game consoles, compared with 39.1 percent in 2005 and 35.2

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking will experience weightlessness for the first time when he flies aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One next month The flight, scheduled for April 26, will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will perform parabolic maneuvers during a controlled ascent and descent -- in some...