Microsoft will sein neues Betriebssystem Windows 8 mit einem reich bestückten App-Store starten. Auf der Cebit in Hannover wirbt der Softwarekonzern deshalb um die Entwicklerszene. Über Windows 8 könnten Anwendungen auf 231 Märkten in mehr als 100 Sprachen vertrieben werden, kündigte Microsoft in Hannover an. Keine andere Plattform biete Entwicklern den Zugang zu so vielen Kunden.
Die Zahl der internationalen Patentgesuche ist 2011 gegenüber dem Jahr davor um 10,7 Prozent gestiegen. Dies sei das stärkste Wachstum seit dem Jahr 2005, teilte die Weltorganisation für geistiges Eigentum (Wipo) mit. Insgesamt wurden 181.900 internationale Patentgesuche eingereicht.
Apples App Store für iPhone und iPad hat am vergangenen Wochenende die Marke von 25 Milliarden heruntergeladenen Programmen geknackt. Damit hat sich das Tempo noch einmal deutlich beschleunigt: Für die erste App-Milliarde hatte Apple nach dem Start 2008 noch neun Monate gebraucht, die Marke von zehn Milliarden war erst im Jänner 2011 durchbrochen worden.
Wegen wegbrechender Umsätze im angestammten Telefongeschäft forciert die Deutsche Telekom ihren Vorstoss in neue Bereiche. Sichere E-Mails und Unternehmens-Anwendungen im Netz - sogenannte Cloud-Dienste - sollen neue Kunden locken. In diesen Geschäftsfeldern etablierten Anbietern wie der Deutschen Post oder der US-Internetfirma Salesforce wollen die Bonner damit die Butter vom Brot nehmen.
Die Mitarbeiter des ins Hintertreffen geratenen US-Internetkonzerns Yahoo müssen um ihre Jobs bangen. Wenn sich die Informationen des gewöhnlich gut unterrichteten US-Technologieblogs "All Things Digital" bewahrheiten, bereitet der neue Konzernchef Scott Thompson einen massiven Umbau vor - samt Stellenstreichungen, „die wahrscheinlich in die Tausende gehen“.
Swisscom bündelt ihre Kompetenzen im Bereich Software-basierter Kommunikationslösungen und führt die beiden Tochterunternehmen Webcall und Axept mit insgesamt 120 Mitarbeitenden zusammen. Der Zusammenschluss habe keine Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsplätze, heisst es in einer Medienmitteilung. Neuer Geschäftsführer wird Daniel Staehelin.
Die Zuger Officeatwork hat die in Wallisellen angesiedelte Aandarta, die Mitentwicklerin der Immobilienbewirtschaftungssoftware «Abaimmo», mit dem Award als "Officeatwork – Partner of the Year" ausgezeichnet. " geehrt.
Die US-amerikanische Chipherstellerin AMD trennt sich endgültig von ihren Werken und gibt dazu ihen verbliebenen 8,6-Prozent-Anteil an der 2009 abgespaltenen Fertigungsfirma Globalfoundries ab. Alleiniger Eigentümer von Globalfoundries wird damit die staatliche Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) aus Abu Dhabi.
Das Partnerland der Cebit 2012, Brasilien, steckt mitten im IT-Boom. Das fünftgrösste Land der Erde verzeichnet Rekordzuwächse bei Mobiltelefonen, Internet-Zugängen, Breitbandverbindungen und Unterhaltungselektronik.
Die USA haben einen Auslieferungsantrag gegen den deutschen Gründer der inzwischen gesperrten Internet-Plattform Megaupload vorgelegt. Die neuseeländische Staatsanwältin Anne Toohey, die in diesem Fall die Interessen der USA vertritt, teilte am Montag mit, der Antrag gegen Kim Dotcom sei am Freitag beim Gericht in Auckland eingereicht worden.
AMD is shedding its stake in GlobalFoundries, the semiconductor foundry that it spun off in 2009. Initially, AMD used GlobalFoundries as its sole manufacturer, but it has increasingly turned to other companies such as TSMC after GlobalFoundries struggled to build working chips on its 32nm process.
A new research report commission by Microsoft finds that 14 million jobs will be created by 2015 thanks to cloud computing, but about half of the new jobs will be in India and China. Why's is the U.S. not getting more of these jobs? And what of the IT folk out of work because of the cloud. Is it fair to extract the cloud as job creator with considering its net effect?
Facebook is exploring a technology that controls temperatures in the data center by automatically moving software workloads among servers according to the air pressure on either side of each machine. A recently revealed Facebook patent application describes a system that uses a load balancer to shift tasks among servers based on their particular "cooling needs," which are related to air pressure in the data center. The idea to keep each server running as hot as they can without malfunctioning. The higher the temperature, the more more you save on cooling costs.
For the first time, the government explained why it believes it has the legal authority to kill U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism while they're overseas, without providing them with a process to contest their killings. Only Attorney General Eric Holder's landmark speech on Monday posed more questions than answers.
America's next stealth fighter has passed a key Pentagon test of its combat capability, allowing the nearly $400-billion program to move closer to full-rate production. But the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter cleared the mid-February review only because a Pentagon council agreed to relax the grading scale. That's right: the military helped the F-35 essentially cheat on its mid-term exam.
The nickname for the Android version release after "Jellybean" will be "Key Lime Pie," according to a new report.
A massive collection of new studies about Titan, Saturn's largest moon, describe the frigid mini-world in unprecedented detail.
It appears that hackers who breached Sony?s networks last year absconded with more than just the personal information of millions of Sony Play Station users. They also stole more than 50,000 music files, including Michael Jackson?s entire back catalogue of published music, as well as previously unreleased tracks.
How hard is the Hell's Gate Hard Enduro motorcycle race? Well, five out of 17 people made it to the finish line this year. That's up from two last time around.
Apple announced Monday that its iOS App Store has reached a milestone 25 billion downloads.
In order to tackle its competitiveness challenges, America needs to harness the inherent creativity of its workforce. It is making progress in the right direction but needs to push the pace.
At a time when the U.S. is cutting its defense budget by 2.5 percent, China?s far less advanced military is getting flooded with cash. Beijing announced that it will boost its annual defense budget to $106 billion, an increase of 11.2 percent. Cue the freakout ? from everywhere but the Pentagon.
Barnes & Noble is sponsoring an event for developers in London on March 19, possibly signaling a spring entry of its Nook e-reading and tablet devices into the UK and Europe.
The world of virtual band Gorillaz is hypercolored and surreal, like being in Alice's Messed-Up Wonderland. So for the video for the group's collaboration with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Outkast's Andr? 3000, director (and Gorillaz co-creator) Jamie Hewlett had to bring his characters' bizarre universe into that of a real-world apartment. In this behind-the-scenes video, we learn how the video for "DoYaThing" was made.
Technology innovation, internet availability, and the generation factor will contribute to create great opportunities for some, and dangers for other, writes Todd Nielsen.
The Pentagon's far-out research agency, Darpa, has just released a new video of their Cheetah 'bot -- designed to mimic the rapid movements of cheetahs, the speediest animals in nature -- absolutely killing it on a laboratory treadmill.
Magnetic disturbances on the sun hurled a colossal burst of charged particles into space overnight. The edge should reach Earth between late Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Preschool helps prime malleable young minds to develop with relative ease. But why do children in socioeconomically deprived homes get so much more value from such an education? Frontal Cortex blogger Jonah Lehrer shares the surprising results of a new twins study.
Gaining control of your mobile data usage is the key to avoid running into data caps, throttling and overage charges. As an added bonus, by cutting back on the amount of data your smartphone or tablet passes around over your provider's network, you're likely to gain a bit of extra battery life too.
343 Industries, the Microsoft group that took over the 's storyline during a media briefing Thursday.
DC's new take on Lois Lane seems to epitomize how they treat all women in their comics.
Steve Herrod wants to put a virtual machine on your phone. Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMware, the company that reinvented the data center with virtual servers. But now it's trying to push virtualization technology onto tablets and mobile phones, and that includes the Apple iPhone.
Jerusalem, with its mosaic of sacred spaces and millennia of history, can become so disorienting for some that it triggers full-on psychosis.
Prolific inventor George Westinghouse Jr. designs a safe and reliable automatic brake to stop trains right in their tracks.
The Army's number one purchasing priority doesn't shoot. You can't ride in it, and it won't protect you from bullets or bombs. It's a data network.
Seth Casteel, whose photographs of underwater dogs recently went viral, has managed to turn the buzz he's garnered into traction.
With the new iPad 3 on the way, rumors abound. When it comes to Apple products, abounding is just what rumors do.
For the third time in as many months, Europe's tallest and most active volcano, Etna, has erupted. Volcanologist and Eruptions blogger Erik Klemetti reports on the activity.