Verbraucherschützer haben im Datenschutz-Streit mit dem sozialen Netzwerk Facebook einen juristischen Sieg errungen. Der Freundefinder von Facebook sei vom Landgericht Berlin am Dienstag für unzulässig erklärt worden, teilte der Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentrale VZBV mit. Die Anwendung zur Suche von Bekannten und Kollegen sowie die Geschäftsbedingungen von Facebook würden gegen Verbraucherrechte verstossen.
Hannover steht hinter der Cebit. Angesichts des für Donnerstag, 8. März, angekündigten Streiks bei dem hannoverschen Verkehrsbetrieb Üstra zeigt sich die Stadt Hannover solidarisch mit den Cebit-Gästen aus aller Welt. Mehrere Unternehmen in Hannover rufen ihre Mitarbeiter auf, sich an der Aktion Roter Punkt zu beteiligen.
Die Glattbrugger ABO-Storage Distribution hat eine Vertriebspartnerschaft mit der auf Datenintegration und -sicherung fokussierten Software-Herstellerin Syncsort Incorporated unterzeichnet.
Apple stellt morgen sein nächstes iPad vor. Dass das neue iPad 3 (das möglicherweise „iPad HD“ heissen wird) ein Display mit deutlich verbesserter Bildqualität bekommt, scheint inzwischen klar. Über die restlichen Neuerungen ranken sich jedoch die Gerüchte.
Der Android Web Browser hat laut einer aktuellen StatCounter-Erhebung Opera überholt und ist damit der beliebteste mobile Browser. Im Februar 2012 hielt der Browser 22,67 Prozent des Marktes, gefolgt von Opera mit 21,7 Prozent und iPhones Safari mit 21,6 Prozent Marktanteilen.
Vodafone ergänzt die SIM-Karte im Mobiltelefon mit einem virtuellen Fingerabdruck und will damit den sicheren Zugang etwa zu Unternehmensnetzwerken über Handys ermöglichen. Zugleich sollen damit verschlüsselte E-Mails und SMS gesendet und Telefonate abhörsicher gemacht werden, teilte das Unternehmen am Montag auf der CeBIT in Hannover mit.
Der Chef des Computerherstellers Acer erwartet einen deutlichen Preisverfall bei den neuen Ultrabooks. "Wir werden in diesem Jahr sicherlich Ultrabooks für 800 Dollar sehen", sagte Acer-Präsident Jim Wong der Tageszeitung "Die Welt". Im kommenden Jahr werde es voraussichtlich bereits Geräte für 500 Dollar (378 Euro) geben.
Das Samsung Galaxy S II bleibt auf dem ersten Platz der Verkaufcharts des britischen Verbraucherportals USwitch.com. Seit zehn Monaten ist das Smartphone der Renner des Verkaufs-Rankings. Ärgerlich für Apple: Das Unternehmen hatte gehofft, dass das iPhone 4S weggehen würde, wie die warmen Semmeln. Doch seit fast einem Jahr hält sich das Samsung-Gerät auf der Spitzenposition.
Das Internet wird nach Ansicht von Google-Chefaufseher Eric Schmidt früher oder später jede staatliche Zensur überwinden. „Die Technologie wird Gesellschaften verändern und das Verhältnis zwischen Bürgern und Staaten neu definieren“, sagte Schmidt am Montagabend zur Eröffnung der Computermesse Cebit in Hannover.
Offizieller Startschuss für die weltgrösste Computermesse: Deutschlands Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und der Verwaltungsratschef des Suchmaschinen-Riesen Google, Eric Schmidt, haben gestern Abend die Cebit 2012 in Hannover eröffnet. Die Schweiz ist dieses mit insgesamt 43 Ausstellern mit dabei.
The iPad 3 is likely to arrive tomorrow. That means new challenges for the web, which is increasingly important to the app-centric world of iOS. This could be the future of the web: less visible, less obvious, less about the browser, but essential for connecting everything together.
Intel has introduced new Xeon chips it expects will become the workhorses for corporate datacenters, saying they're much, much faster than the company's previous processors. The Xeon E5 chips use Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, a next-generation chip design that's been available to desktop users since last year. During a press event in San Francisco, the company unveiled the E5-2600, a chip that has more processor cores (eight in total) and is more power-efficient than the company's previous processors. As of today, the chip can be purchased in servers from companies such as HP and Dell, but Intel has been testing out early samples of the chip in computers around the world for months now.
Saddam memorabilia is showing up in auction houses and eBay. But be careful: That sword from the Iraqi dictator probably isn't authentic.
Challenging the Moore's Law-set of critics, Amazon Web Services and Google said on Tuesday they were dropping prices on their public cloud services. But one question remains despite bigger issues in the public versus private cloud debate: Are they passing along enough of the savings as services are filled out?
The next games in the series take a dramatic turn away from the role-playing game design that the series is known for.
Someone tell the U.S. Navy that rough waters might become a thing of the past. Scientists think they've figured out how to fool the stormy seas.
Unless Apple is setting us up for a curve ball, millions of people will buy a new iPad sometime shortly after Wednesday's anticipated iPad 3 announcement. And if you're among the millions who already have a first- or second-generation iPad and you're looking to upgrade, maybe your first stop shouldn't be an Apple Store, but rather Amazon.com.
A new website called PetriDish.org is looking to crowdfund science and provide overlooked projects a much-needed source of cash. Astrobiologist and Extremo Files blogger Jeffrey Marlow breaks down how the new venture works.
Antarctica hosts ever-increasing numbers of scientists and tourists, and these visitors are bringing some unintended baggage: the seeds of potentially invasive plants. What's more, climate change is projected to render the frigid continent more hospitable to such plants in coming decades.
Dave Winer shows us why the future of blogging depends not just on owning your content, but owning the publishing and editorial tools as well. Sure it's a bit of work, but for a little bit of work you get a whole lot of freedom.
Yet another internet file-sharing service is making a big push into big businesses. On Tuesday, YouSendIt unveiled Workstream, a tool that gives businesses a means of not only transferring files among employees but sharing them with partners, vendors and customers outside the company. The tool plugs into SharePoint, Microsoft's widely used collaboration platform.
The catchiest videogames, the ones that grab players immediately, share a certain set of traits that designers ignore at their own peril, says a veteran gamemaker.
The U.S. government says it has the right to seize any .com, .net and .org domain name because the companies that have the contracts to administer them are based on United States soil, according to Nicole Navas, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman.
There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket.We've scoured the internet for the best, quirkiest, most innovative examples of science-inspired LEGO creations. We're featuring some of our favorites here, along with an explanation of the science behind them, including a space shuttle, MRI machine, particle collider and mushroom cloud.
By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light. Codenamed Corona, this laser-powered contraption would handle 10 trillion floating points operations a second. In other words, if you put just five of them together, you'd approach the speed of today's supercomputers. More importantly, Corona would use a lot less power, helping the world's supercomputers break the vaunted exascale barrier -- i.e., deliver a machine that cab handle one quintillion (10 to the 18th) floating point operations a second. That's 100 times faster than today's fastest supercomputer.
The Michelangelo virus is unleashed upon the quivering computer-using masses. In the end, a yellow-striped kitten could have done more damage.
Jennifer Gold was never afraid of working in Afghanistan. She didn't even need to hire security as she helped get natal-care information to the cellphones of pregnant women of Jalalabad. But after anti-U.S. riots engulfed the country, Gold found herself terrified at an airport terminal in Herat, wondering if someone would murder her on the spot. And she's not the only aid worker who's had to flee a deteriorating warzone.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
TelyHD is a high-def but reasonably priced webcam that's blissfully easy to use and tied to everybody's favorite free video-calling service, Skype.
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. Should we feel good about this report? Is it fair to extract the cloud as job creator without 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.
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.