Inmitten eines milliardenschweren Rechtsstreits zwischen den Muttergesellschaften steigt Paramount Pictures als fünftes grosses US-Filmstudio beim Online-Video-Verleih von Youtube ein. Fast 500 Filme sollen auf der Videoplattform angeboten werden, wie am Mittwoch mitgeteilt wurde.
Die EU-Kommission hat das Europaparlament dazu aufgerufen, erst nach einem Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofs in Luxemburg (EuGH) über das umstrittene Acta-Abkommen zum Urheberrecht abzustimmen. Die EU-Parlamentarier sollten erst die Bewertung des EuGH abwarten und sich dann auf eine eigene Position festlegen, erklärte EU-Handelskommissar Karel De Gucht in Brüssel.
Der Aargau soll der "Hightech-Kanton der Schweiz" werden. Mit diesem Ziel hat der Regierungsrat sein Förderprogramm "Hightech Aargau" lanciert. Er beantragte dem Parlament einen Kredit von rund 40 Millionen Franken. Das Geld soll bis Ende 2017 ausreichen.
Die IT-Security-Anbieterin BW Digitronik mit Sitz in Uster baut ihr IT Security Engineering Team weiter aus und nimmt mit Matthias Meier einen branchenerprobten Sicherheitsexperten unter Vertrag.
An der Weiterentwicklung des freien Betriebssystems Linux haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren mehr als 7.800 Freiwillige beteiligt, wie die Linux Foundation in ihrem Jahresbericht mitteilt. Gezählt wurden dabei nur diejenigen Entwickler, die seit 2005 einen Beitrag zur Systembasis, dem sogenannten Kernel, geleistet haben. Hinzu kommen mehrere tausend Entwickler, die an ergänzender Linux-Software arbeiten, etwa den grafischen Benutzeroberflächen KDE und Gnome.
Der unter der Konkurrenz von iPhones und Android-Smartphones leidende Blackberry-Hersteller Research in Motion (RIM) bietet künftig Software für die Handys seiner Wettbewerber an. Unternehmen stünden zunehmend unter dem Druck ihrer Angestellten, die ihre eigenen Telefone auch beruflich nutzen wollten, erklärt RIM.
Kleine Softwareanpassung mit weitreichenden Folgen: Wegen eines technischen Fehlers beim Kassensystem sind Früheinkäufer bei Coop am Mittwochmorgen vor verschlossenen Türen gestanden. Erst gegen 9 Uhr morgens konnten die letzten Läden in der Deutschschweiz geöffnet werden, wie eine Coop-Sprecherin erklärte. Das Personal habe die Kundinnen und Kunden den Möglichkeiten entsprechend informiert.
Am 3. Mai 2012 findet im Schloss Au das bereits traditionelle Security-Podium statt. Über 30 Experten referieren, diskutieren und debattieren laut Veranstalter zu den vier aktuellsten Themen der Informationssicherheit.
Das Lesen digitalisiert sich zunehmend. Fast jeder vierte Mensch in Deutschland mit Interesse an Büchern hat einer aktuellen Umfrage zufolge schon einmal ein elektronisches Buch genutzt. 14 Prozent der Menschen, die ab und an ein Buch kaufen oder lesen, zahlten im vergangenen Jahr für mindestens ein belletristisches E-Book, heißt es in einer Studie der Universität Hamburg. Weitere neun Prozent nutzten kostenfreie E-Books und Leseproben.
Dem US-Speicherchiphersteller SanDisk macht eine enttäuschende Nachfrage und sinkende Preise zu schaffen. Im ersten Quartal werde der Umsatz deswegen hinter den eigenen Zielen zurückbleiben, teilte das Unternehmen am Dienstag mit. Sandisk rechnet nun nur noch mit Erlösen von rund 1,2 Milliarden Dollar.
As a former tech entrepreneur and a co-founder of Nextel, people often assume I know everything there is to know about spectrum. The fact is, I don't. But what I do know is that esoteric debates about the government's spectrum policy have a profound effect on innovation. Like land or pockets of natural gas, spectrum is a valuable limited resource. Yet before we knew it was valuable, the government used to give it away for free without any thought to the future. Just a few short years ago spectrum was a tool no one had to care about. Today, it is something we cannot ignore.
It would be easy to dismiss this, um, sport if it wasn't so entertaining. The rules are simple: one ball, two guys and three minutes.
The well-known creator of the PC hit .
RIM's luck is so awful, it's laughable. The company's share price is tanking. Users are abandoning BlackBerry handsets. And now, even at RIM parties, people are going home hurt -- seriously
As part of its ongoing effort to save power and cost in its custom-built data centers, Google will cool the servers in its new Taiwan computing facility using a technique known as thermal energy storage. With this technique, the company can run its air conditioning systems at night when electricity rates are lower, cooling insulated tanks filed with ice or liquid coolant that can then be used to dissipate heat in data centers when ambient temperatures rise during the day.
What happened to Bell Labs? In Jon Gertner?s expansive, meticulously researched book, he tells the story of a unique American institution.
The Lumia 900 is without a doubt a good phone, and probably the best Windows Phone handset out there right now. What is in doubt is whether potential smartphone buyers will be excited by it.
Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the very human way that scientists, engineers and members of the public think about space exploration and the search for alien life.
Google announced a new plan this week to help news publishers make money -- readers will be presented with a short marketing survey they have to complete before reading an article. Google consumer surveys is clever enough, and Google says replies will be anonymous. As the poet Rumi once wrote, "I heard that lie."
It's not your dad's tyrannosaur: , was covered from head to tail in downy feathers.
How does a sailor give orders to tomorrow's robot firefighter? You do so verbally, just as you would order a regular person. As this video shows, that's what Wired learned during a trip to the Navy's brand-new advanced robot lab.
If you are an evil genius bent on achieving world domination by causing a volcano to erupt on command, you need to read this post. Volcanologist Erik Klemetti outlines the steps and potential pitfalls while also explaining why all previous evil genius attempts at triggering volcanoes have failed.
The Nokia Lumia 900 is today's handset du jour, and with any new handset, you have to wonder: What's it hiding inside? Tech Republic has pried apart the brand-new Windows Phone handset to show us its silicon innards.
In January 2011, only hours before I had to send back the proofs for , the news came out that Larry Page would be taking the helm of the company as the CEO. The transition would occur on April 4 of that year. If it had been anyone else but Larry Page to take over Google, this change would have been ruinous to the project I?d been working on for almost three years. But as I quickly made adjustments to the copy to reflect this change, I realized that my book already reflected a reality that few understood: Page has always been the key visionary of Google and its driving force. Now that Page has been CEO for a year, everybody knows it.
There may be a constant that combines both physical and mathematical values -- something as much a part of the cosmos but also mathematically derivable. Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman describes his quest to derive it using genetic programming.
A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice quietly defied the Justice Department to warn that "cruel, inhuman or degrading" interrogation techniques like waterboarding approved by the Bush administration "are prohibited" under U.S. law.
Entered through a hidden gap in the Black Sea coastline, this once top-secret underground labyrinth was the centre for Soviet submarine activities in the Cold War. We take an eerie and spectacular drive through its dimly lit tunnels and underground canals to reach a room where 36 nuclear warheads were once lined up in lead lined coffins.
Citrix has parted ways with OpenStack -- the increasingly popular open source project for building Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds" -- moving its CloudStack platform to the Apache Software Foundation.
The era of big space missions is fading. "Small" is the new watch-word for America's orbital force. Think tiny satellites, secret space planes, and so-called "pseudolites" -- that is, relatively inexpensive robots, planes and airships operating in the very-high-but-not-quite-orbit upper atmosphere. They're all part of the Pentagon's new plans to dominate its rivals in orbit.
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Makers of niche games have taken to Kickstarter to pitch projects that publishers won't take a risk on. They're asking for big budgets. Some are getting far more than they asked for, some are having trouble finding fans. Here are five Kickstarter games currently looking to hit it big.
The new Galileo iOS accessory allows users to remotely move an iPhone or iPod touch by simply swiping their fingers across another iOS device, such as an iPad. When used with the camera and video calls, Galileo opens all kinds of doors for time-lapse photography, cinematography, video conferencing, baby monitoring, bird watching, vehicle inspection, robotics, etc.
These science kits from Thames & Kosmos are a beacon of light in what it is otherwise a bleak, sad sector of toys.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
The designers of have traded mud-and-guts graphics for meditative, rich landscapes and an elegant soundtrack. Om.
Fresh off a successful round of funding, Fisker debuts its all-new Atlantic plug-in hybrid on the eve of the New York Auto Show.
Share your Instagram photos on your fridge using the power of magnets.
This week on the Gadget Lab Podcast, the team takes a look at a service called Foldable.me, then chats about the heat -issue with the new iPad.
While the internet allows politicians to turn up the rhetorical volume, it also allows us voters myriad smarter ways to pay attention. Here are some tips on how to cut through the noise online and cast an informed vote.
Photographer Christian Randolph captures the chaos in Lexington, KY after the University of Kentucky beat the University of Kansas last night to win the NCAA men's basketball championship. This is after an even bigger riot following Kentucky's victory in their civil war, Final Four game.