Der Erfinder des Open-Source-Betriebssystems Linux, Linus Torvalds, hat den Millennium Technology Prize 2012 erhalten. Er folgt früheren Preisträgern wie dem WWW-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee. Der Preis sei eine Anerkennung für den Einfluss, den Torvalds Arbeit auf die freie Softwareentwicklung und die Freiheit des Internets hat, so die Begründung für die Vergabe.
Der IT-Riese IBM kooperiert künftig im Rahmen des Battery 500-Projektes mit den zwei japanischen Chemiekonzernen Asahi Kasei und Central Glass. Gemeinsam soll das zukunftsweisende Forschungsprojekt, das der Elektromobilität zum Durchbruch verhelfen könnte, weiter vorangetrieben werden.
Mit einem heftig umstrittenen Führungswechsel will der skandalgeschüttelte japanische Kamerahersteller Olympus einen Neubeginn wagen. Gegen den Widerstand ausländischer Aktionäre und den wütenden Protest des früheren Konzernchefs Michael Woodford billigte die Hauptversammlung am heutigen Freitag das neue Spitzenmanagement, dem noch Mitglieder des alten Vorstands angehören.
Die sozialistische Partei Deutschland (SPD) will sich für ein einklagbares Recht auf einen Hochgeschwindigkeitszugang zum Internet starkmachen. Dies sollte im Telekommunikationsgesetz verankert werden, forderten am Freitag in Berlin die Sprecher für Netzpolitik von Partei und Bundestagsfraktion, Björn Böhning und Lars Klingbeil.
China Mobile hat dank stärkerer Internetnutzung den Gewinn gesteigert. Es sei gelungen, die Auswirkungen rückläufiger Telefonate und nachlassenden Handy-Marketings mehr als auszugleichen, teilte der weltgrösste Mobilfunk-Konzern nach Kundenzahl am Freitag mit. Der Überschuss habe im ersten Quartal um 3,5 Prozent auf 27,8 Milliarden Yuan (3,35 Milliarden Euro) zugelegt. Damit lag China Mobile leicht unter den Erwartungen von Analysten.
Die Schweizer Niederlassung des IT-Dienstleisters Fritz & Macziol konnte im Zuge seiner Partnerschaft mit Nexthink, dem Schweizer Hersteller von Desktop-Monitoring-Software, einen weiteren Grosskunden an Land ziehen: Das Luzerner Kantonsspital rollt einer Mitteilung zufolge Nexthink V4 auf 3500 Clients aus, um sich damit eine schnelle Übersicht über die Funktionsweise der Anwendungen auf den Rechnern der Endanwender zu verschaffen.
Im Prozess zwischen der Musik-Verwertungsgesellschaft Gema und dem Videoportal YouTube fällt das Landgericht Hamburg heute, Freitag, ein erstes Urteil. Beide Seiten erwarten davon eine Signalwirkung, auch wenn die erste Instanz noch keine endgültige Entscheidung bedeuten dürfte.
Der britische Festnetzanbieter Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW) hat dem Telekom-Konzern Vodafone mehr Bedenkzeit für die Abgabe eines Übernahmegebot gegeben. CWW teilte am Donnerstag kurz vor dem Verstreichen der eigentlichen Frist mit, man erwarte jetzt bis nächsten Montag eine Entscheidung. Die "fortgeschrittenen Gespräche" mit Vodafone dauerten an.
Amazon bringt seinen neuen E-Book-Reader Kindle eine Woche früher als geplant an den Start. Das neue Kindle Touch und das Kindle Touch 3G werden von sofort an in Deutschland, Österreich und Luxemburg ausgeliefert, teilte der Online-Einzelhändler am Freitag mit. Ursprünglich war der Start eine Woche später für den 27. April geplant gewesen.
Dem US-amerikanischen Speicherchiphersteller Sandisk machen die weiterhin sinkende Preise arg zu schaffen. Für das erste Quartal des laufenden Geschäftsjahres weist der Hightech-Konzern einen Nettogewinn von 114 Millionen Dollar aus. Zum Vergleich: Vor einem Jahr war der Überschuss mit 224 Millionen Dollar noch fast doppelt so hoch ausgefallen.
Surround-sound systems are great for playing games and watching movies when you're in the "sweet spot" of focused audio. When you're sitting off-center, however, the audio sounds more like a garbled aural mess. But now it looks like Microsoft may have a solution.
The U.S. military's propaganda activities -- known formally and euphemistically as "information operations" -- has this week faced serious accusations of targeting Americans, a major infraction. According to , military personnel (or contractors) apparently took to the web to unleash a vitriolic, and embarrassingly transparent, smear campaign against two of the paper's staff members. Why? Because they published a damning investigation of the military's dubious propaganda campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I want everyone to understand that we can use our personal (and organizational) clouds to express our intentions in ways that shape our identities and reputations, writes Jon Udell
We haven't dug deep enough into Acer's latest Android tablet to judge its place among the growing legion of tablets running Google's Android operating system -- that will have to wait for our full review. But while the A510 has many high-end specs packed into its 0.43-inch thick body, spending a day using the device makes it clear that this is no iPad killer.
The mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs were one of Florida's main attractions in the '60s. Celebrities like Elvis would join nearly a million other visitors a year to take in their show. Today, while not as well-known as they used to be, the mermaids still perform.
The S350 is the first diesel S offered in America since 1995. It's also the only full-size diesel luxury sedan you can buy in the U.S., Mercedes or not.
The Luminox Valjoux Field Chronograph is an automatic timepiece that uses radioactive tritium to glow in the dark.
Trials rider Julien Dupont shreds the steep hills, narrow streets and challenging terrain of Favela do Vidigal in Rio.
Who knew that watching others play board games could be so fun? The first edition of the show Tabletop on the Geek & Sundry channel proved that watching Wil Wheaton and friends play SmallWorld wasn't only fun, but interesting too. Wheaton returns with a new group of pals, Jane Espenson, James Kyson, and Neil Grayston as they play the incredibly popular Settlers of Catan.
This week, a change of pace: I?m hoping to enlist the readers of "The Amazing Column" to join me in fighting a ridiculous, archaic attack on reason halfway around the world in India. In brief: The public assertion that a religious statue isn't actually crying has put prominent rationalist Sanal Edamaruku in peril. Arrest warrants have been sworn out and Edamaruku could be picked up at any time ? for merely stating the obvious, in the world's most populous democracy.
The phone dock serves as a perfect vehicle for bringing obsolete things you can't bear to throw away back into rotation. Here's the first step in knowing how to make one.
The Padcaster is a super sturdy, $200 iPad case that attaches to a tripod and a camera lens, promising a cost-effective method for tapping into the performance of Apple's improved camera hardware.
In an effort to uncover the source of bomb threats sent to the University of Pittsburgh, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized an entire server on Wednesday that is used by anonymous remailing service Mixmaster as well several progressive rights groups.
Everyone loves Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg loved it so much that he spent a billion dollars on it, which led other people who loved Instagram to write hilariously panicked posts about the future of the service.In the midst of all of this is Breakfast, a company that loved Instagram so much that it built a locative printer on top of its APIs. Now Breakfast is trying to take its prototype to market. We love the metaness of a printer that pulls faux-retro photos from the Internet. We love it so much, we're annointing it as our first "Kickstarter of the Week."
When the Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico, many academic scientists stepped outside of the Ivory Tower to study what was an unprecedented -- and unintended -- environmental experiment. They succeeded in gathering mountains of data, learning all sorts of new things, and advancing science. But they also failed. Chemist Christopher Reddy explains how he, and other scientists, could have done better during the crisis and how government, industry and other first responders could have better cooperated with scientists.
The rise of mobile devices means a return to limited bandwidth, but also gorgeous, high-res displays. Better screens connected to skinnier pipes makes serving images on the web more complicated, but fortunately Foresight.js offers a very clever solution.
Even when Tupac Shakur's "hologram" performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was still a rumor, blogs were already calling it a -esque move. Now, thanks to the ability of the internet to push anything to its absurd technological conclusion, that idea has come full-circle.
You can make networks of anything, from friendships and phone calls to proteins and sound, but do networks exist in simple board games? Mathematician Samuel Arbesman describes a new study that detected Internet-like networking in the board game Go.
If the Pentagon gets its way, the gentleman doodling on his notepad as your next overseas business trip goes on endlessly could be a soldier, sailor, airman or marine in disguise. This dramatic redefinition of the U.S. military's authorities for clandestine action overseas is officially part of a Pentagon wish list for revisions to its legal authorities recently sent to Congress.
How a team of Apple II geeks found the long-lost source code to the classic game Prince of Persia, and recovered it off of the original disks one morning in April.
Nobody pays anyone to predict that a soccer team will score a goal sometime this week, so why do people pay frauds to predict earthquakes and volcanoes? Volcanologist and Eruptions blogger Erik Klemetti reveals how to become a soothsayer of natural disasters.
Our little corner of the Milky Way contains no observable concentration of dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity binds galaxies together -- or at least one team of astronomers claims. Other researchers doubt the reliability of the team's method for measuring the elusive substance.
When we bought our first home a few months ago, it was the perfect opportunity to upgrade our toddler from her nursery room to a big girl room. We browsed around the internet to decide on a theme for her new room, and were happy to find two of our favorite characters at Pottery Barn Kids: Cat in the Hat and Curious George.
The story of the man who used physics to fight a traffic ticket is popular but hard to picture. To that end, Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain uses Python to animate the mathematical argument.