In einem Bezirksgericht im Süden New Yorks ist eine Sammelklage gegen den finnischen Handyhersteller Nokia eingebracht worden. Dies teilte Nokia selber mit, ohne allerdings auf die konkreten Inhalte der Beschuldigung einzugehen. Man untersuche die Anschuldigungen und gehe davon aus, dass diese unbegründet seien, erläuterte der finnische Handy-Riese, der bis vor kurzem noch den Weltmarkt für Handys angeführt hatte.
Die deutsche Bundesnetzagentur präsentierte am Freitag ihren Jahresbericht. Zur Zeit besitzt jeder Deutsche 1,4 Handys, 2011 wurden rund 55 Milliarden SMS versandt.
Wechsel an der Spitze des Schweizerischen Verbandes der Telekommunikation Asut: Peter Grütter wird neuer Präsident und folgt als solcher Fulvio Caccia nach, welcher dem Verband während sechs Jahren als Präsident vorstand.
Facebook will sich bei seinem Börsengang kräftig bedienen. Das weltgrösste soziale Netzwerk plant, bis zu zwölf Milliarden Dollar bei Investoren einzusammeln. Damit käme das erst acht Jahre alte Unternehmen nahe an den Marktwert des Online-Handelsriesen Amazon heran und würde Traditionsfirmen wie Hewlett-Packard und Dell übertreffen.
Mark Zuckerberg darf schon mal den Champagner kalt stellen. Der 27-Jährige wird spätestens durch den Börsengang von Facebook zu einem noch reicheren Mann. Der Gründer und Chef des sozialen Netzwerks bietet beim Börsengang auch 30 Millionen seiner eigenen Anteilsscheine an. Bei einem anvisierten Preis von bis zu 35 Dollar das Stück würde er damit mehr als 1 Milliarde Dollar einstreichen.
Für seinen geplanten milliardenschweren Börsengang hat der russische Mobilfunker MegaFon offenbar nur zwei Konsortialführer engagiert. Trotz Verhandlungen mit mehr als ein Dutzend Banken hätten lediglich Goldman Sachs und Morgan Stanley den Auftrag bekommen, erfuhr der zu Thomson Reuters gehörende Informationsdienst IFR am Donnerstag aus mit der Angelegenheit vertrauten Kreisen.
Die Bundesnetzagentur will in Deutschland neue Frequenzen für das mobile Internet freischaufeln. Das Funkspektrum im Bereich von 900 MHz und 1.800 MHz, über das derzeit Handy-Telefonate laufen, solle ab dem 1. Jänner 2017 für funkgestützte schnelle Internetanschlüsse zur Verfügung stehen, teilte die Bonner Behörde am Donnerstag mit. Vorstellbar sei etwa, dass Daten- und Sprachfunk ab dann parallel auf den Frequenzen stattfinden.
Das grösste berufliche Onine-Netzwerk Linkedin leistet sich nach einem starken Quartal einen teuren Zukauf. Für knapp 119 Millionen Dollar wird die Plattform Slideshare übernommen, auf die vor allem Präsentationen hochgeladen werden.
Für ihre Lösung "Mobile ID" ist Swisscom mit dem „Special Award Mobile Security“ ausgezeichnet worden. Die Verleihung erfolgte im Rahmen der diesjährigen European Identity & Cloud Conference in München.
Harvard und das M.I.T. wollen auf der gemeinsamen Online-Plattform EDX künftig kostenlos Vorlesungen beider Universitäten ins Netz stellen. Das Non-Profit-Projekt wird von beiden Bildungsinstitutionen mit jeweils 30 Millionen Dollar gefördert, wie die New York Times berichtet.
In losing Adam Yauch -- the musician and lyricist known to most as MCA -- music has lost an icon, yes. But beyond that, for those who love what's become known as "remix culture," a musical movement is now minus one of its founding fathers.
In the ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle over the Android mobile operating system, the jury has reached a verdict on three questions involving claims that Google infringed on Oracle's copyrights, but it is still undecided on a fourth.
The man who claims a 50 percent stake in Facebook was ordered Thursday to pay the social-networking site's attorneys an additional $16,851, bringing to nearly $97,000 in sanctions and fees a federal judge has levied against Paul Ceglia in a bizarre lawsuit over the company's origins.
In our fourth Q&A with spaceflight experts, Wired talks to do-it-yourself spacecraft builder Kristian von Bengston about the upcoming SpaceX launch.
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Anyone that's ridden a bicycle in any sort of urban environment, knows the dangers of inattentive motorists. The tiny bell on the handle bars is great if you want to get the attention of pedestrian or other bicyclist. To make sure you get the attention of the guy blasting Skrillex in his car, you need something with a few more decibels.
Two months ago Apple launched its iPhoto for iOS app with some map data that looked very familiar to OpenStreetMap developers. Now the company has given credit where it's due.
It sometimes seems like there is a huge swath of the general public that will just believe anything ? they are immune to skepticism and compelled to accept the most obvious scams. These delusions can be relatively harmless ? believe in spoon-bending and perpetual motion if you must. But some fakers are very, very dangerous. At the worst end of the spectrum, in my estimation, are faith healers. They can cause real harm to the victims they parade before the rest of us ? and even more to those, as I will show, whom they give false hope and ignore.
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On April 19, National Pubic Radio ran a story about a cruise ship that may have ignored reports that fishermen were stranded in a small vessel only a mile away. The lone survivor of the vessel, 18-year-old Adrian Vasquez, was rescued weeks later. He said that two friends who were stranded with him died from exposure and dehydration in the days after the Star Princess sailed past them.
*As Nietzsche used to remark before they hauled him raving out of downtown Torino, "When you see like a digital device, the digital device sees into you."http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/conferences.htmlConferencesEach year the Center designates a theme that lends itself to multidisciplinary study as the subject for its research. Around this theme we present a full program of public ...
Elvis Presley tries somewhat humorously to get past the pearly gates in the new video for Stan Lee's original short story, "Elvis."
Bang & Olufsen's Beoplay A3 iPad Speaker amps up the audio in a pyramid-shaped dock with three .5-inch tweeters and a two-inch woofer. It's got signature B&O style, and carries the signature B&O price tag along with it.
Brain scans of dogs could give researchers a new tool for studying what happens in the mind of man's best friend.
In his new book, the writer delivers an impassioned, hilarious and unabashedly personal take on the classic Talking Heads album .
*I knew the Kalkster would be up to something that no one could expect.*There's gonna be something else in the Koechlin pipeline here. "Kalki Koechlin, First Indian Woman in Orbit," maybe.http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Who-are-we-asks-Kalki-Koechlin/Article1-845310.aspx
The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance.
The new commercial space race may feel like its on hold this week with another delay of the current front runner, SpaceX. But some of Elon Musk's competitors have been busy hitting milestones the past few days, and one of the members of the old commercial space community is preparing for a launch later today.In ...
What would happen if you put the entire internet in the same room? That was the thinking behind 2008's inaugural ROFLCon, a two-day gathering at MIT that brought together some of the web's best-known meme-stars -- those accidental celebs for whom fame is often a semihappy accident.
In the ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle, the jury has indicated that it may not be able to reach a unanimous decision on claims that Google infringed on Oracle copyrights in building the Android mobile operating system. On Friday morning, Alsup told lawyers for Google and Oracle that it would accept a partial verdict from jury if all 12 members can't agree on a full verdict. "I'm not going to let this court go to waste," Alsup said. But he also said this was not his official ruling, indicating he could change his mind.
Want to see the web's long tail? Just cut out the top 1 million websites and search through what's left. That's exactly what the aptly named Million Short search engine promises to do. The results can be surprising.
In this episode, host Wil Wheaton and his guests Rod Rodenberry , Freddie Wong, and Ryan Higa play three fast-play favorites. First up is Tsuro, a tile-laying game has the players assuming the roles of flying dragons and trying to be the last dragon in the air.
A group of New York University grad students has set up the wartime version of Kickstarter, where random people can bankroll emerging weapons technology, like an all-seeing drone armed with "a new kind of explosive" promising to cut down on civilian casualties, or a bus packed with a rolling "enhanced interrogation" center. Sounds like a great idea or a horrifying one, depending on your politics. Just one thing, and it's a spoiler alert: The site, Kickstriker, is an obvious hoax. And there's a lesson in that.
Subaru has always been a niche player in the US market. Building no-nonsense cars with all-wheel drive gets you a loyal following of snowbound northerners, weekend rally drivers, triathletes and Yankee cranks. Outside of those demographics, Subaru is a non-entity: Only those with dissociative identity disorder have ever cross-shopped a Legacy and a Lexus, and ...
In honor of Star Wars Day this Friday, the company has released the $100 LaserSaber, which attaches to the Spyder 3-class green and blue lasers it already sells. Using a "magnetic gravity" system, the device can slowly light up and down, just like a "real" lightsaber.
If we choose the right defaults -- that it's your data -- and if our personal clouds can implement them, smart meters and a bunch of other innovations won't create new privacy headaches and won't require new laws, writes Jon Udell.
At 2:12 PM local time today, the MS T?ranor entered Monaco's Hercule Harbor, becoming the first ship to travel around the world using only solar power.It's the same harbor where the?T?ranor set out from more than 19 months and 37,286 miles ago. Since then, the ship has made port in six continents, fended off pirates ...
For many years, I ran a Photo of the Day feature on this blog. Then I killed it. I got bored with it, and there seemed to be little interest in the photostream. But I have piled up so many photos from museums, zoos, national parks, and other places that I feel I should do ...
For the past several years, I thought ?What?s the big deal?? Seriously is this any different? Does this get us anything that we did not have before? Really what?s the benefit? Then, it hit me. The big deal is that you are in control of your cloud, writes IBM's James Barnes.
When I opened Tyler Cowen's new book An Economist Gets Lunch I was very excited. I was excited to learn about the many ways to find good places to eat and I wasn't disappointed. However, I did not expect to learn much about how books are published.But that's exactly what happened. When I opened my ...