Im Verfahren um vermeintlich unlautere Geschäftspraktiken des Suchmaschinenanbieters Google fordert die EU-Kommission nun Vorschläge, wie das Unternehmen künftig bei der Onlinesuche die Angebote von Konkurrenten fair anzeigen will.
Die Schweizer Telekomunternehmen haben Sanktionen gegen Mitarbeiter ergriffen, die vertrauliche Daten verkauft und so das Post- und Telefongeheimnis verletzt haben sollen. Swisscom und Orange entliessen je einen Mitarbeiter, Sunrise enthob einen Angestellten von seinen Tätigkeiten.
Der Börsengang von Facebook entwickelt sich für die Anleger zum Alptraum. Am ersten Handelstag ohne die vollständige Unterstützung der Konsortialbanken fiel die Aktie zeitweise um fast 14 Prozent auf 33 Dollar. Damit lag das Papier um fünf Dollar unter dem Ausgabepreis vom Freitag.
Der serbelnde US-amerikanische Internetpionier Yahoo verkauft für 7,1 Milliarden Dollar etwa die Hälfte seines Anteils an dem führenden chinesischen Online-Händler Alibaba. Käufer ist Alibaba-Gründer Jack Ma himself.
Googles Browser Chrome verzeichnet erstmals über den Zeitraum von einer Woche mehr Nutzer weltweit als der Internet Explorer (IE) von Microsoft. Das geht aus einer Statistik des US-Marktforschers Statcounter hervor.
Nachdem Greenpeace zuletzt mehrere Betreiber von Rechenzentren wegen der Verwendung von Atom- und Kohlestrom kritisiert hatte, weist nun der deutsche Branchenverband Bitkom darauf hin, dass der Stromverbrauch von Rechenzentren und Servern sinkt.
Ab 27. Mai 2012 werden bei Sunrise neue Flatrate-Tarife wirksam. Neben dem Telefonieren und Surfen ist erstmals auch das Verschicken von SMS und MMS in jedem Abo enthalten. Ab dann wird auch zwischen drei Flatrate-Abos für die Schweiz und zwei Flatrate-Abos für die Schweiz und das Ausland unterschieden, wie es in einer Aussendung von Sunrise heisst.
Die Chefs von Apple und Samsung wollen heute bei einem persönlichen Treffen versuchen, ihre Patentstreitigkeiten aussergerichtlich beizulegen. Das auf zwei Tage angelegte Treffen in San Francisco ist allerdings nicht freiwillig: Ein US-Gericht, vor dem im Juli ein grosser Prozess zu dem Thema beginnen soll, hatte die Gespräche angeordnet.
Microsoft hat seinen Online-Dienst So.cl für alle geöffnet. Nach einer längeren Testphase, zu der Studenten ausgewählter Universitäten eingeladen waren, hat nun jeder die Möglichkeit sich anzumelden. Zum Einloggen werden ein Facebook- oder ein Windows-Live-Account benötigt. Ein bisschen Geduld muss man dennoch mitbringen: Der Zugang wird erst nach kurzer Zeit gewährt, bis dahin verbleibt man auf der Warteliste.
Kulturmanager, Politiker und Verbandsvertreter haben vor einer Aushöhlung des Urheberrechts im Internet gewarnt und eine Stärkung der Künstler im Netz gefordert. Für Hunderttausende von Kulturschaffenden sowie einen ganzen Wirtschaftszweig sei die Sicherung des Urheberrechts eine "existenzielle Frage", heißt es in einem vom Deutschen Kulturrat am Montag veröffentlichten Aufruf.
Everyone has their reasons for loving .
BitTorrent Inc. of San Francisco, the developer of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol, claims in a federal lawsuit that a German company is ripping off its intellectual property. BitTorrent file sharing, aka torrenting, is a protocol often used by online pirates to obtain free music, games and software.
In this week's episode, Brienne undertakes a cross-country road trip, Arya gives Jaqen the name of her third and final victim, and Cersei tries to use Tyrion's whoring ways against him. But mostly we get a bunch of characters who don't act quite as smart as they do in the George R. R. Martin books upon which the HBO series is based.
No matter how fast postal delivery gets, nothing beats the immediate gratification of pushing a button on a vending machine and having your purchase tumble down into the delivery box. The Chinese live crab dispenser and Art-O-Mat are old news, but the machine of the moment is the DreamVendor, a set of four MakerBot Thing-O-Matics that sit behind glass and 3-D prints your tchotchke of choice.
Companies are looking for ninjas, Jedi's, and rock stars, but nobody wants a brogrammer.
Over the weekend a do-it-yourself space program called Copenhagen Suborbitals successfully test fired the largest amateur-built bi-liquid rocket engine in the world. Co-founder and Rocket Shop blogger Kristian von Bengtson reports.
This week on the Gadget Lab Show, the gang checks out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet, Wicked Lasers' Laser Saber, and the Raspberry Pi microcomputer.
HTC says that some of its phones delayed for delivery by U.S. Customs have been released and are shipping to retailers. But HTC didn't say which phone models were approved, how many handsets were released, or when the issue would be resolved.
With word that Microsoft is going after Amazon with a big cloud move the first week of June, the question on this cloud watcher's mind is: Even if Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud goes, as it has recently teased to analysts, big on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), supports Linux (as is expected to be the big deal about ...
Microsoft announced on Friday that it is dropping its Aero UI in the final version of Windows 8. Instead, the new user interface will adopt a cleaner, flatter look and feel.
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The latest addition to the U.S. military's blimp arsenal could be a "battle-kite" of war.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether to halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans' communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008. The announcement is a win for the Obama administration, which like its predecessor, argues that government wiretapping programs and laws can't be challenged in court.
Those new to the cult of Mac may not realize it, but there once was a time when that iconic logo that shines from the top of Apple notebooks used to be positioned, well, upside down. But now we know exactly why Apple opted for its original logo positioning.
Watch a time-lapse video of yesterday's incredible annular solar eclipse.
SpaceX engineers were able to trace the high-pressure problem that caused Saturday's launch to be aborted to a valve that controls the flow of nitrogen used to purge the engine before ignition. Wired aerospace reporter Jason Paur explains exactly what went wrong.
(which inspired its design), that you can make an online magazine that doesn't suck.
Establishing the PlayStation Vita platform is Sony's "top priority," said Japan's game chief Hiroshi Kawano in a recently published interview with magazine.
The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a $675,000 file-sharing verdict that a jury levied against a college student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network.
Even from 20 yards away, Eddie Borysewicz knew from the arch of the rider?s back that his position was off. The famed coach, who led the U.S. squad to nine Olympic medals in 1984, ending a 72-year drought, didn?t need to take any measurements. He didn?t need any tools. He didn?t even need the rider ...
Facebook fever is everywhere. If you need to escape, here are seven social networking apps you can use to fill the void.
This fall, Google is expected to release not one, but five Android 5.0 flagship phones, each running a pure, unadulterated version of the new OS. Who wins -- and who loses -- if this bold shift in policy comes to pass?
It's been nearly two years since , I present the following six movie ideas.
This week, the U.S. and its allies will sit down with some of their arch-nemeses: the Iranians. Big, unresolved questions persist about Iran's nuclear program, which Iran swears exists just to produce peaceful nuclear energy. In particular, those questions primarily concern five installations that concern the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the world's nuclear watchdog. And unless you're a nuclear wonk, you probably don't understand them. Here's a crib sheet.
Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris, completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight in aviation history.
Scott Widdowson is a specialist, one of 10 reverse-engineers working?full time?for a stealthy company?funded by some of the biggest names in technology: Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Sony, and Ericsson.?Called the Rockstar Consortium, the 32-person outfit has a?single-minded mission: It examines successful?products, like routers and?smartphones, and it tries to find proof that these products?infringe?on a portfolio of over 4,000 technology patents once owned by one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.
An Original Everlasting GobstopperOne of two known to exist, this target of Slugworth's confectionary espionage is up on the auction block this summer. This Gobstopper was the sample given to Veruca Salt and comes with a notarized letter that certifies its authenticity. The sweet is from the collection of Julie Dawn Cole, who played Veruca, and is just one of many objects in this Willy Wonka specific auction.Estimated cost: $20,000-30,000.
Kevin Smith likes to talk. He'll riff for hours on pretty much anything -- comics, farting, hockey, Bruce Willis, the general state of the internet -- but mostly he likes to talk about movies. A lot. With people. And with his new Hulu series, that's pretty much all he has to do. The master of the , fandom and how the internet changed everything.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Join Wired Science for some live feeds of the annular solar eclipse, which will be visible today over eastern Asia and western North America.