Der über einen frisierten Lebenslauf gestolperte frühere Yahoo-Chef Scott Thompson hat einen neuen Job. Er übernahm die Führung bei der amerikanischen Shopping-Website Shoprunner. Die knapp zwei Jahre alte Firma bietet Mitgliedern für eine Jahresgebühr von 79 Dollar (65,3 Euro) einen kostenlosen Versand und Sonderangebote bei kooperierenden Online-Shops.
Samsung Electronics behauptete im ersten Quartal 2012 seine Top-Position im globalen CD TV-Geschäft. Dies trotz schwacher Marktbedingungen, wie der Branchenverband IHS verlauten lässt.
Die EU will Internetnutzer besser vor willkürlicher Verlangsamung oder gar Blockade ihrer Aktivitäten im Netz schützen. Zu diesem Zweck leitete die Europäische Kommission in Brüssel heute eine öffentliche Konsultation ein, bei der neben Konsumenten auch Unternehmen, Verbände und Behörden nach ihrer Meinung gefragt sind.
Swisscom rüstet sich auch in Schaffhausen zum Ausbau des Glasfasernetzes. Der Telekomriese will eigenen Angaben zufolge in den kommenden Jahren alle rund 20.000 Schaffhauser Wohnungen und Geschäfte an das schnelle Netz anschliessen. Die ersten SchaffhauserInnen sollen die Glasfaserangebote bereits im kommenden Herbst nutzen können.
Kabel Deutschland hat die Finanzierung der rund 600 Millionen Euro schweren Übernahme von Tele Columbus so gut wie in der Tasche. Der grösste deutsche Kabelnetzbetreiber will eine bestehende, noch bis 2018 laufende Anleihe um 200 auf 700 Millionen Euro aufstocken und damit einen Überbrückungskredit ersetzen.
Der Sparkurs des niederländischen Elektronikkonzerns Philips zahlt sich aus: Philips wies am Montag für das zweite Quartal einen Gewinn in Millionenhöhe aus und bekräftigte die mittelfristigen Geschäftsziele. In den abgelaufenen drei Monaten lag der Nettogewinn bei 167 Millionen Euro, wie Philips mitteilte.
Mit seinen neuen Windows Phone 8 Smartphones will der angeschlagene finnische Handyhersteller Nokia seine bisherige Massenstrategie verlassen und sucht nun Exklusivpartner. Nokia erhofft sich dadurch stärkere Verkaufsunterstützung und weniger Ausgaben. Die momentanen Verluste wiegen schwer genug.
Das Umblättern von Noten war gestern: Mit der Applikation "Phonicscore" bietet das gleichnamige Wiener Unternehmen ab Anfang August eine Software für Tablet-Computer, die Musikern das Leben erleichtern soll. Neben der Darstellung der Noten werden in der Pro-Version auch gespielte Töne erkannt und die Partitur dem aktuellen Stand im Stück entsprechend angezeigt.
Nur wenige Tage nach dem offiziellen Verkaufsstart muss Google die Verfügbarkeit des Nexus 7 bereits wieder einschränken: Die 16-GByte-Ausführung des Tablets ist derzeit nicht mehr verfügbar, wird im Google Play Store seit kurzem nur mehr vage mit dem Hinweis "Coming Soon" geführt.
Mit dem Galaxy S II hat das Samsung eines der meistverkauften Android-Smartphones des Vorjahres geliefert, nun sieht es so aus, also könnte man diesen Erfolg sogar noch übertrumpfen. Wie Mobile Burn berichtet, wurde das erst Anfang Mai vorgestellte Galaxy S III bereit 10 Millionen mal verkauft.
The latest development build of Google's Chrome web browser now offers better drag-and-drop file uploading tools for more desktop-like web apps.
In this edition of the Storyboard podcast, the sci-fi author talks about the appeal of young-adult fiction, life in the "Accelerated Age" and writing political novels that don't feel like polemics.
If rumors are to believed, the next iPhone will ship with a brand-new smaller dock connector. After nine years of 30-pin connections, Apple could be changing it up. Good news for a slimmer form-factor iPhone, maybe not so much for all those accessories you've accumulated over the years.
If you want to kill large numbers of people, you should seriously consider buying a handgun or assault rifle. As the movie-theater massacre in Aurora, Colorado demonstrated, chances are federal law enforcement, homeland security and counterterrorism agents won't see you amassing an arsenal of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. Unlike the chemical precursors of bomb material, the feds can't legally keep databases of who's buying guns.
The number of U.S. government employees and contractors holding security clearances jumped to 4.86 million people last year from 4.7 million the year prior, according to the 2011 Report on Security Clearance Determinations, which the Director of National Intelligence has forwarded to Congress. In other words, another 160,000 people were removed from the category of: "If we told you we'd have to kill you."
YouTube is pushing its notorious anonymous commenters to use their real names.
Ikea is popular for a reason. The furniture is cheap, the minimalist aesthetic goes with just about anything, and it's extremely customizable. Despite recent strides in adding augmented reality to their catalogue, when it comes time to order, their website can devolve into a confusing selection of parts. Surely there is a better way.
In honor of its 40th anniversary, take a look back at the launch of the first Landsat satellite in this archival NASA video from 1973.
If you have a phone that can text or email by voice, next year you?ll be able to use it in your car legally ? as long as your finger never touches the device.California Governor Jerry Brown signed the ?Freedom to Communicate? bill, which adds an exception to the anti-texting law. It states that devices ...
A vague post on an official Twitter blog has sown fear, uncertainty and doubt among app developers who depend on Twitter's API.
From isoscapes to human "odor prints," let's find a way to sniff out the sensory data that surrounds us. Even the smelly stuff.
The cloud's most profound impact will?not?be on reducing total cost of ownership,?but rather for enabling new game-changing systems that simply were not possible before, writes Greg Johnsen.
The 40-year archive of the Landsat satellite program is the most extensive, longest-running record of Earth observations from space. This incredibly valuable resource has yielded important discoveries, aided international efforts to better manage our environment and provided inspiration to both scientists and the public. To celebrate the anniversary of the mission, here are 10 of the most significant images from Landsat's history.
Since at least February the Syrian government has been using Iranian-built drone to track and target rebels in their strongholds, including Homs and Hamah. Now some fresh commercial satellite imagery provides new details about the unmanned aerial vehicles' possible tactics and capabilities.
A team of scientists has taken the heart cells of a rat, arranged them on a piece of rubbery silicon, added a jolt of electricity, and created a "Franken-jelly."
The two groups that oversee the lingua franca of the web no longer share a single editor, making them farther apart than ever. So which road should you follow? Hopefully the answer will continue to be both.
Marissa Mayer invented something called the Associate Product Manager program at Google, for the best and brightest new recruits. It was a key part of her tenure at Google. And now she may reap some benefits as she takes over Yahoo.
An infographic, or information graphic, is designed to convey a huge set of data in a fraction of the time that it takes to wade through a dense, numbers-heavy paragraph. The best ones are also entertaining. According to Stew Langille, the CEO of data visualization start-up Visual.ly, the average pageview for a newspaper infographic is about 30 times that of a text-based article.
Steve Jobs was a Buddhist and a tyrant, a genius and a jerk. What is your interpretation of his thorny life story?
With tens of thousands of 3-D printed parts, millions of hours of work, and billions of pixels invested, represents unparalleled innovation.
For 20 years Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey have been using live grass as biological photo paper. They literally grow their own photographs.
It turns out that 18th-century zoologist Carl Linnaeus is the official standard by which all other are judged. But what does this mean for vampires?
President Kennedy is scheduled to be the first image beamed across the Atlantic but he's late, so Europe gets part of a Cubs-Phillies game instead.
A gallery looking at some of the strangest medical and psychological problems to affect astronauts during long-term spaceflight. Will any of these doom a mission to Mars?
Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Naming System, or DNS, which automated the management of internet names and addresses by spreading the duties among myriad servers set up across the network. Ultimately, it allowed the internet to operate without a single, central naming authority.
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man - The Isle of Man TT is 37.73 miles of twisting, rolling, climbing public roads that make the N?rburgring Nordschleife look like a go kart track. So sinewy and numerous are its bends that it was once famously decreed "unlearnable," and its notoriously unforgiving nature is matched only by its prolific death toll. From Glen Helen to Greeba Castle, the lack of runoff and nasty propensity for unplanned high-speed meetings with stone walls, lamp posts, store fronts and tree trunks makes death and dismemberment a rather binary affair on this island that's barely a 30-minute flight across the Irish Sea from Birmingham. But here's something you might not know about the Isle of Man: While hundreds of racers have lost their lives in competition over the last century or so, exponentially more non-racers have met their makers during the two-week period in which rampant race culture takes over the otherwise sleepy bedroom island.
My family and I just returned from our annual Killbear provincial park camping trip. Located near Parry Sound, Ontario (Canada), there are always three things we can count on whenever we camp at Killbear: racoons, black bears and mosquitoes. We follow bear-smart camping practices which help to avoid encounters with campsite raiders ? both big and small ? and always pack lots of sprays, candles and other measures that we hope will minimize the bug problem. This year, Thermacell provided one of its mosquito-repelling lanterns to add to our anti-bug arsenal.
Ex-Soviet intelligence officer Eugene Kaspersky and his geek squad traced Stuxnet and Flame. Now he has a vision for the future of Internet security.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
By treating animals only as vectors for disease, we could be missing out on crucial understanding of our own health. Superbug blogger Maryn McKenna chats with an author of the new book "Zoobiquity."