Der abgestürzte Internet-Star AOL kommt langsam wieder in die Gänge. Nach einem milliardenschweren Verkauf von Patenten an den Software-Riesen Microsoft kehrte der US-Konzern im zweiten Quartal des aktuellen Geschäftsjahres in die schwarzen Zahlen zurück und steigerte erstmals seit vier Jahren seinen Betriebsgewinn.
Die Rezession in Südeuropa sowie der Sparkurs der Finanzbranche haben der British Telecom (BT) deutlich zugesetzt. Im ersten Geschäftsquartal bis Ende Juni sei der Umsatz um 6 Prozent auf umgerechnet rund 5,75 Mrd. Euro gesunken, teilte der größte Anbieter von Festnetzanschlüssen in Großbritannien am Mittwoch mit.
Nach zwei Amtsperioden als CEO von T-Mobile Austria hat sich Robert Chvátal aus persönlichen Gründen dazu entschlossen seine Funktion in Österreich nicht zu verlängern. Dies teilte der Mobilfunker am Mittwoch in einer Aussendung mit.
Der ehemalige spanische Ermittlungsrichter Baltasar Garzon hat die Leitung des Anwaltsteams von Wikileaks-Mitbegründer Julian Assange übernommen. Wie die Enthüllungsplattform am Dienstag mitteilte, traf sich Garzon vor kurzem mit Assange in der ecuadorianischen Botschaft in London, um mit ihm die weitere Vorgehensweise zu besprechen.
In einem Blog-Eintrag mit dem Titel "Hardware-Beschleunigung für alles: Windows 8 Grafik" erklärt Rob Copeland von Microsofts Grafik-Team die Verbesserungen an der neuesten Version des Betriebssystems aus Redmond.
Die auf den Vertrieb von Storage- und Datenmanagement-Lösungen fokussierte ABO-Storage Distribution hat in Novazzano nahe Chiasso eine neue Filiale eröffnet. Damit ist das expandierende Unternehmen neben Glattbrugg (ZH) und Perly (GE) neu auch im Tessin präsent.
Sandra Hauser wechselt von Coutts & Co. zur Avaloq Gruppe und wird ab 1. November als neue Country Manager für die Schweiz und Liechtenstein verantwortlich zeichnen. Hauser folgt Uwe Krakau nach, welcher Anfang des Jahres in die Geschäftsleitung der Avaloq Tochtergesellschaft B-Source wechselte.
Die auf Mobilfunk-Chips fokussierte US-amerikanische Hightechfirma Broadcom konnte im zweiten Quartal des aktuellen Geschäftsjahres ihren Umsatz gegenüber dem Vergleichsquartal des Vorjahres um 9,7 Prozent auf 1,97 Milliarden Dollar steigern.
Die neuen Möglichkeiten des elektronischen Lernens im Internet könnten die Hochschulbildung bald grundlegend verändern. In welche Richtung die Entwicklung geht, zeigt ein aktuelles Beispiel aus den USA. Dort haben sich gleich ein ganzes Dutzend führender Universitäten mit dem E-Learning-Dienstleister Coursera zusammengetan, um einzelne Kurse über das Web auch ausserhalb des angestammten akademischen Umfelds anbieten zu können.
In Japan hat der Absatz von Computern im Juni angezogen. Die PC-Auslieferungen stiegen im Juni um 24,1 Prozent im Jahresvergleich auf 1.068.000 Einheiten, wie die Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association wissen lässt.
Let's face it -- real mixtapes made on a cassette tape look cooler than an iTunes playlist. Now you can 3-D print your own digital mixtape so it will look like an old-school cassette.
Nearly a year before a gunman burst into the Century Aurora 16 movie theater and murdered 12 people in Aurora, Colorado, police in the Denver suburb prepared for the worst. Along with police across the Denver region, they scrambled to respond to simulated terrorist attacks during an exercise modeled on the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, where coordinated bombings and shootings by militants killed 164 people.
The in-the-works film is described by its would-be maker as a love story set in a place reminiscent of . Yes, please.
Don't picture the horrors of when it comes to NBC's upcoming post-electricity drama, says the show's pedigreed creative team, which includes Jon Favreau, J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke.
PlayStation Vita has been catching fire, but not in the way that Sony would have liked. An official investigation is underway in Japan concerning a series of incidents in which a PlayStation Vita became dangerously hot while recharging, the reported on Wednesday.
As the head of Sephora Digital, Julie Bornstein oversees the international cosmetics company's online and technological operations and strategies. For the last several years, she has worked to integrate technology in the brand's physical stores and make Sephora a force in online sales.
If you have any oyster shells lying around, the U.S. Army wants five dumptrucks' worth. You don't even have to include the delicious oysters inside. And they're willing to pay up to $15,000 for them.
A German politician sued T-Mobile to see what data it was storing about his use of a mobile phone and the answers he got led straight to questions about how to preserve privacy and prevent tyranny in the digital age.
Saving Private Yahoo! promises to be a stormy and perilous expedition. But new CEO Marissa Mayer could start by making a simple but effective design decision -- lopping off the exclamation mark at the end of the company's name.
In the spring of 2008, HP told the world it had done something that computer wonks had dreamed about for nearly four decades. The hardware giant announced that researchers inside HP Labs had built a memristor -- a new type of electrical building-block -- and it said this hardware missing link would reinvent computer memory as we know it. But Blaise Mouttet says the hardware giant is full of hot air.
While the really big bucks may be built into your big data, your trusty Gmail account just got a price tag slapped on it -- and it may be worth more than you thought.
In the back of San Francisco's TechShop on Friday afternoon sat a heap of old parts: partially assembled bikes, pipes, gears, chains, grinders, sheet metal, helmets, plywood, rods, cables, and even empty fire extinguishers. That list may not ring with promise to everyone's ears, but for a team of scrappy makers, it was the perfect set of raw materials to create a "Hurling Dervish," a rotational throwing contraption that's a cross between a carnival game and a carnival ride.
John Kricfalusi is resurrecting the tight-fisted patriot -- a character based on his own father -- in a new cartoon short called .
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these—from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver—ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long. Get it wrong and your prop just looks dirty. Get it right and it provides a narrative—like the stairs in Grand Central Station, visibly worn by the footsteps of millions of travelers.
If Apple had named its latest operating system update after, say, the English longbow, the internet would be flush with stories about the Battle of Agincourt -- yet barely a mention is made of actual mountain lions. To fill that gap, Wired presents some of the latest scientific research on these marvelous cats.
Microsoft announced a date for its next developer's conference. It could be the venue the company chooses to formally introduce new products as well.
After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the government realized it had a problem. There were no minimum security standards or an inspection regime for the thousands of federal facilities sprawled across the country. So it developed a plan, accelerated after 9/11, to test federal buildings and other sites for potential vulnerabilities. To carry out the tests, the government deployed a web-enabled software program that cost millions and failed to work. Now the program's replacement may be even worse.
Cloud adoption could save the federal government and the American taxpayers billions of dollars. But there are dark skies on the horizon, writes Marc Jones.
Cities across the globe have seen unprecedented growth in recent decades, but the true extent of the expansion of some urban centers can only be truly appreciated from above. Way above. In celebration of four decades of collection of irreplaceable data and incredible images, the Landsat satellite program team released these images of change in 11 cities and urban areas all over the world.
An interactive edition of Hans Zimmer's powerful soundtrack immerses your ears in Gotham City's madness.
What are the ultimate records for human performance at the Olympic games? Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger describes a new study that purports to have found some.
Apple says Mountain Lion -- the latest version of OS X, which it just released today -- boasts more than 200 new features, a daunting number even by OS revision standards. Many of the additions were covered ad nauseum when Apple revealed the OS in June, but now Mountain Lion officially ships, and it?s time to dig into the hidden nooks and crannies of the new desktop experience.
Volcanologist and Eruptions blogger Erik Klemetti spends a lot of time flying to get to good rocks. Even when he's flying, he still looks at rocks. See what he sees and learn how to read the land.
In a five-day period in July, Greenland experienced an "extreme melt event," causing some 97 percent of its surface to thaw.
What could be more fun than watching brown bears fishing for salmon? Now you can do so from the comfort of your living room, via two live high-definition webcams beside the Brooks River in Alaska?s Katmai National Park.
For Andrew Dreskin, the father of online ticketing, one ticket-selling company isn't enough. First there was TicketWeb, an early online ticketing company, which Dreskin ultimately sold to the company that everyone uses ? but loves to hate ? Ticketmaster. Now there is , which sells tickets through Facebook and Twitter.
The crumbling regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly unleashed its air force on Wednesday in what could be the biggest aerial onslaught in a civil war that's more than a year old. Jet fighters fired on the northern city of Aleppo, Reuters and the BBC reported. But if Assad thinks his jets can tip the balance against his opposition, he doesn't understand air power.
During the Cold War, to prevent a full-on nuclear war, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 501: all international conflicts were to be brought to the table ? the ping-pong table. Based on the Penny Arcade comic strip series, Paint the Line is an expandable card game that brings this over-the-top Cold War Era ping-pong to life. Red Tide is the first set, featuring Tycho Brahe (US) and Oksana Svedlovigoba (USSR).
In racing and on the road, the crash after the crash can sometimes be the difference between a dented door panel and Medevac. In hopes of preventing these secondary crashes, Continental, a German tire, braking, and stability control developer, has created Post Crash Braking Technology that slows the car automatically after an impact.
Bob Dylan is supposed to be the inheritor of Pete Seeger's mantle as folk singer to the nation. When he switches from acoustic to electric, many people see it as a betrayal.