Der Betrieb aller Rechner dieser Welt verursacht heute bereits mehr CO2-Emissionen als der weltweite Flugverkehr. Unternehmen, die einen Beitrag zur CO2-Reduktion leisten, verhalten sich nicht nur umweltgerecht, sie können damit auch ihre Kosten senken. Um die Einstellung ihrer Kunden zur Umwelt und zum Thema Green ICT besser zu verstehen und deren Bedeutung aus Kundensicht einschätzen können, hat Swisscom gemeinsam mit der Universität St. Gallen die Studie «Umwelt und Green ICT in Schweizer Unternehmen» durchgeführt.
Die Facebook-Aktion für Organspenden scheint erfolgreich zu sein. Seit der Lancierung vor rund zwei Wochen sind bei der Stiftung Swisstransplant rund 14.000 Spenderkarten bestellt worden; normalerweise werden in diesem Zweitraum nur 2000 Ausweise angefordert.
Der japanische Elektronikriese Sharp mit Sitz in Ōsaka befindet sich Medienberichten zufolge in finalen Gesprächen mit der US-Chip-Königin Intel über einen möglichen Einstieg der Amerikaner.
Mit einem neuen Spitzengerät will der unter Druck stehende japanische Elektronikkonzern Sony die beiden erfolgreichen Konkurrenten Apple und Samsung angreifen und verlorenes Terrain zurückerobern. "Wir werden in naher Zukunft ein Flaggschiffmodell schaffen, das mit Apples iPhone und Samsungs Galaxy S III konkurrieren kann", sagte Dennis van Schie, Marketing- und Vertriebschef von Sony Mobile der "Financial Times Deutschland".
Der zweitgrößte russische Mobilfunkanbieter MegaFon will bei seinem Börsengang in London und Moskau mindestens 1,7 Mrd. Dollar (1,3 Mrd. Euro) einsammeln. Das Unternehmen nannte am Donnerstag eine Preisspanne von 20 bis 25 Dollar pro Aktie. Die Papiere sollen nach Angaben des Großaktionärs TeliaSonera am 28. November zum ersten Mal gehandelt werden.
Der ägyptische Milliardär Naguib Sawiris nimmt bei seiner Einkaufstour auf Europas Telekommunikationsmärkten einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge nun auch Frankreich ins Visier. Sawiris wolle dem französischen Telekommunikations- und Medienriesen Vivendi die heimische Mobilfunktochter SFR abkaufen, berichtete die "Financial Times" am Donnerstag.
Mit dem dem 50-jährigen Thomas Koch und dem 42-jährigen Hubert Strohmeier sind zwei neue Associate Partner zu der auf Business- und IT-Beratung fokussierte Q_Perior mit Niederlassungen in Zürich und Bern dazugestossen. Sie sollen für Q_Perior die Bereiche Kundenmanagement und Beschaffung vorantreiben, heisst es in einer Aussendung dazu.
Die Zukunft der Computertechnologie liegt nicht allein in Smartphones oder Tablets, sondern auch in ganz spezifischen Produkten, die jeweils sehr individuelle Aufgabenstellungen lösen.
Mit dem HP Proliant SL270s Gen8 kündigte der US-amerikanische IT-Riese Hewlett-Packard (HP) einen neuen Server für das High-Performance-Computing an, welcher bis zu acht Grafikprozessoren unterstützt.
Der Halbleiterproduzent Texas Instruments mit Hauptsitz im texanischen Dallas will im Rahmen von Kosteneinsparungsmassnahmen 1.700 Stellen streichen, was 4,8 Prozent der Gesamtbelegschaft ausmacht. Der Schritt soll helfen, jährlich 450 Millionen US-Dollar (353 Mio Euro) einzusparen.
Many website owners focus on the quantity rather than the quality of clicks when they open up their Google Analytics dashboard. But the quality of your clicks is far more important. Luckily, you can determine that easily by your bounce rate—the percentage of visitors who come to your site but leave shortly after arriving. , but you should give the bounce rate equal attention. In the video below, Avinash Kaushik, Google's digital marketing evangelist, calls the bounce rate "the sexiest metric ever. It helps you ask the right questions. It will help you quickly distill down where things are not going right." Bounce rates will be different for every website, but there are situations where you will have an unnaturally high bounce rate. If you have a blog or site that lists all of your posts or content on your first page, your bounce rate will be unnaturally high as users enter, read new posts, and leave. Kaushik states that a good bounce rate for a standard website is between 40 and 60 percent.
It's easy to get intimidated by Android, as a lot of its apps and services are designed more for hard-core geeks than the everyday user. And, initially, I was intimidated by Android Injector, a desktop application that allows you to install APK files (Android apps) on your Android device— until I used it, and realized just how easy it really is. To use Android Injector, you need an Android device connected to your PC via USB. You must have USB Debugging mode enabled, and the proper drivers installed. If all of this sounds like Greek to you, don't worry: it's actually quite simple. You can enable USB Debugging in the settings menu of your Android phone, and your phone likely will install the necessary drivers when you connect it to your PC. If you're using an older Android device, you may need to search for the drivers online; the Android developer site is a good resource. which walks you through the process of enabling the right settings and downloading the drivers, painlessly. With this type of setup required, I expected Android Injector to have an interface that only geeks could love. But I was wrong: the application surprised me with its sleek design. It appears on your desktop in the shape of— and about the same size as—an Android handset. It even has four buttons underneath its virtual screen, just like a real Android phone. These buttons allow you to locate APK files on your PC and transfer them to you phone, as well as offer access to the app's settings menu and give you more information about it.
Spotify is testing a way for users to stream their music through any web browser as an alternative to the existing Spotify desktop app. A beta version of Spotify's web app started rolling out on Thursday, . The website reportedly looks similar to the desktop software and has many of the same features, including Spotify Radio, playlist editing, and a “What's New” section. Like the desktop version of Spotify, the web version will offer free, ad-supported streaming for millions of songs on demand. The bad news is that the web app is only launching for a small number of users right now. In a statement to , Spotify said it would have more details on web player next year. In the same statement, Spotify described its web app as potentially “a great additional feature for times you can't play music through the desktop app, like at work or at a friend's house,” so the idea isn't to replace the desktop app outright.
Navigation technology provider TomTom on Thursday announced developer tools and a platform for location-based services (LBS) in the cloud to help in the rapid creation of apps for finding locations that are used by truck fleets and other businesses. TomTom has been providing digital maps, traffic information and navigation technology for automotive dashboards, mobile devices and Web-based apps since 1991, when the company was founded in Amsterdam. The new LBS platform will allow developers to access TomTom’s existing location and navigation services including map displays, routing, traffic conditions and geocoding information. The portal will also give developers tools to build Web-based as well as mobile-device apps. The portal can be accessed at developer.tomtom.com, where developers can get a free key to the API.
Did somebody say "homebrew gaming console"? One complete with its very own DIY game engine? Eh-yeaaap. Guillermo Amaral, a software engineer and a staunch open-source advocate, has always wanted to make a game console of his very own. Previously restricted by the mammoth costs associated with creating something like this, Guillermo is finally on his way toward making that childhood dream come true, thanks to the Raspberry Pi.
Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome, making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. , which launched Nov. 6, completed Google’s efforts to ditch the aged NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) Flash plug-in for one built to Google’s own PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard. By porting Flash Player to PPAPI, Google’s engineers were able to place the Adobe plug-in in a “sandbox” as robust as the one that protects Chrome itself. A sandbox is an anti-exploit technology that isolates processes on a computer, preventing or at least hindering malware from exploiting an unpatched vulnerability, escalating privileges and planting attack code on the system.
. Lync, which comes bundled with Office 365 business subscriptions, is Microsoft’s server platform for unified communications. In a former life, it went by the longer, but more accurately descriptive name Office Communications Server. Lync ties real-time presence information with instant messaging, video conferencing, and voice communication, and it integrates with Exchange email and Microsoft Office applications. Here are 5 reasons businesses can benefit from adopting Lync 2013:
IBM is offering $4 billion in new credit to customers through its partner channel, and has also developed a new mobile application to help them get financing quickly, the company announced Thursday. for small and medium-size businesses. As a result of that offer, some 6,800 global companies took advantage of financing to buy IBM products and services within a year, instead of an expected 18 months, IBM said in a statement.
Early adopters of the Windows 8 operating system are flocking to Microsoft’s Surface tablet, making it the most popular device in the burgeoning market with an overall market share of 11 percent, according to AdDuplex. Other hardware makers that build multiple devices for the Windows 8/RT market have a larger share of it, notably HP with a 17 percent share. , acknowledged that the network's numbers may be skewed because it is collecting data from apps sold through the Microsoft store. Most of the usage of those apps right now is occurring on tablets and not on traditional PCs, he explained. He also noted that the Surface is being primarily used in landscape mode by 92 percent of its owners. That makes sense since a snap-on keyboard is one of the major selling points of the device.