Neben der Investitions- und Dividendenplanung gab die Deutsche Telekom im Rahmen einer Investorenkonferenz auch die Prognose für die Umsatzentwicklung in den operativen Segmenten und im Konzern bekannt. Das Unternehmen rechnet demnach für 2014 mit einer Stabilisierung der Umsätze im Heimmarkt Deutschland.
Der US-Breitbandchiphersteller Broadcom mit Hauptsitz im kalifornischen San Jose hat seine Umsatzprognose für das laufende vierte Quartal 2012 leicht angehoben. Die Hightech-Schmiede rechnet neu mit Umsätzen zwischen 2,0 und 2,10 Mrd. US-Dollar, nachdem Broadcom zunächst Einnahmen von 1,95 bis 2,10 Mrd. Dollar prognostiziert hatte.
Die Schweizer Software-Hersteller zeigen sich auch 2012 unbeeindruckt von der europäischen Wirtschaftskrise und steigerten ihren Absatz im Schnitt um sieben Prozent. Der Umsatz wuchs trotz massivem Spardruck in vielen Kundenbranchen.
um Abschluss eines Katastrophenjahres gibt es für Kodak doch noch gute Nachrichten. Der insolvente Foto-Pionier Kodak kann für seine Digital-Patente wohl doch noch mehr als 500 Millionen Dollar erlösen. Nach einem Bericht des „Wall Street Journal“ hat das Gebot eines Konsortiums die für einen geschäftlichen Neuanfang notwendige Schwelle von einer halben Milliarde Dollar überschritten.
Mit Daniel Tschudi hat die auf Druck- und Dokumentenmanagement fokussierte Ricoh Schweiz einen neuen Sales Director unter Vertrag genommen. Als solcher wird Tschudi auch Einsitz in die Geschäftsleitung nehmen, wie das Unternehmen mit Hauptsitz in Wallisellen mitteilt.
Die US-Versicherung Nationwide Mutual Insurance hat eine Entschuldigung an seine Kunden lanciert. Das Unternehmen war am dritten Oktober Opfer eines Hacker-Angriffs geworden, dessen tatsächliches Ausmaß nun bekannt wurde. Unbekannte waren damals in die Server eingebrochen, die sich Nationwide mit Allied Insurance teilt. Dort konnten sie die Daten zahlreicher Kunden entwenden. Die Firma ging umgehend an die Öffentlichkeit, nachdem sie den Vorfall bemerkt hatte.
In der Hamburger Zentralbücherei ist der Fortschritt sichtbar. In den hellen Räumen mit kleiner Cafeteria herrscht emsige Betriebsamkeit. Kunden scannen ihre Bücher zum Ausleihen ein oder legen sie zur Rückgabe selbst auf ein Förderband. Hinter einer Glaswand laufen die Bücher dann vor aller Augen auf den Bändern an ihren Bestimmungsort. Viel hat sich getan in den letzten Jahren bei den Büchereien. Doch bei einem weiteren Versuch, Neuland zu betreten, knirscht es: Das Verleihen von E-Books.
Die Internationale Fernmeldeunion (ITU) hat einen globalen Standard für die eingehende Untersuchung von Datenpaketen im Internet gebilligt. Die UNO-Organisation teilte am Donnerstag in Dubai mit, die technische Spezifikation ermögliche es Telekommunikationsunternehmen, den Datenverkehr im Netz effizienter zu verwalten und die Qualität von Internet-Diensten zu verbessern.
Im Auftrag des Bildungsrates des Kantons Zürich entwickelte das Zürcher Volksschulamt zusammen mit der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich und unter Einbezug des Schulfelds einen ICT-Guide mit einer Mustervorlage für stufenübergreifende Medien- und ICT-Konzepte in Zürcher Volksschulen.
Die Deutsche Telekom prüft in Deutschland sowie bei seinen Servicepartnern möglicherweise den weiteren Abbau von bis zu 12.000 Arbeitsplätzen. Dies berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur "Bloomberg" am Donnerstag unter Berufung auf zwei mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Personen.
. This is the fourth installment of the Scribblenauts franchise; the original made a name for itself back in 2009 for its innovative ability to render almost any noun you could think of onscreen using a magic notebook. This, however, is the first iteration to make it to the big, hi-def screens of your PC and television. The goal of the game, like the previous Scribblenauts, is to collect "Starites" which you receive when completing a puzzle or riddle using objects you create. A major departure form the previous games is the level selection. Instead of discrete linear puzzles, Unlimited has a single world that is split into different themed areas, all with their own objectives. Visit the big city to help the police catch a thief or a tropical island to help a shipwrecked couple. How you help them is completely up to you and your magic notebook. As long as they end happy, you get the Starite. Of course, it's hard to create a database of every imaginable object in existence, but the developers at 5th Cell did a darn good job. As usual, proper nouns and obscenities are excluded from the list of playable words, narrowing your choices. If you're feeling ambitious and creative you can fire up the new item editor and modify any item in the game in a myriad of ways to create whole new objects. Change the color, move parts around, change sizes and even add in physical properties, adjectives and scripted behaviors. Turn Death, the Grim Reaper himself, into a tutu-wearing ballerina that flies and throws confetti! Or whatever else comes out of your imagination.
The United Nations is not taking over the Internet. At least – not yet. But that's the fear many have as talks take place in Dubia this week as the UN's Telecommunication Union and delegates from around the world meet to decide whether it should have oversight or regulate the Internet. That has some big alarm bells ringing. fear centralized control over the Internet by the UN and governments could be used as justification to impose more restrictions, monitoring, or surveillance of the Web. They fear as a result of this conference, which last through next week, that fundamental underpinnings of the Internet could be changed. This, they say, could lead to more nation by nation control of the Web and an erosion of the the Internet as a decentralized global open network. The head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Toure, said any assertion that the UN was attempting to take control of the Internet was "completely untrue." Instead Toure said only "light-touch" regulations were being sought.
Research in Motion Thursday introduced the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program to help prepare business customers for the launch of the next-generation OS on Jan. 30. Participants in the program can get a free BlackBerry 10-based smartphone. The four-part program is also intended to prepare users for the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, the name RIM is using for the next generation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server. RIM hasn't said when Service 10 will launch, although it is due about the time of the launch of the BlackBerry 10 and two new smartphones on Jan. 30.
out there for pretty much every taste and purpose, but every once in a while I'll come across one that seems especially intriguing. That happened this week with the release of ZevenOS 5.0, a Linux distro that's based on the lightweight Xubuntu but adds a multimedia focus. on the project site. “ZevenOS still is the best Linux distribution with a BeOS touch.”
Although Swype was once the champion of gesture-based typing for Android phones, it now faces some serious competition from the new SwiftKey Flow. SwiftKey Flow just launched in beta; . Just like Swype, SwiftKey Flow lets you type each word by gliding your finger across a sequence of letters. Even though your finger may pass over other letters in the process, these keyboards use word prediction to figure out what you’re trying to type. It takes some getting used to, and it tends to work better for longer words where there’s less room for misinterpretation. But once you get used to typing this way, it’s hard to go back to tapping out each letter.
When was the last time you played with a kaleidoscope? I happened to find one in a store not long ago, and peering through its eyepiece, I could see the world around me replaced with pretty, symmetrical patterns. That's a pretty accurate description of what SymmetryMill does. It's a Flash-based tool for creating repeating raster-based patterns from images. Its paid version costs $69 per year (free demo with feature limitations). SymmetryMill begins the process with a source image. This can be any image, and it doesn't have to have a pattern in it. Vector-based rival Seamless Studio does it the opposite way, starting you off with a blank canvas, The free SymmetryMill account can only use the demo painting of a pixie, but the paid version lets you load any image from your computer (I used an image of a dog). The image appears in a small window that's floating on top of a repeating pattern. Somewhere on the image you'll find a small polygon officially called the "control path"–but really, that's the mirror for your kaleidoscope. Move the control path around, and the repeating pattern in the background instantly changes. Unlike with a regular kaleidoscope, you can change the type of symmetry: SymmetryMill offers seventeen different symmetry types with names like "Glide reflection" and "Quarter-turns & mirrors." The names change the shape and size of the control path: You click the buttons and the image is instantly updated. In general, the SymmetryMill interface feels like it was built for light-hearted experimentation. Everything is very responsive, and the image changes as you drag the control path around, resize it, change its symmetry type, or even rotate the source image. That means you can play around until you find a pattern you like.
Twitter users interested in finding out how many of their followers are fake now have a free tool to aid them in their investigation. , a free tool that the company says will determine what percentage of your Twitter faithful are fake, inactive or good. Fakefollowers is a cinch to use. You simply type in your Twitter account name and click the virtual button labeled "check."
Middling reviews and limited distribution may be putting a damper on sales of Microsoft's Surface tablet, according to brokerage firm Detwiler Fenton. in the December quarter. The fact that Surface is only available through Microsoft's online store and small number of retail shops is a big factor, the firm said, and mixed reviews haven't helped. , from four million to two million, citing supply chain sources. that Ballmer was actually talking about distribution, rather than sales.