Huawei errichtet ein Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum in Helsinki. Der chinesische Telekommunikationsausrüster bezeichnet den neuen R&D-Standort als strategisches Investment und wichtigen Treiber in Huaweis Forschung und Entwicklung für neue Technologien im Bereich mobiler Geräte.
Der Smartphone-Boom hat Samsung den Marktforschern von IDC zufolge an die Spitze der Computer-Industrie gebracht. Die Auguren zählten erstmals Smartphones, Tablets und klassische PCs für eine einheitliche Rangliste zusammen. Apple landet auf Platz zwei, Lenovo kommt auf den dritten Platz.
Mit einer eindringlichen Warnung hat sich die australische Polizei am Montag an iPhone-Nutzer gewandt. Nachdem mehrere Personen vom neuen Navigationssystem in einen abgelegenen Nationalpark geleitet wurden, sei man „äusserst besorgt“. Apple äusserte sich nicht dazu, hatte zuvor aber schon Mängel bei seinem Navigationsprogramm eingeräumt.
Die Facebook-Nutzer werden ihr Mitspracherecht bei Regeländerungen im weltgrössten Onlinenetzwerk verlieren. Facebook wird das bisherige Abstimmungsverfahren wie geplant abschaffen können. An der wohl letzten Nutzerabstimmung nahmen viel zu wenige Mitglieder teil, um Einfluss zu nehmen.
Mit unveränderten Fronten geht die Weltkonferenz zur Telekommunikation der Internationalen Fernmeldeunion (ITU) in ihre Schlussphase: Russland, China und arabische Staaten wollen erstmals das Internet in ein UN-Regelwerk aufnehmen. Der Westen ist dagegen.
Die japanischen TV-Hersteller stecken in einer tiefen Krise. Vor allem die asiatische Konkurrenz macht Panasonic, Sharp und Sony das Leben schwer. Nun wollen die angeschlagenen Unternehmen Immobilienbesitz und Beteiligungen zu Geld machen.
Die Schweizer Hacker schliessen sich zusammen und gründen den Chaos Computer Club Schweiz (CCC-CH). Die Gründungsversammlung findet am 15. Dezember auf dem Bundesplatz in Bern statt. Der Zusammenschluss erfolge, damit die Öffentlichkeit verstärkt auf das positive Anliegen der Hacker aufmerksam gemacht werden könne, heisst es in einer Mitteilung vom Montag.
Die Telekom Austria, die in den vergangenen Jahren im Zentrum von Scheingeschäfts-Vorwürfen stand, hat eine „Whistleblower“-Plattform eingeführt. Auf dieser sollen Mitarbeiter, Lieferanten und Marktbeobachter anonym Missstände im Unternehmen melden können.
Das Industrieunternehmen Schweiter verkauft die unter Umsatzrückgängen leidende Tochter Ismeca Semiconductor mit Sitz in La Chaux-de-Fonds für 54,5 Mio. Dollar oder rund 51 Mio. Fr. an die amerikanische Cohu-Gruppe. Im Gegenzug lanciert Schweiter ein Aktienrückkaufprogramm.
Kommendes Jahr dürften die ersten Festplatten mit einem Platzangebot von fünf Terabyte auf den Markt kommen. Entsprechendes zeigt eine Roadmap des Herstellers Western Digital, der über die russische Website "Always More Digital" an die Öffentlichkeit gekommen ist.
Each year, the great tech prankster Google hides —from its search engine and email service to its Android operating system and Google Maps. And each year we try to find them all. Here’s this year’s crop of Easter Eggs, pranks, interactive doodles, and tricks
When iOS 6 arrived earlier this year, it brought with it a handy new feature: Do Not Disturb, which blocks calls and alerts that arrive during designated hours. adds a number of business-friendly features to Do Not Disturb, effectively making your iPhone smarter about who can reach you, where, and when. For starters, Call Bliss lets you create caller groups ("supervisors," for example, or "important family members"), then enable or disable—in other words, allow calls from or disallow calls from—those groups at will. It also adds location-awareness to Do Not Disturb, meaning you can designate which callers can reach you at particular locations: home, the office, and so on. And because it supports geo-fencing (of a sort), it will automatically switch your allowed-callers lists depending on where you are, no input required from you.
Here's a conundrum: On the one hand, a mind map is a powerful tool for organizing and understanding complex concepts. On the other hand, some people do their best thinking away from the computer. You can always sketch out a mind map with a paper and pen, but it won't be easy to edit. SimpleMind tries to offer the best of both worlds: A 29-Euro (approx. $31) desktop version, along with free and paid ($5) Android and iOS versions for working on your mind maps on the go.
Huawei Technologies will invest €70 million (US$90.6 million) over a five-year period to establish a research and development center in Helsinki, Finland; its first task will be to build software for smartphones and tablets based on Android and Windows Phone 8. Huawei is currently the world’s fifth largest smartphone vendor in terms of unit sales, but wants to enter the top three and is hoping to take advantage of Nokia’s continuing struggles to make that happen, according to Neil Mawston, executive director at market research company Strategy Analytics. “Huawei is being a little opportunistic in that it knows there will be a lot of well-qualified Nokia people in the Helsinki area who will be looking for alternative employment,” Mawston said.
Parents beware: Many iPhone and Android apps designed for children are playing fast and loose with privacy, according to the Federal Trade Commission. on kids' apps in Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store for Android. Of the 400 apps surveyed, 60 percent sent out the device ID, mainly to third-parties such as ad networks or analytics companies. . But device IDs aren't the only point of concern. Here the other key findings from the FTC's survey:
The mobile chipset market is in a state of flux with a number of key vendors struggling, but analysts say the result of the turmoil will be more advanced high-end smartphones and cheaper low-end devices. On Monday, chip maker ST-Ericsson was dealt a blow as co-owner STMicroelectronics decided to exit the joint venture, which leaves its other owner Ericsson scrambling for a way to save it. This is just the latest sign of difficulties faced by mobile chipset vendors. Texas Instruments recently said it will focus its wireless market investments on embedded products. And Broadcom has also been struggling in the mobile space, according to Malik Saadi, principal analyst with market research company Informa Telecoms & Media.
Developers and players pour themselves into building up MMOs, but the games can't always support themselves, and then those worlds blink out. All too often, MMOs close but don't offer closure for the workers who spent so much time on them—nor for the players who expected to keep playing for years. For instance, City of Heroes went dark on November 30 with little in-game fanfare aside from what the players brought themselves. a memorable ending that made the blank stare of the servers more bearable for loyal players and development team members.
A new variant of a Trojan program called Reveton that prevents victims from using their computers and displays rogue messages from law enforcement agencies is using localized voice messages to trick victims into paying made-up fines, according to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro. "Detected as TROJ_REVETON.HM, it locks the infected system but instead of just showing a message, it now urges users to pay verbally," Ivan Macalintal, threat research manager at Trend Micro, said Monday in a . "The user won't need a translator to understand what the malware is saying—it speaks the language of the country where the victim is located." Reveton is part of a category of malicious programs called ransomware that block certain OS features or encrypt personal files and in order to return their system to normal. This particular Trojan program is also known as the "police ransomware" because it purporting to come from law enforcement agencies in various countries and instruct victims to pay a fine for allegedly accessing or storing illegal content on their computers.