Samsung will die gefährliche Sicherheitslücke in einigen seiner Android-Smartphones stopfen. Derzeit werde an einem Software-Update gearbeitet, teilte das Unternehmen am Donnerstag mit. Zugleich betonte Samsung, dass ein Sicherheitsrisiko nur auf Smartphones bestehe, die mit Schadsoftware infiziert seien.
Überraschender Wechsel an der Spitze der Deutschen Telekom: Der Vorstandsvorsitzende René Obermann wird Ende 2013 seinen Posten abgeben und den Konzern verlassen. Sein Nachfolger wird der bisherige Finanzvorstand Timotheus Höttges.
Der Kabelnetzverbund Quickline kündigt mit «Internet 150» das nach eigenen Angaben schnellste Internetabo der Schweiz ein. Das neue Angebot mit einer Download-Rate von bis zu 150 Mbit/s (Upload: 10 Mbit/s) werde ab März 2013 schrittweise bei den einzelnen Kabelnetzen der Quickline-Partner aufgeschaltet, heisst es in einer Aussendung dazuz.
Die brasilianische Firma Gradiente hat mit dem Verkauf eigener Smartphones unter dem Namen iPhone begonnen. Die mit dem Android-Betriebssystem von Apples Erzrivalen Google betriebenen Handys sind seit Dienstag im Handel.
Es gibt eine "Weltformel", die auf atomarem Niveau, also Atom für Atom, beschreibt, was in Festkörpern und Molekülen vor sich geht. Sie stammt vom österreichischen Physiker Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) und nennt sich "Vielelektronen-Schrödingergleichung". Dieses Erbe ist allerdings mit einem Fluch verbunden, so der Wiener Physiker Georg Kresse gegenüber der APA.
Samsung hat im Patentstreit mit dem Konkurrenten Apple eine neue Runde eingeläutet: Der südkoreanische Technologiekonzern reichte bei einem US-Gericht eine vorläufige Einschätzung des US-Patent- und -Markenamtes ein, wonach das Apple-Patent zum Rein- und Rauszoomen mit Wischbewegungen von zwei Fingern vermutlich ungültig ist.
Der chinesische Netzwerkausrüster ZTE will im kommenden Jahr den Umsatz in Österreich und in den südosteuropäischen Nachbarländern auf über 100 Millionen Euro verdoppeln. Das Unternehmen war erst Ende 2010 in Österreich gestartet und setzte bereits nach einem Jahr mit 40 Mitarbeitern 30 Millionen Euro um. 2012 verdoppelte sich die Mitarbeiterzahl, der Umsatz kletterte auf 50 Millionen Euro.
Die Beteiligung an dem verlustreichen Chiphersteller St-Ericsson brockt dem Netzwerkausrüster Ericsson eine Milliardenabschreibung ein. Der schwedische Weltmarktführer teilte am Donnerstag mit, im vierten Quartal eine Abschreibung in Höhe von 8 Mrd. Kronen (932,80 Mio. Euro) vorzunehmen - hauptsächlich auf Kredite für St-Ericsson.
Der US-amerikanische Internet-Riese Google verkauft den Digital-TV-Empfangsgerätehersteller Motorola Home für 2,35 Milliarden Dollar an das Kabelunternehmen Arris. Gezahlt werde in Aktien und mit Bargeld, lassen die beiden Unternehmen via Aussendung verlauten.
Aufgrund der raschen Ausdehnung der sozialen Netzwerke weltweit, wird das Newberry College in South Carolina ab nächstem Herbst den gleichnamigen Studiengang dazu einführen. Das von den Studenten langersehnte Programm soll mehrere unterschiedliche Kurse wie Grafisches Design, Kommunikation und Business beinhalten.
since its original unveiling at E3 2011. In fact, we haven’t really heard or seen anything beyond continued delays. That trend was finally broken last week in Los Angeles as I got hands-on time with the first three hours of the game. Thankfully, it didn’t disappoint. This all takes place around 1912, but the Bioshock universe still runs on its own alternate timelines, so you just have to deal with the fact that they’re hyper-advanced in some areas, yet right where they should be in others. Everything still looks just as you’d expect a city to at that time, so there’s kids selling newspapers and cobblestone roads everywhere. There’s still horses pulling everything around, but they’re robo-horses, rather than real horses.
There are few things more appetizing than gorgeous, high-resolution photos of delicious food. Cookbook editors have known this for years, and the modern cookbook is bursting with full-page glossy photos showcasing the recipes. iCookbook is a $5 cooking app for Windows 8 that takes this aesthetic and brings it to life with thousands of photos, each leading to a beautifully typeset recipe. Windows 8's Modern UI is all about tiles, and iCookbook uses them to good advantage. Every recipe is represented by a tile bearing a photo and caption, but they're not all the same size: The main screen is subdivided into several categories, each with a large centerpiece tile and three smaller tiles below. These categories let you browse recipes by dish, ingredient, theme, cuisine, occasion, and brand. If one of the images on the main screen catches your fancy, just click to open the full recipe. But if you'd like to drill deeper into a category, you can click its header and find yourself in a submenu with vertical tiles, one per subcategory. So click Dish, and you get Appetizers & Snacks, Beverages, Breakfasts & Brunches, and many more. Click a subcategory, and you'll find yourself in a screen full of alphabetically sorted tiles, each for a recipe in that subcategory. There are often more recipes in a subcategory than can fit on the screen, so you can scroll to see more – horizontally. In fact, all scrolling in iCookbook is horizontal. This can be strange and distracting at first, but such is the way of the Modern UI. With thousands of recipes available, search is a must-have feature. At first I just tried typing, expecting a search bar to pop up with my first keystroke, like it does in the Windows Start Screen and Windows Store. When that didn't happen, I brought up the Windows 8 Charms bar and clicked the Search icon. That did the trick, and I was able to quickly search for recipes.
JuiceBuddy calls its portable iPhone-and-other-devices charger ”the world’s smallest and most portable iPhone charger.” This tiny device, about the size of an iPhone wall plug, fits neatly onto a keychain and sports built-in prongs, a built-in 30-pin connector, and a female USB port for charging other USB-powered devices. It is not, however, a portable battery—rather, it’s a portable wall charger that lets you charge devices using a standard wall socket. Still, since it does away with the iPhone cable, you can effectively charge your device whenever you're near an outlet. It can charge an iPad, but it’s designed so that you balance your phone on top of the charger while it’s charging. Needless to say, the weight of an iPad might be too much to keep this charger from falling off the wall. If you need something tailored for a tablet, check out these . Price: $24.95,
Google has lost its traditional Santa Claus tracking partnership with NORAD – the North American Aerospace Defense Command – to Bing, but the search giant hasn't lost its Christmas spirit. site, loading it with all sorts of goodies. At the center of the site, is a countdown clock that ticks off the seconds to St. Nick’s scheduled departure from the North Pole as he begins his annual journey to deliver gifts around the world. At the left corner of the tracker page is a pulldown menu with links to all the ways offered by Google to track Santa – Google+, an Android app, Chrome browser extension and Google Earth app.
A funny thing happened recently. A survey of 45,000 PCWorld readers found that a . While that’s just one perspective from one audience, it represents a trend that Microsoft and Windows PC OEMs should be concerned about. Large enterprises are too entrenched in Windows to shift the entire IT ecosystem to Mac OS X. It could be done, but like stopping a train, or turning a cargo ship—it would take some time. Small and medium businesses, however, are more agile and can switch platforms on a whim. And, according to a of the SMB tablet purchases were iPads. iPhones and iPads are mobile devices, and don’t represent any real threat to Windows. But, if you combine the SMB demand for iOS mobile devices with the popularity of Mac OS X laptops indicated by the PCWorld survey, it paints a picture.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to throw its prosecutorial weight behind efforts to stem the growing number of foreign government-sponsored cyberattacks against U.S. companies and government agencies. The DOJ's effort marks a shift in combating the national security threat. In the past, the Department of Homeland Security, the Defense Department and the National Security Agency led investigations of state-sponsored cyberespionage. Now, the DOJ will step up the part it plays by prosecuting government officials and hackers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation providing the police work. "There is, I guess, a tactical shift when we're dealing with cyber-threats and national security to examine whether criminal investigations and prosecutions are a viable option in some of these cases," DOJ spokesman Dean Boyd said on Wednesday. "And I think we're pursuing that very vigorously with the FBI."
Up to now, Google has been the poor boy of online music, but that's about to change. It on Wednesday for Google Music users that gives the search giant a leg up on Amazon’s Cloud Player service and Apple’s iTunes Match. Here are some things you should know about Google’s matching service. Google’s service scans a user’s computer, giving them online access to the songs it finds, provided Google can match those songs on its servers. If the songs cannot be found, they will be uploaded to a user’s online locker. The service saves you the time of manually uploading your music to Google Music by scanning the files in your library and comparing them to songs in the Google Music library. If your song is in the Google Music library, Google will copy it to your cloud account. If it isn't in Google's library of approximately 13 million songs, Google will upload to your cloud account. (In comparison, Amazon and Apple claim to have about 20 million songs in their respective libraries.)