Neue Rivalen setzen die Deutsche Bank unter Druck: Deutschlands grösstes Geldinstitut muss seine Kosten auch wegen der aufstrebenden Konkurrenz aus dem Internet deutlich straffen.
Ganze drei Stunden währte die Freischaltung der Videoplattform Youtube in Pakistan am Samstag, dann sperrte die Regierung das populäre Portal wieder, nachdem man draufgekommen war, dass das umstrittene Mohammed-Video nach wie vor auf der Plattform zu sehen ist.
Suchergebnisse im Web spiegeln die Trends der Zeit wider. Neben den jedes Jahr veröffentlichten am häufigsten auf Google gesuchten Begriffen gibt es nun auch eine Liste der Einträge, die auf Wikipedia am öftesten angeklickt worden sind. Und darunter finden sich auch höchst merkwürdige Ergebnisse.
Chinas schwächelnder Telekomausrüster ZTE treibt mit dem Verkauf seiner Umweltüberwachungssparte seine Neuaufstellung voran. Ein Anteil von 81 Prozent sei für 1,3 Milliarden Yuan (155 Millionen Euro) an Ocean Delight Investment veräussert worden, teilte die Nummer zwei in China nach Huawei mit.
Die US-amerikanische iPhone-Erfindert Apple könnte laut „TGBus“ zusammen mit Intel an einer Bluetooth-Uhr arbeiten, welche auch eine Bedienung des iPhones ermöglichen solle.
Ein Schweizer Ingenieur hackt die Küche: Alexis Wiasmitinow hat auf dem europäischen Hacker-Kongress des Chaos Computer Clubs (CCC) in Hamburg sein Projekt Everycook vorgestellt. Dieses integriert alle verfügbaren Informationen und Techniken rund um das Kochen und vernetzt sie in einem "Internet der Dinge".
Apple zieht eine Patentklage gegen Samsung's Galaxy S3 Mini zurück. Grund dafür ist, dass die koreanische Erz-Konkurrentin versichert hat, das Telefon nicht auf dem US-amerikanischen Markt anzubieten.
Der Eigner der „Financial Times“, Pearson, steigt in den USA in den Markt für elektronische Lesegeräte ein. Das britische Verlagshaus teilte heute mit, einen Anteil von fünf Prozent an der E-Reader-Sparte Nook Media der US-Buchhandelskette Barnes & Noble’s für knapp 90 Mio. Dollar (69,42 Mio. Euro) zu kaufen.
Die chinesische Führung fordert von seinen 500 Millionen Internet-Nutzern, sich mit ihren echten Namen anzumelden. Ein neues Gesetz sieht vor, dass sie sich bei den Internet-Diensteanbietern ausweisen müssen, wie die Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua am Freitag meldete.
Die Ars Electronica Linz GmbH hat 2012 nach eigenen Angaben einen Rekordumsatz von 13,7 Mio. Euro erzielt. Das ist gegenüber 2011 eine Steigerung um 1,2 Mio. Euro oder 9,6 Prozent. Die Zahl der Besucher und Gäste im Ars Electronica Center ging leicht zurück.
Microsoft has launched a new anti-piracy campaign in China, which intends to highlight the security risks of buying counterfeit software. In a recent investigation, Microsoft purchased 169 PCs from shops in China and found that all were installed with pirated versions of Windows, with 91 percent of them containing malware or deliberate security vulnerabilities. "What we are finding is that increasingly cybercriminals are targeting both businesses and consumers right here in China," said Nick Psyhogeos, vice president of Microsoft's original equipment manufacturer (OEM) business solutions group. The U.S. company has long battled China's software piracy, which is among the highest in the world. Last year China's illegal software market was valued at close to US$9 billion, while the legal market was valued at $2.7 billion, according to a by the Business Software Alliance.
Hewlett-Packard said in a legal filing last week that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating its of enterprise search company Autonomy, which HP alleges inflated its value through accounting tricks. HP also said it has provided information to the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office and the SEC related "to the accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and misrepresentations at Autonomy" prior to the acquisition, according to HP's with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company said last month it had shared its allegations with those agencies, urging them to open civil and criminal investigations. The DOJ advised HP on November 21 of its investigation, the filing said. HP an $8.8 billion write-down in November, around $5 billion of which was attributed to accounting improprieties by Autonomy. The write-down was for impairment of goodwill, a term covering intangible assets such as the value of a brand and good customer relations.
China's government will require Internet users to identify themselves to service providers when they sign up for Internet access, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Lawmakers in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, approved the Internet identity rules on Friday, according to a Xinhua report on the website of the China Daily newspaper. The rules, which have the effect of law, are intended to help protect personal information and "safeguard public interests," the report said. Requiring Internet users to users of Chinese microblogging sites to provide their state-issued identification numbers when signing up for accounts that let them post entries on the sites. The microblogging sites, such as the popular Sina Weibo, are similar to Twitter, which has been blocked in China. Identity regulations have been promoted as steps to protect users and eliminate rumors on the sites. However, identity requirements have also been seen as another way to control social networking services in China, which in some cases have become forums for criticizing the government. When the Beijing government imposed its rules, some users the new requirements.
Apple has dropped its patent-infringement accusations against the Galaxy S III Mini, a mid-market Android smartphone that Samsung Electronics says it is not selling in the U.S. In a filing in the U.S. District Court for Northern California on Friday, Apple said it would withdraw its request to include the Galaxy S III Mini in and five other recently released Samsung products to its complaint, which originally was filed in February. The case is one of many in an ongoing set of disputes between the two companies in several countries. When Apple asked to add the Mini to its case, the phone was expected to be released in the U.S. soon. Samsung subsequently filed an opposition to that request in which the South Korean company said it was not selling the Mini in the U.S. In its filing on Friday, Apple said the Mini apparently was available for sale in the country, because its attorneys had bought multiple Minis from Amazon.com's U.S. online store and successfully had them shipped to addresses in the U.S. The company also said it appeared the device was still on sale at Amazon on Wednesday.
Gamers eagerly anticipating the upcoming Ouya console are getting some good news. of the device will reach buyers who shelled out $699 for the ability to code games for the new Android-based television platform. The developer console opens with standard screws so tinkerers can construct their own peripherals and connect them via USB or Bluetooth. As for the games themselves, Ouya requires that developers give away at least some gameplay to users for free, although they can profit by offering full-game upgrades, in-game purchases or subscriptions. . “Anybody that wants to develop a game for television, we allow them to do this.”
Google, the Internet search leader, removed more than 50 million links from search results this year for allegedly infringing the intellectual property of copyright holders. Van Der Sar, 51.5 million links to web pages allegedly infringing on copyrighted material were removed from search results in 2012. "Nearly all of these web pages are no longer showing up in Google's search results," Van Der Sar reported. Google, like any other website on the Internet, is obliged by federal law -- namely, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- to take down content when it receives a DCMA request from a copyright holder.
Facebook's new Poke app has apparently been a blessing in disguise for Snapchat. , a mobile app that lets you send pictures and videos to people that self-destruct after a short time. And while you’d think having a behemoth like Facebook come barreling into your territory would be a disaster, for Snapchat it's been the opposite. , a social media and web analytics firm, online mentions of Snapchat have soared since the release of Poke. Snapchat also is booming in the download department -- it’s currently the fourth most popular iPhone app in iTunes, whereas Facebook Poke barely makes the top 100. most popular free app. As for the Android version of Poke -- there isn’t one, a factor that very well could boost Snapchat’s popularity with mobile users.
The FCC is making it easier to launch in-flight Internet services on planes in the U.S. by setting up a standard approval process for onboard systems that use satellites. Since 2001, the Federal Communications Commission has approved some satellite based Internet systems for airplanes, called Earth Stations Aboard Aircraft (ESAA), on an ad-hoc basis. On Friday, the agency said it had formalized ESAA as a licensed application, which should cut in half the time required to get services approved, according to the FCC. In-flight Internet access is typically delivered via Wi-Fi in an airplane's cabin, but that access requires a wireless link outside the plane to the larger Internet. Some services make that link via special 3G cellular towers on the ground, while others exchange their data over satellites. Row44, a provider of satellite-based in-flight Wi-Fi, names Southwest Airlines and Allegiant Air as customers on its website. Under the new rules, all it will take for airlines to implement onboard ESAA systems is to test the technology, establish that it meets FCC standards and doesn't interfere with any aircraft systems, and get Federal Aviation Administration approval, the FCC said. The result should be quicker deployments and more competition among in-flight Internet systems, according to the agency.
app. A friend of another Zuckerberg sister saw that post on her Facebook News Feed, thought it was charming and re-posted it publicly on Twitter. , so she lectured the world on Twitter about "digital etiquette." She Tweeted: "Always ask permission before posting a friend's photo publicly. It's not about privacy settings, it's about human decency."
Attacking enemies will fill up your blade meter that, once filled, allows you to enter Blade Mode, the slow motion free-aim mode that allows you to slice your enemies into as many pieces as you possibly can. If you slide down their spine it will pop out, allowing you to harvest it and refill your health and blade meter. If you manage to get multiple enemies in the same sequence you can chain-harvest spines, crushing multiple enemies at the same time. There’s no benefit to crushing multiple enemies as your meters fill after the first, but sure looks cool. That might sound a bit over the top, but they’re cyborgs, not humans, so the action doesn't feel quite so gruesome.