Die Montag Mittag lancierte Eilmeldung vom Rücktritt von Papst Benedikt XVI. hat zu einem wahren Social-Media-Sturm geführt und fegt auch weiter noch durch sämtliche Kanäle des Web 2.0.
Blackberry muss nach der Vorstellung neuer Smartphones einen ersten Rückschlag verkraften: Die weltgrösste Baumarktkette Home Depot kündigte an, auf das iPhone umzusteigen. Die Blackberry-Aktie fiel am Montag in New York um drei Prozent.
Trotz eher enttäuschender Verkaufszahlen will der kanadische Smartphone-Hersteller Blackberry am Tablet PC Geschäft weiter festhalten. Dies bestätigte Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins in einem Interview mit der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters.
Das Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Bakom) hat der zur Swissphone Gruppe gehörigen Swissphone Wireless die Funk-Konzession für das von ihr betriebene Telepage-Swiss-Funkrufnetz bis ins Jahr 2020 verlängert. Das Telepage-Netz wird von den meisten Blaulichtorganisationen für die Erstalarmierung und Mobilisierung ihrer Einsatzkräfte genutzt.
Die Competec-Gruppe hat mit Mireille Brodmann neue Personalleiterin unter Vertrag genommen. Sie leitet laut Mitteilung ein Team aus sechs Mitarbeitenden und nimmt Einsitz in die erweiterte Unternehmensleitung des Unternehmens.
Die USA sind einem Bericht zufolge Ziel massiver Cyberkriminalität, welche die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Landes gefährdet. Am aggressivsten versuche China, Zugang zu Computersystemen von US-Unternehmen und -Institutionen zu bekommen, berichtete die Zeitung "Washington Post" am Sonntagabend (Ortszeit) unter Berufung auf namentlich nicht genannte Beamte und ein Dossier der US-Nachrichtendienste.
Der weltgrösste Telekomausrüster Ericsson hat in Indien einen Auftrag über eine Milliarde US-Dollar (747,7 Millionen Euro) erhalten. Wie das schwedische Unternehmen am Montag mitteilte, wird es für Reliance Communications acht Jahre lang Fest- und Mobilfunknetze im Norden und Westen des Landes einschliesslich der Städte Neu Delhi und Mumbai betreiben.
Von der Hand ans Handgelenk: Apple experimentiert einem Medienbericht zufolge mit der Entwicklung einer computergestützten Armbanduhr als Brücke zwischen iPhone und Laptop. Basis des Geräts sei flexibles Glas, damit sich die Uhr ums Handgelenk legen lasse, meldete die "New York Times".
Vodafone will durch den Ausbau des superschnellen Mobilfunknetzes LTE den Vormarsch der Billigkonkurrenz stoppen. Viele Verbraucher seien bereit, für ein superschnelles und sicheres Netz einen Premiumaufschlag zu zahlen, sagte Deutschland-Chef Jens Schulte-Bockum dem "Handelsblatt" laut Vorausbericht.
Der deutsche Wirtschaftsminister Philipp Rösler (FDP) hätte gern ein deutsches IT-Unternehmen, das einen ähnlichen Stellenwert wie Apple vorweisen könnte. Dazu will er die deutsche Start-Up-Szene weiter fördern.
Over the weekend, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled into the surface of Mars and collected its first sample from the interior of a rock. With this incredible interactive panorama, you can stand right beside the rover and see both its amazing environment and the fruits of its labor (go in full screen for best results).
They say the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away (or something like that). Well, on Monday the Lord tooketh away when Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the role of pontiff, and the internet gaveth memes.
Boeing's ill-fated 787 has once again taken to the skies for testing in an effort to find a solution to the battery issue that has left the fleet grounded for the better part of the past month.
The Pentagon Inspector General doesn't buy the Air Force's explanation of a 2010 stealth jet crash.
Flickr left private photos exposed for 20 full days. Why aren't more people worked up?
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In a moment of Kickstarted exuberance, cartoonist Ryan North made a promise to explode. Makers Derek Quenneville and Lauren Archer made the explosion happen.
As the brand new Landsat 8 satellite hits orbit today, extending the record-breaking lifespan of the Landsat Earth-observation mission, we're looking back at some of our favorites among the millions of images taken by Landsat 5 and Landsat 7. From 1,000-foot-high sand dunes in Namibia and crazy-looking South Pacific clouds to an odd circular structure in Africa and the incredible expansion of Las Vegas into the surrounding desert, these are some of the Landsat images that have made the most impact on us (and we have looked at a lot of these images over the years).
More evidence surfaces that deep within its labs, Apple is working on a "watch-like device."
The Navy is dealing with the military's impending budget fiasco by putting its aircraft carriers on the firing line. It's unexpected, but it might actually be a smart move -- if Congress cancels the deepest budget cuts. (Big if.)
A teen drama mixed with first-person shooters may not appeal to everyone, but
The world's longest floating bridge, a 230,000-ton ribbon of concrete spanning Lake Washington, is getting longer. And smarter.
Two years ago, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose brought a $20 million lawsuit against Guitar Hero III maker Activision for the inclusion of his former bandmate Slash in the 2007 videogame. On Friday, a judge ruled against Rose.
The digital remnants of the long since deleted world of Geocities are slowly being reborn, page by page, on Tumblr.
At 10:01 PT, a team of scientists and engineers will hold their breath as the newest Landsat satellite is launched into space aboard an Atlas V rocket. Landsat 8 carries one of the most sophisticated Earth-observing systems, but it also carries the weight of a record-breaking 40-year-long continuous mission.
Adobe wants to help web developers create a more readable web with a new proposal to "balance" text. If accepted as a standard Adobe's text-balance rule would help eliminate typographic unsightliness -- like widows, orphans and ragged lines -- from the web, making text easier on the eyes.
The Pentagon's future jet fighter is getting steadily worse.
I'm working on an Alien costume. I've got the suit. It was built for me, and it's gorgeous. But I'm making the head myself, and it's kicking my butt. The problem: I have too much time.
It won't be long before Pluto's smallest moons, now called P4 and P5, are given names worthy of their association with the Greek god of the underworld -- and you will have a chance to vote for what you think the planetary runt's tiniest satellites should be called.
VATICAN CITY — The pitch overlooking St. Peter?s Basilica has an imposing reverence about it, sitting as it does in a place where centuries of history create a sense of ecclesiastical gravitas.That reverence is shattered the moment the whistle blows, bringing the beautiful game and the beatified game together in the Clericus Cup, Catholicism?s version ...
In 1989 Microsoft shipped its first version of its SQL Server database, bootstrapped a multimedia division and promoted a guy named Steve Ballmer to the role of senior vice president. It also built its first data center. By today's standards it was a modest operation: a 89,000-square-foot facility in Building 11 of its Redmond, Washington, ...
What would happen if all the humans on Earth jumped into Lake Michigan? Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain does the calculations.
Logitech will rely on design and speed to make the transition from the PC world to one dominated by tablets and smartphones.
With the rather obviously named ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch, Lenovo brings its flagship ultrabook into the Windows 8 era, adding a touchscreen to the package but leaving most of the rest of the device unchanged.
When we talk about 3-D printing, we emphasize its seamlessness and ease of use. It's easy to overlook the number of steps between sending in a CAD file and getting the result delivered to your home. We'd like to show you how Shapeways makes ideas real.
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Smartphone apps have given us an arsenal to make our lives easier, but they have yet to conquer the most stress-inducing, wallet-draining, and logistically complex ailment any urbanite with a car faces ? parking.
The U.S. government's plan to spend millions on advanced new ground sensors at the Mexican border has been delayed, as the sensors have bandwidth and frequency problems the feds haven't resolved.
Nobody is safe from the barrage of attacks from Chinese hackers, who are surely to blame for everything currently going wrong, including this article.
Every once in a while, something comes a long that ingrains itself into our lives until we can't imagine how we got along without it. Here are 12 such items.