Apple wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf eines Grossaktionärs, das Unternehmen horte wegen früherer Krisenerfahrungen zuviel Geld. „Apple besitzt keine Mentalität wie in der Grossen Depression", sagte Konzernchef Tim Cook am Dienstag auf einer Investorenkonferenz in San Francisco. Apple investiere kräftig: in Läden, in Innovationen, in neue Produkte und in die Lieferkette. „Wir kaufen ausgesuchte Unternehmen."
Viele Unternehmen nutzen im Büro noch das veraltete Betriebssystem Windows XP. Dies könnte bald gefährlich werden, da ohne die Unterstützung von Microsoft Sicherheitslücken auftreten können. Microsoft gab bekannt, den Kundenservice für Windows XP im April 2014 zu stoppen.
Alarm im US-Bundesstaat Montana: Beim lokalen Fernsehsender KRTV ist ein laufendes Programm unterbrochen worden, um die Bevölkerung vor gefährlichen Zombie-Angriffen in mehreren Landkreisen zu warnen. Ein schlechter Scherz von Hackern, wie sich später herausstellte.
Der skandalgeschüttelte Kameraspezialist Olympus hat die Gewinnprognose für das laufende Geschäftsjahr gesenkt. Wie das Unternehmen am Dienstag bekanntgab, dürfte sich der Nettoertrag zum Bilanzstichtag 31. März wegen schwacher Verkäufe von Digitalkameras auf nur noch sechs Milliarden Yen belaufen.
Die US-amerikanischen Fernsehsender KRTV und Public TV 13 wurden mehreren Berichten zufolge Opfer einer Hackerattacke. Die Polizeibehörden ermitteln, um die Verantwortlichen zu finden, die sich in das Notfallwarnsystem von KRTV Zugang verschafft und dort vor Zombies gewarnt haben.
Die Verbraucher in Deutschland kaufen immer mehr im Internet ein. Im vergangenen Jahr kletterte der Umsatz im elektronischen Handel um 27 Prozent auf 27,6 Mrd. Euro, wie der Bundesverband des Deutschen Versandhandels (BVH) am Dienstag in Hamburg bekanntgab. Für das laufende Jahr rechnet der Verband mit einem Wachstum des Online-Handels von 21 Prozent.
EU-Kommissarin Neelie Kroes hat Vorwürfen widersprochen, bei der Neufassung des europäischen Datenschutzrechtes hätten Unternehmensvertreter einen zu großen Einfluss gehabt. "Kein Lobbyist sagt mir, was zu tun ist, weder ein amerikanischer noch irgendein anderer", schrieb Kroes am Montag auf ihrem Twitter-Profil.
Beim IT-Dienstleister Adesso Schweiz verantwortet Martin Kunz ab sofort als Chief Operating Officer (COO) den operativen Betrieb des Unternehmens. Darüber hinaus wurde Peter Erni in die Geschäftsleitung berufen.
Bis spätestens 2020 will Swisscom 80 Prozent aller Schweizer Haushalte mit einem ultraschnellen Internetanschluss versorgen. Während in vielen Städten und grösseren Gemeinden Glasfaser bis in die Wohnungen verlegt wird, setzt Swisscom ausserhalb der Ballungszentren auf einen Glasfaserausbau bis kurz vor die Gebäude (Fibre to the Street, FTTS). Als strategischen Partner und Lieferanten für den FTTS-Ausbau hat Swisscom nun Huawei ausgewählt.
Die Risiken für die weltweite Konjunktur sind nach Einschätzung der Ratingagentur Moody's gesunken. "Während unsere Prognosen sich kaum verändert haben, sind doch die Abwärtsrisiken definitiv in den vergangenen drei Monaten zurückgegangen", sagte Moody's-Spezialist Colin Ellis am Dienstag.
, the Kickstarter-backed smart watch, have fueled the speculation. It's a logical move for Apple, which could use a new device to generate buzz and drive revenue. The iPhone and iPad are still selling almost as fast as Apple can produce them, but it will be hard to sustain growth and relevance by pushing out annual, incremental updates to them. If Apple is working on some sort of intelligent watch, what exactly would it be? Here are a few concepts to consider.
It doesn’t break the record for , which fix a mind-numbing 57 separate flaws. Paul Henry, security and forensic analyst at , says, “It’s going to be a rough Valentine’s Day for many IT admins this month. With ongoing issues with Java and 12 bulletins from Microsoft, including 5 critical issues and many restarts, it’s going to be a very disruptive Patch Tuesday.” Senior Manager of Security Engineering, Ross Barrett, senior manager of security engineering for , on the other hand, tries to stay positive. “On the plus side, none of the issues patched this month are known to be actively being exploited "in the wild".” That is definitely good news, but IT admins still have their work cut out for them. Henry notes, “It’s disturbing to note how many different Microsoft platforms are critically affected this month. Everything from Windows XP to the new Windows RT is critically impacted.”
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, a presentation-sharing site used primarily by professionals, has added a premium feature that lets members closely monitor usage of their presentations. The detailed analytics data is intended to help presentation owners in their jobs, whether it is by fine-tuning sales efforts, sharpening marketing strategies or revising corporate training materials. and lets people share their presentations with hand-picked recipients via unique links that can be sent via email or through other methods, like social media direct messaging. Once the recipients access the presentations by clicking on the links, SlideShare tracks and compiles a variety of engagement metrics, such as how much time each person spent looking at each slide and how many times they viewed the presentation.
You may not be a coder or a Web developer, but that doesn't mean you don't know exactly how you want your new application or website to look and feel. Trying to get to that perfect look with just words can be a frustrating experience for both client and developer. A good interface mockup is worth a thousand words, and you don't have to know how to code to create one. In fact, it doesn't even have to cost you anything: Free utility Pencil contains everything you need to create serviceable mockups for websites, desktop applications, and mobile smartphone apps. , Pencil's interface will be familiar. The bulk of the screen is taken up by a canvas, and a toolbar lines the left edge of the window. The toolbar is full of widgets you can put on your canvas, neatly divided into categories like Basic Web Elements, Windows XP Widgets, Android ICS, iOS UI Stencils, and more. In Pencil terminology, each category is a collection of "stencils." contains even more, all freely available. For any given project, you're likely to need only one or two sets of stencils, and Pencil makes it easy to hide stencil sets you don't need. And just like Lumzy and Balsamiq, the sidebar includes a quick-search box letting you instantly filter the list down to just the UI element you need ("button" and so on). To test Pencil, I used its included Android ICS stencil collection to quickly prototype a single screen for a hypothetical Android app showing PCWorld's top stories. I got mixed results: The collection includes beautiful stencils for Android's status bar (the top part of the screen) and navigation bar (the bottom of the screen), but they were the wrong width for my project and there was no way to resize them. Other stencils, such as those used for tabs and list items, could be easily resized. I ended up creating my mockup out of just those stencils, omitting the top and bottom of the screen. Not ideal, but workable.
. Gates wanted questions to focus on his work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to improving healthcare and reducing poverty around the world. This being Reddit and the favorite hangout of many geeks, however, there were several questions that touched on technology and the personalities surrounding the industry. Gates answered questions about his views on Windows 8, Steve Jobs, Bing, the Surface Pro, massive computer displays, and the possible reemergence of WinFS. for creating Windows 8 touch apps.
Facebook is being sued by the family of a deceased Dutch programmer who held two patents dealing with sharing and updating social media content long before the social networking site launched. The suit, filed Feb. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, also names AddThis, a social bookmarking services that was an early partner of Facebook. The lawsuit alleges Facebook's "Like" button and other content-sharing features infringe on the patents. The patents in question were granted in 2001 and 2002 to Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer, a computer scientist. Van Der Meer had reserved the domain name "surfbook.com" for what he termed a "personal diary" system, according to the lawsuit.
Microsoft will support its Surface Pro tablet until July 2017, or almost four-and-a-half years after its launch last weekend, the company's website confirmed. Like its predecessor the Surface RT, the Windows 8-powered Surface Pro sports a support lifecycle that's less than half the usual 10 years Microsoft allots its software products. Microsoft will support the Surface Pro only in a "Mainstream" support phase, the company said on its . Last year, Microsoft announced a similar support schedule for the Surface RT. That device, which launched in late Oct. 2012, will be , or nearly four-and-a-half years.
Manufacturers have tried to put PCs in our living room for years, with mixed success. One of the most recent example is , which looks great in a home-theater rack, but delivers underwhelming performance when you use it to play high-end games with all their graphic settings cranked up. But this January, the "PC as a gaming console" construct took a new twist. Valve Software, the developer of the Half-Life game series and Steam digital distribution network, confirmed long-running rumors that it's working on a "Steam box"—a prebuilt PC that plugs into an HDTV, and runs the entire lengthy list of games available on Valve’s network. But there won't just be one Steam Box on the market. Instead, the Steam Box will become its own hardware category, filled with prefab PCs from multiple manufacturers and endorsed by Valve. At CES 2013 in January, we saw the first of many Steam Box PCs to come when modular PC manufacturer Xi3 debuted the , a prototype PC designed with input (and financial investment) from Valve. Built to fit inside a home entertainment center, the Piston looks cool; but with its expected AMD APU, it probably won't be able to run demanding PC games on a big HDTV without serious performance problems.