Das 11. SAP Public Services Forum findet am 12. März 2013 erneut im Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL) statt. Im Zentrum der Veranstaltung steht das Thema «Big Data». Eine Hauptrolle soll in Luzern die In-Memory-Technologie SAP Hana spielen, lassen die Veranstalter wissen.
Europas schnellster Supercomputer ist im westdeutschen Jülich ans Netz gegangen. Mit einer Rechenleistung von fast sechs Billiarden Rechenoperationen pro Sekunde (Peta-Flops) soll die von IBM gebaute Anlage Wissenschaftlern aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen, etwa der Neurologie, der Biologie sowie der Energie- und Klimaforschung, für aufwendige Berechnungen zur Verfügung stehen.
Der Sänger des Welthits "The Twist" (Let's twist again), Chubby Checker, verklagt Hewlett-Packard (HP) auf mehrere Millionen Dollar. Der Grund: Über HPs Palm-Betriebssystem für Smartphones und Tablets lief bis 2012 eine App mit seinem Namen, die anhand der Schuhgrösse von Männern deren Penisgrösse schätzte.
Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg gehören derzeit knapp 30 Prozent seines Unternehmens. Wie die US-Börsenaufsicht mitteilte, ist Zuckerberg Besitzer von genau 632,65 Millionen Facebook-Aktien, das entspricht einem Anteil von 29,3 Prozent und einem Wert von 17,7 Mrd. Dollar (13,1 Mrd. Euro).
Die „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ ist heute Opfer eines Angriffs aus dem Netz geworden. Die Website der Zeitung wurde über mehrere Stunden durch massenhafte Seitenaufrufe derart überlastet, dass sie nicht mehr erreichbar war. Ein solcher automatisierter Angriff wird als Denial-of-Service-Attacke bezeichnet.
Die Kabelnetzbetreiberin UPC Cablecom konnte ihren Umsatz von Oktober bis Dezember im Vergleich zur entsprechenden Vorjahresperiode um 3,8 Prozent auf 303,0 Mio. Franken steigern. Im ganzen vergangenen Jahr stieg der Umsatz um 3,7 Prozent auf 1,18 Mrd. Franken, wie es am Donnerstag in einer Mitteilung von UPC Cablecom hiess.
Die Website "Pirate Bay", der oft Hilfe bei der Verletzung von Urheberrechten im Internet vorgeworfen wird, will gegen ihre Gegner aus der Musikindustrie ausgerechnet wegen einer angeblichen Urheberrechtsverletzung zu Felde ziehen. Die Betreiber von "Pirate Bay" wollen gegen ein finnisches Informationszentrum gegen Raubkopien (CIAPC) klagen, berichtet die Seite "Torrentfreak".
Der Photo-Sharing-Service Instagram versucht nun, die Beilegung einer Klage gegen den Service zu erwirken. Die Klage wurde in den USA von einer verärgerten Instagram-Userin eingebracht, die sich gegen die neuen AGB von Instagram wehren will. Sie wirft Instagram vor, Eigentum von Usern zu ihrem eigenen machen zu wollen.
Die spanische Polizei hat die mutmaßlichen Hintermänner einer groß angelegten Betrugsaktion im Internet gefasst. Die zehn Verdächtigen sollen mit einem aggressiven Schadprogramm Geld von Menschen in ganz Europa erpresst haben.
Der US-amerikanische Internetriese Google hat mit einer Gegenklage auf Patentvorwürfe seitens des britischen Telekomkonzerns BT reagiert. Die Klage werde in den USA und Grossbritannien erhoben, sagte eine Google-Sprecherin gegenüber den Medien.
If you're frustrated over the lack of apps available for Windows 8 right now, Bluestacks wants to help. Bluestacks' software is an emulator that allows you to run Android apps on a Windows PC. The latest beta version, which you can download from , tries to accommodate Windows 8 tablets with full-screen viewing, as well as a set of controls that appear when you swipe in from the right edge of the screen. Bluestacks can also use a tablet's accelerometer to move between tablet and portrait modes. In theory, Bluestacks is a good stopgap measure to fill in for key apps that Windows 8 lacks, such as Pandora, Flipboard, and Instagram. In practice, Bluestacks doesn't work as well as it should, and in some cases I couldn't get it to work at all.
Daemon Tools made a name for themselves with simple, no-nonsense optical drive emulation software that allows your disk libraries to go from cake boxes filled with silver platters to immediately accessible disk images stored on your hard drive. While commercial upgrades have appeared over the years, the free version retained most of the handy features and became a staple power user's tool. The company's focus has barely shifted over the years, with variations on platform support and paid features as the only real changes since the first version of Daemon Tools rolled out. Their latest product, Daemon Tools USB ($7, 20-day free trial), is a modest attempt to move away from the emulation business with a utility that allows remote access to USB-connected devices as if they were plugged in locally. The ambitions here are modest and comfortably met. By running a copy of the software on a host system, you gain access to USB-connected devices such as thumb drives, printers and hard disks on other systems also running Daemon Tools USB. You can specify passwords and configure custom port numbers and proxy servers, so security (if not particularly robust security) is provided. The interface is a model of simplicity, but this is less of a compliment than a consequence of its singular purpose. Access speed is swift and reliable under most circumstances, although this is largely dictated by network bandwidth. Despite its simplicity, I still had trouble accessing a few devices, such as a SanDisk portable USB drive that refused to allow remote access, while others worked perfectly. The interface is a tabbed window that allows you to specify and configure local USB devices for sharing and to access remote devices you've added to your server list. Under most circumstances, simply sharing the same device over a network via the normal OS route would duplicate this functionality.
It’s getting tough to keep track of who’s who in the crowded world of cloud storage and file synchronization apps. Every week, a new service seems to pop up, or an old one adds new features. SugarSync—one of the most full-featured services—is the latest to get an overhaul with today's release of a new client that stands out from the typical cloud crowd. We’ve been using SugarSync 2.0 for months now and have the full scoop about what’s new and different. Read on for everything you need to know. SugarSync is a file-synchronization and cloud storage application, similar to Dropbox. If you’ve somehow avoided any exposure to file-sync apps, their primary purpose is to keep a set of files and folders mirrored across multiple computers or devices. If you modify or add a file on one computer, it will be uploaded and downloaded appropriately, so that an identical file appears on all machines. What has always set SugarSync apart from the more-popular Dropbox is its from anywhere on your computer while offering a number of additional features, including 5GB of free cloud storage (plus 10GB for every friend you refer), revision history for synced files, and shared folders. So, with more flexibility and the same base price as its competitors—free, with the option to pay for more storage—it’s little surprise that SugarSync has been a favorite of the power-user crowd. One obstacle to widespread popularity for the application has always been its clunky, old-fashioned interface... until now.
Business software purchasing, particularly at the enterprise level, can be a lengthy and difficult process, something startup G2 Crowd is hoping to alleviate with a new review site aimed at enterprise applications. G2 Crowd has been in the works for some time, but on Thursday the company announced what amounts to a public beta, as well as the unveiling of some new features. "We think we're ready to go to the broader world," said co-founder Godard Abel, in an interview. The site includes a rating system called the G2 Grid. 'We really think it's a better version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant," Abel said. That's because all of the data involved is sourced from end-user reviews and social media sites. User reviews carry 70 percent to 80 percent of the weight in rankings, but social media traffic can provide some significant insights into which companies and trends are getting hot, according to Abel.
Windows 8 comes with an entirely new interface called Modern (formerly known as Metro), featuring generous swaths of color, flat icons, and large typography. You'll first meet Modern in the lock screen, immediately followed by the Start screen. You'll be visiting both quite often: The lock screen whenever you start using your computer, and the Start screen whenever you want to launch an application. As such, you might want to customize them a bit to suit your personal style. Microsoft offers a few preset backgrounds you can choose from, but for no-holds-barred personalization, you should try $5 utility Decor8. , it ties into Windows very tightly. While Decor8 isn't a Modern app, it looks like one: It can only run in fullscreen mode, and there's no way to resize the window. A sidebar lines the left side of the window, with a simple menu done in large type: Background, Colors, Options, Lock screen, and About. The Background section lets you set what appears behind the tiles in your Start screen. The first few backgrounds in the list are simple vector affairs, quite similar to the limited selection that ships with Windows 8. But then the list goes on to feature bold nature and macro photos that stand in stark contrast to the flat Modern aesthetic and lend the Start screen a dramatic flair far beyond the default. If none of the included options appeal to you, you can specify your own Start screen background using any image on your computer. You can select several images and have them rotate throughout the day at an interval you set, or set the Start screen background to be the same as your desktop wallpaper. You can also fade the image, blur it, and adjust its tint and contrast.
A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to improve on what a single drive can do on its own. Depending on how you configure a RAID, it can increase your computer's speed while giving you a single "drive" that can hold as much as all of the drives combined. Or you can use a RAID to increase reliability, so that your computer will keep working after a hard drive crash. Some RAIDS allow you to do both. Here are three of the most popular RAID configurations:
A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part of an important cyberespionage operation, the head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said. by researchers from security firm FireEye, who said that it was being used in active attacks. Adobe confirmed that the exploit works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat, including 10 and 11, which have a sandbox protection mechanism. published Wednesday. Adobe is working on a patch, but in the meantime users of Adobe Reader 11 are advised to enable the Protected View mode by choosing the "Files from potentially unsafe locations" option under the Edit > Preferences > Security (Enhanced) menu.
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in several key ways, starting with a polished Read Mode and embedded PDF edits. . Some aspects of the new Word are puzzling, and others are downright painful. Here's a look at the most baffling of these changes—along with solutions to a few choice problems. Word’s new Live Layout feature is supposed to simplify the task of positioning images and other objects on the page. That sounds great, because reliable image positioning has been a problem for many versions. Unfortunately, though, Live Layout falls short of its promise. Many Word 2013 users report that images sometimes don't stay where they're put—and occasionally jump to another page entirely.
, but—apart from what it demonstrated at the time—we're still waiting both for the downloadable image it promised to provide for the Galaxy Nexus and for specifics on actual devices.