Die Swisscom darf die staatliche Telecom Liechtenstein nicht übernehmen. Das Liechtensteiner Parlament, der Landtag, liess das 23-Millionen-Geschäft am Donnerstag überraschend platzen. Die knappe Mehrheit des 25-köpfigen Parlaments trat mit 13 zu 12 Stimmen gar nicht auf das Verkaufsgeschäft ein.
Die US-Computerspielefirma Atari wird nach ihrer Insolvenz zerschlagen. Grund ist, dass keine befriedigenden Kaufangebote für das gesamte Unternehmen eingegangen sind. Die Verwalter des Unternehmens hoffen auf Einnahmen von mindestens 22,15 Millionen Dollar (17,2 Mio Euro), wie aus Gerichtsdokumenten aus New York hervorgeht. Das Geld steht den Gläubigern zu.
Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates darf sich wieder guten Gewissens reichster Mensch der Welt nennen. Nach dem Finanzdienstleister Bloomberg hat nun auch das US-Magazin "Forbes" erklärt, dass Gates den mexikanischen Telekom-Tycoon Carlos Slim überholt habe.
Die Zürcher Staatsanwaltschaft hat die vom Eidg. Departement des Innern (EDI) angestrengte Strafuntersuchung gegen einen ehemaligen Mitarbeiter von Comparis.ch eingestellt. Hintergrund der Strafanzeige war ein vermuteter Hackerangriff auf den Prämienrechner des Bundesamts für Gesundheit (BAG).
Zur Freude der Aktionäre kündigte Logitech jüngst die regelmässige Ausschüttung von Dividenden an. Nach dem Willen von Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat will der Hersteller von Computer-Zubehör 0,21 Schweizer Franken je Aktie an die Anteilseigner austeilen.
Der südkoreanische Elektronikriese Samsung hat sein neues Smartphone-Flaggschiff Galaxy S4 binnen weniger Wochen mehr als zehn Millionen Mal verkauft. Das Telefon sei damit so erfolgreich wie bislang kein anderes Samsung-Modell, teilte der Konzern am Donnerstag mit.
Swisscom erhöht ab sofort die Geschwindigkeit im 4G/LTE-Netz auf 150Mbit/s (bisher 100 Mbit/s). Um vom neuen Tempo profitieren zu können, benötigen Kunden laut Communiqué ein Natel Infinity XL-Abonnement und ein entsprechendes Endgerät. Solche seien ab Anfang Juni bei Swisscom verfügbar. Der Telko erhöhe die Geschwindigkeit zunächst an stark frequentierten Orten und baue diese laufend aus, so das Communiqué .
Der deutsche Bundeswirtschaftsminister Philipp Rösler (FDP) hat die grossen US-Internetkonzerne wie Google, Apple und Facebook gewarnt, gesellschaftliche Spielregeln zu ignorieren. „Die Konzerne können sich nicht von der Lebenswirklichkeit abkoppeln", sagte Rösler in San Francisco. Wenn der Datenschutz dauerhaft ausgehebelt werde, müsse letztlich die Politik eingreifen.
Schwyz gehört ab sofort zu jenen Kantonen, in denen das Glasfaserkabelnetz von UPC Cablecom zur Datenautobahn ausgebaut wurde. In allen 15.000 an dieses Breitbandnetz angeschlossenen Haushalte ist nun eine Internetgeschwindigkeit von 150 Mbit/s möglich.
Die Gerüchte, dass die Stadt München den Limux-Client mit Ende des Jahres wieder abrüstet, wurden vom Leiter des Projekts abgewiesen. Peter Hofmann hat laut Heise bekräftigt, dass die Stadt nicht beabsichtige wieder zu wechseln.
A prominent legislator thinks it's time for the broad post-9/11 law authorizing the war on terrorism to expire. And he's going to introduce a bill to repeal it.
TiVo has become the Kleenex of the TV world -- a once dominant brand that's become a generic commodity. Yes, we still call recording a TV show "TiVoing." But as cable and satellite companies started offering their own DVRs and cheap streaming boxes from Roku, Apple and others flooded the market, TiVO has been increasingly marginalized and risks irrelevancy. That's changing, though, as the company moves beyond hardware to the far more lucrative world of software and licensing.
Solar Impulse pilot Andr? Borschberg completed a record-setting flight in the wee hours this morning after flying more than 950 miles on solar power alone, even if he was, strictly speaking, going backward for part of the trip.His impressive flight from Phoenix to Dallas completed the second leg of the Solar Impulse team's "Across America" ...
Contrary to what many people believe, fluoride is not some evil scourge of industrial society. Wired Science blogger Deborah Blum debunks some anti-fluoride misinformation, and shares a natural history of the element.
The Swiss love adding functionality to existing products. But you can only tack on so many corkscrews and tweezers to a knife, so one company decided to make a twin-engine jet that can take off and land without the luxury of a runway.
The grudge match between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his former protege Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, has reached legendary proportions in recent years. Salesforce has now added more fuel to the fire, hiring Tom Lane, a core contributor to PostgreSQL, an open source database that provides an alternative to Oracle software.
Drone strikes will remain a fixture of U.S. counterterrorism. But President Obama, in a major speech, signaled that he's going to rein in their use.
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have slowed to a trickle.
Infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom claimed today he is the inventor of two-factor authentication, a method of securing online services.
A small percentage of the dark matter in our universe might be able to interact with itself through an as yet unknown dark force, forming dark atoms and possibly even emitting dark light.
This full-size X-Wing model is not only awesome, it's also the largest Lego model ever built.
Now they're just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or "state," of another particle?even if it's light years away. Now, experimenters in Israel have shown that they can entangle two photons that don't even exist at the same time.
Everyone's talking about flat. Flat Windows 8, flat Apple iOS 7, flat Google+ and Google Now?flat is the design trend du jour, yet we're still waiting for its arrival. So what the heck is it?
I propose a new category of thinker in addition to the traditional visual and verbal:
It's time to redefine the supercar, and the 261 MPG Volkswagen XL1 is the first draft in a new history of uber-capable machines.
Gentry Underwood answers our questions on the success of his app Mailbox and Mailbox's future now that it has been acquired by Dropbox.
Ladies on the zero-drop kick will love the extra cushioned comfort of Altra's latest running shoes.
The U.S. strategy in Afghanistan depends on the loyalty of the Afghan Local Police. But that loyalty is being tested by an apparent Taliban campaign of infiltration.
To the dedicated gamers that wish Microsoft would stop pushing the all-in-one entertainment angle -- do you really know what you're asking for?
If you're one of the dozen or so people who still haven't seen the show, never fear: Wired has prepared a handy guide to communicating with your friends and neighbors via
In case you doubted that the 21st century as envisioned by past generations' pulp futurists had arrived, check out the biospheres Amazon has proposed to anchor its new downtown Seattle headquarters.
Get up close and personal with the gibbous moon in a search for the impact crater left behind by the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the lunar surface. This live show starts comes via the Slooh Space Camera and begins tonight at 6 p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST.
Tesla haters just lost another quiver in their dwindling arsenal. The upstart electric automaker has paid off the entirety of its Department of Energy loan -- a whopping $451.8M -- and did it nine years ahead of schedule.
For the first time, the Obama administration has acknowledged killing four Americans in drone strikes -- three of whom were killed accidentally.
Everyone was putting on a cheery face and plenty of back-slapping was going around, but there was no mistaking the feeling that the company was about to take a big gamble.
For most, Star Wars was about a band of rebels standing up to a totalitarian regime, but for others it was all about Luke Skywalker's pants, apparently.
Twitter just announced that it?s launched two-factor authentication for accounts.
Everyone knows about 3-D printed guns. Now a hobbyist from Tennessee has created 3-D printed shotgun slugs. Then his friend blasted away.
Wired sat down with Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison to get some answers about Xbox One's still-murky feature set.
This is the Navy's MQ-4C Triton, its next-generation surveillance drone. It just flew its first flight test out in California. And it wants to scan 2,000 miles of ocean at once.