Die Grossaktionäre des schwer gebeutelten deutschen Fernseherbauers Loewe bahnen einem ersehnten Investor den Weg für die Übernahme des Unternehmens. Die japanische Sharp und der frühere Aufsichtsratschef Rainer Hecker haben ihre Aktien in einer Beteiligungsgesellschaft gebündelt, wie Loewe am Montag mitteilte.
Ein Korrespondent des US-Nachrichtenmagazins „Time“ ist mit seinem öffentlich geäusserten Todeswunsch für den Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange in die Kritik geraten.
Der britische Mobilfunkanbieter Vodafone hat einem Medienbericht zufolge mit den britischen Behörden einen Streit über in Irland gezahlte Steuern beigelegt. In Dublin geführte Unterlagen zeigten, dass die Angelegenheit erledigt sei, berichtete die Zeitung "The Guardian" in der Nacht zu Montag.
Unter dem Motto "Unternehmenspositionierung - quo vadis future" öffnet morgen, Dienstag, die Suisse Emex 2013 zum bereits siebten Mal ihre Tore für Entscheider aus der gesamten Marketingbranche. "Für uns ist wichtig, dass wir stets beide Seiten einbeziehen - online sowie offline", betont Emex-Sprecherin Marinella Jenal.
Die Walldorfer ERP-Schmiede SAP hat eine neue Design-Sprache für Software-Anwendungen entwickelt. Unter dem Namen Lava hat das grösste deutsche Softwarehaus sechs Grundsätze für Anwendungsdesigns zusammengefasst.
Swisscom schreitet beim Ausbau des neuen 4G/LTE-Netzes weiter voran. Bereits heute können 60 Prozent der Schweizer Bevölkerung an rund 300 Schweizer Orten das Mobilfunknetz der neusten Generation von Swisscom nutzen, wie der Telekom-Riese heute in einer Medienmitteilung schreibt. Bis Ende Jahr möchte Swisscom über 70 Prozent der Schweizer Bevölkerung 4G/LTE bieten.
Die US-amerikanische Suchmaschinenkönigin Google hat ihren Marktanteil im US-Suchmaschinenmarkt im Monat Juli wieder leicht steigern können, wie aus den jüngst veröffentlichten Zahlen der Marktforscher von Comscore hervorgeht.
Googles Medien- und Unterhaltungs-Chefin Jennifer Prince ist nun zum Microblogging-Dienst Twitter gewechselt und soll dort die Kooperationen mit der Film- und Fernsehindustrie vorantreiben. Prince soll dabei ein neues Team zusammenstellen, das sich darum kümmern soll, Twitter für Fernseh-Events zu vermarkten.
Die vor 15 Jahren von Georges Leuenberger gegründete Video- und Telefonkonferenz-Spezialistin Symetria mit Sitz in Tagelswangen ist in neuen Händen. Die deutsche Mobile Videocommunication (MVC) hat sämtliche Firmenanteile von Symetria übernommen. Sämtliche Mitarbeiter der Symetria sollen weiterhin im Unternehmen tätig bleiben, heiss es in einem heute veröffentlichten Communiqué dazu.
Ende 2012 hat Microsoft mit Windows 8 eine neue Version seines Betriebssystems vorgestellt, deren herausragendes - und viel diskutiertes - Merkmal eine vollständig neu gestaltete Oberfläche ist. Seitdem versucht man DrittentwicklerInnen dazu zu bringen, ihre Anwendungen dem neuen UI-Stil anzupassen - bislang mit eher gemischtem Erfolg.
Plants vs Zombies 2 has more plants, more zombies, and more ways to make you pay.
Intel will ship multimode LTE capabilities by the end of the month, Intel executives said Monday. It’s a technology the company is throwing its weight behind—and needs, if it’s to compete in the U.S. market. Why? Because LTE is a pitch right in Intel’s wheelhouse—high-speed mobile data makes the company’s CPUs and GPUs even more valuable, while the relatively high power consumption those chips require can be mitigated with Intel’s process technology. And LTE has been the gating factor in placing Intel’s mobile chips into U.S. handsets. Intel began shipping a single-mode LTE solution in the fourth quarter of 2012, and it plans to ship a multimode chip, the XMM 7160, by the end of the month, Aicha Evans, the vice president of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, said in a press conference on Monday.
Though still a small part of the overall interconnect market, Thunderbolt-equipped hardware shipments surged 300 percent over the past year, according to IDC. There were roughly 20,600 Thunderbolt units shipped in the second quarter of 2012, representing a little over 0.1 percent of all personal and entry-level storage (PELS) devices shipped. In the second quarter of 2013, Thunderbolt-enabled storage device shipments grew to about 0.6 percent of the market, according to IDC analyst Liz Conner, a 411 percent increase. IDC predicted in its first quarter report that Thunderbolt, which offers 10Gbps interface speeds, could skyrocket to 5.7 percent of the PELS market by 2017. But the dominant interface will remain USB. USB in the PELS market grew by 11.5 percent year over year in the second quarter. Ethernet also saw strong shipment growth, posting a 10.2 percent growth rate in the same time frame.
Hot-button tweets will now display more context with Twitter's related headlines feature.
Future smartphones could gain numerous benefits from algorithms to fight interference, developed by a little-known startup in Lawrence, Kansas, that last week drew closer to implementing the technology in devices.
The recent reinforce concerns many businesses have about relying on cloud services and may cause organizations that have already moved or are considering moving to the cloud to reconsider. When you look at the big picture, though, you can still trust the cloud. It’s no secret at this point that there are a number of benefits to using cloud services. Cloud providers are generally able to take advantage of economies of scale that let them offer servers, storage, and services cheaper on a per user basis than what businesses can accomplish on its own—particularly small and medium businesses that have fewer employees to average the investment across. Along with those benefits, however, comes the stark reality that you’re entrusting your business to third-party companies and to servers that exist somewhere “out there.” If your Internet connection fails for any reason, or if those servers suffer an outage as Google and Microsoft did, suddenly business grinds to a halt. It’s obviously a huge deal when servers or services you depend on are unavailable, and your business is dead in the water at the mercy of a third party. That sucks. But before you swear never to trust the cloud again, think of the bigger picture.
Hewlett-Packard has joined Nvidia’s growing Grid alliance, equipping a Gen8 Proliant blade server with graphics boards that can speed up and lower the cost of virtual desktop deployments. Nvidia’s Grid boards consist of multiple graphics processors and work with virtualization software from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware for quick delivery of desktop images and graphics to remote clients in a distributed computing environment. HP is adding Nvidia boards to its Proliant Gen8 WS460c blade server. The WS460c blade server with Nvidia’s Grid components will be available later this year starting at less than $9000, HP said. IBM, Dell and Cisco Systems are also Grid partners. Virtual desktops are typically delivered to remote PCs and devices so that they can access centralized data and applications residing on the servers. Virtualization is considered key technology for efficient use of server resources, and graphics processors enable fast delivery of virtual desktops, which helps cut electric bills. For example, graphics boards can deliver multiple Windows OS images to thin clients and do so faster than CPUs.
The 7DFPS game jam challenges developers to make a first-person shooter in seven days.
The latest version of the Adobe Connect Web conferencing system can automate the conversion of recorded Web meetings to an industry standard format for easier availability on mobile devices. Connect 9.1 offers a fee-based, server-side feature that automatically converts Web meetings from the Adobe proprietary format into MP4, making them available for streaming to mobile devices. Web meeting owners who wanted to convert the recordings to MP4 had to do it manually by downloading the files to their desktop computers, doing the conversion and re-uploading them to the Connect server.
Opscode has teamed up with Cisco Systems and Arista Networks to add networking features and has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to broaden Windows integration for its renamed Enterprise Chef platform. Chef is used to automate IT management, but any management platform is only as useful as the products it control. To widen the appeal of Enterprise Chef, Opscode has announced partnerships with networking vendors Arista, Cisco as well as Juniper Networks. Working with Arista, Opscode has integrated Enterprise Chef with the company’s Extensible Operating System (EOS). The two have developed a Chef cookbook with recipes for automating the configuration of link aggregation, vlans and physical networking ports. The cookbooks and recipes are written using the Ruby programming language and tell the Chef client how each node should be configured. The client, which is installed on every node, then does the actual configuration.
Oracle is latching onto the self-service BI (business intelligence) trend with a new tool for creating HTML5-based mobile applications. BI Mobile App Designer, which was announced Monday, runs in a browser and has a drag-and-drop design format. Users can mash together graphs, tables and other types of data “to create mobile analytical apps tailor-made to their lines of business,” Oracle said. The experience is “as easy as working with common office productivity tools,” Oracle claimed. Oracle’s use of HTML5 means the applications can run across iOS, Android and Windows Mobile devices. Users are able to share mobile applications through a catalog called App Library, according to the announcement.
Google has told British consumers in a privacy claim that it does not have to answer to English courts and U.K. privacy laws don’t apply to it, according to the law firm for the plaintiffs. Legal documents filed by the Internet company show that Google will contest the right of Safari users in the U.K. to bring a case in the country where they live and use Google’s service, the law firm Olswang said in a statement on Sunday. The Internet company refused to accept service of the lawsuit in the U.K., instead forcing the plaintiffs to serve the company in California, the law firm added. The lawsuit is still in early days, and Google is expected to argue that its customer-facing services in the U.K. are provided out of the U.S.
A new variant of the Ramnit financial malware is using local Web browser injections in order to steal log-in credentials for Steam accounts, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Ramnit is a computer worm first discovered in 2010 that spreads by infecting executable, HTML and Microsoft Office files on the local computer. The malware can steal browser cookies and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) credentials stored locally, but it also hooks the browser process in order to modify Web forms and inject rogue code into Web pages, a technique known as a man-in-the-browser (MitB) attack. The MitB functionality is commonly used by financial malware to trick online banking users into exposing their personal and financial information as well as their online banking credentials.
The awkwardly named Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight now undercuts both Amazon and Kobo's backlit e-readers.
. This weekend, traces of a "Supervised user" mode appeared in Chrome Canary, the early, oft-unstable preview build for the popular web browser. —add a more kid-friendly twist to things, as they're managed by a master account rather than being a separate account entirely. page that you'll apparently use to configure restrictions and allowed websites for supervised users under your care returns a 404 error right now, which severely limits the current usefulness of the feature. .
Reader Thom wrote in with this question: That's what I call a loaded question, Thom! But it's a good one, because I'm sure there are many people in your same boat: wanting to watch a Netflix movie, but unable to because of a slow or intermittent connection.
If you’re looking for a simpler way to send content directly to Dropbox, Send to Dropbox has you covered. This free service generates an email address, and any attachments sent to that address are automatically saved to Dropbox. Getting started with Send to Dropbox is a breeze: You just connect it to your Dropbox account and it instantly generates an email address for you. Remembering this may be a challenge, though. My address contained a short but random string of numbers and letters. Upgrading to the $29-per-year Pro account gives you the option of customizing your email address, which is a nice feature for business users, especially those who may want to share the address with colleagues. The Pro account also lets you create multiple addresses, and an email whitelist, so you can control who can send files to your Dropbox. By default, Send to Dropbox saves your files to a new folder it creates in your Dropbox called “Apps/Attachments.” You can change this filename and add subfolders that contain the name of the sender and the subject line, if you preferHowever, you can’t share this folder with other Dropbox users, as it is a special type of folder for Dropbox applications.
When you overclock a hardware component--usually the processor--you trick it into working faster than the manufacturer's recommended maximum speed. Every processor is packaged and priced to run at a particular clock speed--for instance, 3100 MHz. But that speed is an estimate, and usually a conservative one. You can usually bump it up a bit without causing problems. Sometimes, you can bump it up quite a bit. You may also be able to overclock other components, such as RAM or your graphics processor. But the term generally applies to the main processor, and that's what I'll be discussing here.
Although we are constantly surrounded by advertisements both online and offline, companies have no way to know whether we’ve actually seen what they’re selling. That could change in the future, with the help of Google Glass. ” ads would use eye tracking to determine what the user is looking at. Google’s patent says it would then be able to charge companies when users look at advertisements, including online banner ads and offline billboards. These pay-per-gaze ads could go even further, the patent says, by determining how long users have looked directly on an ad, and even measure emotional response. “For example, if the advertiser desires to generate a shocking advertisement to get noticed or a thought provoking advertisement, then the inferred emotional state information and/or the gazing duration may be valuable metrics to determine the success of the campaign with real-world consumers,” the patent says.
Sure, the price sounds right, but with just 12GB of onboard storage, the supposed cost benefits disappear quickly.
The German Federal Ministry of Finance said on Monday that Bitcoin is not a full-fledged currency but that it is permissible to use it in private transactions. But if companies want to use Bitcoins for commercial transactions, they need the permission of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), said Martin Chaudhuri, ministry spokesman. Bitcoin is a digital currency that can be exchanged electronically. But like other virtual currencies it lacks the backing of a government entity or a central bank. In Germany, Bitcoin is not seen as a real currency by the Ministry of Finance, said Chaudhuri. Bitcoin rather falls under the classification “Rechnungseinheiten als Finanzinstrument” which is a unit of account, he said.
, "If you knew what I knew about email, you might not use it." : metadata. that are used to shuffle email from point to point. The sender, recipient, subject, date and time, and even server path information is all sent along in clear text. That's enough to be a liability to people who truly need privacy, according to Kowolowski.
Cloze is supposed to help you deal with inbox overload, but I have to admit that this free service initially made me a bit anxious. After using it for a while, though, I came to appreciate its relationship-centered approach to email and social networking. This Web service reduces the noise and clutter of messaging overload by focusing on your relationships with correspondents. It doesn't stop at email, either: Cloze works with the Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter social networks as well. When you connect an account to Cloze, it pulls in all of the communications you've had with your contacts, and then presents your email messages to you arranged by contact—and their presumed importance to you—not by the medium from which the communication hails. Cloze delivers your messages in a daily digest, but you can also access them anytime from the Web app or the iOS app…and it was the Web app that that caused my first pangs of anxiety. They were caused by my overall Cloze score, which was 47 out of 100. Cloze tells you that your Cloze scores is a measure of your relationship quality, with a score of 70 indicating a very strong relationship over time. Thanks to this dispiriting number, I began using Cloze already feeling as though I had a lot of catching up to do. I felt better when I saw that Cloze rated my individual relationships much higher, and I like how it breaks down these relationships by the day, so you can see how they change over time. By default, Cloze identifies 25 key people as "the people you need to keep an eye on," which is based on the strength of your relationship with them across your various platforms. And this was where I felt Cloze stumbled a bit.
China Telecom is moving into the mobile instant messaging space with its own app that will compete against WeChat, the rival product from Internet giant Tencent that’s become a hit in China. China Telecom on Monday launched the YiChat app in partnership with NetEase, an Internet portal and game operator in the country. YiChat comes as a for both Android and Apple’s iOS, and allows users to send free text and voice messages. A major selling point of the app is that it can also send free messages to handsets or phones on fixed lines without the need for YiChat to be installed on the receiving device. China Telecom customers who use YiChat will also have access to additional free data services. YiChat marks China Telecom’s attempt to expand into China’s social networking arena at a time when the company’s profits have been charting a bumpy trajectory. Although the demand for mobile phone and data services in the country continues to grow, the rise of social networking and messaging apps from local Internet firms has threatened to take away lucrative revenue from mobile operators such as China Telecom, according to analysts.
, its flagship Web conferencing system. In this world, Webex and Citrix remain synonymous with online video communication, education, and training. Today Adobe is rolling out some impressive upgrades that it hopes will increase its competitiveness in this space, with the release of Adobe Connect 9.1. Adobe senior product marketing manager Rocky Mitarai gave me a personal demo of the new version of the service and it’s looking good. The focus of the system is on “going above and beyond basic screen sharing,” says Mitarai, “with a particular eye on things like training and webinars,” which require more sophisticated videoconferencing environments. Adobe Connect is optimized for mobile clients, and this is one of the key areas in which Connect is getting an upgrade in version 9.1. Now even more of the service’s desktop features are available on mobile platforms, including the ability to stream recordings across any mobile device. (Formerly, pre-recorded streams were only viewable on desktop clients.) The new version also offers support for multipoint videoconferencing with two live and unlimited paused webcams. Mobile platforms can also now be branded with a customized background (like your company logo), and more advanced features like interactive quizzes are now supported on mobile devices, too.
A Facebook engineer blamed language difficulties and documentation issues for a delay in fixing a bug that let a security researcher post directly to founder Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline, which is restricted if two users aren't friends. . Facebook software engineer Matt Jones. The social networking site on Sunday confirmed Jones' post, which attributed the delay to the volume of reports Facebook receives and communication issues. "For background, as a few other commenters have pointed out, we get hundreds of reports every day," he wrote. "Many of our best reports come from people whose English isn't great - though this can be challenging, it's something we work with just fine and we have paid out over $1 million to hundreds of reporters."