Sie arbeiten rund um die Uhr und beackern Millionen Einträge: Die Zensoren des Twitter-Pendants Sina Weibo löschen alles, was in China als anstössig oder politisch inkorrekt gilt.
Der Microblogging-Dienst geht an die Börse. Es dürfte kein Zufall sein, dass dieser Entschluss jetzt gefasst wurde, wo die Facebook-Aktie einen neuen Höchststand erreicht hat.
Sie haben noch nicht neueste Version unserer auf Ihrem Smartphone? Um beim Foto-Experiment «Jetzt - Schweizer Momente» teilnehmen zu können, müssen Sie diese noch herunterladen.
In zehn Monaten gewann das Netzwerk LinkedIn, im deutschsprachigen Raum 35 Prozent mehr Mitglieder. Nun soll eine neue Funktion die Profile glaubwürdiger machen.
Sogar Vergleiche mit Crocs und den Powerrangern werden gemacht: Die Netzgemeinde lacht über die beiden neuen iPhone-Modelle 5S und 5C. Auch die Apple-Konkurrenz macht sich lustig.
Gehasst, geliebt und nicht mehr wegzudenken: Der Gamedienst Steam wird 10 Jahre alt. Wie aus einem kleinen Update-Programm der grösste Game-Downloadservice wurde.
Apple schmeisst die SBB-Uhr aus dem System: Für iOS 7 wurde die App neu gestaltet. Damit dürfte Apple künftig Millionen an Lizenzgebühren einsparen.
Dank neuer Technologie schneller surfen: Ab 2014 sollen bei der Swisscom Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu 100 Mbit/s möglich sein. Auch wird weiter in das Glasfasernetz investiert.
Innerhalb von 15 Monaten rund 20 Prozent mehr Nutzer: 800 Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt nutzen Yahoo. Jetzt fehlen nur noch mehr Werbeerlöse.
Spieler des Indie-Megasellers «Minecraft» dürfen sich als echte Architekten profilieren. Ein Wettbewerb fordert dazu auf, ein futuristisches Gebäude in Stockholm zu kreieren.
Talkmaster Jimmy Kimmel konfrontiert Passanten mit dem neuen iPhone. Diese geben hochinteressante Antworten - denn in Wahrheit halten sie ein iPad Mini in den Händen.
Wenn die Beantwortung einer SMS mal wieder länger dauert, könnte am anderen Ende ein digitaler Pinocchio tippen. Das sagt eine neue Studie aus den USA.
Gekrümmte TV's, intelligente Uhren oder Stifte zum 3-D-Drucken. Die Technikmesse IFA bot eine Welle an neuen Produkten. Wir haben die hervorstechendsten Geräte zusammengetragen.
Was früher praktisch jeder Jugendliche dabeihatte, wird heute nur noch vereinzelt gesehen: der iPod. Stirbt das Apple-Gerät bald aus - so wie vor ihm schon Walk- und Discman?
The day has come. Twitter is going public.
Dell will invest in additional acquisitions and remain committed to its struggling PC business once a US$24.9 billion deal to go private is complete, according to company officials. As a private company, Dell can also recapture the “entrepreneurial spirit” of its earlier days, founder and CEO Michael Dell said on a conference call Thursday. Dell led the buyout along with investment firm Silver Lake Partners. Shareholders , marking a long-awaited victory for Michael Dell, who believes that by going private, the company can more effectively execute its strategy to push into high-margin products and services without pressure from Wall Street. Michael Dell will hold a 75 percent stake in the private company, and the deal is expected to close in Dell’s current quarter, which ends Nov. 1.
Oracle added a feature in Java that lets companies control what specific Java applets are allowed to run on their endpoint computers, which could help them better manage Java security risks. The new feature is called the “Deployment Rule Set” and was added in Java 7 Update 40 (Java 7u40) that was released Tuesday. Many home users can protect themselves from attacks targeting Java by disabling the Java plug-in in their browsers or uninstalling the software completely. However, most companies can’t do this, because their employees need access to Web-based, business-critical applications that require Java support. Many companies can’t upgrade to new Java versions for compatibility reasons, which increases the risk of their computers being compromised through Java exploits while their employees surf the Web.
More than a year after Microsoft introduced its revamped, modern-style webmail service, Outlook.com finally—finally!—supports IMAP. The IMAP protocol allows standalone email clients to access messages stored on a remote mail server, meaning any changes you make to your inbox appears on other devices, too; if you mark a message as read on your PC's email client, for example, it shows as read on your phone, too. That's pretty handy in a multi-device world, and IMAP is a veritable email staple. Outlook.com has relied on Microsoft's own Exchange ActiveSync technology to fill the real-time hole, but some email software (including many Mac programs) simply doesn't support EAS. Outlook.com users relying on EAS-less clients have had to fall back on the inferior POP protocol, which downloads messages to your local machine rather than managing them on Outlook.com's servers. Lame—but that ended on Thursday. If you want to use IMAP with Outlook.com, here are the settings to use in your email client:
The Federal Trade Commission should back away from its claim of broad authority to seek sanctions against companies for data breaches when it has no clearly defined data security standards, critics of the agency said Thursday. The FTC should back away from authority it says it has under a vague section of law that doesn’t mention data security, said the critics, including Mike Daugherty, CEO of Atlanta diagnostic lab LabMD, which is . The agency should instead seek specific authority to enforce data security rules from the U.S. Congress and should define what data security standards it expects from companies, instead of seeking sanctions on a case-by-case basis, said speakers during a sponsored by TechFreedom, an antiregulation think tank, and Cause of Action, a government watchdog group defending LabMD. The FTC’s complaint against the small lab wasn’t based on established rules that agency officials could point to, Daugherty said.
The Mac Pro won't arrive until later this year, but storage maker Promise Technology will have Thunderbolt 2 products ready when the new desktop ships.
Alcohol is the traditional fuel of journalism, so perhaps it was particularly appealing that Intel showed off a computing device powered by wine at the final day of the Intel Developer Forum. As “mobility” is now the watchword at Intel, it made sense that Genevieve Bell, director of interaction and experience research at Intel, provide Intel’s vision of the future. Well, seven billion futures, Bell suggested, one for each person in the planet—each governed by a user’s unique, contextually-driven interactions with mobile devices. Bell, an anthropologist by profession, often appears at IDF to provide a softer, more human contrast to the detailed descriptions of transistors and logic that characterize Intel’s developer conferences. Bell and her team conducted 250,000 interviews in the last year across 45 countries to construct a worldwide mosaic of how users interact with their mobile devices. In fact, one of the themes of Bell’s talk was that although mobile devices are growing rapidly—6.3 billion mobile subscriptions are spread over 4 billion people, with 1.9 million cell towers moving 5 exabytes of data—the industry was wrong to focus on the devices themselves.
Some of the world’s preeminent overclockers pushed Intel’s fastest CPU, Corsair’s best memory and power supplies, Asus’s top motherboard, and Nvidia’s most powerful graphics processors to their limits—and all it took was prodigious quantities of electricity and liquid nitrogen. : 3DMark 11 Entry (video resolution set to 1024 by 600 pixels), 3DMark 11 Performance (resolution set to 1280 by 720 pixels), and 3DMark Fire Strike (resolution set to 1920 by 1080). What's it all good for? You could compare it to drag racing: Entertainment for the spectators and bragging rights for the overclockers and their sponsors. 1200-watt power supplies—Corsair’s model AX1200i Digital ATX—to provide their rig with enough juice. Clouds of steam boiled off the CPU and the video cards as team members continuously super-cooled the components by pouring liquid nitrogen into small pots. score of 33704, pulverizing the previous record of 31998 (achieved with an Intel Core i7-3930K processor and four EVGA video cards, here again, powered by Nvidia’s Titan GPUs).
After a successful Kickstarter drive earlier this year, Small World 2 has arrived.
of the year. By 2015, IDC says that annual shipments of tablets are set to outpace those of all PCs on a full-year basis. Note that these figures are calculated on a unit basis and do not take sales prices into account. A total of 227.3 million tablets should reach consumers in 2013, compared to 134.4 million desktop PCs and 180.9 million laptops. But rapid sales growth in the fourth quarter – likely driven by holiday spending – means that for the last three months of the year, tablet sales are likely to outpace traditional desktops. By all measures, tablet sales are exploding. The expected total growth rate for tablets over the next four years is expected to be 78.9 percent. That even outpaces the projected growth rate for smart phones, which is pegged at 71.1 percent over that time period. , tablets are more and more becoming the gadget of choice for today’s progressively more mobile consumer.
Now you can pay a monthly fee to get a little more help with your device.
In the battle for hearts, minds, and intelligent helpfulness, Microsoft plans to wage war against Siri and Google Now with the help of the most full-featured digital assistant ever imagined. No, not Microsoft Bob—stop your snickering—but Cortana, the faithful, blue-tinged AI that helped the Master Chief win the war against the Covenant hordes in the legendary Halo series of video games. , Cortana is the codename for a voice-controlled, adaptable digital assistant—kind of like Siri, but smarter. A Windows Phone 8.1 build acquired by The Verge shows that Microsoft is already testing Cortana’s ability to pull in notifications, weather and location info, calendar details, and more, and “she” also has access to the phone’s Bluetooth capabilities.
, a new tool called “StartIsGone” will allow users to take it away again. Seriously. . “Seriously, there are no issues for me if that button is not shown on the taskbar.” Tkachenko explained that while he prefers the Start Menu of previous versions, the new button in Windows 8.1 is no replacement. StartIsGone at least allows users to remove the button and reclaim that extra space for the taskbar as shown above. As with Windows 8, users can get back to the Start screen by dragging the mouse to the lower-left corner and clicking. In fairness, the Windows 8.1 Start button isn’t entirely useless.
Aio is now available online nationwide, following a limited regional rollout.
More Chromebooks are coming from companies like HP, Acer, and Toshiba, but they might not be the ultra-cheap, browser-based laptops we've gotten used to seeing over the last year. That's because the will run Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, codenamed Haswell. These processors are far more powerful than the low-end Intel Atom and Celeron processors that most Chromebooks have used so far. It's a sign that Chromebooks are trying to grow up, and to move from secondary PCs to your primary computer—but it's also a risky move. By using Haswell instead of Intel's low-powered , the new Chromebooks may be targeting a use case that doesn't yet exist. Chromebooks, whose Chrome OS operating system is essentially Google's Chrome browser and very little else, have been around for a couple years now, and the earliest machines hovered around a $500 price point. Not surprisingly, the earliest Chromebooks were not very popular.
Sony's Xperia Tablet Z: Kitchen Edition comes with everything but the proverbial sink.
Shareholders have voted to approve a $24.9 billion buyout of the company by founder and CEO Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake Partners. They will be paid $13.75 per share, an increase from the original offer, as well as an additional cash dividend of $0.13 per share, for a total of $13.88 per share, according to Thursday’s announcement. The transaction was approved by those holding a majority of Dell’s outstanding shares, the company said. An exact tally wasn’t immediately available.
The breach affects roughly 1-in-40 German citizens.
a couple years ago as the FCC battled against Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon to implement guidelines governing how Internet service is delivered. It hasn’t been making headlines for a while, but it’s back with a vengeance as Verizon gets its day in court to challenge the net neutrality framework. What's really at stake, though, is the scope of the FCC's authority over the Internet, and Verizon's desire to control and profit from the content that crosses its network. The FCC developed the Open Internet Framework to establish some guidelines for Internet providers. Supporters of the Open Internet Framework see it as essential to a healthy, open Internet that doesn’t deliver varying access to information depending on which provider you use or how much money you pay. For Verizon, and other opponents of net neutrality, it represents an unnecessary regulatory burden that creates uncertainty and stifles investment and innovation. to justify bad, unethical, or immoral business decisions. If there is an unpopular choice to be made, the “uncertainty” card is supposed to somehow trump logic and judgment. Uncertainty is one of the tactics that have been used in the net neutrality battle, as Internet providers claim the FCC guidelines introduce uncertainty that will somehow hinder investment and innovation for the Internet. , argues that uncertainty isn’t always a sleight-of-hand distraction. “Actually uncertainty doesn’t rationalize corporate decisions it tries to explain corporate behavior,” he says. “Executives don’t like to take blind risks—the more they know about future conditions the more they are willing to risk capital. When they don’t feel comfortable about the future they tend to lock up the assets and hide the wife and kids.”
Cisco Systems has unveiled what it calls the world’s most scalable and programmable network processor, the nPower X1, which handles 400G bps to keep up with increasing Internet traffic volume. The architecture of networking hardware and software is going through some big changes thanks to the advent of software-defined networking, which has the potential to make networks more flexible and reduce operational expenditure. The X1 was built to allow administrators to reprogram its functionality on the fly, according to Cisco. The networking processor has also been built handle the increasing number of transactions on networks thanks to machine-to-machine applications and larger Internet traffic volume from video, including Ultra High-Definition, or 4K, content. The X1 offers eight times the throughput and one quarter the power per bit compared with Cisco’s previous network processor, and with the help of 4 billion transistors, a single processor does all packet processing, traffic management and input/output functions, according to Cisco.
A lack of available touchscreens, which helped crimp early sales of Windows 8 notebooks, are now "completely gone," Intel executives said Wednesday. Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group, was asked about touchscreens in a question-and-answer session at the Intel Developer Forum. "Touch as a supply issue is completely gone," Skaugen said, crediting Michelle Johnston Holthaus, the vice president in charge of the PC Client Group, with leading the efforts to ensure panel suppliers had enough of the parts on hand. In a brief interview, Holthaus agreed that the supply concerns had been completely eliminated, noting that the touchscreen providers had originally entered the market understandably conservative about their prospects. While Intel doesn't order touchscreens directly, the company still exudes a great deal of influence over the PC hardware market with reference designs and other initiatives to direct the PC's evolution.
After Apple announced its 64-bit A7 mobile processors earlier this week, Samsung's jumping on board the bandwagon, too.
Yes, you can still update to Windows 7. Not only can you buy the operating system; you can even buy a new PC that's running it. support ends. That will be January, 2020.
Acer, Hewlett-Packard, and Toshiba plan to launch Chromebooks in the fourth quarter with Intel’s “Haswell” processor inside, returning to what the Chromebook was originally known for: all-day battery life. ; that product, which paired an Intel “Ivy Bridge” Core processor with an incredible 2560-by-1700 pixel touch display, was a “prototype” to show off the power of the Chromebook platform and will not be repeated, Caesar Sengupta, director of product management at Google, told a small roundtable of reporters on Wednesday. The HP Chromebook 14, which HP executives showed off on Wednesday afternoon, is a 14-inch clamshell notebook that will be available in four colors. Also on display was an unnamed 11.6-inch Acer Chromebook. The Acer Chromebook was identified as the “ZHN C Test” on the back label. Toshiba executives didn’t attend. HP vice president Mike Nash said that the battery life of the Chromebook 14 comes in at about 10 hours. That’s good news for Chromebook buyers who are used to long battery life. The Chromebooks will offer 50 percent more battery life and be 15 percent faster than the Ivy Bridge models available today, Intel vice president of software and services Doug Fisher said during a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Intel's road to perceptual computing will be paved with its own silicon: its microprocessors, graphics chips, and a new line of dedicated silicon for perceptual computing that Intel will create. Mooly Eden, the president of Intel Israel and its 8,000 employees, relaxes by also directly managing the perceptual computing business at Intel. There, Eden imagines a future where PCs communicate with users in the same way that two friends chat in a cafe: with sight, voice, and gestures all contributing to the conversation. in June, dedicated to spending $100 million to the technology over the next two or three years and winning partners to the cause. Touch, speech, and other interfaces need to be natural, intuitive, and immersive, Eden said. On Wednesday, Eden demonstrated how the technology worked: Cameras sensed the position of fingers, and spun virtual lightning between them. A user's hands could be used to tickle a virtual child. And in another demo, Eden played the game Portal 2 by waving his hands and orally commanding the computer to drop a Companion Cube. Finally, Eden demonstrated a new version of the Nuance virtual assistant, co-developed by Intel and Nuance and running on top of Intel's Atom and Core silicon.
New Chromebooks announced this week signal Intel's willingness to broaden its horizons and work with companies like Google, at the expense of its long-standing Windows partnership with Microsoft. Three new Chromebooks from Hewlett-Packard, Acer and newcomer Toshiba with Google's Chrome OS were shown on stage during this week's Intel Developer Forum. The sub-$299 laptops will run on Intel's Haswell chips, and executives from Google and the chip maker said they worked closely to tune the OS at the kernel and driver levels to work with Intel's chips. with IDG News Service, Intel president Renee James said the Microsoft-Intel alliance is alive, but the chip maker wants to offer choice beyond Windows. "Microsoft [Windows] is not the only client operating system anymore. The same way for years and years Microsoft balanced between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, we're in the same situation now. Our customers want choice, and we offer choice," James said.
Stop us if you're heard this one: It has great specs, a plain design, and lots of minor annoyances.