Der weltgrösste Chiphersteller Intel baut künftig auch Prozessoren mit dem Design seines Rivalen ARM. Ab dem kommenden Jahr werde für den Kunden Altera ein 64-Bit-Prozessor mit ARM-Architektur in den Fertigungshallen von Intel produziert, bestätigte Intel.
Der französische Telekom-Ausrüster Alcatel-Lucent ist trotz des sechsten Quartalsverlustes in Folge dank guter Geschäfte in den USA optimistisch. Unter dem Strich stand im abgelaufenen Vierteljahr zwar ein Verlust von 200 Mio. Euro, der Umsatz stieg aber um zwei Prozent auf 3,7 Mrd. Euro. Das neue Geschäftsmodell zeige erste kleine Erfolge, sagte Konzernchef Michel Combes.
Der frühere US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter Edward Snowden hat in einem Treffen mit dem deutschen Grünen-Politiker Hans-Christian Ströbele offenbar Interesse gezeigt, in Deutschland zur Spähaffäre auszusagen. Snowden habe ihm in Moskau erklärt, er sei „grundsätzlich bereit, bei der Aufklärung zu helfen“, sagte der Bundestagsabgeordnete im Anschluss an das Treffen dem ARD-Magazin „Panorama“.
Der Geheimdienstausschuss im US-Senat will das Ausspähen von Telefondaten durch die NSA begrenzen. Das Komitee verabschiedete heute einen Gesetzentwurf, der unter anderem den Zugang zur Datenbank gespeicherter Verbindungsdaten stärker einschränkt.
Der iPod hat Apple zu neuer Grösse verholfen - doch mittlerweile ist der Musikplayer nur noch ein Randgeschäft für den kalifornischen Konzern. Wie aus dem heute vorgelegten Bericht für das Geschäftsjahr 2013 hervorgeht, schrumpfte der iPod-Umsatz um ein Fünftel auf 4,4 Milliarden Dollar (3,2 Mrd. Euro). Damit ist sogar Zubehör mittlerweile ein größeres Geschäft für Apple.
Die Schweizer Software-Industrie entwickelte sich im ersten Halbjahr 2013 stabil positiv. Dies geht aus dem heute von Sieber & Partners und Inside-it.ch veröffentlichten neuen "Swiss Software Industry Index" (SSII) hervor. Demnach konnten Schweizer Software-Hersteller ihren Absatz im Schnitt um sieben Prozent steigern. Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Software-Herstellung nehme stetig zu, noch wenig konkreten Einfluss auf den Geschäftsgang habe der NSA-Skandal, heisst es darin.
Der Internetriese Google hat mit scharfen Worten auf das mögliche Anzapfen seiner Datenleitungen durch den US-Geheimdienst NSA reagiert. „Wir sind aufgebracht darüber, wie weit die Regierung offenbar gegangen ist, um Daten aus unseren privaten Glasfasernetzwerken abzugreifen“, erklärte Chefjustiziar David Drummond gestern. „Und das unterstreicht die dringende Notwendigkeit für eine Reform.“
Die 43-jährige Managerin Vlast Dusil übernimmt bei SAP Schweiz per 1. November als neue HR-Direktorin die Leitung der Abteilung Human Resources. Mit dem Antritt der neuen Rolle als Personalleiterin vervollständige Vlasta Dusil das fünfköpfige Managementteam der SAP Schweiz, lässt die ERP- und Daten-Spezialistin mit Sitz in Regensdorf via Aussendung wissen.
In den über 1.000 Verkaufsstellen von Coop läuft seit kurzem ein neues mobiles Filial-Warenwirtschaftssystem. Dabei werden Bestandsführung, Disposition und Wareneingangskontrolle einem Communiqué zufolge komplett über die massgeschneiderte Softwarelösung "Ergo" abgewickelt.
Microsoft-Erfinder Bill Gates (58) und seine Frau Melinda (49) werden mit dem Medienpreis Bambi geehrt. Die beiden erhalten die Auszeichnung in der Kategorie „Millennium“ unter anderem für ihr gesellschaftliches Engagement und ihren Kampf gegen Armut. „Bill und Melinda Gates haben sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen“, hiess es in der Begründung der Jury.
A revamped interface, improved dialer, and app search are small steps toward a better Android.
Google appears to have set parameters for how long it will support its devices, and the news isn't good.
Though the shutdown and spending cuts by the U.S. government are taking a toll on IT sales this year, market surveys and financial results from the likes of Apple and Facebook this week show some positive signs for tech. “In Forrester’s semi-annual U.S. tech market update, we conclude that the Federal budget sequestration, the two-week Federal government shutdown, and the fallout from threats to not raise the Federal debt ceiling have shaved about two percentage points of growth from business and government spending on technology goods and services in 2013,” said Forrester chief economist Andrew Bartels in a Sunday. As a result, Forrester this week for U.S. business and government purchases of ICT (information and communications technology) goods and services to 3.9 percent from its 5.7 percent growth forecast earlier this year. The market research firm sees weakness in computer equipment, IT outsourcing, and telecom services. Its revised forecast, however, continues to show strong growth in software, especially, SaaS (software as a service) and analytical and collaboration apps; IT consulting and systems integration services; and communications equipment.
Employees of Google, Oracle and Red Hat have joined the U.S. government’s effort to fix the ailing HeathCare.gov, officials said Thursday. “Dozens” of workers have come aboard the project in recent days, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. HealthCare.gov (shown above)—where U.S. residents without health insurance are supposed to be able to shop for coverage—has been plagued with slow load times, timeouts, and other problems since its Oct. 1 launch. The site was also down overnight Wednesday and during part of last weekend. The site has up since Thursday morning and seeing significant traffic, said Julie Bataille, director of the CMS Office of Communications. Asked exactly how many people have come aboard in recent days, Bataille would only give “dozens” as an answer to reporters during a press briefing Thursday. Experts in site reliability and scalability, including a site-stability expert from Google, have come to the project, she said.
. But the U.S. intelligence agency needed some security of its own, so it developed a NoSQL data store called Accumulo, with built-in policy enforcement mechanisms that strictly limit who can see its data. At the O’Reilly Strata-Hadoop World conference this week in New York, one of the former National Security Agency developers behind the software, Adam Fuchs, explained how Accumulo works and how it could be used in fields other than intelligence gathering. The agency contributed the software’s source code to the Apache Software Foundation in 2011. “Every single application that we built at the NSA has some concept of multi-level security,” said Fuchs, who is now the chief technology officer of Sqrrl, which offers a commercial edition of the software.
A majority of Oracle shareholders have once again voted against the company’s executive pay practices, including for CEO Larry Ellison (shown above). Thursday’s vote at Oracle’s annual shareholder meeting is nonbinding, and follows complaints from some large shareholders and their representatives who say Ellison is overpaid compared to his peers. Ellison is paid $1 in salary, receiving the rest of his pay in stock options. In Oracle’s past fiscal year, that totaled $76.9 million. Ellison declined to receive a bonus. Other top Oracle executives such as co-President Mark Hurd also receive a lot of stock options. Ellison, who is one of the world’s richest people, controls about one-fourth of Oracle’s shares.
Your 16-Mbit cable connection is going to look awfully puny when a new generation of 10-Gbit cable modems enter the scene—whenever that turns out to be. On the other hand, there’s good reason to believe that eventually you and your family will be able to simultaneously download multiple 4K streams. CableLabs, the testing and interoperability arm of the cable industry, released the DOCSIS 3.1 specifications this week, implying that its member companies will eventually support it. Technically, the new specification allows for 10 Gbps downstream and 1 Gbps upstream, back to the provider. Additional features include Active Queue Management, a sort of quality-of-service protocol that CableLabs promises will minimize delays inside the home and help out with tasks such as online gaming. “Based on the significant contributions from our members and technology suppliers, CableLabs has developed the technology foundation for the delivery of next generation broadband services over HFC networks,” said Dan Rice, senior vice president of access network technologies at CableLabs, in a statement.
from AT&T and Samsung. The deal: Buy a qualifying Samsung phone and sign up for a new contract from AT&T, and the network will give you a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 as a bonus. There are more than a few little details to consider should you find this deal enticing. The biggest is that you'll have to add that Galaxy Tab 3 to your new AT&T Mobile Share data plan at a price of $10 a month extra. You'll have to commit for the standard two years, or sign up for AT&T Next, an installment plan which provides you with yearly device upgrades to your phone without additional expense. Trade-ins on your current handset are also available if you upgrade to the Next plan. -powered Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Active, Galaxy Note 3, and Galaxy Note 3. Better get in on the deal quickly: The program is set to end on January 9, 2014. , from 28.5 percent of the market in summer 2012 to 21.7 percent at the end of August 2013. Meanwhile Verizon has surged from a 30.2 percent share to a whopping 37.1 percent over the same time frame.
Adjustable sensors can detect kids, pets, and other small obstacles behind the car.
We have all the details on the new Kit Kat-powered smartphone from Google.
The online retailer will greenlight two new pilots for its Amazon Prime Instant Video service.
A proposal to make websites liable when user-generated comments violate state laws would be disaster for many popular online destinations, according to e-commerce trade group NetChoice. (iAWFUL) list. The proposed change in Section 230—the safe harbor provision—of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would remove legal protections for websites from state prosecutions for comments site users make. It’s possible, NetChoice said, that websites could then face criminal prosecution for “archaic” defamation laws, including a Georgia law prohibits speech that “blackened the memory” of a state native or a Louisiana law that prohibits showing “contempt” for a resident. . “The whole Web 2.0 revolution was premised on innovators being allowed to provide technical platforms without fear that they would be held legally responsible for all of the words and actions of anyone using their platforms.”
Get ready to use your smartphone without fear—the FAA is reversing its rule about the use of electronic devices.
Chromecast is Google’s $35 little HDMI dongle that allows users to stream content directly from the Internet over their Wi-Fi network. It’s ! But it has an unfortunate dearth of official third-party apps that would make it a true living room conqueror. As of Thursday morning, though, the little dongle can boast at least one more streaming feather in its hat: Pandora. The Internet radio giant announced that it was bringing one-touch streaming to Chromecast. Users will be able to “cast” Pandora directly to the TV using their smartphone or tablet as the remote control, which will provide core Pandora functionality such as Play, Pause, Thumb-up or –down, and Skip. Pandora says the Chromecast cast function is available as of today for listeners who downloaded version 5.0 of the Pandora app. Chromecast integration will work with all Android phones and tablets as well as iPhones (support for iPads will be “coming soon”).
Sony dishes the dirt on the PS4's hard drive, game caching, media playback, PS3 peripheral compatibility and more.
Apple offers two standard configurations of its 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and the benchmarks tell very difference stories for each one.
Because they're used heavily for backup and sneakernet, we tend to assume that every file on an external hard drive also exists elsewhere. But if a file is on the external drive, it is not backed up and can be lost. So if you keep any files exclusively on an external hard drive, you need a backup of that drive. But enough of the lecture. Let's see if you can get your files back. It all depends on how badly the drive is damaged, and how much money you're willing to spend to restore it.
Two privacy-focused email providers have launched the Dark Mail Alliance, a project to engineer an email system with robust defenses against spying. Silent Circle and Lavabit abruptly halted their encrypted email services in August, saying they could no longer guarantee email would remain private after court actions against , reportedly an email provider for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Their idea, presented at the would shield both the content of an email and its “metadata,” including “to” and “from” data, IP addresses and headers. The email providers hope a version will be ready by next year. “The issue we are trying to deal with is that email was created 40 years ago,” Jon Callas, CTO and founder of Silent Circle, in a phone interview. “It wasn’t created to handle any of the security problems we have today.”
Law enforcement agencies should be allowed to hack into computers to identify cybercriminals and collect evidence, representatives from Europol and the Dutch National Police argued in front of a room full of security professionals at the RSA Europe security conference in Amsterdam. The Dutch parliament is expected to start debating that would give the Dutch police the right to break into computers to investigate crimes, gather evidence and even take disruptive measures to stop crimes in progress. “We don’t call it hacking, and we definitely don’t call it hacking back, because we won’t be waiting until we are hacked,” said Peter Zinn, a senior cybercrime adviser for the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), during the Wednesday panel, “Hacking Back as a Law Enforcement Role.” The more appropriate term would be “lawful intrusion,” he said. The technological methods used for such intrusions would be the same ones used by hackers, but the police would do this legally, he said.
Microsoft’s Kinect technology, already adept at reading hand and body movements, is incorporating sign language into its motion-sensing vocabulary as part of a new research project meant to help the deaf. Developers at Microsoft Research have been using the Xbox 360 gaming peripheral to read sign language from deaf users, and translate it into spoken text. On Wednesday, they showed off some of the results. “Thanks Microsoft for turning my dream into a reality,” gestured Yin Dandan, a deaf student, who demonstrated the Kinect translator. The technology can not only turn sign language into words spoken by a computer, but also do the reverse. A non-deaf user can speak or type words into the Kinect translator. The system will then motion the words in sign language using a virtual avatar shown on a display.
If you're reading this late in the day, pause to consider your eyes. Can you feel that familiar sting that comes from looking at a glaring LCD for too many hours? That's only the most noticeable symptom of what happens to our bodies when we spend hours staring into what's essentially a big, bright, lamp. F.lux is a simple and free app that helps fix this.
Madfinger Games’ latest free-to-play zombie game may be a bit eager with in-app purchases, but don’t let that stop you.
Sprint is flexing its network muscle with technologies to combine frequencies for gigabit-speed performance and to let subscribers maintain data sessions while moving from one band of the network to another. On Wednesday, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier bragged about its new capabilities and demonstrated a high-speed service it calls Sprint Spark, with current peak speeds of 50-60Mbps (bits per second) and the potential to exceed 1Gbps. It also promoted three upcoming handsets that will be able to take advantage of all three of its spectrum bands. Sprint is in catch-up mode against its bigger rivals, Verizon Wireless and AT&T, and is looking to use its huge spectrum holdings as an advantage. The company is deploying LTE in its 800MHz and 1.9GHz bands as well as the 2.5GHz spectrum it , on which the Sprint Spark service runs. Sprint prides itself on its Network Vision project, which has built a network that’s flexible enough to support multiple technologies. In the 2.5GHz band, Sprint plans to combine different sets of frequencies and make them act like one block of spectrum. The company used this technique in a demonstration at its Silicon Valley lab on Wednesday, showing peak throughput of 1.3Gbps (bits per second). More aggregation could offer as much as 2Gbps, Sprint said.
Security experts used fake Facebook and LinkedIn profiles pretending to represent a smart, attractive young woman to penetrate the defenses of a U.S. government agency with a high level of cybersecurity awareness, as part of an exercise that shows how effective social engineering attacks can be, even against technically sophisticated organizations. The attack was part of a sanctioned penetration test performed in 2012 and its results were presented Wednesday at the RSA Europe security conference in Amsterdam by Aamir Lakhani, a counter-intelligence and cyberdefense specialist who works as a solutions architect at IT services provider World Wide Technology. By building a credible online identity for a fake attractive female named Emily Williams and using that identity to pose as a new hire at the targeted organization, the attackers managed to launch sophisticated attacks against the agency’s employees, including an IT security manager who didn’t even have a social media presence. The agency’s name was not revealed, but Lakhani said it was a very secure one that specializes in offensive cybersecurity and protecting secrets and for which they had to use zero-day attacks in previous tests in order to bypass its strong defenses.
Salesforce.com has long had a public AppExchange software marketplace, but now it’s going to give customers the ability to create their own private AppExchanges where employees can download applications to use in their jobs. Private AppExchange is generally available as of Friday to customers running Salesforce.com’s Enterprise and higher editions, said Sara Varni, senior director of AppExchange marketing. However, those customers can give employees who don’t use Salesforce.com itself access to the private store for $5 per user per month. Enterprise application stores are rapidly coming into favor as companies seek to appease workers who are used to the generally painless experience of consumer app stores like Apple’s iTunes. The managed app store model also gives enterprises a way to place a layer of governance over the software and devices employees are using, even as they provide easier access to software.
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia has been cleared in India, one of many countries in which it has applied for clearance of the deal. Noting that Nokia is primarily in the business of mobile handsets in India, a business that Microsoft is not active in, the Competition Commission of India has ruled that the combination of the two companies will not likely have an “appreciable adverse effect” on competition in India. “There exists a vertical relationship between Microsoft and Nokia, as Microsofts Windows Phone OS is used in the Nokia Lumia range of smartphones,” the commission wrote in its order. However, the relation was found to be “relatively insignificant” as the operating system has a small share of the market and Nokia already faces competition from other players. Nokia had a 5 percent share of the Indian smartphone market to Samsung’s 26 percent share in the second quarter, according to research firm IDC.
It’s amazing how quickly you can become accustomed to a touchscreen user interface. If you’re using Windows 8, you’ve no doubt reflexively reached out and swiped your finger across your desktop monitor at least once—likely with no effect, since it’s probably not a touchscreen. Fortunately, affordable touchscreen displays are finally making their way into the market. I recently spent some time with two such models: the Dell P2314T Touch Monitor and the Samsung S24C770T 10-point Touch Monitor. One is definitely better than the other. The Dell P2314T is a 23-inch display based on an IPS (In-Plane Switching) panel, and the Samsung S24C770T is a 24-inch model based on MVA (Multi-domain Vertical Alignment) technology. Both use LED backlights and deliver a native resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels with ten touch points. Both monitors are mounted to easily adjustable stands that can hold the display upright, like a standard monitor, or reclined at a low angle that’s easier on the arms when you’re using the touch features. Neither stand requires you to push any buttons to adjust the angle: You simply push or pull the screen into the angle that works best for you. Despite that flexibility, both stands feel sturdy and solid on a desk.
It’s no longer enough just to be constantly connected to the cloud. These days you must also be constantly connected to a slew of different devices. When I’m using my laptop, I’m also monitoring my phone. When I’m on my phone, I still like to view websites on my laptop. Websites are more full-featured on a PC, but many apps are more full-featured on a phone. your phone. The Ativ Book 9 Lite is far from the shiniest, sexiest, most powerful ultrathin laptop on the market, but if you own a Samsung smartphone or tablet, it does offer one advantage over its competitors: Samsung’s SideSync phone-syncing program. SideSync lets you connect your Samsung Galaxy–branded phone to your laptop in some pretty impressive ways. With SideSync, you can use your phone as a miniature second screen and control the phone using the laptop’s mouse and keyboard. You can compose text messages, open apps, and search Web pages in a mobile browser without ever picking up your phone.