Die kanadische Softwareschmiede Open Text verstärkt sich durch eine Übernahme und schluckt den Cloud-Technikanbieter GXS Group für 1,17 Mrd. US-Dollar in bar und in Aktien. Die Open Text-Aktien legten um mehr als vier Prozent zu.
Nach Meinung des iranischen Kulturministers Ali Jannati müssten soziale Netzwerke allen iranischen Bürgern zugänglich sein. Wie der britische Sender BBC unter Berufung auf die iranische Nachrichtenagentur Irna berichtete, bezog sich Jannati insbesondere auf Facebook.
In der Vergangenheit hatte T-Mobile enorme Kundenzuwächse verzeichnen können. Im dritten Quartal 2013 vermeldet das Unternehmen ähnliche Nachrichten. Die zusätzliche Kundschaft bescherte T-Mobile einen gestiegenen Umsatz.
Das strauchelnde US-Nachrichtenportal Patch entpuppt sich immer mehr als Achillesferse des Internet-Pioniers AOL. Wegen hoher Umbaukosten und Abschreibungen auf das Patch-Geschäft sei der Betriebsgewinn im dritten Quartal um 61 Prozent auf 16,7 Mio. Dollar (12,37 Mio. Euro) eingebrochen, teilte der US-Konzern mit.
Der taiwanesische Computerbauer Acer baut nach einem überraschend hohen Verlust massiv Arbeitsplätze ab. Rund sieben Prozent der Stellen sollen wegfallen, wie der weltweite Branchenvierte am Dienstag mitteilte. Dies entspricht etwa 560 Jobs. Zudem muss Konzernchef J.T. Wang seinen Sessel räumen.
Peter Fischer, Präsident des Trägervereins des nationalen E-Government-Symposiums eröffnete heute an der Bernexpo vor über 200 Teilnehmern aus Industrie, Verwaltung und Politik das 7. Nationale E-Government-Symposium. Das diesjährige Symposium widmete sich dem Thema "Mobile Government".
Sunrise will ihren Fokus künftig verstärkt auf den Kundenservice legen. In einem ersten Schritt seien in den vergangenen Wochen die Kapazitäten in den Call Centers deutlich verstärkt worden, lässt das Unternehmen wissen. In den vergangenen drei Monaten habe man die Anzahl der Kundenberater um rund 20 Prozent erhöht, so Sunrise.
Eine Gruppe von italienischen Informatikexperten hat eine Webseite eingerichtet, auf der man anonym Delikte des organisierten Verbrechens melden kann. "Mafialeaks" heisst die neue Webseite, die seit Dienstag aktiv ist, berichtete die römische Tageszeitung "La Repubblica".
Die Chamer Firma Swiss Cloud Computing setzt beim sicheren Kunden-Login künftig auf die Lösung "Securaccess" von Securenvoy. Die Zusammenarbeit laufe zunächst für drei Jahre über das Distributionsunternehmen Prosoft, heisst es in einer Aussendung dazu.
Der Audiospezialist Plantronics erweitert sein Schweizer Team: Nuno Gouveia zeichnet neu als Key Account Manager für die Westschweiz verantwortlich. Er berichtet laut Mitteilung an Fabien Moine, Plantronics Country Manager Schweiz.
For years, Comcast and other content purveyors treated Android users like second-class citizens. Exhibit A: the previous Xfinity TV app for Android only allowed Android users to schedule shows on their DVR, while the comparable TV Player app for iOS devices allowed those users to stream Comcast shows that the user subscribed to. Things are now on an equal footing, both for phones and tablets. Comcast’s teriffic new as well. I tested the Android version of the new app both on my new Galaxy Note III and the last-generation Nexus 7 tablet. But the freedom afforded to Android users is highly welcome. Not only can Android users watch about 20 channels of live streaming audio and video (via Wi-Fi), but they now can also actually download movies for offline viewing.
This concept car changes color, driving style, or destination based on your mood, and you can steer it just by shifting your weight.
over the prior quarter after adjusting for the company's recent acquisition of MetroPCS. came in March 2013, when it jettisoned the traditional "two-year contract" that most carriers require and launched its "Simple Choice" service, a month-to-month plan that starts at $50 for voice, text, and data service. It's also one of the few companies that still offers an unlimited data service option ($70 per month). In addition to Simple Choice, T-Mobile also pioneered a monthly subscription plan called T-Mobile JUMP! that lets phone users upgrade their devices far more frequently. By paying $10 a month, users are able to upgrade twice every year, qualifying for the same promotional pricing that new customers get. The other major carriers have followed suit and now offer similar programs. since May 1.
U.S. lawmakers Tuesday questioned the security of HealthCare.gov, the U.S. government’s troubled insurance-shopping website, after reports that one applicant’s personal information was shared with another applicant. . The security concerns come on top of the website’s existing problems, including site outages, sluggish page load times, and users’ inability to complete coverage applications, since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the website on Oct. 1. The website is a key piece of insurance reform law known as the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, which was passed by Congress in 2010. “We are now more than 30 days into one of the greatest website disasters in history,” Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican, said during the hearing. “After nearly $400 million, HealthCare.gov is synonymous now with failure. The public’s trust has been broken.”
The new tools announced Tuesday bring more of the features that are already on Google’s Android-based search app to iOS devices.
The company also announced some new features: faster sync and an updated iOS app.
Guess it pays to wait. A little more than a week ago, AMD launched the Radeon R9 290X graphics card for $550. On Tuesday, AMD unveiled the $399 Radeon R9 290, a bit slower on the performance front but much, much, cheaper. AMD’s new offering is based on the “Hawaii” architecture that , giving the edge to AMD’s top-of-the-line architecture. With the R9 290, AMD dropped the performance down a notch or two: 2860 stream processors for the 290X, versus 2560 for the 290, which is a 10 percent drop. That's complemented by a slower CPU speed: down from 1GHz to 947MHz. AMD also reduced the number of .
A significant increase this weekend in TCP traffic with source port zero detected could be part of reconnaissance efforts in preparation for more serious attacks, according to security researchers from Cisco Systems. by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), port zero is a “reserved port” and should not be used. Therefore receiving TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) traffic with a source port of zero is unusual. . Attackers can use such abnormal traffic to fingerprint operating systems and network security devices, because different OSes and network equipment can respond differently to port zero traffic, the researcher said. “This can enable the attacker to make a more precise attempt to compromise a network.”
Consumers are getting more aware that they can be tracked while they walk around stores but plenty still feel uncomfortable about it, according to a new survey. Nearly half of respondents said they would find it invasive if a store sent them a special offer via text message for a product they were walking past at that moment, according to the survey results released Tuesday by ISACA, a nonprofit group serving IT professionals. One third of the survey's roughly 1,200 respondents said they would also find it invasive if the store sent a discount coupon to their smartphone as they walked in the door. People want to use their mobile devices to help them shop, but many don't want retailers to track their location while they do it, the survey showed.
Microsoft is offering Windows Azure customers the facility of transferring their data offline to and from Azure storage accounts using hard disk drives. The company launched Monday a preview of the import and export service that provides built-in support for BitLocker disk encryption, which enables users to encrypt data on the hard drives before they send it. . Windows Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data that can be accessed via HTTP or HTTPS. . The company is shipping a drive preparation tool to make it easier to set up the encryption on the hard drives, he added.
clients. , referring to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, "But the lifeblood of the service is still alive and relevant to Dark Mail." Dark Mail is a newly proposed email protocol from Levison and Silent Circle that promises to encrypt not only the body of messages, as is the norm with today's email encryption, but also protect the "header" metadata accompanying every message, such as the subject line, sender, recipient, and so on. The plan is to turn Dark Mail into an open source protocol so that any email provider or client app maker can make their services Dark Mail compatible.
of that nation's economic woes. to take on the organized crime gangs. The Italian-run MafiaLeaks describes its mission as one to collect information about organized crime syndicates. But unlike Wikileaks, MafiaLeaks' main goal is not to publish information that it collects, but rather to act as a medium by which to shepherd insider information to "trustworthy people" within the police, media, or other "anti-mafia" forces. The company's manifesto states (via Google Translate):
The that compromised tens of millions of accounts is no joke, but at least we can enjoy a little dark humor over users' predictably awful passwords. The passwords were . Gosney noted that the list can't be verified in the absence of Adobe's encryption keys. But he said that with Adobe “choosing symmetric key encryption over hashing, selecting ECB mode, and using the same key for every password, combined with a large number of known plaintexts and the generosity of users who flat-out gave us their password in their password hint,” he's fairly confident in the list. Here are the 20 most common passwords, followed by the number of Adobe users who used that password:
, along with 7 percent of Acer's staff. . . to sweet songs about mobile-friendly futures.
for the nascent technology. . But the challenge of controlling the online distribution of 3D printing designs may soon be much harder, thanks to the efforts of a London-based technologist. , promises to let you share 3D printing designs right under the nose of law enforcement and the copyright police. Created by Matthew Plummer-Fernadez, Disarming Corruptor uses basic encryption to take your 3D Yoda figurine, weapon, or other piece of contrabrand and disguise it as something else. . (And no, I have no idea what that design really is).
Google has launched a new tool that connects people with experts over live interactive video for free or paid advice, while adding a revenue stream for the company in the form of transaction fees from providers. based on their qualifications, availability, price, ratings and reviews. an Android app for Helpouts. late Monday.
Bitcoin is vulnerable to an attack that could have devastating effects on the virtual currency, but it can be fixed with a software update, according to researchers from Cornell University. The attack involves "miners," or people running computers that verify Bitcoin transactions, said Ittay Eyal, a post doctoral fellow at Cornell University's Department of Computer Science, who co-authored the study with Emin Gun Sire, a Cornell professor. Every 10 minutes, miners -- who usually collaborate in mining pools -- are rewarded with 25 bitcoins for lending their computing power to Bitcoin if they solve a cryptographic puzzle first. Miners process Bitcoin's transactions, which are recorded in its "blockchain," or public ledger. It has long been known that if a mining group controlled more than 50 percent of Bitcoin's processing power, the network could be subject to a variety of attacks if the group wanted to act maliciously. But the researchers show that small miners may unwittingly join a malicious group.
Apple plans to build a components plant in Mesa, Arizona, that will run entirely on renewable energy. It will be Apple's latest move to build up its manufacturing in the U.S. Most of the company's products are manufactured overseas, and Apple has been under pressure to make more investments at home. The project will create more than 2,000 jobs, Apple said in a brief statement to IDG News Service on Monday. It will work with Salt River Project, an electric utility in central Arizona, to create "green energy sources" to power the facility, Apple said. The project will create 700 jobs in the first year, in addition to about 1,300 construction and other jobs in Arizona, according to Governor Jan Brewer. "Their investment in renewable energy will also be greening our power grid, and creating significant new solar and geothermal power sources for the state," Brewer said in a statement.
IT hosting company Rackspace is upgrading its OpenStack-based servers across the board with faster processors as well as more memory and network bandwidth. They can be used for a variety of workloads, from basic Web hosting to large scale NoSQL data stores like MongoDB and Cassandra, according to Rackspace. To improve performance, Rackspace has combined Intel's Xeon E5 processors with SSD storage and an increase of the maximum amount of RAM from 30GB to 120GB. The end result is an almost threefold improvement in overall performance, the company said. Rackspace offers both public and private cloud services, as well a mixture of the two. The new servers are part of public cloud offering, and will compete with products from the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's sagging fortunes. Citing the company's recent run of poor financial results, Wang said in a statement on Tuesday: "It is time for me to hand over the responsibility to a new leadership team to path the way for a new era." Wang will remain as company chairman until the end of his tenure in June, while Wong will take over as CEO at the start of next year.
Mobile developers will be able to track usage of their Android and iOS applications, as well as experiment with interface improvements, with two free services from Amazon. It allows them to track user engagement metrics or test different in-app experiences across iOS, Android or Fire OS, the Android-based platform that powers Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets. The Analytics service lets developers track daily and monthly active devices, which goes beyond downloads to give them a better feel for user engagement and stickiness, according to Amazon. The fact that Amazon tracks devices and not users means a single customer who launches an app on two different devices will be counted twice, while two customers using an app on a single device will be counted once, the company said. Developers can also keep on eye on sessions, retention, and revenue from in-app purchases.
Cloud-based backup services come as close as you can get to making this necessary, but oh-so-avoidable chore hassle-free. Even if you already back up your data to an external hard drive, you need a cloud service in case that drive is destroyed along with your PC and the original data if a catastrophe strikes. Many cloud services promise to simplify and automate the tedium of data backups, but some are too expensive, some are too complex, and some simply fail woefully. Here are four that deliver. It doesn’t get much easier than . Once you install the software, it scans your computer and backs up your data. For $5 a month, or $50 per year, Backblaze will back up an unlimited amount of data, including data stored on external drives or across multiple Windows or Mac PCs. By default, Backblaze will back up all of your data other than the operating system and applications, and it updates when you add or edit files. Backblaze estimates that most home networks will be able to upload about 2GB of data per day, but you can manually control the throttling to use more network bandwidth and accelerate the backup speed.
Tablets are well on their way to outselling notebooks. But while the Windows 8 user interface makes it possible to navigate the operating system with just a fingertip, that doesn’t mean all of your old programs become magically finger-friendly. For some things, you just need a keyboard. A new class of hybrid PCs combine a wafer-thin slate for watching movies, reading, and surfing the Web, with a detachable keyboard you can use with full-blown programs that work best with physical input devices. I’ve spent the past several weeks using two hybrids that run Windows 8—the Asus Transformer Book T100 and the Lenovo Miix 10—to see if they deliver on the promise of providing the flexibility of a tablet with the productivity of a laptop. I’ve been reading, watching, and writing while wrangling a very active toddler. I used the machines all around the house and while out running errands. Lenovo has years of experience building twist-and-fold convertibles and slates with keyboard docks and covers. The Miix 10 combines a good 10-inch tablet with a fantastic keyboard cover, but I just can’t get past the combo’s $579 price tag ($479 for the tablet, plus $100 for the keyboard cover) and the slate’s previous-generation CPU. You can read my full review of here.