Mit heftiger Kritik am Online-Versandhaus Amazon wurde am Mittwoch Abend in der Messe Wien die sechste internationale Buchmesse „Buch Wien“ eröffnet. Die diesjährige Büchner-Preisträgerin Sibylle Lewitscharoff sprach als Eröffnungsrednerin über die Zukunft des Buches und wandte sich in starken Worten gegen den „Monopolkapitalisten“ Amazon: „Wenn ich eine Firma hasse, dann diese!“
Bei Brother Deutschland neigt sich eine Ära dem Ende zu. Lothar Harbich will sich nach 33 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit per Ende März nächsten Jahres in den Ruhestand verabschieden. Harbich stand der Brother International seit dem Jahr 2000 als Geschäftsführer vor. Davor bekleidete er verschiedene Vertriebs- und Marketingpositionen bei diversen Produktbereichen von Brother.
Der deutsche ERP-Riese SAP mit Sitz in Walldorf will gemeinsam mit dem Staatskonzern China Telecom das Geschäft mit Cloud-Diensten in China vorantreiben. Über das seit 2011 bestehende Gemeinschaftsunternehmen mit dem Telekomkonzern werde SAP künftig als erstes Cloud-Produkt Software für Personalmanagement anbieten, teilte SAP vor einer Kundenmesse in Peking mit.
Mehr als zwei Jahre nachdem Steve Jobs die Pläne präsentiert hat, gibt es für Apple nun grünes Licht zur Errichtung seines neuen Hauptquartiers vom Stadtrat von Cupertino. Das "Raumschiff", wie das futuristische Hauptgebäude genannt wird, dürfte voraussichtlich 2016 erstmals bezogen werden.
Der Software-Konzern Microsoft kommt bei der Suche nach einem neuen Firmenchef offenbar voran. Firmengründer und Verwaltungsratschef Bill Gates sagte am Dienstag auf der Hauptversammlung in Bellevue, er sei zufrieden mit dem Fortschritt, den es in der Sache gebe.
Die US-Mobilfunktochter der Deutschen Telekom will offenbar für mehrere Milliarden Dollar Funkfrequenzen vom Konkurrenten Verizon Wireless kaufen. T-Mobile US wolle damit seine Kapazität für den Internet-Datenverkehr ausweiten, sagte ein Insider der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters gegenüber.
Yahoo-Chefin Marissa Mayer versucht, den Aktienkurs weiter aufzupäppeln. Wie der Internetkonzern mitteilte, fliessen erneut bis zu fünf Milliarden Dollar (3,7 Mrd. Euro) in den laufenden Rückkauf eigener Anteilsscheine. Das treibt gewöhnlich den Kurs. Nachbörslich stieg die Aktie gestern Abend um zwei Prozent.
Die leitenden Manager haben weltweit gesehen nur ein geringes Zutrauen in die Fähigkeit ihres Unternehmens, um wichtige IT-Anforderungen wie etwa kontinuierliche Verfügbarkeit, fortschrittliche Sicherheitssysteme sowie integrierte Backup- und Recovery-Lösungen zu erfüllen.
Canon Schweiz will den Bereich Outsourcing-Dienstleistungen und Managementberatung forcieren und hat daher die Sparte Canon Business Services (CBS) unter eine neue Leitung gestellt. Dazu wurde der Ex-HP-Manager Michael Berchtold unter Vertrag genommen.
Über eine Partnerschaft mit der Schweizer Integratorin von Business Appliaktionen Insentia will die ECM-Anbieterin Temis ihre Aktivitäten im Bereich Enterprise Content Management in der Schweiz verstärken.
The company wants to load mobile devices with its Zeroth processor, which is being designed to mimic a human brain.
The premiere farming simulator arrives on iOS.
Today’s top deals features the redesigned with built in 4GB of space. (normally $749). ). ).
Microsoft today said it will ship the first service pack for Office 2013 sometime early next year. . today. about 13 months after their respective original editions’ debut.
After more than 15 years, the famous Winamp media player will shut down on December 20, its makers announced Wednesday. The announcement itself was a whimper—a small banner notification on —rather than a bang, and the end seems sadly appropriate. The skinnable media player was all the rage at the turn of the century, but barely made a peep since being acquired by AOL in 1999. After years of floundering, Winamp released Android and Mac versions in 2010 and 2011, respectively, but that appears to have been too little, too late. As Winamp ruled the days of Napster, iTunes and streaming media services such as Spotify and Pandora control the music scene of today. Winamp’s , but it was just too niche in today’s cross-platform, pay-as-you-go world, though the software still reportedly made money right up until the end.
For $10 per month you too can subscribe to both Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, until December 2.
The new app is Mountain View's attempt to make buying digital magazine subscriptions more of a thing than it is.
Micron is challenging conventional computer architectures conceived decades ago with Automata, a highly parallel processor that can change its behavior to process the task at hand. The Automata processor, which was announced this week, has thousands of modified memory cells that can be turned into processing units, said Paul Dlugosch, director of Micron’s Automata processor technology development. The memory cells are nonvolatile, and can be erased and reprogrammed to solve a certain problem, Dlugosch said. “This is indeed a new architecture, it’s based on memory,” Dlugosch said, adding that the processor has been under development for seven years. The customized column of memory in Automata can gang up to process tasks quicker than on conventional computers, Dlugosch said. There are no fixed data sizes, and with a compiler, instructions can be created on the fly targeted at solving specific problems. Data is spread across memory units in parallel for processing, and unlike conventional computers, there is no need to wait for data to be shifted out of memory.
Google is trying to make it easier for Apps customers to find and deploy third-party applications from the Marketplace store it launched a few years ago. The company has started to surface some of those third-party applications on the Google Apps administration console, from where customers can, for the first time, browse the catalog and install the products. “These applications all offer the latest OAuth 2.0 security, single sign-on (SSO), and integration with Google services. Admins can now see reviews from verified users of the applications to help select the best app to meet their needs,” wrote Apoorv Saxena, product manager, Google Apps for Business, in a . Until now, suite customers have had to go to the separate site to sift through the store’s inventory of third-party apps.
Muggers and thieves love smartphones. They're small, light, easy to grab, and worth hundreds of dollars. The good news: We have the technology to make a stolen phone about as valuable as a broken stapler. The bad: Verizon, AT&T, and other mobile service providers don't want you to have it. Smartphone theft is a very serious problem. According to a states that New York City saw a 40-percent jump in such thefts over the same period. Many smartphone thefts are violent, smash-and-grab assaults. And when your smartphone is stolen, you may lose more than just $500 worth of hardware. If someone can crack your passcode, they'll have access to all of the information on your phone, and quite likely everything in your various cloud-based accounts. The best fix for the problem, most experts agree, is for each phone to come with a If your phone is stolen, you go to another Internet device, enter some identifying information and a password, and your phone turns into an inanimate, worthless paperweight.
The Swedish Security Service wants direct access to systems used by service providers to collect information on user communications, but the providers are convinced that would be a threat to data privacy. The E.U. data-retention directive has been a hot topic in Sweden and was finally implemented last year. The data now saved allows authorities investigating crimes to find out things such as who, when, and where two people communicated using, for example, email or text messages. The process is now handled manually, but the national security service wants to standardize and automate it. Doing this would decrease the risk for potential errors that could occur when the process is done manually, the Security Service said in a statement Tuesday. The new system also makes it easier for the Commission on Security and Integrity Protection and the Data Inspection Board to prevent misuse, it said. But it seems that will be difficult to achieve. Saving the data is mandatory for service providers, but automating the process to hand over data is voluntary and large service providers aren’t on board with the proposal.
Joining Fedora and Ubuntu, the new version of the community-driven OpenSUSE can now be run on AArch64 processors, further preparing the market for servers running on the new 64-bit ARM architecture. (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The OpenSUSE Project, which manages the mostly volunteer-led development of OpenSUSE, has warned that the AArch64 version of the new distribution is still experimental, though it can be used to test ARM-based servers and operations. With this release, OpenSUSE joins Red Hat’s community-driven Linux distribution, Fedora, and Canonical’s Ubuntu, in offering an experimental Linux distribution that can run on 64-bit ARM processors. about the future use of 64-bit ARM processors in the data center. The architecture’s low power requirements could be ideal for web services, he noted.
An Internet governance model that includes businesses and civil-society groups in the decision-making process remains the best approach, despite a push from some countries for a more government-centric model, officials with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said. in Brazil, ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé said during a press conference at an ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires. Brazil’s leaders have been pushing for the United Nations to take over some Internet governance functions from ICANN, but the U.N. has an “intergovernmental approach” to issues that doesn’t include as much input from nongovernmental organizations, Chehadé said Wednesday. that will address concerns about Internet governance. People in government, civil society, the private sector, the technical community, and international organizations will be part of the panel, ICANN said.
International talks aimed at removing costly international tariffs on information technology will continue until Friday after China stalled negotiations again on Wednesday. More than 50 countries, representing 97 percent of the global IT trade, are involved in the talks in Geneva, aimed at extending The World Trade Organisation’s Information Technology Agreement (ITA). The talks were due to finish on Wednesday. The ITA was established in 1996 to do away with import tariffs on certain ICT products in order to stimulate trade. However, many new devices are not covered by the ITA regime, hence the efforts to increase the list of items covered. About 250 products are at the center of the negotiations. China, however, has objected to 67 of these. By comparison, the European Union seeks to exclude a handful of products from the scope of the ITA, including televisions, the U.S. seeks to exclude just one item—fiber optic cable—and Japan doesn’t want anything excluded.
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved €7 billion (US$9.5 billion) in funding to further develop and complete Europe’s satellite navigation programs, including the Galileo and EGNOS projects. The funding will cover the projects from 2014 to 2020 and will be spent on completion of the satellite navigation infrastructure as well as the development of fundamental components such as Galileo-enabled chipsets or receivers in smartphones. “The overall economic impact of Galileo and EGNOS is estimated to be around €90 billion over the next 20 years,” said Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani. “In addition to the opening up of new business opportunities, everyday users will be able to enjoy increasingly accurate satellite navigation services with every new satellite launch.” Galileo, the fully E.U.-owned autonomous satellite navigation system under civil control, will provide first services from the end of 2014 and when fully operational (before 2020) will provide a freely accessible service for positioning, navigation and timing, using the dual-frequency Galileo Signal in Space.
Qualcomm has introduced a mobile chip that will play back 4K video on smartphones and tablets in addition to supporting the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The Snapdragon 805 chip, announced on Wednesday, could be Qualcomm’s fastest performing chip. The quad-core chip operates at a clock speed of 2.5GHz and has the latest Adreno 420 graphics engine, which can process 4K or UltraHD video at a 3840 x 2160-pixel resolution. High-definition TVs that support 4K video are already available, but smartphone chip makers now want to bring the technology to smaller screens. The Snapdragon 805 chip has the memory bandwidth to handle 4K video rendering, and will do so at low power, Qualcomm said. It also has an integrated LTE modem and supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are in some of the top smartphones and tablets from Samsung, Google, HTC, LG and others. Google’s Nexus 5, which was announced late last month, has the Snapdragon 800 processor.
at low prices, is now drastically raising its prices. For new users, unlimited plans will cost $99 per month or $999 per year. That's ten times higher than the previous price of $10 per month or $99 per year. Bitcasa is also cutting in half the base amount of its free storage plan, from 10 GB to 5 GB, but non-paying users can earn up to 20 GB through referrals. To fill the pricing void, Bitcasa is creating two middle tiers. “Premium” users can get 1 TB of storage for $10 per month or $99 per year—the same rate as the old unlimited plan—and “Pro” users can get 5 TB of storage for $50 per month or $499 per year. , the company said that users will be grandfathered into their current plans indefinitely.
Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. . “Their passwords have been reset and personal access tokens, OAuth authorizations, and SSH keys have all been revoked.” Users were advised to review their account’s Security History page for recent changes made to their repositories or failed log-in attempts and to enable two-factor authentication. GitHub stores passwords securely using the bcrypt function and uses an aggressive rate limit for log-in attempts specifically to block password-guessing attacks, Davenport said. However, in this recent incident almost 40,000 unique Internet Protocol addresses “were used to slowly brute force weak passwords or passwords used on multiple sites.”
Hackers reportedly stole 42 million customer records including email addresses and clear-text passwords from Cupid Media, a network of dating websites. . According to Krebs, who claims to have access to the data, the database contains names, email addresses, plaintext passwords and birth dates. Based in Southport, Australia, Cupid Media operates a network of over 30 niche online dating websites with more than 30 million members in North and South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
, Mozilla’s upcoming interface overhaul, in April 2012. Since then, pieces of Australis pieces have slowly worked their way into the latest versions of Firefox, like the new-look downloads arrow. Earlier this week, however, Mozilla finally brought the bulk of the new Australis aesthetic into the nightly preview builds of the popular open source browser. The revamp isn’t a drastic change, but it is still fairly significant for longtime Firefox users. Any Chrome users looking to switch browsers should also be right at home with Australis, since it borrows key design decisions from Google’s browser. The first thing you’ll notice with Australis is that the blocky Windows 7-style tabs are gone, replaced by a more rounded Chrome-style look. Mozilla is also making it easier to identify which tab is open by giving the current tab a prominent outline above the address bar, while background tabs won't have any outline at all. , first introduced in 2010 with Firefox 4, is also gone from the upper left corner. Instead, Mozilla replaced it with a menu button in the far right corner—again, similar to Chrome. If you prefer to have text menus running across the top of the screen, you can still do so by right-clicking on the Firefox toolbar and then selecting "Menu Bar."
A New York-based online gaming company has settled a civil complaint that it secretly installed bitcoin-mining code on its subscribers’ computers, netting more than $3,700 worth of virtual currency. released on Tuesday by the New Jersey attorney general’s office. E-Sports’ co-founder, Eric Thunberg, and a software engineer, Sean Hunczak, were accused of installing bitcoin “mining” software on 14,000 computers in New Jersey and elsewhere in the U.S. without their users’ consent, creating a botnet. Both men and E-Sports were charged with violating New Jersey’s Consumer Fraud Act and the state’s Computer Related Offenses Act.
The Galaxy Gear may or may not be selling well, depending on who you ask, but it'll a custom ROM for the smartwatch will definitely be available soon.
Three prominent U.S. senators have, in a federal court filing, questioned the claim of the National Security Agency that its bulk collection of phone records is required for intelligence purposes. The brief argues that after extensive review of the surveillance, the senators have seen no evidence that the bulk collection has provided any “intelligence of value” that could not have been arrived at through less intrusive methods. Mark Udall, a Democrat from Colorado, Ron Wyden, Democrat senator from Oregon and Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, all members of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Tuesday they filed an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco division. In the First Unitarian Church v. National Security Agency suit in the court, the church and other organizations that the bulk phone records collection program has violated their constitutional rights including to free association.
Wikimedia Foundation has asked editing services firm Wiki-PR to cease and desist editing the Wikipedia site for allegedly authoring articles for money and passing them off as written by unbiased sources. The foundation hosts Wikipedia and other sites, supported by a community of volunteers. Its warn against “Attempting to impersonate another user or individual, misrepresenting your affiliation with any individual or entity, or using the username of another user with the intent to deceive...” “Wiki-PR is working with the Wikimedia foundation and its counsel to sort this out,” said Wiki-PR CEO Jordan French in an email. He indicated that the issue could get resolved by the middle of next week. On its website, Wiki-PR offers Wikipedia page creation, monitoring and translation services, though it states that it never directly edits Wikipedia.
It's got some speedy innards and a fantastic-looking display, but there's not much here that would make you choose this over any other Android tablet.
Whether or not you think eight-core smartphone chips are a marketing gimmick, Taiwan’s MediaTek could help make them a norm in the Chinese market, putting pressure on Qualcomm’s own business in the country. simultaneously. Designed to be both powerful and energy efficient, the chip has a clock speed of 2 GHz and is built with ARM’s Cortex-A7 processor cores. The first products to use the chip will arrive at the end of this year or early next quarter. MediaTek isn’t widely known in the U.S., but it’s become the largest vendor for smartphone chips in China, according to research firm Gartner. The company has risen to the top largely by selling its chipsets to local makers of low-end phones. But on Wednesday MediaTek said it wanted to break into the market for high-end products, including tablets, with its new eight-core processor. What MediaTek means by high-end, however, doesn’t equate with handsets like Apple’s iPhone 5s or Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S4. Instead, MediaTek wants to help Chinese vendors come out with mid-range products, said Roger Sheng, an analyst with Gartner. These smartphones would be priced at 2,000 yuan ($326) or higher, a notch down from the iPhone, which starts at 5288 yuan in the country.
Google’s privacy policy and terms of service violate German data protection law, the Regional Court of Berlin ruled Tuesday. The clauses are too vaguely formulated and can restrict the rights of consumers, said the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV), which brought the case.. The VZBV complained about 13 privacy policy clauses and 12 terms of service clauses, all of which were ruled invalid, VZBV’s policy officer for legal enforcement, Bianca Skutnik, said on Wednesday. The decision could have far-reaching implications for Google, although it can still appeal the ruling. “When it is final Google will have to change a lot, change its privacy policy and terms and conditions,” Skutnik said. But the federation will have to be patient: “If we’re lucky” the court of appeal will make a decision by the end of next year, she said.
How reliable is your data center service provider? Perhaps not as reliable as you think. The Uptime Institute says some data centers are playing fast and loose with its “tiering” system for rating data center reliability, making false claims or at best being economical with the truth about how resilient their facilities are. The upshot, the Institute says, is that some companies may be running important applications in data centers that are more susceptible to failure than is advertised, and they may get a rude awakening the next time a hurricane strikes or a transformer blows out in the local power grid. “At a time when more enterprises are moving at scale to an outsourcing option, the stakes couldn’t be higher,” said Julian Kudritzki, Uptime Institute’s chief operating officer, who along with a few data center operators is trying to raise awareness of the issue.
While it's easier to find outlets for charging your mobile device in vehicles and public places these days, there will always be the occasion when you need to nurse the battery in your laptop, smartphone, or tablet because you can’t charge it. Whether you forgot bring your charger, are stuck in the woods, or you simply want to revel in the un-tethered-ness of it all, here are some tricks for achieving longer run time. Fact: your battery has a set amount of juice in it, and there's not a darn thing you can do to increase it (safely anyway). Ask Boeing, or Tesla CEO Elon Musk. So if electrical capacity is finite, it's pretty obvious you'll need to reduce consumption to make it last longer. The only way to do that is to turn things down or off, just as you do with the lighting and appliances in your house. You knew that, but maybe you didn't know just how much stuff there is to turn down or off. The most obvious component that you can turn down, and leave off when not in use, is the display. Reduce the brightness as far as you can, and turn it off whenever you don't need it. Reduce the automatic shutoff setting. The more aggressive you are the more power you'll save. If you're in dire straits, manually shut it off as quickly and as often as possible.