A legal war between EMC and flash startup Pure Storage has escalated to charges of patent infringement and illegally obtaining a storage array to mine it for intellectual property. The fight has exposed competitive tensions surrounding all-flash arrays, which are expected to play a growing role in data centers as enterprises seek faster data access and more efficient storage platforms. Pure is a specialist in all-flash gear that started shipping in 2011, while the venerable EMC is aggressively pursuing the market through its acquired XtremIO division. EMC sued Pure earlier this month in a Massachusetts federal court, charging that the startup hired 44 of its former employees and got them to hand over confidential EMC information in violation of their employment agreements. On Tuesday, Pure denied those charges and filed a counter-complaint that alleges EMC secretly took a Pure product across the country and into XtremIO headquarters. Only hours after that filing occurred, EMC sued Pure in a different court for alleged patent infringement. Both companies say their rival’s actions were part of an ongoing pattern of unfair competition. EMC’s suit over the 44 former employees followed a series of such suits it had filed against former employees. This was the first time it had gone after Pure itself.
A new worm is targeting x86 computers running Linux and PHP, and variants may also pose a threat to devices such as home routers and set-top boxes based on other chip architectures. According to security researchers from Symantec, the malware spreads by exploiting a vulnerability in php-cgi, a component that allows PHP to run in the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) configuration. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2012-1823 and was patched in PHP 5.4.3 and PHP 5.3.13 in May 2012. . “Upon execution, the worm generates IP [Internet Protocol] addresses randomly, accesses a specific path on the machine with well-known ID and passwords, and sends HTTP POST requests, which exploit the vulnerability,” the Symantec researchers explained. “If the target is unpatched, it downloads the worm from a malicious server and starts searching for its next target.”
Toshiba has offered to buy the assets of OCZ Technology, a solid-state drive manufacturer on the verge of bankruptcy. The deal would see Toshiba acquire most of the San Jose, California-based company as part of a deal with the local bankruptcy court. Toshiba will only acquire OCZ if it can maintain the value of its business and keep its employees. OCZ has had problems acquiring flash memory chips for its drives and that has been affecting business. Revenue in its most recent quarter was $33.5 million, down from $88.6 million in the same period a year earlier. But despite the sharply lower revenue, its losses fell from $26.1 million from $33.2 million a year earlier.
Internet giants such as Google and Amazon run IT operations that are far larger than most enterprises even dream of, but lessons they learn from managing those humongous systems can benefit others in the industry. At a few conferences in recent weeks, engineers from Google and Amazon revealed some of the secrets they use to scale their systems with a minimum of administrative headache. At the Usenix LISA (Large Installation Systems Administration) conference in Washington, Google site reliability engineer Todd Underwood highlighted one of the company’s imperatives that may be surprising: frugality. “A lot of what Google does is about being super-cheap,” he told an audience of systems administrators.
I’ve sat through more than my share of demos and presentations that have been momentarily derailed by a mad search for the proper cable to connect a laptop to a projector. So when someone promises a device that can put an end to our VGA-or-DVI-driven crisis of confidence, I’m willing take a look. That device is , which bills itself as a dedicated wireless presentation tool for conference rooms. The slender, orange-topped Prijector plugs into a display or TV monitor, offering its own Wi-Fi connectivity. Instead of having to physically connect to a projector, then, all presenters need to do is hop on Prijector’s Wi-Fi network to beam their presentation from their laptop to the conference room display. “We want to integrate everything needed in a conference room inside this box so that it becomes an essential tool,” Prijector founder and CEO Sunil Coushik told me during a recent demonstration of the product.
The price of a single bitcoin reached $1000 Wednesday, possibly demonstrating a new level of interest—some might say mania—for the digital currency that earlier this year was trading for a measly $30. Bitcoin trading surpassed the $1000 mark on the Tokyo-based exchange, one of the most prominent exchanges for buying and selling bitcoins online. Less eye-catching, but still high, trading levels were reached on BTC-E, a Bulgarian exchange, which hit $916 Wednesday night there, and Bitstamp, based in Slovenia, at $949, though prices on the exchanges change often in the course of a day. On Mt. Gox, the price of a bitcoin teetered at just under $1000 throughout Tuesday afternoon and early evening. Prices had been rising since the end of last week, when on Friday a bitcoin was worth a little more than $800 on Mt. Gox. Although the currency has seen serious growth over the past year—in March prices were about $30—Bitcoin has also been characterized by dramatic volatility and major price swings from day to day. Bitcoin is not something you hold in your hands like paper money—it’s a digital currency bought and sold over computer networks. There are , and no central banking or regulatory authority backs it at this point, which makes it especially appealing to some people.
Prices of some laptops and tablets have already fallen, with others expected to drop starting with Black Friday year-end holiday sales in the U.S. this week. Some Chromebook laptops will be available for $199 and some Windows 8 laptops could come down to $250. The price of Windows 8 tablets and hybrids could fall to under $250, while Android tablets could be available for under $100. Finding a laptop under $200 would have been considered a steal during the holiday shopping weeks last year, but the number of products in that price range has expanded this year. Netbook-style Chromebooks running Chrome OS are the least expensive, while fully functional Windows laptops will cost more. Chromebooks are thin-and-light laptops with limited storage and without a full-fledged OS like Windows. They are intended for people who do most of their computing on the Web, with users likely to use online services for storage. Acer’s Chromebook C720-2848 is the least expensive Chromebook, already priced at $200. It has an 11.6-inch screen, an Intel Celeron 2955U processor based on the Haswell microarchitecture, 16GB of storage, and offers 8.5 hours of battery life.
As the traditional American shopping frenzies of Black Friday and Cyber Monday approach, you need to be careful. And not only of crazed shoppers in the parking lot. For the thugs of the Internet, people on a buying binge are suckers to be had. that "'Stay alert' doesn’t mean that you should only keep an eye on those great offers. It means that you should not fall for the scams that are going to show up." Mustaca warns that "We expect to see the large spam and phishing campaigns" that always come around these two days, which are "too well-known to not be used by cyber criminals." These crooks offer goods for sale that, unlike the charges to your credit card, may never show up. According to Mustaca, we should also expect spam throughout and beyond the holiday season from scammers claiming to be trying to resell unwanted gifts. "All these have something in common: social engineering and greed."
in 2013—and some undisclosed portion of those PCs are notebooks. The more we rely on small, mobile devices to get things done, the more we also depend on cloud storage and services to extend functionality beyond what the mobile device itself is capable of. That’s why mobile and cloud will become mobile cloud. . IEEE explains, “Mobile devices are constrained by their memory, processing power, and battery life. But combined with cloud computing, data processing and storage can happen outside of mobile devices.” Storage is a major constraint for most mobile devices. Smartphones typically have only 8GB or 16GB of local storage, while tablets tend to have 32GB or more but still max out at 128GB. Ultrabooks, and many notebook PCs, have abandoned traditional hard drives in favor of solid state drives (SSD), which are typically only 128GB or 256GB. There are larger SSDs, but they’re prohibitively expensive for most purposes. or cellular signal to connect to the cloud.
The browser-based version of Xbox Video is now live, but Microsoft's using it to herd you towards Windows 8 and the Xbox One.
The Department of Justice has made the right decision to not prosecute WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange for publishing leaks from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, if a is correct, press freedom advocates said. It’s appropriate for the DOJ to recognize Assange as a second-party publisher of leaked information, subject to the same press freedom protections as other publishers, said Lucy Dalglish, dean of the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and former executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In July, a U.S. military court found Manning, who now goes by the first name Chelsea, guilty of violating the and other offenses, and the DOJ has pursued U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden for his disclosures earlier this year. While whistleblowers perhaps should have additional legal protections, publishers have long had legal protections in U.S. law, Dalglish said. Assange is “not the person who took the information,” she said. “The person who took the information and the publisher are two separate roles.”
Europe’s Home Affairs Commissioner said on Wednesday that she would be keeping a close eye on data-sharing deals with the U.S. On the same day that she announced that the , Commissioner Cecilia Malmström presented reviews of two other transatlantic data sharing deals—the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) and the Passenger Name Record (PNR). The TFTP agreement allows the U.S. Treasury to access some data stored in Europe by international bank transfer network Swift. However, allegations of possible U.S. access to Swift financial data outside the scope of the TFTP agreement enraged politicians last month. Documents leaked by former National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden and reported by . The company is included in an NSA training manual for new agents on how to target private computer networks, according to the documents.
The clock is ticking down to , but sometime this week you should be able to find some excellent deals on a new smartphone if you’re in the market. Some people go into a smartphone purchase knowing what they want. They know up front that they want the new iPhone, or the latest Samsung Galaxy S model. However, most people aren’t that dedicated to one platform and are open to buying whichever device meets their needs and seems like the best deal. For those people, the will come in handy as a shopping guide. The FixYa report is not a comprehensive list of available smartphones, but it does compare the relative pros and cons of four of the leading handsets. where users can go to help each other identify and troubleshoot issues, compiled data on the iPhone 5s, Motorola Moto X, Samsung Galaxy S4, and HTC One from nearly 14,000 problem impressions submitted on its site to determine the most common problems reported for each device. The number one issue reported for the Samsung Galaxy S4 is overheating, which makes up a quarter of the problems reported for the smartphone. As vendors cram more processing power and technology into these pocket-sized devices, it's somewhat inevitable that they’re going to get warmer, but the reason it seems to be more of an issue for the Galaxy S4 is probably related to the plastic case. Battery drain and issues reading the display tied as a close second behind the overheating issue.
have sprouted to replace or improve webmail providers like Gmail, Yahoo, or Microsoft. with a recently announced integration with the SaneBox email filtering platform. While both Boxer and SaneBox work with Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Outlook, and Hotmail if you access them on the desktop, Boxer’s mobile app now offers SaneBox customers email filtering on their iPhones and iPads, as well. It’s an interesting collaboration that may spur downloads of Boxer, considering SaneBox is a wildly popular platform that analyzes your inbox, looking at whether you’re connected with senders on social media platforms or if you’ve ever replied to a message before to determine which messages to prioritize. Sanebox tucks any that it deems less important into a separate folder you can peruse later. with similar results and especially liked a folder called “SaneBlackHole” into which you can put unwanted messages—doing so tells SaneBox to send messages from that sender directly to trash.
A judge has ruled that Hewlett-Packard and its CEO, Meg Whitman, must mount a defense against a shareholder class action lawsuit claiming that Whitman and HP made misleading statements about the acquisition of Autonomy. HP spent more than $10 billion to acquire Autonomy in October 2011, but subsequently as the result of what it termed to be serious accounting irregularities by Autonomy prior to the deal. The class action, filed in November 2012 by lead plaintiff PGGM Vermogensbeheer B.V., alleged that HP and other named defendants “knew or should have known” that “corporate governance firms, auditors, media and analysts had questioned Autonomy’s market value due to concerns about its accounting practices, and whether its reported growth rates and margins had been artificially inflated.” U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer ordered the case to proceed in a ruling filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Economist Steve Levitt posits a fascinating theory on why the crime rate has plummeted over the past two decades.
A third-party advertising library called InMobi, used by many Android applications, opens a potential backdoor into mobile devices. Attackers who are in a position to intercept traffic coming from an app that uses InMobi can inject JavaScript commands into that traffic and force the app to make phone calls, send text messages to premium-rate numbers, create calendar events, access the photo gallery and post on social networks on the user's behalf, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The problem stems from InMobi's use of an Android API (application programming interface) feature called addJavascriptInterface that can be used to expose a Java object's methods to content loaded in a WebView, a window that displays Web pages. Since Android 4.2, addJavascriptInterface has a mechanism to restrict which methods can be accessed through JavaScript code from a WebView, but this restriction doesn't exist on older Android versions, which are still found on 80 percent of devices.
The wildly popular game "Minecraft" is a lot like its creator, Markus "Notch" Persson: modest in style and origin and apparently still true to its roots despite phenomenal success. In their new book just published in the U.S., authors Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson go behind the scenes to tell the story of how their shy fellow Swede became the indie games industry's first real rock star. They recently talked to IDG News Service about the lessons tech innovators can take away from Persson's success, why the PC is still an important platform for game development and whether Persson's company Mojang can keep its indie cred despite having a blockbuster hit. " has a bit of a twist itself: Goldberg says that he and Larsson set out to write a business book that shared the lessons of how to make a fortune online, delving into marketing strategy and the like. "It fairly quickly became apparent to us that we wouldn't be getting anywhere by doing that, because Markus had no idea. So much about this happened by coincidence," Goldberg says. Making the book a more personal story provided the opportunity to tell a story that is often missing in the tech world: "There's a tendency to view programmers as businesspeople and engineers, and there's often little room left to discuss them as artistic people, creative people. We really wanted this to be a book about a creative person," he says.
Nokia is hoping that availability of its low-end Lumia 525 in countries like China and Russia will soon give its smartphone sales a boost. The phone is a variant, though not an outright successor, of the Lumia 520, and helps Nokia offer Windows Phone at a more accessible price to a larger number of users, a spokeswoman said via email. The smartphone will go on sale before the end of the year in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Singapore and Russia. In China, it is priced at 1099 yuan ($180) before taxes and subsidies. It will then go on sale in Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine, Khazakstan and parts of Africa during the first quarter of next year, according to Nokia. During the third quarter, Lumia sales increased by 19 percent quarter-on-quarter to 8.8 million units, reflecting strong demand particularly for the Lumia 520, Nokia said. The Lumia 525 and the expanded distribution it brings, then, is important to Nokia.
The European Union will not set up a Terrorist Finance Tracking System (TFTS) due to concerns about data security, according to a European Commission official. There is currently a terrorist finance-tracking deal in place between the E.U. and the U.S that allows the U.S. Treasury to access some data stored in Europe by Swift, the Belgium-based banking data transfer network. There had been calls for a similar Europe-wide system to be set up. However Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström announced Wednesday that would not happen in the foreseeable future. "In order to extract data on E.U. soil it would be necessary to create and manage a new database containing all the information of E.U. citizens' financial transfers. The creation of such database would raise serious challenges in terms of the data storage, access and protection," Malmström said. Malmström added that "any E.U. system would be data intrusive and would therefore require robust data protection guarantees and safeguards to be put in place. It would be costly and also technically and operationally demanding to set up and maintain."
The European Commission said Wednesday it will not suspend the safe harbor data privacy agreement with the U.S. despite calls from the European Parliament. However, following revelations of large-scale U.S. intelligence collection programs, the Commission has put forward a range of proposals to strengthen the agreement. The bilateral safe harbor deal was reached in 2000, despite controversy at the time. Under the safe harbor agreement, which is purely voluntary, companies in the U.S. sign up to a set of rules to protect the data privacy of E.U. customers. They are then authorized to display a logo showing that they are part of the agreement, and the rules can be legally enforced by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. At last count, in late September, 3,246 companies had signed up. However, hundreds of U.S.-based companies illegally use the logo without ever intending to follow the safe harbor code.
Cloud storage vendor Box has acquired the technology behind a company called dLoop, which it will use to add more controls that give enterprises more features for protecting their content. Enterprises have become increasingly interested in storage services offered by the likes Box, Citrix Systems, Dropbox, Egnyte and EMC, which lets users store and share content online. Enterprise interest has been a boon for the vendors, but has also put more demands on especially security and management. Box’s ability to protect and manage content is already one of its strong points, according to a recent , which rated Box as better for enterprise users than a number of other online storage services. With the addition of dLoop’s technology, the company wants to add more features to help set it apart from the competition. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but dLoop co-founder Divya Jain has joined Box.
The Wikimedia Foundation is liable for the contents of Wikipedia articles but does not have to fact check the contents before they are published, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart ruled, a spokesman said Wednesday. The appeals court ruled against Wikimedia in a libel case in early October but the was only published recently on the court’s website. In the German legal system it often takes several weeks for a written ruling to be published. Articles on Wikipedia are written and altered by third parties and not checked by Wikimedia, which owns the site. Nonetheless, Wikimedia has a certain responsibility for the contents of those articles, the court ruled. While Wikimedia does not have to check beforehand whether the contents of a Wikipedia article are true, it has a duty to check if somebody complains about the article, the court ruled. If someone complains about statements in an article, Wikimedia has to check them and if necessary remove the passages, the court said.
BlackBerry is making it easier for Android applications to run on its latest smartphones. A recent upgrade to its developer tools has reduced the amount of work required to get an Android app working on the BlackBerry 10 operating system, and changes coming in early 2014 will allow some Android apps to run directly without any changes. BlackBerry 10 is based on a real-time operating system called QNX but has had a level of compatibility with Android since it was launched earlier this year. A “runtime” on the phones provides an environment in which Android apps can run, but not all Android features are supported. The latest version, 10.2.1, and added support for Android Jellybean 4.2.2, Bluetooth, maps through Open Street Map, sharing of content with other applications in the phone, and the spell checker.
Symantec plans to close down its Backup Exec.cloud service, saying it lacks mobile and content-sharing features and wouldn’t be the right platform for delivering them. Backup Exec.cloud is a pure cloud-based offering designed to make it easy for small businesses and remote branch offices to back up their data. It was announced in February 2012. Symantec disclosed its plans to shut down the service in an email to channel partners that was seen by IDG News Service. An FAQ about the shutdown was on Symantec’s sites on Tuesday but appears to have been removed. In its email to channel partners, Symantec said it would start informing end users by email in early December. The company will stop selling subscriptions or renewals for Backup Exec.cloud on Jan. 6, 2014. Cloud-based options for both backing up data and working with files have proliferated in recent years and taken on growing importance as more employees work at home and on the road. Backup Exec.cloud, introduced along with Symantec’s Backup Exec 2012 product suite, is a standalone system focused on off-premises data protection for sites with no IT staff.
TeamViewer has saved my family and friends a lot of grief, and saved me a lot of gasoline. I just tell them to download and run (or install it), give me the code and password and voilà! Their desktop pops up in a window on mine so I can fix what ails it.
Desktop workstations like HP’s Z230 Tower are designed for work, not play. This one is powered by the Haswell version of Intel’s Xeon processor, which can address more memory and has wider memory pipelines than Intel’s consumer-oriented Core processors. The sample HP sent for review has a dedicated graphics processor that’s optimized for 3D rendering and CAD operations. It’s not gamer sexy, and you pay heavily for having the company assemble the components for you, but it is well designed and imminently powerful and practical. Our test-configuration Z230 ($2700 MSRP) came with a 3.4GHz quad-core Xeon e3-1245 v3 CPU and 16GB of DDR3/1600 ECC (error-correcting code) memory. Since only two of the four DIMM slots are occupied, you can easily double the Z230’s memory to 32GB. The Z230 Tower has plenty of breathing space and more than enough drive bays, including one internal 2.5-inch bay, two internal 3.5-inch bays (one of which is occupied by a 1TB, 10,000-rpm WD Velociraptor hard drive mounted in a 2.5-inch adapter), one slim external optical-drive bay (occupied by a DVD burner), and two external 5.25-inch half-height bays (these make a convenient handle when vacant). The tower configuration sports two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports in front. One of the USB 2.0 ports is always on for charging mobile devices. The front panel also has microphone and headphone jacks. The back has two additional USB 3.0 ports, four more USB 2.0 ports, and a single-link DVI port, along with gigabit ethernet, audio in/out, and microphone jacks. Support for legacy devices comes in the form of two PS/2 ports and one serial port.
The sudden, quiet killing of the legendary sent a shiver across the Web last week. Just like that, a software giant of yore was gone. But once the initial shock wore off, another thought settled in: “Wait, Winamp was still around?” And that got me thinking: Whatever happened to all those classic websites and programs that, like Winamp, were found on virtually every PC around the turn of the century? Microsoft snuffed out Clippy (and rightfully so), but what was the fate of RealPlayer, and CompuServe, and—man, oh man—BonziBuddy? Some have joined Winamp in the great Recycle Bin in the sky. Some are still trundling along. And everywhere you turn, you’ll find the twin shadows of AOL and Yahoo. Let’s dig in. Before we start singing dirges for the dead, let’s highlight a scrappy classic that’s still hanging on. The iconic () RealPlayer slung songs on computers across the United States in the late 1990s, mostly because it—along with Winamp—was one of the few free MP3 spinners available to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft’s native Windows Media Player. RealNetworks’ music maestro is still alive and kicking, complete with mobile apps, but in September the company shifted away from straight tune-twiddling. The revamped mixes media playing with cloud storage, letting you shift your songs and videos wirelessly from device to device. See? Old dogs can learn new tricks. (You can still find the stand-alone RealPlayer software banging around, too.)
Lenovo manufactures a lot of notebooks, but the supremely thin ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Lenovo’s notebook/tablet hybrid, the have achieved near-icon status. The IdeaPad Flex 14 takes design cues from both, resulting in a relatively slim, modestly priced 14-inch laptop. The Flex 14’s display pivots 300 degrees so that you can operate it in tent mode or lay it keyboard-down on your desk to present it to someone sitting across from you. Unlike the Yoga, however, the Flex 14’s lid doesn’t flip all the way back to operate as a tablet. The Flex 14 echoes the X1 Carbon’s tapered form factor, but where that Ultrabook measures just 0.7 inches high at its thinnest edge, the Flex 14 is 0.85 inches. But then, the Flex 14 costs nearly $500 less. The Flex 14’s Notebook Worldbench score of 278 is about what we expected for a notebook with these specs, but it’s slightly below what the comparably equipped Dell XPS 12 achieved (both machines use Intel’s Intel Core i5-4200U, but the Dell we tested had only 4GB of DDR3/1600 to the Lenovo’s 8). The Flex 14 delivered exceptionally good battery life of 7 hours and 38 minutes. And since it has a removable battery, you can carry a spare with you (provided you don't mind the additional weight) and double your productivity time. Our review unit had a rather small SSD—just 128GB—so you’ll need to be picky about choosing the apps and media library additions you keep on hand. Given the limited space on the SSD, I wish Lenovo had been more careful with its pre-installed software choices. I particularly resented having a trial version of the PDF-creation app Nitro Pro as the only available program for opening the on-board user guide. Yes, the trial is free, but you get annoying nag windows urging you to buy, and after 30 days you’ll need to install Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader just to open the manual.
I don’t usually review surge protectors, in part because I don’t have the facilities to evaluate how capable they are of protecting connected devices from dangerous power surges. But I decided to take a look at this Tripp-Lite model because of its great feature set. The Tripp-Lite TLP606DMUSB's most compelling feature is a robust clamp that allows you to attach the outlet strip to the edge of your desk. The clamp needs a surface that’s at least 0.4 inches thick to secure itself to, and the edge of that surface would ideally be at least 2.0 inches deep (the top of the clamp is a little more than three inches wide).The clamp can accommodate a surface as thick as 1.6 inches. Once you tighten the strip’s two heavy-duty knurled knobs to grip the edge of your desktop or table, it won't come loose no matter how hard you pull on it. Thick rubber pads on each of the clamps protect whatever surface it's attached to. Because of the way the clamp functions, the strip's outlets are oriented at a 90-degree angle to your work surface. This limits where you can mount the strip. I mounted it on the chair side of my desk, because I’m constantly plugging and unplugging devices while I test products.
Der Smartphone-Boom hält an: In diesem Jahr sollen weltweit erstmals mehr als eine Milliarde Geräte über den Ladentisch gehen. Grund sind die fallenden Preise.
Der Siegeszug der Playstation begann 1994; mit der PS4 dürfte der Höhepunkt erreicht sein. Zeit für einen Rückblick.
Es ist rechtens, illegale Websites zu sperren - und Internetanbieter können auch dazu verpflichtet werden, bestätigt der Europäische Gerichtshof. Kritiker warnen vor Zensur.
Nutzer helfen Nutzern: Die Swisscom spannt mit dem Online-Marktplatz Mila zusammen und bietet so eine neue Art Nachbarschaftshilfe für technische Probleme an.
Während sich Sony und Microsoft mit ihren neuen Konsolen bekriegen, zeigt Nintendo mit den Games «Zelda: A Link Between Worlds» und «Super Mario 3D World», wo die Action spielt.
Der Xbox-Sensor Kinect erkennt nicht nur Bewegungen, sondern ist auch auf Stimmeingabe spezialisiert. Das hat zur Folge, dass User gesperrt werden, die sich im Tonfall vergreifen.
Der Google-Vorsitzende Eric Schmidt hat eine Anleitung für iPhone-Benutzer veröffentlicht, die auf ein Android-System umsteigen wollen. Und provoziert: «Wer einmal wechselt, will nie mehr zurück.»
Mit Retina-Display und A7-Chip muss sich das neue iPad mini nicht mehr hinter dem grossen Bruder verstecken. Auch der Vergleich mit der letzten Generation überzeugt.
Das Projekt Twice Used haucht ausgemusterten iPhones neues Leben ein. Aus defekten Teilen kreiert ein kleines US-Unternehmen Tische, Bilderrahmen oder Schmuck. Alles zum Schutz der Umwelt.
Die Gerüchte um das Interesse des iPhone-Herstellers an der Firma der Xbox-Bewegungssteuerung haben sich bewahrheitet. Für 360 Millionen US-Dollar hat Apple die Kinect-Firma übernommen.
In Hongkong ist es zu lauten Protesten vor dem Apple-Store gekommen: Aktivisten demonstrierten gegen die miserablen Arbeitsbedingungen eines Apple-Zulieferers.
Beim Online-Stellenportal Buddybroker müssen sich Arbeitssuchende nicht auf Jobsuche machen. Kandidaten-Profile werden automatisch mit passenden Jobangeboten verkuppelt.
Eine Arbeitsgruppe will Onlineportale, die Filme, Serien, Musik oder Games zum Download anbieten, sperren lassen. Der Vorschlag wird scharf kritisiert.
Der Markt der digitalen Bücher wächst konstant. Laut einer Studie sind jedoch neun von zehn Büchern Raubkopien. Schweizer Händler nehmens gelassen.