Passend zur Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas (7.-10.1.2014) soll Intel einen besonderen Trumpf in der Hand halten: Gerüchten zufolge plant der US-Prozessorhersteller einen Computer mit einem doppelten Betriebssystem.
Die deutsche Microsoft-Managerin Angelika Gifford wechselt einem Bericht des "Manager Magazins" zufolge zu Hewlett-Packard (HP) und wird dort unter anderem auch für den Software-Vertrieb in der Schweiz verantwortlich zeigen. Die 2009 als "Managerin des Jahres" gekürte Führungskraft war mehr als 20 Jahre beim Softwareriesen in verschiedenen Positionen tätig, zuletzt Mitglied in der Geschäftsleitung und für den Vertrieb in Europa, den Mittleren Osten und Afrika verantwortlich.
Im abgelaufenen Geschäftsjahr hat Coop vor allem im Online-Handel und mit Bio-Produkten gepunktet. Beide Segmente haben den Umsatz des Basler Handelskonzerns 2013 positiv beeinflusst. Im umkämpften Detailhandel, wo Coop hinter Migros die Nummer 2 der Schweiz ist, stieg der Nettoerlös um 1,7 Prozent auf 18,1 Mrd.
Der IT-Branchenverband ICTswitzerland lehnt die Volksinitiative "gegen Masseneinwanderung" der SVP klar ab. Dies teilt der Verband in einem Communiqué mit. Bereits heute könne der Bedarf der Unternehmen an qualifizierten ICT-Arbeitskräften nicht ausreichend gedeckt werden. Durch die SVP-Initiative, die neu auch Höchstzahlen und Kontingente für Zuwanderer aus Europa fordere, würde die Situation dramatisch verschärft werden, argumentiert der Verband.
Swisscom TV hat die Grenze von einer Million Kunden überschritten. Ursache dafür sei ein Rekordzuwachs von mehr als 200.000 Anwendern in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten, wie das Unternehmen via Aussendung wissen lässt.
Mit Itonex übernimmt die NZZ-Mediengruppe die Betreiberin der Wirtschaftsauskunfts-Plattform Moneyhouse. Moneyhouse gilt als digitaler Marktführer für Handelsregister- und Firmendaten in der Schweiz. Das Portal verzeichne monatlich über zwei Millionen Besucher, heisst es. Über den Kaufpreis wurde Stillschweigen vereinbart.
Mehr als tausend Beschäftigte des Internet-Versandhändlers Amazon in Deutschland haben sich einem Bericht zufolge mit einer Unterschriftenaktion von der Gewerkschaft Verdi und deren Kampf um höhere Löhne distanziert.
Das Geschäft der IT-Industrie wird in diesem Jahr anziehen. So jedenfalls prognostizieren es die Marktforscher von Gartner. Nach einem mässigen Jahr 2013 rechnen die Gartner-Analysten mit einem branchenweiten Plus von 3,1 Prozent auf knapp 3,78 Billionen Dollar.
Mit Jahresbeginn eröffnen die Veranstalter der IT-Netzwerk-Plattform "X.Days", die unter dem Motto "Zwischen Welten und Wolken" am 19. und 20. März in Interlaken stattfindet, die Ticketreservierung für diesen Event. Zudem ist nun auch das vollständige Programm der X.Days 2014 unter www.xdays.ch/programm/x-days-2014 abrufbar.
Die diesjährige Elektronik-Messe CES, die von 7. bis 10. Januar wieder in Las Vegas über die Bühne geht, setzt den Schwerpunkt auf die vernetzte Welt. Vom Auto bis zur smarten Gabel mit digitalem Innenleben - alles ist miteinander verbunden und kommuniziert.
If you've ever longed for a keyboard for your iPad mini or phone that's vaguely suggestive of a pasta shell, perhaps the TrewGrip is for you.
An elaborate crop circle that appeared last week in a grain field in California was a stunt by chip-maker Nvidia. ”This is a confession,” said Jen Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia during a news conference in Las Vegas on Sunday, before he explained how his company came to create the circle in a field of barley near the town of Salinas. It was linked, he said, to his company’s . Huang had minutes earlier introduced the chip, which packs 192 cores—individual processing engines that handle complex mathematical calculations needed for 3-D modeling, simulations and computer gaming. Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang confesses a California crop circle was a marketing stunt.
PCs from Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo will soon include Nuance’s Dragon Assistant, the speech giant’s technology for tweeting, Facebooking, and playing music using voice commands. Nuance announced the partnerships here at CES, for both PCs and tablets running the Intel Core and Atom processors. Nuance executives don’t necessarily envision the technology being used at the office. Instead, Dragon Assistant will be constantly running on the new PCs, ready to answer questions such as “Who directed ?” ”Our objective working with Intel was to bring the PC into the era that tablets have been enjoying with the launch of [Apple’s] Siri over the past few years,” Matt Revis, the vice president and general manager of Dragon Devices for Nuance Communications said in an interview in advance of the show. If a partnership between Nuance and various PC makers sounds familiar, well, it should. Nuance and Intel . What Nuance is announcing at CES 2014 is the “full realization” of the product,” Revis said. But you won’t be able to buy Dragon Assistant as a standalone app or software package; it’s only available baked into the PC.
Sen.se's Mother doll connects to up to 24 programmable 'cookies' to alert you when certain conditions are met - or not.
Kolibree's sensor-packed electric toothbrush knows exactly when you're naughty and nice (to your teeth).
A new minimalist fitness tracker that's not so minimal.
Iconic smartwatch pioneer shows it won't willingly cede mindshare in the ever-hotter wearables market.
Makers of cable boxes and video streaming devices will soon have the option of delivering 4K video with STMicroelectronics’ new chips, which will decode the emerging HEVC video codec and support the HDMI 2.0 video delivery specification. The chip company announced that it was developing chips based on its new STi8K design, which is based on ARM’s 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture. The chips will assist in delivery of 4K video to TVs, mobile devices and computers through set-top boxes, home networks and the cloud, STMicroelectronics said. 4K, which is also called Ultra HD, is expected to be the new standard in high-definition. Most HDTVs and monitors are capable of high-definition resolutions of 1920 x 1080 pixels, but 4K provides four times the depth. 4K TVs, monitors and cameras are expected to be prominent at the International CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, which is where STMicroelectronics announced STi8K. The new chips based on STi8K, code-named Cannes, Monaco and Alicante, will be capable of video delivery at up to 60 frames per second, which is standard on the new 4K TVs. The chips based on STi8K are designed for cable boxes, Internet streaming devices and multimedia gateways in data centers.
in September, Toshiba has finally pulled back the curtain on its first ChromeOS-powered laptop, the aptly named Toshiba Chromebook. Curiously enough, Toshiba's laptop is the first Chromebook to ship with a 13-inch screen. While 13-inchers are all the rage on Macs and Windows PCs, most Chromebooks skew towards smaller, netbook-esque 10- and 11-inch screens. (The measures just shy of 13 inches.) The additional screen size also helps the Toshiba Chromebook squeeze in a full-sized keyboard, giving you a bit more room than its diminutive counterparts. That TruBrite TN (twisted nematic) display packs a bog-standard resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels, as one would expect of a budget-priced Chromebook. Unlike the display on , however, Toshiba's isn't a touchscreen. The 0.8-inch-thick machine weighs 3.3 lbs. and packs 2GB of RAM, an Intel "Haswell" Celeron processor, and a 16GB solid-state drive augmented by 100GB of free Google Drive storage—again, all standard for a Chromebook. Connectivity-wise, the Toshiba Chromebook packs a pair of speedy USB 3.0 ports, a full-sized HDMI port, a memory card reader, a security lock slot, and both Bluetooth and a 2x2 802.11n Wi-Fi.
France-based Parrot leapt into International CES with the Jumping Sumo, a robotic toy that you control over your home Wi-Fi network or a network created by the robot itself. All the while, the Sumo sends near real time video back to the controlling Android or iOS tablet or smartphone, as you’ll see in this video report from CES 2014. The Jumping Sumo can do 90 degree sharp turns or perform super fast spins. It can jump up 80 centimeters or about two-and-a-half feet. Look for Jumping Sumo to go on sale in 2014, though a price hasn’t been announced.
The iRoad’s distinctive design includes front wheels that tilt instead of turning, making it super-fun on a slalom course. We drove one ‘round and ‘round and ‘round during CES 2014.
Garmin's Vivofit pays attention to your activity to auto-generate daily fitness goals - and chides you for sloth.
We live in a digital society, and our children need to become part of it. These days, it’s almost impossible to do homework without a word processor and an Internet connection. On the other hand, it’s a dangerous Internet out there. Immature minds can easily find pornography, hate speech, and massively destructive forms of bullying. And scammers can find those immature minds. At some point, you need to give your child a computer. But you have to be careful. And I'm speaking as a techie who has raised three children to adulthood.
Imagination Technologies, which designs graphics chips used in the iPhone and other top mobile products, is promising “console quality graphics” with an updated GPU lineup announced on Monday. The company creates chip designs that it licenses to other firms for manufacture. It’s the same model as that used by ARM Holdings, but while ARM is known for its CPUs, Imagination is strongest in graphics. Imagination said its new PowerVR Series6XT GPU cores are up to 50 percent faster “clock for clock, cluster for cluster” than its Series6 predecessors. That should allow sharper video playback and more realistic graphics gaming. The architecture also supports so-called Ultra HD. Imagination also announced new GPU designs for entry-level devices. It said the PowerVR Series6XE cores will bring the latest graphics APIs to lower-priced devices for the first time, including OpenGL ES 3.0.