In Deutschland und Österreich wird gefordert, dass für Embedded Content Lizenzgebühren bezahlt werden sollen. In der Schweiz fehlt eine eindeutige Regelung.
Kaum ein Android-Smartphone läuft mit der neusten Version Kitkat. Schuld daran ist die zu grosse Fragmentierung des Google-Betriebssystems.
Apple-Mitgründer Steve Wozniak rät zur Entwicklung eines iPhones, das mit Android läuft. Steve Jobs würde das wohl gar nicht gefallen: Er verabscheute Googles Betriebssystem.
Die beliebteste Nachrichten-App der Schweiz erhält ein Olympia-Update: Mit dieser Version können Sie die Spiele überall verfolgen und alle News und Infos direkt auf Ihr Handy holen.
Da bleiben keine Fragen offen: Am Eröffnungstag der Olympischen Winterspiele in Sotschi erscheint der Google-Schriftzug in den Regenbogenfarben der Schwulenbewegung.
Weil Samsung Hauptsponsor der Winterspiele ist, dürfen die Athleten sich nicht mit Apple-Smartphones vor der Kamera zeigen. Dafür erhalten die Sportler ein Galaxy Note 3.
Blutgruppe, Allergien, Notfallkontakte: Mittels QR-Codes auf Skihelmen bekommen Rettungskräfte auf Skipisten dringend benötigte Informationen.
Seit 1985 können olympische Wintersportarten zu Hause nachgespielt werden. 20 Minuten liefert einen Überblick über das virtuelle Wintersportgeschehen der letzten drei Dekaden.
Der kleine Vogel im Spiel «Flappy Bird» entpuppt sich als Goldesel: Wie der Entwickler in einem Interview verriet, wirft der Game-Hit monatlich 1,5 Millionen Dollar ab.
Nicht nur für Gamer: Der X-Box-Bewegungssensor Kinect wird zwischen Nord- und Südkorea zu Überwachungszwecken eingesetzt - und schlägt Alarm, sobald jemand die Grenze übertritt.
Software-Hersteller Adobe warnt vor gravierenden Sicherheitslücken beim Flash-Player: Hacker können so an Konto- und Kreditkartendaten gelangen. Ein Update soll Abhilfe schaffen.
Nordkoreanische Entwickler haben Apples Betriebssystem eins zu eins kopiert: Ein Professor aus Amerika hat den OS-X-Klon nun erstmals ausser Landes geschmuggelt und zeigt, wie er tickt.
Die 20-Minuten-Leser haben gewählt: Im Duell der Gamewaffen haben sie ihre liebsten Mordgeräte erkoren. Am beliebtesten sind die stillen Killer.
Mit Satya Nadella wird ein Tech-Nerd und Cloud-Spezialist neuer Chef von Microsoft. Als Geschäftsmann ist er bisher weniger aufgefallen. So reagiert die IT-Branche auf seine Wahl.
Networking experts are running out of superlatives to describe the coming tidal wave/explosion/cataclysm of mobile data traffic. Cisco last week said mobile data is expected to grow by 11 times in the next four years, reaching 18 exabytes per month by 2018. An exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes. Mobile data traffic is expected to grow by 61 percent annually into 2018, with the extra traffic from just one year—2017—expected to be triple the entire mobile Internet in 2013. Cisco anticipates the number of mobile users to reach nearly 5 billion by 2018 (up from 4.1 billion in 2013) and more than 10 billion mobile-ready devices, including machine-to-machine connections by then (up from 7 billion in 2013).
Is Google’s Android Play Store full of adware and malware or isn’t it? According to Hewlett-Packard’s latest Cyber Risk Report, it all depends which firm’s mobile antivirus scanner you run. The IT giant’s researchers tried to get some handle on the problem by comparing a sample of 500,000 apps from the Play Store against a two million-strong database of known malware and adware samples, coming up with some startling numbers. Looking at straight malware, HP uncovered a list of recognized Trojans that had been downloaded by users anything from 1.1 million to 11 million times globally. When it came to less serious but still potentially troublesome adware apps, these had been downloaded anything up to tens of millions of times.
The U.S. is officially the world’s capital for spam-spewing zombified computers after taking top spot on the 2013 Dirty Dozen Spampionship league table. Security software firm Sophos has revealed the results of the top spam-relaying nations. Once again it was the U.S. which collected the title, generating 14.5 percent of the total spam volume sent. However, the gap to second place narrowed, with China reemerging as a major player in the spam sending Dirty Dozen, leaping from 4.6 percent to 8.2 percent, while Russia’s spam contribution edged up from 3.0 percent in Q3 to 5.5 percent. The Dirty Dozen results were compiled to show where in the world are the origins of the greatest volumes of spam during the final three months of last year. Sophos senior security analyst Paul Ducklin said the most obvious message of the Dirty Dozen charts was that the problem of zombified computers spewing spam is truly a global one.
Microsoft is impoloring its technically astute customers to help friends and family who are still running Windows XP get rid of the The Redmond, Washington company’s appeal was akin to General Motors asking customers to help the Detroit automaker sell new 2014 Cadillac Escalades, or General Mills asking consumers to convince friends to switch from their monochrome Cheerios breakfast cereal to something more colorful, like Trix or Lucky Charms. “Today marks 60 days until the end of support for Windows XP and we need your help spreading the word to ensure people are safe and secure on modern up-to-date PCs,” said Microsoft’s
A U.S. judge has denied Samsung’s request for a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, but she also chastised Apple’s lawyers for making the Korean firm’s “foreignness” an issue in closing remarks to the jury. The
Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road online black market, will go to trial in November and be held until then Ulbricht has pled not guilty to
When a certain Los Angeles office building lights up, it’s a dark day for nearby cellphone users, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Fluorescent lights at Ernst & Young Plaza, a 41-story tower near the heart of downtown, emit frequencies that interfere with the Verizon Wireless 700MHz network, the agency said in a citation issued on Friday against building owner Brookfield Office Properties. The FCC’s message comes through loud and clear in the filing: Brookfield could be fined up to US$16,000 a day if it keeps using the interfering lights, up to a total of $112,500. The alleged violation could also lead to “criminal sanctions, including imprisonment,” the citation says.
LinkedIn’s attempt to wedge itself into iPhone users’ emails is being “shut down”—a euphemism for killed—as part of the professional network’s effort to focus “on fewer things.” But LinkedIn’s Deep Nishar said the , so maybe its Intro product is going away because it was a little creepy. as a way for LinkedIn to go beyond its own walls and be where you spend all your time: your email inbox. Intro placed a card with LinkedIn profile information in every email you received in the iOS Mail app, so if a stranger reached out to you by email, you could see their professional information and add them to your LinkedIn network.
Bitcoin’s value declined sharply Friday, just as Mt. Gox, an online exchange for buying and selling the digital currency, announced that it was temporarily suspending withdrawals. Bitcoin was trading for roughly US$750 late morning U.S. Pacific time according to Given its volatility, pinpointing the exact cause of any rise or fall of Bitcoin is difficult, but the timing of the drop in trading price suggests it was tied to technical problems experienced by
Attacks recently observed in Poland involved cybercriminals hacking into home routers and changing their DNS settings so they can intercept user connections to online banking sites. Researchers from the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska) believe attackers will likely target users from other countries as well in the future using similar techniques. "The attack is possible due to several vulnerabilities in home routers that make DNS configuration susceptible to unauthorized remote modifications,” the Polish CERT researchers said Thursday in a
If you’re reading this story on a smartphone in Bangor, Maine; Key West, Florida; Spokane, Washington; or really any point in between, you wouldn’t think that a bill making its way through the California state legislature would have much of an impact on your mobile device. But a new proposal for a mandatory kill-switch on mobile devices in California figures to have ramifications felt far beyond the borders of the Golden State should it come to pass. The bill,
The access code locking the iPhone 5 of an Italian murder victim is depriving police of information that might help them solve the crime, but Apple has so far resisted requests for help in unlocking the device, a Milan prosecutor confirmed Friday. Nicoletta Figini, 55, was found dead in her apartment on the outskirts of Milan last July, her body bound with computer cord and strips of bed sheets and curtains. Police said she had been suffocated by the duct tape placed over her mouth. The apartment was in disorder but the killer did not appear to have been motivated by theft, since numerous valuables had been left behind, including Figini’s three mobile phones.
Politicians and law enforcement officials in California will introduce a bill on Friday that requires all smartphones and tablet PCs sold in the state be equipped with a digital “kill-switch” that would make the devices useless if stolen. The bill is a response to a rise in thefts of portable electronics devices, often at knife or gunpoint, being seen across the state. Already half of all robberies in San Francisco and 75 percent of those in Oakland involve a mobile device and the number is rising in Los Angeles, according to police figures. The trend is the same in major cities across the U.S. and the California bill, if it passes, could usher in kill-switch technology nationwide if phone makers choose not to produce custom devices for California.
In February, the hills around Tokyo come alive with cypress pollen, and that means one thing: hay fever. Millions of miserable Japanese try to cope with their allergies by donning surgical masks. But for one upstart Tokyo company, that just doesn’t cut it.
Forget Chromebooks—the PC world has succumbed to a severe case of Unlike Asus, HP is positioning its Chromebox for use in the office. The marketing materials talk up baked-in TPM security, ChromeOS’s automatic software updates and “multi-layered virus protection,” and managing deployment via Google’s web-based configuration tools.
A domain name registrar can be held liable for the copyright infringements of a website it registered if it is obvious the domain is used for infringements and the registrar does nothing to prevent it, the Regional Court of Saarbrücken in Germany has ruled. The court ruled in a case between Universal Music and Key-Systems, the German registrar of the domain name for h33t.com, a torrent tracker site. Universal had wanted to prevent unauthorized distribution of Robin Thicke’s album Blurred Lines, said Volker Greimann, Key-Systems’ general counsel, in an email. While Key-Systems argued that it was not responsible for the copyright infringement, the court ruled that the registrar had a duty to investigate after notification of infringing activity and had to take corrective action in case of obvious violations, Greimann said.
The NYPD is beta-testing Google Glass. But what if our favorite cops from TV and movies had been wearing the eyewear all along?
If we show you how to back up your PC for free, will you finally do it? Beyond simple hard drive failure, your PC could fall prey to user error or all sorts of nefarious malware. The only way to ensure that none of your personal files or programs are lost in a catastrophe is to back up everything regularly. While backing up your data
The company's first DSLM camera with 4K video launches in the spring