Wie wirkt sich ein Schaltjahr auf das Internet aus? Der Webhosting-Anbieter One.com schätzt: Der zusätzliche Tag im Kalender soll die Datenmenge im Internet um 820'000 Webseiten vergrössern. Alleine heute sollen zudem rund 18'000 Domainregistrierungen vorgenommen werden.
Während die Erträge aus der Festnetztelefonie im Grosskundengeschäft der Swisscom abnehmen, steigt die Bedeutung der ICT. Neu soll die Machine-to-Machine-Kommunikation zu einem namhaften Geschäft aufgebaut werden.
Heute Morgen ist die Website von Raspberry Pi unter dem Ansturm von Kaufwilligen zusammengebrochen. Nun informiert Raspberry Pi über Twitter.
Megaupload-Gründer Kim Schmitz bleibt weiterhin gegen Kaution frei, wie ein Gericht in Neuseeland entschieden hat.
Apple hat für den 7. März einen iPad-Event in San Francisco angekündigt. Eingeladene Journalisten gehen nun davon aus, dass an diesem Tag das iPad 3 vorgestellt wird.
Swisslog schlägt an der Generalversammlung Rudolf Weber zur Wahl in den Verwaltungsrat vor. Er soll den Posten von Manfred Schuster übernehmen, der per Ende 2011 aus dem Verwaltungsrat zurücktrat.
Morgen geht das gemeinsame Online-Werbenetzwerk der NZZ-Mediengruppe, Ringier und Tamedia online.
Connectis baut die Unified Communication und Collaboration-Infrastruktur des Unternehmens Basler & Hofmann an deren Standorten im Kanton Zürich.
Best of Swiss Web 2012 ist das Hauptthema der aktuellen Netzwoche. Wer sind die Nominierten? Was zeichnet sie aus? Im Live-Interview spricht Stefan Iseli, CIO bei Fleurop.
Der Nationalrat fordert Einblick in die Rechtsgrundlagen für Überwachungssoftware, die bei den Behörden im Einsatz sind.
Überraschung am Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: Die Allianz der Mobilfunkunternehmen GSMA hat den SMS-Nachfolger Joyn vorgestellt. Ob auch Apple beim neuen Standard mitmacht, ist noch ungewiss.
Das Seilziehen um Patente nimmt bisweilen groteske Züge an. Momentan stehen Apple, Google und Facebook unter Beschuss.
Der Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona ist angelaufen. Die rund 60'000 Besucher können sich bis am Donnerstag , 1. März über neue Produkte informieren, Meetings besuchen und den Top-Shots der Branche zuhören.
Opera zeigt anlässlich des Mobile World Congress in Barcelona die Früchte seiner Kooperation mit Intel. Darüber hinaus erfuhr auch der Mobile Webbrowser eine Auffrischung.
Der Schweizer Softwarehersteller Solvaxis verstärkt seinen Verwaltungsrat mit Dieter Fröhlich.
T-Systems will den Wildwuchs von IT-Landschaften stoppen und eröffnet für diesen Zweck ein Schweizer Kompetenzcenter.
Active Sourcing blickt auf das Schweizer Outsourcing-Jahr 2011 zurück: Mit einem Gesamt-Vertragsvolumen von 840 Millionen Franken wurde nicht einmal der Wert des Jahres 2008 erreicht.
Infotrust verstärkt sein Account Management mit Claude Bollag. Zrinka Maslic wird neu IT Security Consultant beim Unternehmen.
Telefonica und Mozilla haben am Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (MWC) eine neue mobile Plattform angekündigt. Die Open-Web-Devices-Plattform wird Web-Anwendungen auf Basis des neuen Standards HTML 5 benutzen. Die Technik der Open Web Devices soll günstigere Smarphones ermöglichen.
R-Post Schweiz hat heute offiziell einen Geschäftsleiter und Director New Business Development bekannt gegeben.
Lytro's light-field camera allows you to focus your photos after you've taken them.
It's human nature to want something for nothing. But when it comes to web services, that tendency seems to often blossom into a veritable psychosis. In the brick and mortar world, personally identifiable information has long been mashed into a commodity that is sliced, diced and sold. So is the situation better or worse for us in the digital realm? From the hue and cry over 'Do Not Track,' you might think the latter. You would be wrong.
Chip designer and chief Intel rival AMD has signed an agreement to acquire SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley startup that seeks to save power and space by building servers from hundreds of low-power processors. With the purchase, AMD will not only turn itself into a server maker. It will turn itself into a server maker that uses chips from Intel. Today, SeaMicro's servers are built with chips from AMD's biggest rival, including Intel's Atom mobile processors as well as Intel Xeon chips.
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform experienced a major outage on Wednesday, with its service management system down for several hours, reports said earlier today. But the fix did not follow the cloud script, and the problem -- identified as a Leap Day security certification bug -- continues.
Microsoft?s Azure cloud platform suffered a serious outage on Tuesday, leaving many customers unable to access core parts of the service for more than 12 hours.
There's a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon's premier research wing. No, it's not Iran's nukes or China's missiles. It's the iPads, Android phones and other gadgets we all carry around with us every day.
Paleontologists in northeast China have discovered a wildly snaggle-toothed skull that belonged to a previously unknown, 120-million-year-old flying reptile.
A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Paul Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software package that maintained the principles of free (as in freedom) software without actually being free (as in price) to customers. How did a successful company like Red Hat manage to take such a risk and turn it in to such reward?
The hot new trailer for Joss Whedon's is a virtual scruff-of-the-neck grabber, showing not only precious seconds of city-crushing war but also the strife within the superhero supergroup as Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and S.H.I.E.L.D. bring together its reluctant members.
The web is following you. Visit one website and behind the scenes dozens of other websites may be told about your visit. Sometimes the data collected is anonymized; sometimes it isn't. Fortunately it's not that hard to make all the tracking stop. Several add-ons, available for most web browsers, can help protect your privacy.
Bottlenose dolphins have a knack for language, but humans are just beginning to understand dolphin language as more than just a cacophony of clicks, pulses and whistles. The dolphins might use unique calls, known as signature whistles, to introduce themselves to others when meeting at sea.
Scientists looking at Earthshine reflected from the moon have concluded that, indeed, there is life on our planet. Though the result may be obvious, the findings can help in the search for life on other worlds.
T. Boone Pickens is not your typical oil and gas man.
The Air Force's F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is finally cleared to begin introductory flights. It's a big step forward for the stealthy, trillion-dollar JSF program, which is slated to replace almost all of the Pentagon's tactical jets over the next 30 years but has been plagued by design problems, safety concerns, delays and cost increases.
On Facebook, administrators of existing business Pages can turn on the preview of a new design today, or wait until all Pages are converted to the new interface at the end of March.
Facebook, Mozilla and others have teamed up to create a new web standards group to work on creating more powerful mobile web tools. The goal of the new Core Mobile Web Platform community group is to make sure that mobile web standards keep pace with competing platform-native applications.
The Earth's imperfect path around the sun leads to an extra day every four years. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain explains how leap years work -- and why there should be more of them.
The world complained about a scaremongering article about volcanoes published at the , and the Press Complaints Commission listened. Volcanologist and Eruptions blogger Erik Klemetti explains how the retraction went down.
The typical data center is air conditioned. As massive electrical units work overtime to cool servers and other hardware, the temperature hovers somewhere between 65 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. But in an effort to save power and money -- and ultimately the environment -- eBay is running its new Phoenix data center at a sweltering 115 degrees. The facility runs at temperatures that are so high, the company can cool it with hot water.
The Pentagon's new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who'd act as "surrogates" for their human overlords in battle. But according to Dmitry Itskov, an uber-wealthy Russian media mogul, the U.S. military's Avatar initiative doesn't go nearly far enough.
Artist and engineer Ishac Bertran has launched a project that invites people to submit poetry written in any coding language. These code poems will be considered for publication in a book.
Julius Caesar figures out that those extra hours have added up, and he reforms the Roman calendar by adding an extra day every four years. Enter the leap year.
The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of witnessing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars' worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Police in four nations arrested 25 alleged participants in the Anonymous collective Tuesday for attacks against web sites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
If you ask the average customer, they don't care about 50 cents off a cup of coffee," says Gopago CEO and founder Leo Rocco. "They'd say, 'I want to skip the line!'"