Der angeschlagene Internetpionier Yahoo will sich im Kampf gegen die Rivalen Google und Facebook neu aufstellen. Zudem werde Yahoo zunächst sein Kerngeschäft mit Maildiensten, Suchfunktionen und Nachrichten stärken, schrieb der neue Firmenchef Scott Thompson in einer Mail an Mitarbeiter.
Das wertvollste Unternehmen der Welt hat eine neue Grenze überschritten: Der Elektronikkonzern Apple erreichte am Dienstag erstmals die Marke von 600 Mrd. Dollar (458 Mrd. Euro). Die Aktie des Herstellers von iPhones und iPads notierte mit einem Plus von 1,2 Prozent bei 644 Dollar (492 Euro).
Private und die SRG SSR können ihr Digitalradio-Angebot auf regionaler Stufe weiter ausbauen. Das Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Bakom) hat der Swissmediacast (SMC) die Konzession für den Betrieb eines neuen digitalen DAB+-Sendernetzes erteilt.
Der Elektronikkonzern Sharp hat das vergangene Geschäftsjahr mit einem noch höheren Rekordverlust als befürchtet abgeschlossen. Der japanische Konzern rechnet jetzt mit roten Zahlen von 380 Milliarden Yen (3,6 Mrd Euro). Zuvor hatte bereits Sony die Branche mit einer düsteren Prognose geschockt.
Mit Rolf Meyer hat Swisspro einen neuen Bereichsleiter ICT für den Standort Zürich unter Vertrag genommen. Als gelernter Maschinen-Ingenieur HTL und ursprünglicher Leiter Geschäftsstelle der Firma Wagner in Zürich kann Meyer laut Aussendung auf jahrelange Erfahrung im ICT-Bereich zurückgreifen.
Trotz des Vormarschs von Laptops werden dieses Jahr voraussichtlich wieder mehr Computermonitore verkauft. Zumindest in Deutschland. Nach Jahren des Rückgangs werde für 2012 eine Absatzsteigerung um 2,2 Prozent auf 6,1 Millionen Bildschirme erwartet, teilte der deutsche Branchenverband Bitkom am Dienstag unter Berufung auf Zahlen des Marktforschungsinstituts Eito mit.
Die Lage beim japanischen Elektronikkonzern spitzt sich dramatisch zu: Der Milliarden-Verlust wird doppelt so hoch ausfallen wie bisher befürchtet. Für das am 31. März abgelaufene Geschäftsjahr geht Sony jetzt von einem Rekordverlust von 520 Mrd. Yen (4,9 Mrd. Euro) aus.
Für US-Schauspieler und -Regisseur Tim Robbins (53) ist das Theater die einzige Kunstgattung, die nicht im Internet kopiert werden kann. Deshalb sei die Bühnenarbeit heutzutage besonders interessant, erklärte Robbins in Buenos Aires auf einer Pressekonferenz am Montag zur Vorstellung seiner Inszenierung von "1984". Die Filmfabrik Hollywood sei dagegen eine "treulose Braut", der man nicht das persönliche Glück anvertrauen könne.
Mit der Razzia gegen den File-Hosting-Dienst Megaupload wurden auch sämtliche Nutzerdaten der User beschlagnahmt und befinden sich seither unter Verschluss. Die Anwälte von Megaupload befürchten nun laut TorrentFreak, dass die US-Regierung die Daten zerstören will. Damit würden entlastende Beweise zerstört, die für Megaupload im Verfahren wichtig seien.
Zum hundertsten Jahrestag des Untergangs der "Titanic" sind auf einer Internetseite mehr als 200.000 Dokumente zu dem Unglück veröffentlicht worden. Mit den Dokumenten könnten die Schicksale von Passagieren an Bord nachgezeichnet werden, erklärte Miriam Silverman von der britischen Webseite Ancestry.co.uk am Montag. Die Datenbank kann bis Ende Mai kostenlos genutzt werden.
A massive, multiplayer online version of Asteroids turned out to be an April Fool's prank, but the idea was so compelling it just had to be made real.
The nation's major wireless telephone companies and the FCC announced an initiative Tuesday that aims to reduce the theft of smartphones by creating the means to completely disable them remotely ? what could be a major deterrent in the skyrocketing black market for high-end mobile phones.
Head into the great outdoors in style while keeping all your gadgets charged.
Google is giving Chrome OS a makeover, making its browser-based OS look a lot more like classic desktop operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X.
An absolutely wild showdown in the northern Indian Ocean between Somali pirates and the Iranian navy appears to have ended with with the Iranians taking one of the world's most infamous pirates captive.
If the movie were to get a new soundtrack made by current artists, Tesla Boy's "Spirit of the Night" would be a prime contender to soundtrack a hot musical montage. The track, with its shimmering synths and bouncing bass lines, is just the kind of thing to play as Andrew McCarthy rides off into the night on his motorcycle.
A bloody March brawl between the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils was the latest occasion for professional hockey?s would-be reformers to bemoan the barbarism of fighting. But when it comes to pugilism and pucks, the moral high road is a slippery path to moral delusion. Brawling in hockey isn?t just a cultural vestige, the elimination of which would improve the game or even protect its players. It fills a gap that rules never can. Some fighting is absolutely necessary to ensure that hockey doesn?t devolve into the Gladiator games that critics of violence already believe the sport has become.
Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile have teamed up to make it easier to find your lost phone -- by letting the device literally scream for help.
Toshiba's Qosmio F755-3D150 is not the first glasses-free 3-D laptop, but a vanguard in this newly growing niche. Unfortunately, performance is shoddy.
Sometimes, an iPad just doesn?t have the hardware features for serious productivity work. When that?s the case, you need a case that turns your tablet into a notebook. The NoteBook Case for iPad does this with Apple style.
Instagram?s billion-dollar sale to Facebook raised eyebrows Monday, renewing fears of a new tech bubble. But compared to other major acquisitions since the dot-com bust, turns out it's a pretty sane deal.
Drum beats emerge from the ground as turquoise mounds while synth washes take the form of neon rainbows in new music video , which illustrates musical notes with bursts of animated eye candy. Director Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, composed his own electronica score to pave the way for his peppy video travelogue, then made all the 3-D animation source files available for other filmmakers to remix at will.
What do you do with a 200-terabyte instruction manual that tells you how to build a human? You put it on a cloud,
The tightly packed group of orcs marches toward my troops. Two shamans hide behind my opponent?s army, ready to shower the orcs with healing magic if anything goes wrong.
The photo-sharing service Instagram surpassed five million downloads on the Android platform on Monday ? this no more than a week after the app?s initial release on Google?s platform.
To understand the person talking to you in a noisy room, you've got to filter out all of the conversations, clinking glass, and other noises in the background. Fortunately, our brains manage the task and now a little help from a humanoid robot has revealed new clues as to how we do it.
As today's companies continue to accumulate vast amounts of data, many struggle with how to best exploit the information they've gathered and achieve a true business advantage. Strategic organizations have adopted cloud-based solutions to assist them in translating big data into actionable intelligence, and in the area of talent management specifically, it has proven to be an important competitive advantage, writes Karl Ederle.
North Korea claims that its impending satellite launch, scheduled for this week, is merely a mission to study the country's 'distribution of forests' and weather patterns. But after analyzing the satellite's potential flight paths, a network of amateur and professional spaceflight specialists have concluded that Pyongyang's claim is all but impossible.
Want to build a web service that sells for a cool billion dollars? Instagram's developers have some advice for you: Choose your tools wisely.
Antibiotics used to brew alcoholic beverages are making their way into the animal farming industry by the ton. Superbug blogger and author Maryn McKenna unpacks the controversy behind booze's hidden boost to drug-resistant diseases.
A solar researcher has spotted a hitherto-unreported feature of the Sun's atmosphere, giving us an insight into the star's magnetic structure.
There are very few Lego Master Model Builders in the world and only a handful of them are located in the United States. When one of the American builders recently retired there was an intense competition to fill his dream job slot.
In recent years, the Navy's Fire Scout robotic helicopters have racked up quite a resume: Drug busts off the coast of Latin America, covert surveillance in the skies above Afghanistan. But now, the drone 'copters are going on an indefinite hiatus. Operations of the MQ-8B Fire Scout will be suspended 'for the indefinite future,' after the robo-copters were involved in two recent crashes.
What do you do with a 200-terabyte instruction manual that tells you how to build a human? You put it on a cloud. That's what Amazon and the National Institute of Health (NIH) have done with the 1000Genomes project, using Amazon's S3 storage service to offer over 1,700 human genomes to genetics researchers across the globe. The move is only part of a much larger effort to reinvent genetics using the proverbial cloud.