Der letzten Aussendung der Berner Staatskanzlei zufolge arbeitet die Beadg Informatik als Dienstleisterin für die Verwaltung des Kantons Bern noch immer mit Hochdruck an der Behebung des Hardwareproblems, das seit gestern Nachmittag den teilweisen Ausfall von kantonalen Dienstleistungen zur Folge hatte.
Markus Brütsch, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) und Mitglied der Gruppenleitung der in Boudry domizilierten EMS-Dienstleisterin (Electronics Manufacturing Services) Cicor Group will per Ende November 2012 sein Dienstverhältnis beenden, wie das Unternehmen bekannt gibt. Gründe für den Abgang werden keine angegeben.
Punkto Social Media zählen die Finanzinstitute zwar nicht gerade zu den early adaptern, aber immerhin hat mittlerweile praktisch jedes von ihnen ihren eigenen Twitter-Kanal. Alledings kommen diese sehr unterschiedlich an.
Wer zurzeit die Dienste der kantonalen Verwaltung Bern in Anspruch nehmen will, wird ziemlich sicher enttäuscht werden. Ein Pannendreieck auf der Kantons-Website bestätigt die Befürchtungen: Bereits am Montag um 14.07 Uhr kam es im Rechenzentrum der Website-Verwalter, der Bedag, zu einem Blackout, wie die Firma auf ihrer Homepage schreibt. Grund: Ein Disk-Subsystem ist ausgefallen. Am Problem wird immer noch gearbeitet.
Im Hinblick auf den bevorstehenden World IPv6 Launch Day vom 6. Juni 2012 wollte das Swiss IPv6 Council wissen, wie steht es bei Schweizer Network- und Solution-Providern (ISPs) um die IPv6-Readiness steht. Erste Umfrage-Resultate liegen nun vor und werden am 14. Mai an einem Swiss IPv6 Council Memberanlass in Zürich präsentiert.
Auf der Business Software-Messe Topsoft und der neuen Internetmesse ONE, die gemeinsam am 9. und 10. Mai in den Zürcher Messehallen durchgeführt werden, woll sich laut Veranstalter insgesamt mehr als 140 Aussteller präsentieren.
Deutschlands grösstes Berufs-Netzwerk Xing bekommt einen neuen Chef. Thomas Vollmoeller, derzeit noch Vorstandsvorsitzender des Schweizer Handels- und Logistikkonzern Valora, soll zum 15. August in den Vorstand von Xing berufen werden und spätestens zum 15. Januar 2013 dort den Vorsitz übernehmen.
Die Gerüchte um ein Fernsehgerät von Apple werden immer konkreter. Jetzt berichtete "Cult of Mac" von einem Informanten, der einen funktionierenden Prototypen gesehen haben will. Es sehe äußerlich aus wie die Geräte von Apples Monitor-Reihe "Cinema Display" mit ihrem schwarzen Rahmen und Aluminium-Gehäuse, nur "viel größer".
Der Kreditkarten-Riese Mastercard steigt in großem Stil ins Geschäft mit Online-Bezahldiensten ein. Das US-Unternehmen stellte in der Nacht zum Dienstag das System Paypass Online zur Abrechnung von Internet-Einkäufen vor. Die Idee dahinter geht jedoch weiter: Mastercard will unter der Paypass-Marke eine einheitliche Plattform schaffen, über die Zahlungen unabhängig von Ort oder Gerät abgewickelt werden können. Teil ist auch das bereits angebotene Service zum Bezahlen per Handy.
Die Deutsche Telekom und die Gewerkschaft Verdi haben nach dem Tarifabschluss für die Konzernzentrale auch den Konflikt für 50.000 Beschäftigte im Deutschland-Geschäft beigelegt.
NDS, a company that develops DRM security and DVR technology for pay-TV providers like Cox and DirecTV, has developed a proof-of-concept called Surfaces that shows how television could become the center of a much more compelling, immersive living room experience.
Got speakers and some scrap wood? Steal this idea from to come up with useful household furnishings that anyone can build in a few simple steps.
After the jury returned a partial verdict in the copyright phase of the Google-Oracle trial -- unable to decide whether Google's recreation of the Java platform constituted "fair use" of Oracle's copyright -- the trial has now entered the patent phase, where the same jury will seek to decide whether Google infringed on Oracle's patents.No ...
CSS vendor prefixes are broken. What started out as a seemingly simple idea has ended up creating as many problems as it solved. Now a new proposal from a W3C member argues that the web needs a different approach.
The masterminds behind new web comedy on Fourth Wall's propriety website and, if they opt in, receive text messages, phone calls, e-mails and additional videos while they're tuned in.
Federal regulators slapped MySpace's wrist Tuesday, finding that the company still exists and that it violated the privacy promises it made to its 25 million registered users. MySpace joins its more prosperous internet cousins, Facebook and Google, in the club of companies that have been slapped by the Federal Trade Commission with mandatory privacy audits for the next 20 years (though it's not clear anyone expects MySpace to last that long).
Japanese social gaming giant Gree will cooperate with other Japanese publishers to write industry guidelines in hopes of putting off a government investigation of free-to-play social games.
A high school principal in Missouri has resigned after she was accused of impersonating a student on Facebook in order to spy on students and their parents, according to a news report.
On Tuesday at CTIA 2012, Nokia announced a number of app partnerships, giving the Windows Phone app ecosystem, and its Lumia line in particular, a significant push.
After a fire engulfed a Fisker Karma owner's garage in Sugar Land, Texas, last week, officials claim the plug-in hybrid sedan was the cause of the blaze.
Can I get in legal trouble for tweeting the locations of police sobriety check-points? Not if your local authorities have a scintilla of respect for the Founding Fathers.
Livio's Bluetooth dongle plugs into your cigarette lighter, giving your older car the powers of the internets.
D3Publisher will release a videogame adaptation of the award-winning cartoon for the 3DS and DS this fall.
With Apple set to shutter its MobileMe service at the end of June, and Google out ahead of OS X Mountain Lion with its Google Drive service (not to mention its plans to integrate Drive with Chrome OS), it's no surprise that Apple is generously offering 20GB of iCloud storage to MobileMe customers.
As long as the Air Force pinky-swears it didn't mean to, its drone fleet can keep tabs on the movements of Americans, far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, Pakistan or Yemen. And it can hold data on them for 90 days -- studying it to see if the people it accidentally spied upon are actually legitimate targets of domestic surveillance.
By Chris Dotson, IBMI think most readers of this blog probably know there is no single ?cloud.? Saying something is ?on the cloud? is about as specific as saying something is ?on the Internet.? This term isn?t going away ? but that?s okay, because I really like hopeless causes.So, here are some reasons why you ...
Cyclists can now help scientists by reporting animals flattened by automobiles. An organization that pairs data-collecting outdoor enthusiasts with researchers launched a roadkill-observation project this week. Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation is calling on everyone from commuters to expedition cyclists to record information about wildlife carcasses on their route and enter the data online.
Queen Victoria is a murderous maniac, Darwin is selfish, and pirates really love their ham. There are many surprises in , the latest masterpiece from Aardman Animations.
http://www.perey.com/ISMAR2012-IPN4MobileAR/Indoor Positioning and Navigation for Mobile ARAn ISMAR2012 Workshop"The researchers and developers of mobile AR platforms need to use a common platform for developing experiences regardless of the surroundings of the user. In order to expand the use of AR both indoor and outdoor with and without computer vision techniques, the breadth of options available ...
The slim budget proposed for NASA's planetary science came as a call to arms for researchers. Astrobiologist and Extremo Files blogger Jeffrey Marlow describes the campaigning scientists are performing behind closed doors.
Our favorite new social site for discovering and remember all the fun things we want to do, Schemer, has finally emerged from beta. Even better, to celebrate the fact, and thank GeekDad and GeekMom for being early partners, they're featuring our Schemer sites today. nd the best thing about it all? They're giving away 5 sets we're calling the "Glorious Board Game Collection."
This is a series in which I, an intrepid design reporter whose nom de plume is Fake Jony Ive, take on the world of poorly designed things one painful example at a time. This wholly unauthorized feature in no way represents the opinions of its inspiration, Jony Ive, knight of the realm and Apple's real bad boy of industrial design. This week's episode: Me vs. the Health Care Industry.
Mozilla's MemShrink effort continues to reduce Firefox's memory use. MemShrink recently began focusing on browser add-ons, a common source of Firefox memory leaks, and now, thanks to a patch currently being tested, future versions of Firefox may use up to four times less memory than the current release.
People who grow up in rural environments are less likely to develop allergies. It may because such environments harbor more friendly microbes that colonize our bodies and protect us from inflammatory disorders.
Unless you helped start Instagram, you probably need a job. Here's how to use your web smarts to put the internet to work finding a job for you.
Maurice Sendak passed away Tuesday due to complications from a recent stroke. He was 83. Sendak wrote and illustrated dozens of children's books, which earned plenty of recognition, including the prestigious Caldecott Medal and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. His characters were often difficult and bossy, but always a pleasure to read about. He was best known for his book, Where the Wild Things Are.
A YouTube video shows baseball-sized hail pummeling a suburban neighborhood in St. Louis, so Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain explores the physics behind the destructive weather event.
From the outside, Virginia Tech's Math Emporium is distinctly unimpressive. Tucked into a gray shopping center just across the road from the university's main campus, it's a computer lab for the school's 8,000 math students that never closes. But when Wu-chun Feng looks at its 550 Apple computers, he sees a supercomputer that's begging to be unleashed.
Every day, Tourists pop into the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory to watch its three machines squirting out batter and bathing it in flames. Each one is the size of a piano and their operators only have a few seconds to stuff the batter with an enigmatically profound message before it hardens. The one-room workshop is narrow, long and fragrant with warm sugar and vanilla.
According to comScore's new Mobile Metrix 2.0 report released today, Facebook's mobile usage is on the rise. The report revealed that Facebook users spent more time accessing the social network on a smartphone than on a computer.