Facebook könnte laut einem US-Bericht den Aktienpreis bei seinem anstehenden Börsengang noch hochschrauben. Das Online-Netzwerk könnte am Dienstag über die aktuelle Spanne von 28 bis 35 Dollar hinausgehen, hiess es beim US-Fernsehsender CNBC am Wochenende. Zuvor hatte die Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg noch von einer schwächeren Nachfrage bei Großinvestoren gesprochen.
Knapp 2000 junge Leute haben am Samstag aufgrund eines Facebook-Eintrags einen Flohmarkt für junge Mädchen in Stuttgart gestürmt. Der Andrang war so enorm, dass die Polizei anrücken und die Menschenmassen ordnen musste.
Firmenwerte entstehen künftig nicht mehr durch die Produktion von Gütern, sondern erst durch deren Nutzung durch Kunden. Daher ist es wichtig, Kunden schon in den Entstehungsprozess einzubeziehen - durch sogenannte "Co-Creation".
Der aktuellen Geschäftsklimaumfrage des VDMA Fachverbandes Productronic zufolge erwarten die deutschen Hersteller von Komponenten, Maschinen und Anlagen für die Elektronikindustrie einen Umsatzrückgang von drei Prozent für das laufende Jahr und ein Umsatzwachstum von zehn Prozent für 2013.
Forscher der Universität Tel Aviv haben mittels einer Umfrage unter 150 Freiwilligen die Auswirkungen von Smartphones auf das Konzept Privatsphäre in öffentlichen Räumen untersucht, wie Aftau.org berichtet. Die Hälfte der Befragten waren Smartphone-Nutzer. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass Smartphones tatsächlich zu Verhaltensänderungen im öffentlichen Raum führen.
Die Schüler der 1. Sekundarklassen von Hünenberg bekommen einen iPad. Drei Jahre lang sollen die Jugendlichen und die Lehrpersonen Erfahrungen sammeln. Der Gemeinderat von Hünenberg hat einem entsprechenden Pilotprojekt für das kommende Schuljahr zugestimmt.
Der Börsengang von Facebook wird Mitgründer Eduardo Saverin zum Milliardär machen - und er sorgt auf ungewöhnliche Weise dafür, dass er möglichst viel davon hat. Der 30-Jährige gibt seine US-Staatsbürgerschaft auf, um seine Steuerrechnung zu senken. Saverin plane, bis auf weiteres in Singapur zu wohnen, erklärte sein Sprecher der Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg.
Im Internet sind zwei Dokumente des Kantons Schaffhausen mit vertraulichen Daten aufgetaucht. Im einen Fall geht es um Personendaten des Migrationsamtes, im anderen Fall um Grundstückdaten aus dem Amt für Grundstückschätzungen.
Die Preise für seltene Kameras schiessen in den Himmel: Bei der 21. Westlicht-Auktion in Wien knackte am Samstag eine Vorserien-Leica aus dem Jahr 1923 den Weltrekord und erzielte einen Auktionspreis von 2,16 Mio. Euro (inklusive Aufgeld).
Im vergangenen Jahr hat der Datenschutz im Wallis dreimal mehr gekostet, als das Walliser Parlament einst vorgesehen hat. Dem Grossen Rat passt das nicht. Per Motion hat der Walliser Grossrat daher die Regierung beauftragt, die Kosten der Datenschutzbeauftragten zu analysieren und dafür zu sorgen, dass der Datenschutz künftig nicht mehr so viel kostet.
theodp writes "His old day job at Gawker entailed calling BS on tech's high-and-mighty, but Ryan Tate still found things to like about Silicon Valley. In The 20% Doctrine, Tate explores how tinkering, goofing off, and breaking the rules at work can drive success in business. If you're lucky, your boss may someday find Tate's book in his or her conference schwag bag and be inspired enough by the tales of skunkworks projects at both tech (Google, Flickr, pre-Scott Thompson Yahoo) and non-tech (Bronx Academy of Letters, Huffington Post, Thomas Keller Restaurant Group) organizations to officially condone some form of 20% time at your place of work. In the meantime, how do you manage to find time to goof off to get ahead?"
Google85 writes with this news from All Things D: "Yahoo's embattled CEO Scott Thompson is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science degree that he had on his bio, according to multiple sources close to the situation. The company will apparently say he is leaving for 'personal reasons.' Thompson's likely replacement on an interim basis will be Yahoo's global media head Ross Levinsohn, who most recently also ran its Americas unit, including its advertising sales."
TheGift73 writes "The Russian based 'Pirate Pay' startup is promising the entertainment industry a pirate-free future. With help from Microsoft, the developers have built a system that claims to track and shut down the distribution of copyrighted works on BitTorrent. Their first project, carried out in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures, successfully stopped tens of thousands of downloads. Hollywood, software giants and the major music labels see BitTorrent as one of the largest threats to their business. Billions in revenue are lost each year, they claim. But not for long if the Russian based startup 'Pirate Pay' has its way. The company has developed a technology which allows them to attack existing BitTorrent swarms, making it impossible for people to share files."
An anonymous reader writes "I used to travel with a book and some clothes in a backpack, and now my entire life fits into my briefcase. I have a laptop, a tablet, and a cell phone with access to all of my documents through Dropbox, and all the books I own are on my kindle. Aside from having about four grand in electronics, the bag has everything of value that I own. If that bag is stolen while I'm traveling, it will be more trouble than if my apartment burns down (while I'm not in it). What can I do to secure my life-in-a-briefcase?"
beaverdownunder writes "Police in the Australian state of Victoria have confirmed that they are investigating employing unmanned drones in the war against crime, following the lead of law enforcement agencies in the United States, set to begin using drones as of tomorrow. This revelation has alarmed Australian civil libertarians, who fear that in a country with no constitutionally-protected civil rights, people could be surveilled for political reasons."
joabj writes "Following up on experiments of running Internet Protocol(IP)-based networks with carrier pigeons or bongos, UofC grad student R. Stuart Geiger has demonstrated that it is possible to transmit simple ping requests across two computers using people playing xylophones. Throughput is roughly 1 baud, when the participants don't make any mistakes, or get bored and wander off. The OSI encapsulated model of networking makes this project doable, allowing humans to be inserted at Layer 1, the physical layer. Vint Cerf wasn't kidding when he used to say, 'IP on Everything.'"
bmsleight writes "Does it count as a hack if you change your own system? Vanity Fair report that during the bidding process for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the London Streets Traffic Control Center followed each vehicle using CCTV, 'and when they came up to traffic lights,' [bid committee CEO Keith] Mills said, 'we turned them green.'"
An anonymous reader writes "We've heard many times and from multiple sources that text messaging is declining. There are multiple reasons for this (BlackBerry Messenger, Apple's iMessage, and even WhatsApp), but the biggest one is Facebook (Messenger). Facebook is slowly but surely killing the text message. As a result, the social networking giant is eating into the traffic carriers receive from text messaging, and thus a huge chunk of their revenues."
Hugh Pickens writes "Although a fully operation city with no people sounds like the setup for a dystopian sci-fi novel, the Boston Globe reports that the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation will develop a $1 billion scientific ghost town near Hobbs, New Mexico to help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets on existing infrastructure without interfering in everyday life. Bob Brumley, senior managing director of Pegasus Holdings, says the town will be modeled after the real city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new. Unlike traditional cities, City Labs will start with its underground 'backbone' infrastructure that will allow the lab to monitor activity throughout the 17-mile site. Since nobody lives in the Center's buildings, computerized systems will mimic human behavior such as turning thermostats up and down, switching lights off and on, or flushing toilets. The Center's test facilities and supporting infrastructure may require as much as 20 square miles of open, unimproved land where the controlled environment will permit evaluation of the positive and negative impacts of smart grid applications and integration of renewable energies for residential, commercial and industrial sectors of the economy. 'It's an amusement park for the scientists,' adds Brumley."
Okian Warrior writes "A Milford, CT man was pulled over when a state police car radioactivity scanner flagged his car as being radioactive. The man had been given a cardiac exam using radioactive dye, and had a note from his physician attesting to this, but it raises questions about the legality of the stop. Given that it is not illegal to own or purchase or transport radioactive materials (within limits for hobbyist use), should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?"
theodp writes "The Floppy Disk Icon, observes Scott Hanselman, means 'save' for a whole generation of people who have never seen one. That, and other old people icons that don't make sense anymore — Radio Buttons, Clipboards, Bookmarks, Address Books and Calendars, Voicemail, Manila Folder, Handset Phone, Magnifying Glass and Binoculars, Envelopes, Wrenches and Gears, Microphones, Photography, Televisions, Carbon Copies and Blueprints — are the subject of Hanselman's post on icons that are near or past retirement age, whose continued use is likely to make them iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery to many."
Brietech writes "'Behold the FIBIAC! It's loud! It computes! It uses actual punch cards!' The FIBIAC is a simple, stepper-motor based, (mostly) 3D-printed electromechanical computer. The program is stored on a loop of paper punch-cards, and the machine uses three, 3-digit electromechanical counters for storage (which could be expanded to support more complicated programs) Watch a video of it computing the Fibonacci sequence, or jump on Thingiverse and build your own."