Die Spezialistin für Software-Qualität SQS (Software Quality Systems) hat Chris Bean zum neuen Group Technology Officer (GTO) des Unternehmens bestellt. In dieser Rolle werde Bean sowohl den weltweiten IT-Betrieb der SQS-Gruppe als auch deren technische Forschung, Produktentwicklung und den Technik-Support verantworten, heisst es seitens des Unternehmens. Bean folgt Bob Bartlett nach, der nach drei Jahren als GTO und nach über zehn Jahren bei SQS in den Ruhestand geht.
Welche Themen haben 2012 die höchste Priorität für IT-LeiterInnen in SAP-Anwenderunternehmen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz? Um das herauszufinden sowie strategische Schwerpunkte für die zukünftige Arbeit festzulegen, befragte der CIO-Beirat der Deutschsprachigen SAP-Anwendergruppe (DSAG) die Mitglieder des DSAG-CIO-Kreises.
Der 12,5 Milliarden Dollar schwere Deal ist nun offiziell abgeschlossen. Google hat den Mobilfunk-Pionier Motorola nach eiem acht monatigem Procedere übernommen und ist nun Hardware-Hersteller - und um 17.000 Patente reicher.
Die Facebook-Aktie ist weiter auf Talfahrt. Die Euphorie beim grössten Internet-Börsengang aller Zeiten scheint komplett verflogen. Immer lauter wird die Kritik an den beteiligten Banken. Mehr als 6 Prozent verlor das Papier am Dienstagmorgen in New York. Bereits am Vortag war der Kurs um 11 Prozent abgesackt.
Gerade erst am 2. Mai 2012 hat der Münchner Aurelius Konzern, Eigentümerin der Zürcher Connectis, die Übernahme der europäischen und asiatischen Aktivitäten von Getronics bekannt gegeben, und schon kommt es in der Schweiz zum Zusammenschluss der Connectis mit Getronics (Schweiz). Womit einer der grössten ICT-Systemintegratoren der Schweiz mit rund 400 Mitarbeitenden erwächst.
Der chinesische Internet-Dissident Cao Haibo ist am Dienstag wegen „Anstiftung zur Untergrabung der Staatsgewalt" vor Gericht gestellt worden. Das bestätigten seine Frau und sein Anwalt der Nachrichtenagentur DPA. Cao hatte im Internet ein Online-Forum organisiert, in dem über Demokratie und Reformen in China diskutiert worden war.
Apple ist bleibt die wertvollste Marke der Welt. Der US-Technologiekonzern habe seinen Markenwert im vergangenen Jahr noch weiter gesteigert und seinen 2011 erreichten Spitzenplatz verteidigt, heisst es in der jährlich durchgeführten Markenwertstudie des Marktforschungsunternehmens Millward Brown. Demnach hat Apple einen Markenwert von knapp 183 Mrd. Dollar (144 Mrd. Euro).
Google betreibt eine Strategie der konstanten Weiterentwicklung der eigenen Web-Services, statt großen Umbauten gibt es von Zeit zu Zeit also auch die eine oder anderer kleinere Neuerung zu berichten. In diese Kategorie fällt eine aktuelle Ankündigung des Unternehmens - die allerdings doch den digitalen Alltag der NutzerInnen vereinfachen könnte.
Die Schuldenkrise in Europa macht dem weltgrößten Mobilfunk-Konzern Vodafone zu schaffen. Das britische Unternehmen beurteilt seine Wachstumsaussichten mittlerweile pessimistischer. Das Management teilte am Dienstag mit, der Umsatzanstieg im Service-Geschäft aus eigener Kraft werde 2013 voraussichtlich etwas unter der bisherigen mittelfristigen Zielspanne von plus ein bis vier Prozent liegen.
Zum zweiten Mal in diesem Jahr ist das US-Justizministerium Opfer eines Hacker-Angriffs geworden. Die Behörde räumte am Montag in Washington ein, sie gehe einem "unerlaubten Zugriff auf einen von der Statistikabteilung des Justizministeriums betriebenen Webseiten-Server" nach.
CWmike writes "The maximum areal densities of hard disk drives are expected to more than double by 2016, according to IHS iSuppli. Hard drive company Seagate has also predicted a doubling of drive density, and now IHS iSuppli is confirming what the vendor community already knew. Leading the way for greater disk density will be technologies such as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which Seagate patented in 2006. Seagate has already said it will be able to produce a 60TB 3.5-in. hard drive by 2016. Laptop drives could reach 10TB to 20TB in the same time frame, IHS iSuppli stated. It said areal densities are projected to climb to a maximum 1,800 Gbits per square inch per platter by 2016, up from 744 Gbits per square inch in 2011. Areal density equals bit density, or bits of information per inch of a track multiplied by tracks per inch on a drive platter. This year, hard drive areal densities are estimated to reach 780Gbits per square inch per platter, and then rise to 900Gbits per square inch next year."
n7ytd writes "Announced today and running on an 800 MHz VIA core, the 170 x 85mm 'APC' is expected to ship this July. It has 2GB of flash storage and 512MB of DDR3 memory. 'A modified version of Google Android 2.3 uses up most of that 2GB of flash storage, but there are external storage options. On the back I/O is a microSD slot, and of course you could hook in an external USB 2.0 drive. VIA spent a lot of time customizing Android to enable keyboard and mouse support which natively it does not support. ... On the I/O panel you get VGA output, HDMI output (up to 720p playback with hardware acceleration), four USB 2.0 ports, gigabit LAN and audio out and microphone in.' With a 'Neo ITX' form factor, VIA touts the single-board computer as a 'bicycle for your mind.'"
benfrog writes "Microsoft just quietly launched so.cl in an experiment to more closely unite web searches and social networking. It's not intended as a stand-alone social network — users can log in with Facebook or Windows Live IDs, and it will share your searches publicly by default. "As students work together, they often search for the same items, and discover new shared interests by sharing links. We see this trend today on many social networks, such as Twitter, where shared links spread virally and amplify popular content. So.cl experiments with this concept by automatically sharing links as you search." They've also (wisely?) put Bing Search at the center of the site."
MistrX writes with a tidbit about what the Cassini probe is up to nowadays. From the article: "NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyby will put the spacecraft in an orbit around Saturn that is inclined, or tilted, relative to the plane of the planet's equator. The flyby of Methone took place on May 20 at a distance of about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers). It was Cassini's closest flyby of the 2-mile-wide (3-kilometer-wide) moon. The best previous Cassini images were taken on June 8, 2005, at a distance of about 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers), and they barely resolved this object."
Fluffeh writes "A researcher has found and published a way to tune into an RSA SecurID Token. Once a few easy steps are followed, anyone can generate the exact numbers shown on the token. The method relies on finding the seed that is used to generate the numbers in a way that seems random. Once it is known, it can be used to generate the exact numbers displayed on the targeted Token. The technique, described on Thursday by a senior security analyst at a firm called SensePost, has important implications for the safekeeping of the tokens. An estimated 40 million people use these to access confidential data belonging to government agencies, military contractors, and corporations. Scrutiny of the widely used two-factor authentication system has grown since last year, when RSA revealed that intruders on its networks stole sensitive SecurID information that could be used to reduce its security. Defense contractor Lockheed Martin later confirmed that a separate attack on its systems was aided by the theft of the RSA data."
cylonlover writes, quoting Gizmag: "Generally speaking, companies developing suborbital manned vehicles brag about how much elbow room their spacecraft will provide passengers. They say there will be plenty of room to float around during the weightless portion of the flight, that there will be no fighting for windows, that passengers will comfortably endure the high-g portions of the flight ... and then there's Copenhagen Suborbitals' Tycho Brahe. CS's Tycho Brahe is a one-passenger capsule intended for a purely ballistic flight to a peak altitude approaching 100 miles. The passenger is just along for the ride, with no mechanism to steer or otherwise pilot the capsule."
bonch writes "The MPAA used an undercover agent posing as a potential homebuyer to gain access to the home of a British couple charged with running a streaming links site. UK authorities decided not to pursue the case, but the MPAA continued, focusing on a Boston programmer who worked on the site, leading to an unprecedented legal maneuver whereby U.S. charges were dropped in exchange for testimony in a UK fraud case."
judgecorp writes with a synopsis of talk given by Kaspersky at CeBit "Cyber weapons are so dangerous, they should be limited by a treaty like those restricting chemical and nuclear arms, Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky has told a conference. He also warned that online voting was essential or democracy will die out in 20 years."
First time accepted submitter Chankey Pathak writes "The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009. Nmap 6 includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more!"
zacharye writes with news of the end of the regulatory saga that was Google acquiring Motorola Mobility. From the article: "In line with earlier reports, Google on Tuesday finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion merger was approved by regulators in China on Monday after having been given the green light by the United States Department of Justice this past February. Chinese regulators did stipulate terms for its approval, however, namely that Google must continue to make Android open-source and freely available. Former Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha has stepped down and Google's Dennis Woodside will replace him as chief executive..."
scibri writes "During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimeters per year. The combined contribution from heating of the oceans, which makes the water expand, along with melting of ice caps and glaciers, is estimated to be 1.1 millimeters per year, which left some 0.7 millimeters per year unaccounted for. It seems that the effects of human water use on land could fill that gap. Researchers report in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimeters per year, or 42%, of the observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. The extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution. It would be even worse if we weren't also locking up lots of water from rivers behind dams like the Hoover Dam."
howhardcanitbetocrea writes "WHMCS has had 500,000 records leaked, credit cards included, by hackers calling themselves UGNazis. Apparently UGNazis succeeded in obtaining login details from the billing software's host by using social engineering. UGNazis accuse WHMCS of knowingly offering services to fraudsters. After almost 24 hours UGNazis still seem to have control of WHMCS twitter account @whmcs and is regularly updating their exploits. These tweets are also feeding into WHMCS software."