Das Schnäppchen-Portal Groupon ist nur noch in etwa ein Drittel so viel Wert wie noch im November vergangenen Jahres. Ein konkreter Grund für den neuerlichen Kurssturz ist nicht auszumachen.
Europas grösster Softwarehersteller SAP mit Stammsitz im deutschen Walldorf hat mit einer Aufholjagd im zweiten Quartal Rekorderlöse eingefahren. Wie das Unternehmen mitteilt, sind die Erlöse mit Software-Lizenzen in den Monaten April bis Juni um 26 Prozent auf die Bestmarke von 1,06 Milliarden Euro geklettert.
Der Krankenversicherer Helsana hat seine Sun-Solaris-Plattform durch eine Linux-Lösung von Red Hat abgelöst. Anlass für die Migration sei unter anderem das Ende des Lebenszyklusses von insgesamt 64 Sun-Fire-Systemen gewesen. teilt Red Hat mit.
Der smarte Online-Terminplaner Doodle hat heute eine neue App für alle jene vorgestellt, die ihre Termine gerne unterwegs planen möchten: Die Doodle-App fürs iPhone präsentiert sich nicht nur in einer vollständig aktualisierten Version, sondern erstmals auch speziell für das iPad zugeschnitten.
Die neuen Ermittlungen gegen deutsche Kunden der Schweizer Grossbank Credit Suisse wegen des Verdachts der Steuerhinterziehung sind Berichten zufolge auf ein Versehen oder ein Datenleck zurückzuführen. Wie das deutsche "Handelsblatt" unter Berufung auf einen Insider bei der Credit Suisse berichtete, übermittelte ein Mitarbeiter der Bank die Daten versehentlich an die deutschen Finanzbehörden. Nach einer Anfrage des Bundesfinanzministeriums habe dieser mehr Informationen übermittelt als nötig.
Nachdem kürzlich erst eine Hacker-Attacke auf den Frage-Antwort-Dienst Formspring bekannt wurde, sich sieht nun Yahoo mit einem massiven Datendiebstahl konfrontiert. Hacker haben die Login-Daten von über 400.000 Accounts gestohlen und unter anderem Passwörter im Klartext veröffentlicht. Betroffen ist der VoIP-Dienst Yahoo Voice.
Die Zeiten des großen Wachstums im Computermarkt scheinen vorerst vorbei. Im zweiten Quartal stagnierten die Auslieferungen gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum, wie die Marktforschungsfirma Gartner am Mittwoch berichtete. Garnter-Analyst Mikako Kitagawa begründete dies mit "wirtschaftlichen Unsicherheiten in verschiedenen Regionen" sowie mit dem "geringen Interesse der Verbraucher an der Anschaffung eines PC".
Am 14. Juli wäre Gustav Klimt 150 Jahre alt geworden. Im Wiener Belvedere wird daher am Freitag eine Jubiläumsschau eröffnet, mit der der „Pionier der Moderne“ wohl seine Freude gehabt hätte: Erstmals ist das iPad wichtiger Bestandteil einer Ausstellung.
Im Silicon Valley, dem Mekka der IT- und Hightech-Industrie rund um den südlichen Teil der San Francisco Bay Area, herrscht zurzeit einige Aufregung. Grund hierfür sind aber nicht die neuen Entwicklungen der dort ansässigen Firmen, sondern eine geplante Fernsehserie des auf Reality-TV-Formate spezialisierten US-Kabelsenders Bravo TV.
Outsourcing ist für den Mittelstand in der Praxis der effizienteste Weg, um sich eine international konkurrenzfähige IT leisten zu können. Im Grunde ist der Zusammenschluss von Infrastruktur-Aktivitäten bei einem unabhängigen Anbieter nichts anderes als eine zeitgemässe Form der traditionellen Branchen-Gemeinschaftswerke.
Social news sharing site Digg sold for $500,000 to Betaworks. The $500,000 purchase price amounts to pennies on the investment dollars that poured into the once popular news aggregation site.
Ouya, the fledgling Android-based videogame console, has drawn a great deal of attention with its astonishing Kickstarter success.
A giant solar flare shot out of a sunspot today, hitting Earth with a powerful burst of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation. Solar researchers expect a small geomagnetic storm to follow and strike Earth this weekend, causing minor technical malfunctions and major northern lights shows.
Two private investigators who impersonated reporters, Hewlett Packard board members, and their families have been sentenced to three years probation and six months electronic monitoring in the case.
Epic Games lifted the curtain on , its upcoming cooperative survival-horror game for the PC, at Comic-Con on Thursday.
Another year, another Pentagon report on Iran's military power. Which means another round of imprecise predictions about when Iran may first test an intercontinental ballistic missile. But this time, the Pentagon no longer believes a future Iranian missile will be able to strike America. And another reason not to worry: even if Iran does develop one, it'll probably suck.
It seems we can?t get enough of the 80s. Neon, remakes of classic movies, skinny jeans, leg warmers ? okay, can we please skip the leg warmers? Just when we thought we were done with revisiting the decade, we spot a product that reminds us the 80s are back in force.
The USPTO published a host of new Apple patent applications Thursday, providing us with a peek inside the minds sequestered away at One Infinite Loop. This week, we see innovation in the form of a new method for iPod nano charging, a removable case that would be useful in the Windy City, and some innovative battery designs.
The nerd fest has begun. Over a hundred thousand fanboys and fangirls, some in elaborate getups, are descending on Comic-Con in San Diego to worship at the altars of character designers, digital animators, writers, and celebrities who get to wear kick-ass armor and save the world.
The Electronic Arts studio BioWare ( role-playing game series, it said Thursday.
The winner of this year's MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition today formally rolled out its Filepicker.io Mobile Library, saying it "enables mobile developers to integrate with multiple cloud storage services through a single software library."
A federal ban on synthetic drugs, signed into law by President Obama on July 9, was obsolete before the ink of his signature dried. Drug formulations not covered by the law's language are already on sale. If synthetics are supposed to be part of the War on Drugs, then this battle may already be lost.
Twitter announced a pair of deals over the past 24 hours -- one with Nokia, and another with MediaTek -- to bring app-level support to feature phones. The moves show the company is doubling down on bringing people who don?t have a smartphone a similar robust experience.
The Chinese have a curious take on intellectual property and retail. For example, if you desperately need to be one of the first people to own Apple's next-generation iPhone, you can actually pre-order the "iPhone 5" from a Chinese website. Right now. Today.
A district court in Iceland has ruled that the local Visa company violated contract laws when it imposed a block against credit card donations to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks.
In a new report titled "Apple's clean energy plans still cloudy despite coal-free pledge," Greenpeace is putting biogas-fueled fire under the feet of Apple to live up to its vow to go coal-free for its cloud data centers -- but the environmental advocacy group goes on the give Apple its first passing grades: a Cs in "Renewables and Advocacy" and "Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation."
The ambitious graphic novel being concocted by Legendary Comics' dream team of Mark Waid, Max Brooks and Shane Davis will blend history, religion and supernatural battles as a "man of the cloth" leads an unusual special-ops team on a harrowing mission.
The forensics of blood spatters: A new formula using high school trig and introductory physics helps investigators determine whether a victim took a blow standing up.
Hackers have published half a million login credentials for what appear to be Yahoo Voices user accounts that were stolen from a server.
It?s easy to pile on when a tech company seems headed for the deadpool. But one classic example shows that ignoring the conventional wisdom can sometimes make you rich.
The latest book from Weta Workshop artist Greg Broadmore, aka ray-gun master Dr. Grordbort, will plunge you into a fantastic steampunk world. Get a sneak peek at .
Since January 2011, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan claims it's killed or captured over 100 insurgent "leaders." Too bad it doesn't have any clear idea what "leader" means. Any insurgent who commands another person apparently qualifies. And worse, by that criteria, Taliban and aligned insurgents have killed twice as many U.S. troops in the same time period.
A team of geneticists has announced that they have successfully bred fruit flies with the capacity to count.
Greenpeace used to give Apple an "F" on its data-center design. But the environmentally minded not-for-profit has now revised its opinion of the massive computing centers that run online services like iTunes and iCloud. Greenpeace now gives Apple a "D."
Some places are famous for showing up in movies. Some places never seem to stop showing up in them. Here are 31 places that you'll recognize not just from one movie or TV show, but from two, three, or even dozens.
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Inspired by the wonderfully nerdy shirts in the crowd at Comic-Con, Wired staffers grabbed our Hipstamatic-powered smartphones and started collecting pictures of the best T-shirts on the floor.
Edward Burtynsky's photos from his series are best viewed as enormous prints on a gallery wall, but the iPad version makes up for what is loses in scale and tactility with special commentary, videos and, most of all, price.
The Etch a Sketch goes on sale.
An Amazon Kindle Phone seems inevitable at this point, judging from recent reports by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. But what features must an Amazon phone include to really thrive? Wired details the 11 killer features that would push a Kindle phone to success.