Mobile Endgeräte wie Smartphones oder Tablet Computer werden zunehmend sowohl für den privaten wie auch den geschäftliche Nutzen eingesetzt. Diese Vermischung erfordert ein professionelles Mobile Device Management.
Profifotografen knipsen zunehmend mit dem iPhone und lassen ihr DSLR-Equipment zuhause. Dieser Trend war angesichts von zwölf Megapixel Auflösung und reichlichem Zubehör der Smartphone-Kameras absehbar, zudem ist der Versand einfacher.
Die Collaboration-Lösung IBM Connections soll die unternehmensinterne Zusammenarbeit verbessern – Getreu dem Motto „interne Prozesse zuerst“ sollen Unternehmen Nutzen daraus ziehen, nicht nur Social Media, sondern auch Social Software einzusetzen.
Der Börsenbetreiber Nasdaq OMX hat nach den Pannen beim Marktdebüt von Facebook im Mai sein Entschädigungsangebot nach heftiger Kritik aufgestockt. Man biete den betroffenen Finanzfirmen nun 62 Millionen Dollar, 22 Millionen Dollar mehr als bisher, teilte die Nasdaq mit.
An der Wall Street legen zahlreiche Börsenschwergewichte in der kommenden Woche ihre Quartalsberichte vor. Dabei wird sich zeigen, ob der Trend zu über den Erwartungen liegenden Ergebnissen anhält. Besonders im Blick haben die Anleger den Hoffnungsträger Apple.
Bei Facebook blüht das Geschäft mit Likes. Viele Unternehmen sind bereit, enorme Summen zu investieren, um die Anzahl ihrer Fans zu erhöhen. Eine kurze Suche im Netz offenbart, dass das Angebot an käuflichen Klicks sowohl für Facebook als auch für Twitter, Youtube und alle erdenklichen anderen Plattformen enorm ist.
Der Onlinehändler Ebay hat die Gewinnguidance leicht nach unten revidiert. Grund seien höhere Zinskosten, wie der Konzern wissen lässt. Am Mittwoch wurde ein Umsatzanstieg für das zweite Quartal von 23 Prozent auf 3,4 Milliarden US-Dollar sowie ein Gewinnplus von 16 Prozent auf 730 Millionen US-Dollar oder 0,56 US-Dollar je Aktie bekanntgegeben.
Der japanische Technologiekonzern Panasonic mit Sitz in Osaka hat mit der Produktion von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien für Mobiltelefone und PCs in seinem neuen Werk in Suzhou (Provinz Jiangsu, China) begonnen. Es ist Panasonics drittes integriertes Lithium-Ionen-Batterie-Werk das von der Komponentenfertigung bis zur Endmontage alles abdeckt.
Durch eine Beschichtung mit Titandioxid werden Oberflächen resistent gegen organische Ablagerungen durch Fingerabdrücke, Bakterien oder Pilze. Das Titandioxid wirkt als Katalysator und wird durch UV-Licht aktiviert.
Der US-Druckerhersteller Xerox hat nach einem schwachen zweiten Quartal seine Gewinnprognose für das Gesamtjahr gesenkt. Wegen anhaltend dürftiger Nachfrage in der Techniksparte erwartet das Unternehmen nun weniger Gewinn, wie Xerox mitteilte.
The Seattle Times reports that Dmitry Olegovick Zubakha, "A Russian man believed to be behind cyberattacks on Seattle-based Amazon.com and other online retailers in June, 2008 has been arrested in Cyprus, says U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan." Along with a partner, Sergey Vioktorovich Logashov (still at large), Zubakha apparently also undertook, and later bragged about, attacks on Priceline and Ebay. After extradition, he's expected to face trial in the U.S. for possession of illegal access devices, conspiracy, and aggravated identity theft.
mikejuk writes "Until now the two standards bodies working on HTML5 (WHATWG and W3C ) have cooperated. An announcement by WHATWG makes it clear that this is no longer true. WHATWG is going to work on a living standard for HTML which will continue to evolve as more technologies are added. WC3 is going the traditional and much more time consuming route of creating a traditional standard which WHATWG refers to as a 'snapshot' of their living standard. Of course now being free of WC3's slower methods WHATWG can accelerate the pace of introducing new technologies to HTML5. Whatever happens, the future has just become more complicated — now you have to ask yourself 'Which HTML5?'"
First time accepted submitter thecrazyivan writes "As companies like Reddit and Foursquare have shown, Internet users enjoy earning points in arbitrary social games. So why not apply that competitive motivation to something useful, like cleaning up the world's PCs? A startup called Jumpshot is raising funds to launch a new, friendlier form of computer security. Jumpshot is still in its infancy, but it seems to have excited plenty of users with its potential: The company launched a Kickstarter project and almost immediately raised nearly three times its funding goal."
theodp writes "In 1999, TIME's cover warned readers to Beware of Pokemon ('For many kids it's now an addiction: cards, video games, toys, a new movie. Is it bad for them?'). But Pokemon wasn't as easily felled as Lehman or Bear Stearns. Thirteen years later, 16-year-old Manoj Sunny has his eye on a Pokemon world title, having earned the chance to travel to The Big Island with 35 fellow Americans for the 2012 Pokemon Video Game World Championships, which will be held Aug. 10-12. Sunny, who also captains his school's chess team, credits his success to a good memory, intuition, daily practice, the use of an online simulator, and a competitive attitude ('I hate losing. Once I lost, I needed to get better.')"
kgeiger writes "The FCC is changing the call termination tariffs that subsidized rural wireline service and coincidentally free conference calls. Free conference call services had located their dial-in centers in rural areas to scoop up FCC tariffs from its Universal Service Fund. USF monies will go to broadband deployment instead. Be prepared to put more nickels in the box." On the other hand, maybe ad-driven Internet services (whether free or "freemium") will step in to the free-conference gap with some good-enough options, as they have for many other services, like email and faxing.
New submitter accet87 writes "We are celebrating the Silver Jubilee of our graduation next month and have come up with an idea where we will build an air-tight chest in which each of us will deposit something and will open the chest only on our Golden Jubilee, i,e, after another 25 years. I want to understand what kind of items can be safely stored for 25 years and what kind of precautions are required to be taken. I am sure things like paper, non ferrous metallic objects, wood etc will hold up well. What about data storage electronically? I don't think CD/DVDs, etc will be usable. Even if the data is retained, reading it in 2037 may be a challenge."
An anonymous reader writes "Last week Russian developer Alexey Borodin hacked Apple's In-App Purchase program for all devices running iOS 3.0 or later, allowing iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to circumvent the payment process and essentially steal in-app content. Apple [Friday] announced a temporary fix and that it would patch the holes with the release of iOS 6. While Cupertino was distracted, Borodin came in and pulled off the same scheme on the Mac."
dell623 writes "Google has begun updating the Google Nexus S, which was released in December 2010 to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The update comes with all the new features of JB, including Google Now. The update makes the almost two year old phone smooth and in many ways superior to newer, more expensive Android devices that are unlikely to even be updated to Android 4.0. The update is impressive, but also exposes the problems of Android fragmentation and the failure of other Android device manufacturers to develop better software than Google, or issue timely updates."
MojoKid writes "When USB debuted in 1999, it offered maximum throughput of 12Mb/s. Today, USB 3.0 offers 4.8Gb/s. Interestingly, modern USB 3 controllers use the same Bulk-Only Transport (BOT) protocol that first debuted in 1999. Before the advent of USB 3, relying on BOT made sense. Since hard drives were significantly faster than the USB 2 bus itself, the HDD was always going to be waiting on the host controller. USB 3 changed that. With 4.8Gbits/s of throughput (600MB/s), only the highest-end hardware is capable of saturating the bus. That's exposed some of BOT's weaknesses. UASP, or the USB Attached SCSI Protocol, is designed to fix these limitations, and bring USB 3 fully into the 21st century. It does this by implementing queue functions, reducing command latency, and allowing the device to transfer commands and data independently from each other. Asus is the first manufacturer to have implemented UASP in current generation motherboards and the benchmarks show transfer speeds can be improved significantly."
An anonymous reader writes "In attempting to fend off Apple's suit against Motorola Mobility and advancing its own patent litigation against Apple, Google, which is facing a lot of regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad over what some allege is abuse of standard essential patents, has been arguing that proprietary non-standardized technologies that become ubiquitous due to their popularity with consumers should be considered de facto standards."
nonprofiteer writes "Researchers presenting at Defcon next week have developed a psychopathy prediction model for Twitter. It analyzes linguistic tells to rate users' levels of narcissism, machiavellianism and other similarities to Patrick Bateman. 'The FBI could use this to flag potential wrongdoers, but I think it's much more compelling for psychologists to use to understand large communities of people,' says Chris Sumner of the Online Privacy Foundation. Some of the Twitter clues: Curse words. Angry responses to other people, including swearing and use of the word "hate." Using the word "we." Using periods. Using filler words such as 'blah' and 'I mean' and 'um.' So, um, yeah."
schliz writes "A group of Australian network engineers is planning to launch a not-for-profit internet service provider that will provide access to the nation's high-speed NBN fibre network for like-minded people. The cooperative, dubbed 'No ISP,' has no staff or add-on services to keep costs down. Members will be able to 'trade' excess download quota for a market-based price, depending on supply and demand."
New submitter niftydude writes "Australian newspaper The Age is carrying the story: The Australian Sex Party has threatened Google with legal action after the search engine refused to run its ads on the eve of tomorrow's Melbourne by-election. It comes after Sex Party ads were blocked by Google at the last federal election because the company — which is typically opposed to censorship — perceived the text as too racy (the ads were reinstated by Google the day before the election). Sex Party candidate Fiona Patten said this time the search giant said it would not approve her ads 'because we have a donate button on our page and we're not a charity.' Don't all political parties allow donations? Is google imposing its own sense of morality onto Australian politics?"
New submitter masternerdguy writes with this snippet from Tom's Hardware about yet another tiny, Linux-capable single-board computer: "The manufacturer claims that the Gooseberry is 'roughly 3 x more powerful in processing power,' and twice the RAM (512 MB) [compared to] the Raspberry Pi. The Gooseberry does not come with analog video and lacks a LAN port, but supports Wi-Fi. At this time, the board only supports Android 4 ICS and Ubuntu without graphics acceleration. However, Gooseberry is offering premade images for Ubuntu. Support for Arch Linux is 'expected in the future.'"
An anonymous reader writes "The Indonesian government has blocked access to 1 million pornographic websites in advance of Ramadan, the country's holy month. Internet censorship is nothing new in Indonesia, but the scale of this particular restriction is unprecedented. Apparently this is only the beginning. Minister Tifatul Sembiring said Wednesday his office would target more sites through the country's holy month, and beyond."