Im Rennen um eine Tochter des Netzwerkbauers Nokia Siemens liegt Ericsson einem Medienbericht zufolge auf dem aussichtsreichsten Platz. Neben dem schwedischen Netzwerkausrüster sei auch der US-Konkurrent Amdocs an der auf die Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen spezialisierten Tochter BSS interessiert, berichtete Dow Jones Newswires am Montag.
Mehrere Internetseiten von schwedischen Regierungsstellen sind heute offenbar von Anhängern des Wikileaks-Gründers Julian Assange angegriffen worden. Die Websites der Regierung, der Streitkräfte und des Schwedischen Instituts waren für mehrere Stunden nicht zu erreichen.
Nach neuen Vorwürfen zu Kinderarbeit in chinesischen Fabriken hat der südkoreanische Elektronikkonzern Samsung eine Überprüfung aller seiner knapp 250 Zulieferer im Nachbarland angekündigt.
Auf der Internationalen Funkausstellung IFA in Berlin haben die Gerüchte rund um das nächste iPhone von Apple neue Nahrung erhalten: Mehrere Hersteller zeigen dort Schutzhüllen für ein „iPhone 5“ oder schlicht ein „neues iPhone“.
Die auf Software- und Portallösungen fokussierte Luzerner BBV Software Services ziehts nach Bayern. In München wurde eine GmbH eröffnet, die von dort aus mit einem Berater- und Entwicklerteam den Süddeutschen Raum mit Lösungen und Beratungsleistungen versorgen soll.
Der taiwanische Smartphone-Herstellerler HTC springt ebenfalls auf den Windows-8-Smartphone-Zug auf und lanciert erste Telefone mit dem neuen Microsoft-Betriebssystem Windows 8. Demnach wird HTC der erste Hersteller sein, der Beats Audio auf Windows 8 bringt, so der Branchendienst The Verge.
Mit Mobile ID hat Swisscom eine Managed-Service-Lösung angekündigt, mit der sich Benutzer für den Zugang zu ihren Geschäftsanwendungen sicher und trotzdem einfach authentifizieren können. Laut Mitteilung seien keine zusätzlichen Authentifizierungsgeräte mehr notwendig und der sichere Zugriff gehe nicht zu Lasten von Mobilität oder Benutzerfreundlichkeit.
Der südkoreanische Elektronikriese Samsung hat Blogger aus Indien zur Internationalen Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA) eingeladen und sie vor Ort zu Promotionsarbeit und dem Tragen von Uniformen gezwungen. Sollten sie diese nicht erledigen, müssten sie sich selbst um ein Rückflugticket kümmern, so die Drohung des Konzerns.
Die Aktie von Sharp ist am Montag wieder deutlich gefallen, nachdem japanische Medien über einen schlechteren Deal beim Einstieg des Auftragsfertigers Foxconn berichtet hatten. Nach Informationen der Wirtschaftszeitung Nikkei könnte Foxconn die Aktien zu einem deutlich niedrigeren Preis bekommen als ursprünglich vereinbart. Zudem senkte die Ratingagentur Standard & Poor's ihre Bewertung von Sharp auf Ramsch-Niveau.
Zollfahnder sind am Montag gegen Produktpiraten auf der Berliner Elektronikmesse IFA vorgegangen. Insgesamt lägen sechs Durchsuchungsbeschlüsse vor, um Patentverstöße zu ahnden, sagte ein Sprecher des Zollfahndungsamtes Berlin.
MojoKid writes "In a little less than two weeks, Half Life fans will have an opportunity to relive Valve's original 1998 title Half Life, albeit reborn and modified using the company's Source engine. The ambitious third-party project is called Black Mesa (previously known as Black Mesa: Source) and it's been in development for eight years. Black Mesa will deliver Half Life as you've never seen it before. It will have all new graphics, maps, a new soundtrack, updated voice acting, support for multi-core processors, hardware accelerated facial animation, and other goodies."
eldavojohn writes "For quite some time humans have struggled to answer the question why there is anything rather than nothing. Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist? tackles such questions in the form of a journey. After laying a brief groundwork, Holt travels from leading prominent philosopher to curmudgeonly physicist to reserved theologian, visiting each and relaying the juiciest parts of his transcripts to the reader. In doing so, this book takes on an interesting form with a meaty dense center to each chapter (the actual dialogues) surrounded by the light and fluffy bread of Holt's expert writing about the settings, weather and food of his travels. While this consequently lacks the characteristics of a heady hard hitting original philosophical work, these sandwiches should prove quite palatable for most readers. Why Does the World Exist? criss-crosses the etymological, epistemological, theological and philosophical aspects of its title while remaining a fairly easy read." Keep reading for the rest of eldavojohn's review.
cylonlover writes "Three-dimensional printers are popping up everywhere these days. Some are small enough to fit in a briefcase and others are large enough to print houses, but scientists at the Vienna University of Technology are going for the microscopic. Earlier this year, the university built a 3D printer that uses lasers to operate on a tiny scale. Now they're refining the technique to enable precise placement of a selected molecule in a three-dimensional material. This process, called '3D-photografting,' can potentially be used to create a 'lab on a chip' or artificially grow living tissue."
nk497 writes "Malware could block your access to the internet – but in some cases by those on the right side of the security fence, who are deploying tactics such as blocked ports, letters in the mail and PCs quarantined from the net to combat the most damaging threats. The DNS Changer clean up saw some PCs prevented from accessing the web. Should such tactics be used more often to prevent malware from spreading — or is that taking security a step too far?"
phantomfive writes "Language geeks might be interested in a recent study that suggests Turkey as the birthplace of the Indo-European language family. The Indo-European family is the largest, and includes languages as diverse as English, Russian, and Hindi. The New York Times made a pretty graph showing the spread."
Barence writes "The University of Cambridge has released a free 12-step online course on building a basic operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The course, Baking Pi — Operating Systems Development, was compiled by student Alex Chadwick during a summer interning in the school's computer lab, and has been put online to help this year's new recruits start work with the device. The university has already purchased a Raspberry Pi for every new Computer Science student starting in 2012."
First time accepted submitter oobayly writes "It appears that Bruce 'Die Hard' Willis isn't too impressed that he can't include his iTunes collection in his estate when he dies. According to the article: 'Bruce Willis, the Hollywood actor, is said to be considering legal action against Apple so he can leave his iTunes music collection to his three daughters.' Such a high profile individual complaining about the ability to own your digital music can only be a good thing, right?"
mikejuk writes "As well as buying up patents to defend itself against the coming Apple attack on Android, Google is also readying its own technology. It has extended its Patent Search facility to include European patents and has added a Prior Art facility. The new Prior Art facility seems to be valuable both to inventors and to the legal profession. In order to be granted a patent the inventor has to establish that it is a novel idea — and in the current litigious environment companies and their lawyers might want to show that patents should not have been granted."
judgecorp writes "Latest market share figures show the difference between perception and reality. Windows 7 just nudged past Windows XP with both around the the 43 percent mark. OS X and Windows Vista divide the rest of the spoils, with all versions of OSX only just adding up to a little more than the failed Windows version, according to data from Netmarketshare."
submeta writes "Researchers at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania have genetically engineered skeletal muscle cells to respond to light. The hope is that this 'bio-integrated' approach may lead to 'highly articulated, flexible robots.' The technique, known as optogenetics, has previously been used to stimulate neurons in worms to fire."
An anonymous reader writes "I have been telecommuting as a software architect for a major corporation since 2007. It has allowed me to live a quality rural lifestyle. Never content, am now considering living on the road for several years. Due to the proliferation of 4G and wireless hotspots, I see no reason I could not do this from a 5th-wheel trailer. Have any slashdotters truly cut the cord in this manner? Any advice or warnings?"
CowboyRobot writes "Is full disk encryption (FDE) worth it? A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows that the expected benefits of FDE exceed cost by a factor ranging from 4 to 20, based on a reduction in the probability that data will be compromised as the result of the loss or theft of a digital device. 'After doing all of the math, Ponemon found that the cost of FDE on laptop and desktop computers in the U.S. per year was $235, while the cost savings from reduced data breach exposure was $4,650.'"
The 2012 Hugo Award ceremony has completed at Chicon 7, and Among Others by Jo Walton has been given the award for Best Novel. The Man Who Bridged the Mist by Kij Johnson won for Best Novella, and The Paper Menagerie won for Best Short Story. Doctor Who had three nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), and ended up taking home the award for the episode "The Doctor's Wife," which was written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Richard Clark. Season 1 of Game of Thrones won Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form), edging out Hugo and Captain America. Ursula Vernon was awarded the Best Graphic Story Hugo for Digger. See below for the full list of winners.
sfcrazy writes "The first ISO (alpha) images of Gnome Shell edition of Ubuntu is now available for download and testing. The Gnome edition of Ubuntu will bring back a lot of hard-core Gnome Shell fans who were looking elsewhere to get the pure Gnome Shell experience. Both Fedora and openSUSE are doing a great job at offering Gnome 3 Shell experience and the arrival of Ubuntu GNOME Remix will give the project the audience it needed."