Schwedische Webseiten unter Dauerbeschuss: Aufgebrachte Hacker haben am Donnerstag zum wiederholten Mal in dieser Woche Webseiten schwedischer Behörden und Unternehmen lahmgelegt. Betroffen waren diesmal Internet-Auftritte der Regierung, der Nationalbank sowie von Justiz- und Sozialbehörden.
Internet-Kriminalität und Cyber-Angriffe nehmen zu und kosten die Weltwirtschaft viele Milliarden Euro im Jahr. Das erklärte der britische Aussenminister William Hague am Donnerstag zu Beginn einer zweitägigen internationalen Regierungskonferenz über das Internet in Budapest.
Die US-amerikanische Suchmaschinenkönigin Google hat sich für sein Bibliotheksprojekt mit US-Verlagen auf den Zugang zu denen von ihnen angebotenen Werken geeinigt, gab Google in einem offiziellen Blogpost bekannt.
Der Facebook-Hype um das kleine Bündner Bergdorf Obermutten reisst auch nach einem Jahr nicht ab. Mit 44.000 Fans auf dem sozialen Netzwerk lässt Obermutten selbst arrivierte Ferienorte weit hinter sich.
Eine Milliarde Menschen weltweit nutzen das Soziale Netzwerk Facebook aktiv jeden Monat, gab Gründer und Chef Mark Zuckerberg am Mittwoch in einer kurzen Mitteilung bekannt. Die meisten Nutzer hat Facebook laut eigenen Angaben in Brasilien, Indien, Indonesion, Mexiko und den USA.
Die Hersteller von Handys verwenden laut einer Studie der US-Umweltschutzorganisation Ecology Center weniger giftige Materialien in ihren Produkten als früher. Trotzdem enthielten alle 36 getesteten Modelle noch gefährliche Stoffe wie Blei, Brom, Chlor, Quecksilber und Kadmium, liess die Organisation verlauten.
Google plant bei seiner Handy-Tochter Motorola Mobility zusätzliche Einschnitte. Im Rahmen der Restrukturierung sollen weitere Länder ausserhalb der USA mit einbezogen werden, teilte Google am Donnerstag mit. Die Patente und Schutzrechte scheinen der Suchmaschinenkönigin wichtiger zu sein, als das Handy-Geschäft und die dafür Arbeitenden.
Hyperscale Data Centres, Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) Workloads und Extreme-Low-Energy-(ELE)Server werden die drei zentralen Bereiche des Server-Marktes sein, die bis 2015 Wachstumsmöglichkeiten bieten. Dies zumindest prophezeien die Marktforscher von Gartner.
Nach Meinung von Google und Swisscom sind Schweizer Unternehmen im Internet noch immer deutlich untervertreten. Das Potenzial für die rund 300.000 Schweizer KMUs sei enorm, heisst es. Um den Unternehmen Impulse für ihren Online-Auftritt zu vermitteln, organisieren Google und Swisscom unter dem Motto «@KMU» bis Ende Jahr fünf regionale Events.
Dem Pilotprojekt folgt nun der konzernweite Rollout: Migros implementiert konzernweit die Desktop-Monitoring-Software Nexthink des gleichnamigen Herstellers. Mit der Anwendung kann Migros ihre Hard- und Softwarebestände in Echtzeit durchleuchten und bei Bedarf Anpassungen und Optimierungen vorzunehmen.
The highest-profile test to date to see whether people actually want to pay for things with their phones will roll out next month at Starbucks.
Political debates are never polite affairs ? that's why they're called "debates" and not "friendly conversations" ? but say that you're gonna cut funding for Big Bird and the whole internet gets in the fray.
Oracle is nothing if not dogged. Earlier this year, a federal court rejected just about all of Oracle's many claims that Google ripped off its intellectual property in building the Android mobile operating system. But Oracle has now appealed the decision to a higher court.
Google and five publishers said Thursday they are settling a long-running legal flap over the media giant's scanning of university library books without permission. The deal is a huge concession by Google, which up until now had maintained it had the fair-use right under copyright law and did not need permission from rights holders to scan the digital library of the future.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may be a Michigan-bred entrepreneur, but during his first debate with President Barack Obama, he called out upstart automakers Fisker and Tesla as "losers", despite evidence to the contrary.
NASA's Curiosity rover is getting ready to stick its shovel in the Martian soil and then perform a detailed analysis of the resulting sample.
Raising the number of likes on your Facebook page couldn't be easier, if you are willing to cleverly fake out Facebook's silent data-mining of your messages.
The FBI arrested an alleged cell of Russian spies this week, but the group weren't making off with secret documents or classified intelligence, the agency claims. This group is accused of having illegally supplied $50 million worth of commercially available high-tech components that could be used for military projects -- all while Moscow is busy building a slew of new weapons.
Microsoft announces a Windows Phone 8 event for Oct. 29 in San Francisco.
Toyota has revealed a one-seater EV with facial recognition software and driver behavior pattern recognition. And to open the doors, you flap your arms like a bird. Seriously.
Curiosity checking in at its home on Gale crater would seem to give the rover some?early-adopter hipster cred. But?according to Foursquare, NASA has already checked-in IN SPACE. Which leads us to wonder: Shouldn't planet-hopping robots and scientific agencies have better things to do with their time?Though some other rovers and researchers might like to,?Foursquare isn't ...
Twitter's Bootstrap framework for web developers is flying the coop, headed off on a new life of its own. Right now nothing is changing, but the developers behind Bootstrap are leaving Twitter and plan to spin the Bootstrap project out into its own open source organization.
Even after seeing a pitcher take a line drive to the skull, Major League Baseball players aren't convinced pitching helmets are a good idea. Precedent tells us otherwise.
Get a new look at the Periodic Table of Elements with Japanese illustrator Bunpei Yorifuji's new book, "Wonderful Life with the Elements: Periodic Table Personified." Each element gets a humorously drawn character as well as a list of important facts and trivia.
AT&T has announced that it will carry Nokia's Lumia 920 and 820 Windows Phone 8 handsets, and that the Lumia 920 will be exclusive to its customers.
There's still no native Google Maps app for iOS 6, but if you need your Street View fix, Google has unveiled a Flash-free version of Street View that works in any mobile web browser.
Our new stock index tracks top Facebook brands and will shed light on the efficacy of social advertising.
Here's what has to happen for Facebook to quintuple in value to $141 billion.
With the new series of British sci-fi sit-com starting on TV tonight in the U.K., we attend a Q&A session with stars Craig Charles, Robert Llewelyn and Chris Barrie and writer Doug Naylor
With reports only recently confirming that fracking is not, as long as its properly regulated, the earthquake-generating terror we thought it was, a US geothermal company has decided it's a great idea to extract clean energy from a dormant volcano by hydrofracking its hot underbelly to generate steam.
Evolutionary pharmacologist Ethan Perlstein is interested in exploring the psy?chophar?ma?col?ogy behind amphetamines, which includes crystal meth. He's asking the public to help his crowdfund several experiments to advance mental health research, which is so often stymied by misunderstandings and blind spots, both public and scholarly.
This new still from Iron Man 3 shows superhero Tony Stark (presumably) carrying a long chain of people to safety, each person dangling from the last person's hands. Movie magic aside, how many people could Iron Man actually carry using standard physics?
You could tell by its mixed reviews that many critics didn't know they just took a class in cartoon physics after watching director Genndy Tartakovsky's debut feature . But the viewing public caught on right away -- audiences were so captivated by its gut-busting gags and anti-realism animation that they helped it become the highest-grossing September opening in film history. Wired talked to the director about the film's success and what it means for the future of cartoon feature films.
For many of us growing up in the 70s and 80s, the magic of childhood was inextricably influenced by the artistic genius of Brian and Wendy Froud. The visionaries behind the enchanting imagery in such Jim Henson masterpieces as The Dark Crystal and Labryinth the Frouds, both individually and as a creative team, have touched the subconscious of myth-pop culture with their unparalleled aesthetic.
The Fitbit Zip body monitor has a clip on one side that hooks to your clothes. Slip it in your pocket, on your collar, or pretty much anywhere, and it begins tracking your movements each day.
Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of 2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a high-tech Air Force tiltrotor aircraft -- and everything changed.
It?s easy to assume reality TV is the place where bad TV went to hide when the rest of TV got a lot better. Like that old Wild West town where criminals congregate, reality TV is often perceived as the last, ?vast wasteland?. But by turning all of us into virtual anthropologists, reality TV may lead to the improvement of Western civilization.
There's so much good stuff in the world of pop culture these days that this week's episode of ). Time to fill up.
It's one of the last games that Electronic Arts is still releasing on Nintendo's aging Wii hardware. But buyers of this year's footy sim got a nasty surprise: EA didn't bother developing a new version. On Wii, .
is a six-year study by UK photographer Murray Ballard, who has traveled the world pulling back the curtain on the amateurs, optimists, businesses and apparatuses of cryonics.