Microsoft hat bei der Ortswahl für die Vorstellung neuer Mobilfunk-Produkte am Montag mehr Glück als der Rivale Google gehabt. Der Internet-Konzern musste am Wochenende seine Veranstaltung in New York wegen des Hurrikans «Sandy» absagen.
Ein Serverproblem hat in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag die Handys von Millionen Vodafone-Kunden in Deutschland lahmgelegt. Kunden mit dem Prepaid-Tarif Callya hätten über Stunden weder telefonieren noch SMS oder andere Daten verschicken können.
Die Surentaler Gemeinden Geuensee, Schlierbach, Knutwil, Büron und Triengen haben auf dem Internet eine Strombörse aufgeschaltet. Kunden können sich auf der Internetplattform die Anlage, von der sie Strom beziehen möchten, selber aussuchen.
Während der nächsten drei Jahre darf die Gemeinde Oberrohrdorf keine neue Natel-Antenne bauen. Der Gemeinderat machte das ganze Gemeindegebiet zur Planungszone. So will er Zeit gewinnen, um die Bau- und Nutzungsordnung anzupassen.
Eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Faktoren kann bewirken, dass in den Prozessen des Kundenmanagements teilweise tiefgreifende Veränderungen entstehen. Zu den häufigsten Ursachen gehören die Einführung neuer bzw. ergänzender CRM-Technologien oder Reorganisationen.
Die Internetseite Notifymenot bietet Anwendern die Möglichkeit, nervige Benachrichtigungs-E-Mails von sozialen Medien und anderen Internet-Anbietern abzustellen. Das Portal funktioniert nicht automatisch, sondern enthält detaillierte Anweisungen, die Usern dabei helfen, ihre Posteingänge zu schonen.
Antonio Sirera heisst der neue Mann, der ab 1. November neu an der Spitze des Sicherheitsspezialisten Symantec stehen wird. Der noch amtierende Managing Director Symantec Switzerland, Frank Thonüs, wird sich einer Aussendung zufolge nach fast vier Jahren einer neuen Aufgabe innerhalb von Symantec widmen und ins Emea-Team aufrücken.
Der Walldorfer Softwarekonzern SAP denkt zunächst nicht an weitere Übernahmen. „Wir sind im Moment nicht im Übernahmemodus“, sagte SAP-Co-Chef Bill McDermott in einem Interview mit der Wirtschaftszeitung „Euro am Sonntag“.
Die unrechtmässige Verbreitung des neuen Romans der Harry-Potter-Autorin Joanne K. Rowling „Ein plötzlicher Todesfall" im Internet beschäftigt nun die Gerichte. Es gebe eine einstweilige Anordnung, bestätigte das Münchner Landgericht Medienberichte.
Offenhichtlich ist Apple ein weiterer Verkaufshit geglückt. Zwar hat Apple seine Telefone und Online-Seiten für Vorbestellungen für den iPad mini geöffnet, doch binnen 20 Minuten war das weisse Modell des iPad mini trotz des vergleichsweise hohen Preises von 329 US-Dollar bereits vergriffen, wie das Magazin Fortune berichtet.
kyriacos writes "The Greek government is charging journalist Kostas Vaxevanis with violation of the data privacy law for publishing a list of about 2,000 Greeks who hold accounts with the HSBC bank in Switzerland. While more and more austerity measures are being taken against the people of Greece, there is still no investigation of tax evasion for the people on this list by the government. The list has been in the possession of the Greek government since 2010."
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has released their much anticipated SmartGlass application for Android, allowing the Linux-based mobile OS to act as an input device for their Xbox 360 game console. While the app has its share of annoying problems, it does offer a glimpse into a possible future where consumer electronics are no longer crippled by the artificial barriers of manufacturer or operating system."
wiredmikey writes "Canada and the United States announced Friday they were launching a joint cybsersecurity plan that aims to better protect critical digital infrastructure and improve the response to cyber incidents. Under the action plan, the US Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada will cooperate to protect vital cyber systems and respond to and recover from any cyber disruptions, by improving collaboration on managing cyber incidents between their respective cyber security operation centers, enhancing information sharing and engagement with the private sector and pursuing US-Canadian collaboration to promote cyber security awareness to the public."
First time accepted submitter Serious Callers Only writes "According to reports, Imran Khan was detained yesterday by US officials for questioning on his views on United States drone strikes in Pakistan. Glenn Greenwald writing for the guardian: 'On Saturday, Khan boarded a flight from Canada to New York in order to appear at a fundraising lunch and other events. But before the flight could take off, U.S. immigration officials removed him from the plane and detained him for two hours, causing him to miss the flight. On Twitter, Khan reported that he was "interrogated on [his] views on drones" and then added: "My stance is known. Drone attacks must stop." He then defiantly noted: "Missed flight and sad to miss the Fundraising lunch in NY but nothing will change my stance."'"
hypnosec writes "Carnegie Mellon university researchers have developed a surveillance system that can not only recognize human activities but can also predict what might happen next. Scientists, through the Army-funded research dubbed Mind's Eye, have created intelligent software that recognizes human activities in video and can predict what might just happen next; sounding an alarm if it detects anomalous behavior. "
An anonymous reader writes "What would you do to 'go geek' if you had a major remodel on your hands? My wife and I are re-modeling my in-law's 3000 sq foot single-level house, and we're both very wired, tech-savvy individuals. We will both have offices, as well as TVs in the bedroom and dining room. My question to the community is: What would you do if you had 10-20,000 to spend for this kind of remodel project? What kind of hardware/firmware would you install? I'd love to have a digital 'command center' to run an LCD wall-calendar for the family, and be able to play my PS3 from anywhere in the house (ie, if everyone wants to watch Netflix while I'm in the middle of some Borderlands). What else have geeks done/planned to do? This is a test run for a much, much nicer house down the road, so don't be overly afraid of cost concerns for really great ideas. We will be taking most of the house down to studs, so don't factor demolition into costs. For culinary-minded geeks, I'd love any ideas you have to surprise my wife with cool kitchen gadgets or designs."
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Henry Alford writes that in an ideal world, we would all use Google to be better friends by having better recall and to research our new friends and acquaintances to get to know them better. 'It's perfectly natural and almost always appropriate,' says social anthropologist Kate Fox. 'Obviously, one is always going to have to be discreet when talking about what you've found. But our brains haven't changed since the Stone Age, and humans are designed to live in small groups in which everyone knows one another. Googling is an attempt to recreate a primeval, preindustrial pattern of interaction.' But the devil is in the details. If we tell a new friend that we've read her LinkedIn entry or her wedding announcement, it probably won't be perceived as trespassing, as long we bear no ulterior motives. If we happen to reveal that we've also read her long-ago abandoned blog about her cat, we're more likely to be seen as chronically bored than menacing. 'I'm so baffled by this idea that we're not supposed to Google people,' says Dean Olsher. 'Why would there be a line? Like everyone else is allowed to know something but I'm not?' But doesn't taking the google shortcut to a primeval, preindustrial pattern of recognition sometimes rob encounters of their inherent mystery or even get us in trouble? Tina Jordan, an executive in book publishing who has the same name as a former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, says, 'I typically tell any blind dates before I meet them that they probably shouldn't Google my name, otherwise they'll be sorely disappointed when they meet me.'"
danomac writes "Police agencies in Canada want to have better tools to do online surveillance. Bill C-30 was to include new legislation (specifically Section 34) that would give police access to information without a warrant. This can contain your name, your IP address, and your mobile phone number. This, of course, creates all sorts of issues with privacy online. The police themselves say they have concerns with Section 34. Apparently, the way it is worded, it is not just police that can request the information, but any government agent. Would you trust the government with this kind of power?"
theodp writes "A little over a year ago, an iPhone 4s prototype walked into a San Francisco bar, prompting a controversial manhunt by a now-deceased Apple investigator and the SFPD. Now, Wired reports that a Nexus 4 prototype walked into a San Francisco bar last month, prompting Google to sic its security team on 'Sudsy,' a San Francisco bartender who notified Google that he'd found their phone, which was slated to make its debut at a since-cancelled Android event on Oct. 29. When the 'Google Police' showed up at the bar, Sudsy's co-worker sent the 'desperate' Google investigator on a wild goose chase which landed him in an under-siege SFPD Station, from which he and Sudsy's lawyer had to be escorted out of under the watch of police in full riot gear with automatic weapons so the pair could arrange a 1 a.m. pickup of the phone."
CowboyRobot writes "As budgets are pinched by reduced tax collection, many U.S. states are facing a possibility of not being able to handle the ever-increasing number of data breaches. 70% of state chief information security officers (CISOs) reported a data breach this year, each of which can cost up to $5M in some states. 'Cybersecurity accounts for about 1 to 2 percent of the overall IT budget in state agencies. ... 82 percent of the state CISOs point to phishing and pharming as the top threats to their agencies, a threat they say will continue in 2013, followed by social engineering, increasingly sophisticated malware threats, and mobile devices.' The full 2012 Deloitte-National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) Cybersecurity Study is available online (PDF)."
jfruh writes "CoDeSys, a piece of software running on industrial control systems from hundreds of vendors, has been revealed to be easily hackable by security researchers, giving rise to a scenario where computer hacking could cross the line into the physical world. Worse, many of these systems are unneccessarily connected to the Internet, which is a terrible, terrible idea."