Nach dem Start von Windows 8 kommt das Geschäft im Tablet-Markt für Microsoft nur schleppend in Schwung. Von den rund einem Dutzend angekündigten Tablet-Computern mit dem neuen Betriebssystem sind in den USA laut einem Medienbericht gerade einmal fünf Geräte aktuell verfügbar.
Apple hat seinen iTunes Store in 56 weiteren Ländern geöffnet, darunter auch in Russland, Südafrika, der Türkei und Indien. Damit ist der Musik- und Medien-Store in insgesamt 119 Ländern der Welt verfügbar, teilte Apple mit. Neben internationalen Künstlern hat Apple jeweils auch Musik lokaler Grössen im Programm.
Deutschlands IT-Industrie wird nach Einschätzung des Branchenverbands Bitkom auch im wirtschaftlich schwierigen Jahr 2013 zulegen. „Das Wachstum dürfte mit 1,6 Prozent etwas schwächer ausfallen als in diesem Jahr. Mit 154,3 Mrd. Euro wird aber ein neuer Umsatzrekord erzielt", sagte Bitkom-Vizechef Heinz-Paul Bonn in Hannover.
Der Schweizer ICT-Markt wird das laufende Jahr mit einer roten Null abschliessen (-0.6 Prozent), für 2013 wird mit einer leichten Erholung im B2B-Bereich um plus 1.2 Prozent gerechnet. Die vielerorts eingeleiteten Sparmassnahmen bremsen aber ein stärkeres Wachstum der ICT-Ausgaben weiterhin ab.
Die Schweizerische Post hat den Zugriff auf ihr Internetangebot für Menschen mit Behinderungen optimiert. Neu ist der Kundendienst in deutschschweizer, französischer und italienischer Gebärdensprache erreichbar. Gleichzeitig wurde der klassische und mobile Zugriff auf www.postshop.ch barrierefrei gestaltet, wie die Post mitteilt.
12 bis 16-jährige Jugendliche entwickeln während einer Projektwoche gemeinsam ihre eigene Schülerzeitung in Form einer iPhone-App. So soll die Faszination für die Informatik entfacht werden. Der Verband ICT-Berufsbildung Schweiz sponsert sechs dieser Projektwochen inklusive professioneller Betreuung im Gesamtwert von rund 100.000.- Franken.
Für insgesamt 170 Millionen Euro will Nokia seine Unternehmenszentrale im finnischen Espoo an das ebenfalls finnische Unternehmen Exilion verkaufen. Gleichzeitig einigten sich die beiden Vertragspartner im Zuge eines sogenannten Rückmietverkaufs auf ein langfristiges Leasing-Arrangement.
Der angeschlagene, japanische Elektronik-Konzern Sharp hat laut einem Medienbericht einen ersten US-Investor gefunden. Der Chip-Spezialist Qualcomm steige mit fünf Milliarden Yen (rund 46,6 Millionen Euro) ein, berichtete die Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg. Außerdem wollten die beiden Unternehmen die Kräfte bei der Display-Produktion bündeln, hieß es unter Berufung auf informierte Personen. Sharp will laut Medienberichten auch den Chip-Primus Intel und den PC-Hersteller Dell als Partner gewinnen.
Bei dem Telefonnetz-Ausrüster Nokia Siemens Network steht einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge die Tochter Services vor dem Aus. Grund sei der Verlust eines Auftrages des Großkunden Deutsche Telekom, berichtete die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" am Dienstag unter Berufung auf Firmenkreise. Die Telekom habe den Vertrag zur Wartung von oberirdischen Telefonleitungen mit Jahresende gekündigt. Verhandlungen über einen Nachfolgeauftrag seien gescheitert.
Im Nachgang zu seiner Patentklage gegen Samsung hat der schwedische Telekomausrüster Ericsson in den USA ein Importverbot für Produkte der Südkoreaner beantragt. Der Antrag sei Bestandteil des Rechtsstreits, teilte Ericsson am Montag mit. Das Importverbot sei allerdings nicht das Ziel der Auseinandersetzung.
Sure, there are all sort of useful things you could do on the web, but why? It's so much more fun to embrace the "useless" web.
A giant impact early in the history of Iapetus deformed the Saturnian moon, flattening its poles and producing a spiky, equatorial mountain range.
LinkedIn has its year-end roundup of the buzzwords most overused in LinkedIn profiles culled from its 187 million members. If you find yourself describing yourself with any of these terms, stop. Now.
Plans by the first California local government to deploy a surveillance drone were postponed Tuesday amid protests by rights groups who complained that Alameda County authorities were rushing the plan without public input. Alameda County is moving to become one of dozens of local law enforcement agencies nationwide to deploy the unmanned crafts. Some of the agencies include the Seattle Police Department, Miami-Dade Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
NASA's Opportunity rover has begun examining ancient clays on Mars that would have formed in the presence of water with neutral acidity and stumbled across an intriguing new geologic puzzle.
Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too.
Shane Black is ready to take over the latest Iron Man film and take a more "mythic" look at Tony Stark.
A persistent group of European law students have forced Facebook to change its privacy practices. But they want more and are raising money to go to court.
The State Department has quietly built up its own air force, focused on counternarcotics. And a new announcement shows it could be worth up to $10 billion for the contractors who keep it flying.
Get into the holiday spirit with advent calendars for web nerds -- 24 tutorials to tide you through the holiday season.
Scientists have grown bacteria in a very low atmospheric pressure environment, similar to the surface of Mars.
Jacopo Piattoni of the University of Bologna and colleagues at the University of Rome used a 3-D printer to make the base for a CubeSat ? the cheap, 4-inch, cube-shaped satellites that hitch a ride on space-bound rockets.
There is a lot you can do with $166. For instance, spending a minute of time on the phone with Dallas Mavericks owner and investor Mark Cuban getting entrepreneurial advice.
Ever wanted to look like the star in an Italian movie, wending along the coastal roads, wearing dark sunglasses with a girl in the passenger seat with a scarf trailing in the wind? Now you can have the look and the car, all without burning a drop of gasoline.
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A team of researchers might have figured out how to use remote sensing to identify hidden ancient archaeological sites in the dense Amazonian forest.
The HTML5 video element gets more attention, but, as the BBC's latest experiment shows, the HTML5 audio element is equally revolutionary, perhaps even more so thanks to the work-in-progress Web Audio API.
An extraterrestrial impact crater is hiding near a Canadian ghost town. Nearly 5 miles across and 3,000 feet deep, the stealth crater has lurked just west of Bow City, Alberta for millions of years, scientists reported Dec. 3 at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.
Despite long experience with the ways of the world, older people are especially vulnerable to fraud. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), up to 80% of scam victims are over 65. One explanation may lie in a brain region that serves as a built-in crook detector. Called the anterior insula, this structure?which fires up in response to the face of an unsavory character?is less active in older people, possibly making them less cagey than younger folks, a new study finds.
NASA has a big new rocket in the works, one designed to carry astronauts into space for the first time since the Saturn V took us to the moon. The Space Launch System will, among other things, make a trip to an asteroid, but before it can do that it must make a few trips to the wind tunnel.
We take a look at the party invitations Apple, Samsung, Google and others should send, but won't.
But this is what we should be debating ? which videogames make the cut? ? not whether there should be videogames in the MoMA collection at all.
Iran says it captured another U.S. drone. But the drone Tehran claims to have nabbed ain't exactly top-of-the-line.
It would happen a couple of times each month at the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago. Ben Hagen would start giggling and send out a web link to his coworkers, the geeks who ran the technology operation for the Obama reelection campaign. Soon, the sound of Kenny Loggins' inspirational 1979 hit "This Is It" would fill the office, and the dancing Otter would pop up on machine after machine. It was Hagan's way of telling the team he'd found another bug in the group's web code.
Benny Burtt, an assistant sound effects editor for Skywalker Sound, the audio arm of Lucasfilm, is inside the new Bay Bridge on a rainy Friday with three other Skywalkers. They?re using a gun to help record the sonic impulse response ? an audio impression ? of the bridge?s interior before the bridge opens and Homeland Security closes it off.
The internet wasn't built by money-hungry American corporations and Silicon Valley startups. It was built by a worldwide community of government researchers and academics who were primarily interested in bringing the benefits of computer networking to as many people as possible. It was built by men and women like Tan Tin Wee.
The Navy talks about its drone helicopter the way Apple geeks gushed over the first-generation iPhone in 2007. But like that early iPhone, the Fire Scout is seriously buggy.
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Opt out of the hospital gown and monitor your blood pressure from home using this table-top contraption.