Die seit September 2011 als CEO und Vorstandsvorsitzende für die Geschicke des US-amerikanischen IT-Gigagenten Hewlett-Packard (HP) verantwortliche Meg Whitman erhielt im vergangenen Geschäftsjahr 2012 zusätzlich zu ihrem Grundgehalt von einem US-Dollar Aktien und Aktienoptionen sowie Bonuszahlungen in Höhe von 15,4 Millionen US-Dollar (rund 11,6 Millionen Euro).
Mozilla macht es Google nach und rüstet den Firefox ab Version 19 mit einem internen PDF-Viewer aus. Technologisch basiert der Firefox-PDF-Viewer auf dem Javascript pdf.js. Mithilfe des Scripts wandelt der Firefox die PDF-Datei in für den Browser verständliches CSS und HTML um. Weitere Plugins werden somit nicht mehr benötigt.
In der Schweiz hat man allgemein Anspruch auf zwei Jahre Produktgarantie. Die Allianz der Konsumentenschützer hat aber festgestellt, dass einige Verkäufer von Apple-Produkten nur ein Jahr Garantie gewähren.
Das Computerprogramm Watson aus dem Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz könnte erstmals in der Lage sein, normale Gespräche zu führen und Feinheiten der Sprache - wie umgangssprachliche Redewendungen - verstehen. Deshalb hat IBM-Wissenschafter Eric Brown mithilfe seines Teams einen Filter für das Urban Dictionary entwickelt, der dem Supercomputer eine Unterscheidung zwischen höflicher und profaner Sprache ermöglichen soll.
In Deutschland soll die heimliche Videoüberwachung am Arbeitsplatz verboten werden. Nach einem Bericht der "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung" vom Samstag haben sich Union und FDP überraschend auf ein entsprechendes Gesetz zum Arbeitnehmerdatenschutz geeinigt. Im Gegenzug wollen sie allerdings die offenen Videoüberwachung ausweiten.
Die Marktforscher aus dem Hause NPD Research haben berechnet, dass die Verkaufszahlen von Tablets die von Notebooks im laufenden Jahr überholen werden. Den Herstellern herkömmlicher Computer stünden harte Zeiten bevor.
Die Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas ist dank Tablets und Smartphones zu alter Stärke zurückgekehrt. Die diesjährige Messe sei die grösste Show in ihrer 45-jährigen Geschichte gewesen, sagte Gary Shapiro, Chef der Messeveranstalterin CEA.
Die bernische Steuerverwaltung baut die Angebote für die Online-Steuererklärung weiter aus. Neu gibt es ab Frühjahr 2013 die elektronische Steuererklärung für juristische Personen. Und einen unkomplizierten Zugriff für Treuhänder oder Familienangehörige, die Steuererklärungen von anderen ausfüllen.
Erst 26 jährig, hat sich der bekannte Entwickler und Computer-Aktivist Aaron Swartz am 11. Januar das Leben genommen. Dies berichtet die MIT-Publikation "The Tech" unter Berufung auf Swartz' Onkel Michael Wolf.
Der IT-Gigant Hewlett-Packard (HP) hat auch in der Schweiz ein schwieriges Jahr hinter sich. In einem umkämpften Markt stagnierte der Umsatz, die Margen gerieten unter Druck. Die Profitabilität sei gesunken, die Preise erodierten insbesondere durch den Einkaufstourismus, den auch kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) intensiviert hätten, sagte der neue HP-Schweiz-Chef Marcel Borgo an der Jahresmedienkonferenz in Dübendorf.
Chevrolet is live-streaming the reveal of the all-new Corvette tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern/4 p.m. Pacific.
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ESA?s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin.The images, near to where Ladon Valles enters this large impact region reveal a variety of features, most notably the double interconnected impact craters Sigli and Shambe, the basins of which are criss-crossed by extensive fracturing.
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We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn't just a sentiment; it's literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems will go unsolved, or be solved a little less brilliantly than they might have been. And that's just what we know. The world is robbed of a half-century of all the things we can't even imagine Aaron would have accomplished with the remainder of his life.
A federal judge late Friday blocked enforcement of a California voter-approved measure that would have dramatically curtailed the online, First Amendment rights of registered sex offenders. Proposition 35, which passed with 81 percent of the vote in November, would have required anyone who is a registered sex offender -- including people with misdemeanor offenses such as indecent exposure and whose offenses were not related to activity on the internet -- to turn over to law enforcement a list of all identifiers they use online as well as a list of service providers they use.
This is a near-infrared, colour-coded composite image of a sky field in the southwestern part of the galactic star-forming region Messier 17. In this image, young and heavily obscured stars are recognized by their red colour. Bluer objects are either foreground stars or well-developed massive stars whose intense light ionizes the hydrogen in this region. The diffuse light that is visible nearly everywhere in the photo is due to emission from hydrogen atoms that have (re-)combined from protons and electrons.
Pinoccio, an Indiegogo-funded microcontroller designed to let you build and link projects to each other and to the web, is DIY Internet of Things in a small, programmable package.
Wired Classic: This gallery from March 2011 is an all-time reader favorite. This collection of ingenious spy gadgets includes a raft of devious tricks from the CIA, former Soviet bloc and other countries.
The gurgles, whistles and squeaks of humpback whales singing off Hawaii's island shores can now be heard live, courtesy of underwater microphones placed near Puako, Hawaii by the Jupiter Research Foundation.
Self-taught sculpture artist Haroshi uses the discarded leftovers of broken skateboards to create striking wooden creations.
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An online petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures last month, a threshold obliging the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets. The White House responded on Friday.OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TO "Secure resources and ...
A Texas high school student on Friday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court's order upholding her school suspension for refusing to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the "Mark of the Beast."The Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-laden student-body cards when ...
Industrial Light and Magic share the five key steps in creating the best CGI Hulk ever.
Stop us if you've heard this before: Western forces have launched a war in a foreign country against terrorists. Only this time, so far, it's the French doing the fighting in Mali.
In the U.S., waiting for high-speed fiber internet to come to your neighborhood is a bit like waiting for a file to download over dial-up. It's gonna take a while. But in China, the government will soon require all new homes constructed where public fiber optic telecom networks are available to be equipped for access to those networks.
Three days before the moon-orbiting Ebb spacecraft collided with a lunar mountain, its on-board cameras captured some striking images of the pockmarked moon's northern hemisphere -- from just six miles up. On Jan. 10, NASA released what look like scenes from a science fiction movie: Two probe's-eye views of the lunar farside, made from Ebb's stitched-together images.
Each week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail.
A study conducted by Intel, the United Nations and the U.S. State Department finds that in developing countries internet access among women is 23 percent lower than among men.
Flowing, curvaceous gadgets took a back seat to boxier shapes with sharp, straight lines at CES this year, indicating a spreading design trend that experts say largely originates from Apple.
President Barack Obama signed legislation Thursday granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they're watching on Netflix. It's great news for those wanting to flood their Facebook feeds with whatever time-suck they're watching. But it's bad news for privacy. Lawmakers cut from the legislative package language requiring the authorities to get a warrant to read your e-mail or other data stored in the cloud.
The idea for a live-action?Star Wars?show has been in development for years under Star Wars?creator George Lucas, and now that Disney's recent $4 billion acquisition?of the massively popular sci-fi franchise is complete, ABC is?taking a look at the long-awaited series, said the network's entertainment president Paul Lee in an interview with?Entertainment Weekly."We'd love to do ...
Google is now offering a beta channel release for its Chrome for Android web browser. If you want to test new features, or just like getting those features before everyone else, you can grab a copy of the Chrome beta from the Google Play Store today.
Fuji updated the X100 with the X100S. The S stands for speed because this camera is crazy fast. And while the camera's internals got a boost, the X100S still carries the classic body of the X100.
A violent collision millions of years in the past may have stretched out one arm of the spiral galaxy NGC 6872, making it the largest known spiral galaxy and perhaps generating a new galaxy in its wake.
The FAA will be conducting a "comprehensive review of the design and production of the Boeing 787," according to Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. Concern over Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner has grown this week after a lithium ion battery caught fire on board one of the new airliners in Boston on Jan. 7, one of several issues that have arisen since the airplane entered service more than a year ago.
Google Fiber was supposed to be a shaming exercise. But any shame felt by the country's big-name ISPs hasn't yet to produce the sort of ultra-high-speed internet services we've all been hoping for.
The Pentagon is grounding planes and leaving ships in port -- not because it wants to, but because Congress' budgetary chaos leaves it little choice.
There?s something eerie about a clown-striped fumigation tent on a dark, residential street. It evokes a sense of the uncanny?a mood that photographer Robert Benson went to great lengths to capture in his new photo series.