Um den Bedarf nach weiteren Frequenzen für die digitale Verbreitung von Radioprogrammen im DAB+-Format in Erfahrung zu bringen, eröffnet das Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Bakom) eine Interessenabklärung. Sie richtet sich laut Mitteilung an Unternehmen, die in der Schweiz auf sprachregionaler, regionaler oder lokaler Ebene DAB+-Netze aufbauen und betreiben möchten.
Schwul oder hetero, Christ oder Moslem, konservativ oder liberal - das will nicht jeder über sich verraten. Doch es lässt sich mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit aus den „Gefällt mir"-Klicks schlussfolgern, die Menschen auf dem Sozialen Netzwerk Facebook verteilen. Das fanden britische Forscher bei einer Untersuchung von 58 000 Facebook-Nutzern in den USA heraus.
Mit Reformplänen für den nationalen Telekommunikationsmarkt nimmt Mexikos Regierung Multimilliardär Carlos Slim ins Visier. Der reichste Mann der Welt kontrolliert über seine America Movil rund 70 Prozent des Mobilfunk- und 80 Prozent des Festnetzmarktes in Mexiko.
Der US-amerikanische Telekom-Riese AT&T streckt die Fühler nach dem Subkontinent aus. AT&T plant, 25 Prozent plus X der Anteile an dem indischen Telekomriesen Reliance Jio Infocomm zu erwerben. Dies meldete die „Times of India“ ohne Angabe von Quellen. Als möglichen Kaufpreis nannte die Zeitung 3,5 Milliarden US-Dollar.
Die slowakische Regierung unter Premier Robert Fico wird jetzt doch den Verkauf des staatlichen 49-Prozent-Anteils am Telekommunikationskonzern Slovak Telekom prüfen, der mehrheitlich der Deutschen Telekom gehört. Mit dem Erlös könnte der Staat die zwei privaten Gesundheitsversicherer im Land aufkaufen.
Der Grossinvestor und Milliardär Carl Icahn hat ein vertrauliches Abkommen mit dem PC-Hersteller Dell geschlossen, wodurch der Investor die Dell-Bücher unter Augenschein nehmen darf. Dies berichtet das Wall Street Journal.
Die auf Reiseversicherungen fokussierte Allianz Global Assistance Schweiz wird seinen umfangreichen Datenbestand ab sofort mit dem In-Memory Datenbank-Management-System Exasolution von Exasol analysieren. Mit Hilfe der Lösung wolle man künftig schnell und präzise auf Marktentwicklungen reagieren, heisst es in einer Aussendung dazu.
Die geplante Reform der EU-Datenschutzverordnung wird wie bereits mehrfach berichtet von massivem Lobbying begleitet. Das Projekt LobbyPlag zeigt, dass viele Abänderungsanträge der EU-Parlamentarier teilweise exakte Kopien von Lobby-Papieren großer Konzerne sind. Wie die Initiative Europe vs. Facebook berichtet, wurden 3.133 Abänderungsanträge eingebracht.
Iranische Behörden haben zahlreiche verschlüsselte Virtual Private Networks (VPN) blockiert, mit denen Nutzer die Internet-Filter der Regierung umgehen. Das berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters unter Berufung auf iranische Medien.
Das deutsche Bundeskartellamt hat massive Bedenken gegen die geplante gemeinsame Onlinevideothek von ARD und ZDF. Die Zusammenarbeit der beiden öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender bei ihrem Internet-Videoverleih würde es mit sich bringen, "dass insbesondere die Preise und die Auswahl der Videos miteinander koordiniert würden", erklärte Kartellamts-Präsident Andreas Mundt am Montag in Bonn. "Die kartellrechtlichen Probleme liegen auf der Hand."
After months of excitement following Disney's buyout of Lucasfilm, two major Star Wars animation projects are in flux.
The Navy's next big research program wants to make the sea service's software algorithms much, much smarter -- so much so that they can automatically detect concealed threats based on incomplete data.
Neighborhood pet poisonings are terribly common. Too common. Too many people believe they are justified in poisoning our animals, our pets -- our family members, writes Wired Science blogger Deborah Blum. It's time for these reprehensible acts to stop.
Marvel Comics announced that it will make 700 different #1 comics free as digital issues, release weekly content for mobile devices, and add adaptive audio soundtracks to its digital comics.
SpaceX has reached the point of mission multi-tasking. Its Dragon spacecraft is currently orbiting the earth attached to the International Space Station after a suspenseful post-launch fix cleared a problem preventing on-board thrusters from working properly. With Dragon in orbit, the SpaceX team in Texas launched the company?s Grasshopper rocket on a record setting flight.
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is close to launching a collaborative video startup, taking democratized video in a more social direction. He follows in the footsteps of Amazon, AutoDesk, and Google, all of which have efforts under way to make online video more social.
The ethically questionable Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone is at it again with their iPhone knockoffs. The latest: an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean-running "iPhone 5S."
TiVo Mini will replace your second DVR. But, won't completely do away with additional subscription costs.
Shaquille O'Neal has shifted his focus from basketball to business, and especially tech.
In addition to building organisms and storing Shakespeare's sonnets, DNA could also keep your favorite nerd-shirt from going up in flames. Normally, cotton fabrics are highly flammable. But when scientists tried to set fire to cotton coated with herring sperm DNA, the fabric refused to burn, the team reported in Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
Tesla Motors is quietly pushing back production of the Model X SUV until late next year so it can focus on cranking out the gorgeous S sedan, which means hundreds of people who forked over $5,000 deposits won't see their falcon wing-doored electric mall runners until early 2015.
On the heels of the director of the US Centers for Disease Control declaring emerging antibiotic resistance a "nightmare," the UK's Chief Medical Officer released a report in which she calls resistance a "catastrophic threat" that poses a national security risk as serious as terrorism. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna has the report.
Efforts like the recently launched Code.org try to make programming more appealing to students -- an admirable goal -- but if we're serious about expanding computer science in schools we need to start talking to teachers.
North Korea is threatening to nuke South Korea and China is rapidly modernizing its military. But the number-one threat to the stability of the Asia-Pacific region is climate change, says the top U.S. military officer there.
Forget touch screens, the voice-powered web is coming. While voice-powered pages aren't yet ready for prime time, developers are experimenting and discovering how voice commands might fit with and perhaps even rearrange the web as we know it. A new demo from developer Jordan Moore showcases Chrome's voice-powered API to control elements like font size and page color.
Is $60 for the latest two-thumbed gore-fest a good deal? Depends on how you look at it.
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The fate of 450 chimpanzees owned or supported by the United States government will soon be decided. Most will likely be sent to sanctuaries, but 50 may be kept in captivity, used for medical experiments in decades to come. Is it worth it?
Last month the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the first time approved a device capable of restoring sight to the blind. In this gallery we take a look at five more strategies that in the not-so-distant future could make blindness a thing of the past.
After months of teasing, the Hopper With Sling is finally here. And, fortunately, it's worth the wait.
The result, a body of work developed over the last three years, is a series of iconic objects, recreated in high (but not quite perfect) detail, out of paper. And a set of new pieces, including the bench seen above, will be featured in Tomczyk's upcoming show, opening May 4 at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles.
Sandberg's "sort of feminist manifesto," is at its best when it shines a light on the more shadowy nooks in which sexism hides in the workplace.
Remember when you were a kid and you used to stare up into the clouds and pick out shapes and animals? Well Chris Keegan has taken that timeless exercise to whole new level by applying it to photos of space from NASA?s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Finally, one day after work, she asked to play
As the hugely influential Vertigo Comics celebrates its 20th anniversary (and the end of an era), we present an interactive infographic of every ongoing comic it published over the last two decades.
After much fan hand-wringing, the reboot of
Budget cuts will stop the Navy from deploying to South America this year. Which might not sound like such a big deal, until you consider that South America is where the Navy gives its newest tech a trial by fire.
DirecTV's new set-top box does a great job of auto-recording shows you might like, giving you more viewing options. But it lacks the killer place-shifting features offered by DISH.
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Located 9,000 light-years away, NGC 3576 is a gigantic region of glowing gas about 100 light-years across, where stars are currently forming. The intense radiation and winds from the massive stars are shredding the clouds from which they form, creating dramatic scenery. The black area in the right middle part of the image is dark because of the presence of very dense, opaque clouds of gas and dust. The data used to make this colour-composite images were taken with ISAAC on the VLT, in the framework of observing proposal 079.C-0203(A). The image processing was done by Yuri Beletsky (ESO) and H?nnes Heyer (ESO). It is based on data taken through 4 different narrow-band filters centred around 1.21, 1.71, 2.09 and 3.28 microns.