Bei der eidgenössischen Volksabstimmung vom 9. Juni können die StimmbürgerInnen bereits in zwölf Kantonen elektronisch abstimmen. Der Bundesrat hat die entsprechenden Gesuche gutgeheissen, wobei alle beteiligten Kantone bereits erfolgreiche Versuche mit Vote électronique durchgeführt hätten.
Tablets werden sich in diesem Jahr nach Schätzung von Experten besser verkaufen als erwartet. Die Marktforschungs-Firma IDC hob ihre Absatzprognose um rund zehn Prozent auf 190,9 Millionen Geräte an. Sie rechnet damit, dass 2013 Tablets mit dem Google-Betriebssystem Android bei den Verkäufen erstmals das iPad von Apple überholen werden.
Cyber-Angriffe und Internetspionage stellen nach Ansicht der US-Geheimdienste mittlerweile eine grössere Gefahr für die Sicherheit der USA dar als der Terrorismus. Dies ist das Ergebnis des jährlichen Bedrohungsberichts, den der Chef der nationalen Geheimdienste, James Clapper, dem zuständigen Ausschuss des US-Senats vorstellte.
Google muss wegen des unberechtigten Mitschnitts von Daten aus WLAN-Netzwerken durch seine Street-View-Kamerawagen sieben Mio. Dollar (5,39 Mio. Euro) berappen. Auf die Zahlung einigte sich der Internetkonzern mit den Generalstaatsanwälten von 38 US-Bundesstaaten.
Der insolvente Fotopionier Kodak hofft trotz eines Milliardenverlusts weiterhin auf einen Neustart als Druckspezialist. Die Kunden stünden zu Kodak, erklärte Firmenchef Antonio Perez am Montag (Ortszeit) am Sitz in Rochester im US-Bundesstaat New York. Perez geht davon aus, dass das Unternehmen wie geplant zur Jahresmitte die Insolvenz hinter sich lassen kann.
Anlässlich des "Welttages der Internetzensur" hat die Organisation Reporter ohne Grenzen (ROG/RSF) einen Bericht über die "Feinde des Internets" veröffentlicht. In dem Ranking werden aber nicht nur Regierungen in die Kritik genommen, sondern erstmals auch westliche Firmen, die Sicherheitstechnologien zur Überwachung bereitstellen. "In den Händen autoritärer Regime verwandeln sie sich in digitale Waffen", betonte ROG in einer Aussendung am Dienstag.
Cyberangreifer aus China nahmen zuletzt immer wieder Ziele in den USA und europäische Ländern ins Visier, dennoch reagieren die Staaten bisher eher verhalten auf die Gefahr aus dem Internet. IT-Angriffe würden im Westen noch immer unterschätzt - China sei hingegen offensiv und defensiv im Cyberkrieg am Besten aufgestellt, sagte Sandro Gayken, Experte für IT-Sicherheit an der Freien Universität Berlin, im Gespräch mit der APA. "China hat die Achillesferse vieler Rüstungsprojekte gut erkannt, nämlich dass alles auf sehr einfachen und ungesicherten Computern basiert."
Für das Binnig und Rohrer Nanotechnology Center in Rüschlikon und die damit verbundene „Innovationsleistung und Grösse der Reinvestition in der Schweiz“ ist IBM der Swiss Tell Award 2012 zugesprochen worden.
Der insolvente Fotopionier Kodak hofft trotz eines Milliardenverlusts weiterhin auf einen Neustart als Druckspezialist. Die Kunden stünden zu Kodak, erklärte Firmenchef Antonio Perez am Sitz in Rochester im US-Bundesstaat New York. Perez geht davon aus, dass das Unternehmen wie geplant zur Jahresmitte die Insolvenz hinter sich lassen kann.
Die Vorbereitungen für die Swiss Online Marketing (SOM) laufen auf Hochtouren. Die zweitägige Schweizer Fachmesse für Digital Marketing startet am 10. April und begnügt sich nicht nur mit den aktuellen Trends und einer Plattform für Erfahrungsaustausch.
Galaxy S IV rumors and so-called leaked photos and videos have been spreading. And now Samsung itself is showing off its next phone -- albeit in shadowy darkness.
Netflix has provided proof that your lousy ISP is the reason the good Doctor looked like a pixelated blob the last time you watched Doctor Who. The streaming service says only one ISP in the United States provides the 2.45 Mbps download bit-rate needed to deliver 720p audio and video.The streaming colossus launched a dedicated ...
iCoolHunt is a gamified photo-sharing service centered around trend-spotting, otherwise known as "cool-hunting."
Note to aspiring engineers: Building your own plug-in hybrid does more than just void your warranty. It can risk your car's life.
Pinterest is rolling out a web analytics system to show just how much traffic and chatter it drives to other websites. But it's already known that Pinterest sends incredibly valuable visitors to online stores. Soon enough, Pinterest will be trying to monetize that traffic.
Much as they're a fixture of the post-Iraq and Afghanistan insurgent battlefields, improvised explosive devices have come to the Syrian revolution in a major way.
NASA's Curiosity rover has literally hit pay dirt: strong evidence that ancient Mars could have been a great place for organisms to thrive.
Contrary to much of the fear-mongering that has been spreading through the nation's capital on cybersecurity matters lately, the director of national intelligence bucked that trend on Tuesday when he told a senate committee that there was little chance of a major cyberattack against critical infrastructure in the next two years.
Activision will add in-game purchases to
It's tiny, but this quantum refrigerator takes less than a day to cool an object much larger than it to within a fraction of a degree of absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature anything can ever reach.
The rock star cliché for a band headed to South by Southwest is a handful of gnarly dudes piling into a beater van and setting the GPS for Austin. But for Laura Stevenson's indie-folk band, the reality is a little more wholesome.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a movie about porn addiction that's sweet, funny, deeply emotional, and ultimately not really about porn at all.
The heads of U.S. intelligence stopped short of saying that al-Qaida is beaten, but the picture they provided is definitely of a terrorist apparatus that's pretty beaten up.
In one of the more surreal discussions at SXSW, Kim Dotcom, the notorious founder of Megaupload, spoke to an audience via Skype on Monday afternoon, appearing in front of an all-black background and in all-black clothes that gave him the floating-head quality of a Great and Powerful Oz.
Alyssa Reese has spent the last week embedded in the South by Southwest tech scene, riding a bus halfway across the country while developing a viable web-based app. Here, in what may be the first Extremo Files post written primarily via iPhone, Reese shares the conclusion to her StartupBus experience.
U.S. troops in Afghanistan have begun operating one of the most bleeding-edge lethal drones available: the six-pound Switchblade, a mashup of missile and drone.
At one point Microsoft said IE10 would not run Adobe's Flash plugin at all in Windows 8's Metro mode. Then that was changed to a whitelist of approved sites that could use Flash. Now Microsoft is ditching the whitelist and letting pretty much any website run Flash in IE10.
Follow Underwire's up-to-the-minute coverage of this year's South by Southwest interactive, film and music festival.
The innovative and often controversial designer Stefan Sagmeister and his partner Jessica Walsh of Sagmeister & Walsh have created a new set of business card-sized messages designed to help you tell anyone you meet exactly how you feel about them ¿ from the people you love, to the people you love to hate. The collection, named Halftone Satisfaction, is the March series created for The Luxe Project on moo.com, in which designers create limited edition cards and all the proceeds go to a charity of the designer¿s choice.
The txtr Beagle e-reader was going to change the way bundled devices were sold by being bundled by carriers with smartphones. The plan was to sell subsidized e-readers to smartphone buyers and make up the difference on e-book sales. But with the little device finally going on sale to U.S. customers for an outrageous $70, that plan seems to have gone back to the drawing board.
Everyone knows that mashing the gas, slamming on the brakes and cruising at high speeds kills fuel economy. And considering the average driver spends upwards of $3,000 a year on gas, you'd think people would be more inclined to change their driving behavior. But it's like exercise: We all know we should do it, but we don't have proper motivation. Automatic wants to change that.
Should Sega be ashamed of releasing a product that's so obviously imitative of another company's work, or is this the smartest thing that they've done with the Sonic the Hedgehog brand in years?
Old grudges refuse to die on this week's episode of Game|Life Weekly. Can't we all just get along?
A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa.
As professional StarCraft 2 players get ready for the game's first major expansion, Heart of the Swarm, many of them are worried about their job security.
Plug a light or an appliance into the WeMo, then pair it your smartphone and switch your electronics on and off without leaving the comfort of your bed.
Three years ago, Apple's iPhone 4 launch was marred by the grip of death. If you held the iPhone just so, your hand could interfere with the phone's antenna: calls would drop; web surfing would suck. It was a PR nightmare for Apple, which eventually handed out free plastic bumpers that could fix the problem. But now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology say they're developing a new approach to chipmaking that could prevent this, along with a few other chip problems.
In Albania, 750,000 Communist-era bunkers populate the landscape, relics of the paranoia and skewed priorities of former dictator Enver Hoxha. Now they exist as quirky homes, animal shelters, ad hoc storage and make-out spots.
Practically every corner of the social web has become geo-aware. Now Foursquare, the company that hit it big with location four years ago, is set to push geodata's reach even further.
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