Der angeschlagene japanische Elektronik-Konzern Panasonic investiert in den kommenden Jahren rund zwei Milliarden Euro, um wieder in die Spur zu kommen. Vorstandschef Kazuhiro Tsuga kündigte an, dem verlustbringenden Geschäft mit Flachbildschirmen weiter den Rücken zu kehren und sich mehr auf profitablere Sparten zu fokussieren.
Die IBX-Datenzentren-Betreiberin Equinix hat eine Partnerschaft mit dem Speicherhersteller Netapp besiegelt. Damit sollen Kunden künftig Netapp Speicherinfrastrukturen in Equinix Datenzentren hosten können, um somit einen schnellen Zugang zu Amazon Cloud Services zu erhalten.
Facebook lässt seine Mitglieder demnächst kostenlos untereinander über das Internet telefonieren. Die Gespräche können über Facebook-Apps für Android und Apples iOS-System für iPhone, iPad und iPod Touch geführt werden, wie Facebook am Donnerstag ankündigte.
Die Deutsche Telekom darf von ihren Konkurrenten künftig mehr Geld für den Zugang zu ihren Datenleitungen kassieren. Die Miete für die sogenannten letzte Meile werde ab Juli 10,19 Euro im Monat betragen nach derzeit noch 10,08 Euro, teilte die deutsche Bundesnetzagentur mit.
Orange hat 2012 mehr umgesetzt und verdient als noch im Jahr davor. Der Mobilfunkanbieter steigerte den Umsatz um 5,8 Prozent auf 1,322 Mrd. Franken. Der bereinigte Betriebsgewinn vor Abschreibungen und Amortisationen (Ebitda) kletterte um 6,7 Prozent auf 365,3 Mio. Franken, wie Orange am Gründonnerstag bekannt gab.
Ein strikter Sparkurs hat den angeschlagenen Smartphone-Pionier Blackberry vor neuerlichen Verlusten bewahrt. Das vom deutschen Manager Thorsten Heins geführte Unternehmen konnte im vierten Geschäftsquartal (bis Anfang März) einen Gewinn von unterm Strich 98 Millionen US-Dollar (77 Mio Euro) erwirtschaften.
Vor der ägyptischen Mittelmeerküste haben Taucher nach Angaben der Armee versucht, ein Internetkabel zu durchtrennen. Die drei Täter hätten am Mittwoch die Leitung unweit des Hafens von Alexandria beschädigt. Eine Patrouille der Küstenwache habe einen Fischkutter in der Nähe festgesetzt und die Taucher verhaftet, sagte ein Sprecher.
Die Stiftung hinter dem beliebten Online-Lexikon Wikipedia muss auf Führungssuche gehen. Die langjährige Geschäftsführerin der Wikimedia-Stiftung, Sue Gardner, will sich zurückziehen. Sie wolle in rund sechs Monaten gehen, nachdem die Nachfolge geregelt worden sei, sagte Gardner der "New York Times".
Der US-Softwarehersteller Red Hat hat im vierten Quartal seines aktuellen Geschäftsjahres seinen Gewinn um 19 Prozent gesteigert. Dabei fiel der Überschuss mit 0,36 Dollar je Aktie gleichzeitig 6 Cent besser als von den Analysten erwartet aus.
Der Gemeinderat von Menlo Park hat Facebook ein „Gefällt mir“ für das geplante neue Hauptquartier des Online-Netzwerks gegeben. Die Gemeinderatsmitglieder gaben bereits am Dienstag grünes Licht für die Baupläne von Facebook, wie die Zeitung „Mercury News“ in der Nacht zu Donnerstag berichtete.
Thanks to a grant from the Navy's mad scientists, Virginia Tech engineers have built a giant, floppy, silicon-layered tool for undersea surveillance.
Urban hipsters and Portlanders, rejoice: Subaru is ?finally? making a hybrid. It's called the XV Crosstrek Hybrid and it stands to be the most fuel-efficient, low-emission, all-wheel-drive hybrid crossover in the United States.
When the chips are down and it looks like a company is on a one-way trip to shutdown town, you often see a Hail Mary product. It's the long shot, the one thing that could save the company. Sometimes it resonates so well with the masses that the company is saved from oblivion. Sometimes, even the best products can't stop the inevitable.
If Ouya's dedication to being an open gaming platform wasn't already obvious, now you'll be able to 3D-print your own Ouya console case.
FX announces two all-new channels and a raft of new programming from the likes of Sam Mendes, Guillermo del Toro and Charlie Kaufman.
Wired wants to see your artsy photos of a smartphone or tablet with a busted screen. Cracks, chips, complete obliteration -- if it's broken, we're interested. We'll gather the best photos and present them here for all to enjoy.
The standard line is that fiber optic networks transfer data at the speed of light. But in reality, light travels about 31 percent slower through fiber optical cables than it does through a vacuum. But that's changing.
For decades, people have been baffled by thousands of bare, circular soil patches that dot arid western African landscapes with inexplicable geometric precision. They're known as fairy circles -- and the fairies, says ecologist Norbert J?rgens, are termites engaged in an extraordinary, landscape-scale act of ecological engineering.
A new study of Danish farmers and their livestock uses genetic sequencing to show that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections travel from animal to human. Maryn McKenna describes the evidence.
Since the beginning of the year, nearly 1,000 starving, dehydrated pups have stranded themselves on Southern California?s shores. In the last week alone, 240 pups have been rescued and delivered to five rehabilitation centers from San Diego to Santa Barbara counties. And with some Southern California centers quickly approaching capacity, rescuers have begun transferring patients up north.
How big is the Navy's 2013 push for laser weapons? Its top scientists have announced an effort to stash laser weapons on Marine trucks that can shoot down small drones.
Design is becoming a prerequisite for business success, but with a year at a top-flight school like RISD easily costing more than $53,000, that learning doesn't come cheap. Luckily, education marketplace Skillshare has created a new online school of design with world-class teachers that only costs $20 per class.
Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images.
The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings or rub body parts together may allow the insects to talk to each other, a new study suggests.
Scientists who study the sun say we should start thinking about the solar cycle as an oscillation between two extreme states, each with their own distinct conditions and hazards, rather than a simple change between periods of high and low activity.
Behind the scenes, just about all of the web's biggest names are mimicking Google. That includes Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and so many more.
The people who brought you Android and Gmail now want to bring potato chips and diapers right to your home with a new same-day delivery service.
So, how's BlackBerry doing? Not too bad, actually.The company formerly known as Research in Motion posted fourth-quarter results (.pdf) Thursday and boasted that it shipped approximately 1 million Z10 smartphones as of March 2 and brought in $114 million. Those aren't exactly staggering numbers, but they are a good start. Judging by the history of ...
Mozilla has partnered with Epic Games to bring the Unreal 3 gaming engine to Firefox. The result is a high-end gaming engine that could change the way you think of web-based video games.
When the No. 4 Corvette C6.R beat out a field of Ferraris, Porsches and Vipers at the 12 Hours of Sebring earlier this month, the 'Vette had a leg up on the competition. It wasn't extra horsepower or super-sticky tires that gave the drivers an advantage, but a handful of sensors and a PC running Linux.
What explains the incredible variety of life on Earth? It seems obvious. Evolution, of course! But perhaps not the evolution most people grew up with. Some ecologists say the theory needs an update: They've proposed a new dynamic driving the emergence of new species, one that doesn't require adaptations or the fittest's survival.
Want to know where games are going? Take a lap around the Game Developers Conference floor.
On January 26, 2008, a 30-year-old part-time entrepreneur named Mike Merrill decided to sell himself on the open market. He divided himself into 100,000 shares and set an initial public offering price of $1 a share. Over the next 10 days, 12 of his friends and acquaintances bought 929 shares, and Merrill ended up with a handful of extra cash. He kept the remaining 99.1 percent of himself but promised that his shares would be nonvoting: He?d let his new stockholders decide what he should do with his life.
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For Mexico's drug cartels, children are considered expendable soldiers, according to a report from a prominent non-governmental organization.
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If you're still using an automatic coffee-maker, you're doing it wrong. We test five different manual coffee-brewing systems.
The players are not the only ones that descend on Scottsdale, Arizona, every year -- sports photographers also parachute in for a hectic blend of work, camaraderie and fandom. Like soldiers plopped down in a foreign land, they repeatedly ask each other the same question: "How long you here?"