Der US-Elektronikriese Apple bringt Anleihen in rekordverdächtigem Volumen auf den Markt. Die Papiere könnten insgesamt 17 Milliarden Dollar (13 Mrd. Euro) einbringen, berichtete das „Wall Street Journal“. Die „Financial Times“ schätzte das Volumen auf 15 Milliarden Euro. Beide Zeitungen beriefen sich auf gut unterrichtete Kreise.
Blackberry-Chef Thorsten Heins glaubt nicht an einen dauerhaften Siegeszug der populären Tablet-Computer. „In fünf Jahren dürfte es keinen Grund mehr geben, ein Tablet zu besitzen", sagte der deutsche Manager der Finanznachrichtenagentur Bloomberg. Vielleicht würde ein grosses Display am Arbeitsplatz sinnvoll sein. „Tablets selbst sind kein gutes Geschäftsmodell."
Das nach SAP zweitgrösste Deutsche Softwarehaus Software AG macht einen Rückzieher: Im Februar startete das Unternehmen ein Aktienrückkaufprogramm, nun beendet sie es vorzeitig. Bis Montag seien 3,9 Millionen Papiere für insgesamt 114,9 Mio. Euro zurückgekauft worden, teilte die Darmstädter Firma mit.
Der Bund ist bezüglich Verwaltung der neuen Internet-Domain der ersten Ebene ".swiss" einen Schritt weiter. Die internationale Verwaltungsstelle für Domainnamen Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ist zum Schluss gekommen, dass die Schweizer Bewerbung die Anforderungen dafür erfülle. Die Umsetzungsphase könne somit beginnen, teilt das Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Bakom) mit. Die ersten ".swiss"-Domainnamen sollten ab Herbst 2014 registriert werden können.
Der 30. April 1993 markiert ein wichtiges Datum in der Entwicklung des Internets. An diesem Tag wurden die Technologien hinter dem World Wide Web, ausgehend vom CERN-Institut in der Schweiz und unter Schirmherrschaft von Pionier Tim Berners-Lee für gemeinfrei erklärt (Public Domain).
Geraume Zeit steht Skype bereits im Besitz von Microsoft, nun setzt man einen bereits vergangenen Juli erstmals versprochenen Schritt zur Integration mit einem anderen Service des Unternehmens: Britische NutzerInnen können nun Internattelefonate direkt über Outlook.com führen, dies verkündet das Unternehmen in einem Blog-Eintrag.
Das kalifornische Startup Pelican Imaging dürfte schon bald eine größere Investition vom finnischen Handyhersteller Nokia erhalten. Damit würde Nokia seine Investitionen in Richtung neuer Kameratechnologien weiter ausbauen. Wie Bloomberg berichtet, will Nokia damit ein Argument für den Kauf seiner Geräte weiterentwickeln.
Dank des Verkaufs seiner Digitalfotopatente ist es dem insolventen Branchenpionier Kodak gelungen, nach langer Zeit wieder Gewinn zu machen. Im ersten Quartal verdiente der US-Konzern unterm Strich 283 Millionen Dollar (217 Mio. Euro) nach einem Verlust von 366 Millionen Dollar im Vorjahreszeitraum.
Unternehmen und Verwaltungen des Öffentlichen Sektors sensibilisieren sich zunehmend für neue Lösungen der Informationstechnologie (IT). Sie investieren in eine effiziente IT oder wagen Schritte in Richtung neuer Konzepte, wie dem Cloud Computing, um den Public Service auf attraktive Art und Weise verfügbar zu machen.
Der 3D-Druck hat sich von der Medizin zur Mode, bis hin zur Lebensmittel-Industrie entwickelt. Technologie-Experte Jeffrey Lipton von Seraph Robotics meint, dass datenbasiertes Essen in den nächsten Jahren einen grossen Teil unserer Ernährung ausmachen wird.
Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store. Using 10gen’s backup service would save users from the work of setting up their own backup copies, which can be a challenge to implement, according to a 10gen statement announcing the new service. Administrators would have to set up a backup service that would need to be reliable, and not procure too much, or too little, hardware, for the job. 10gen’s backups are initiated by a lightweight agent installed on the primary data store server. The backup service is incremental: every six hours, any changes made in the primary data store are copied to the backup locations. The data is transferred over the Internet and is encrypted through SSL (the Secure Socket Layer). To restore data, the user must provide two forms of authentication. Data can be restored not only to the last known good version, but any version in point in time. For redundancy, MongoDB stores the backups at multiple locations, in different geographic regions.
Budweiser is trying to make it easier to make friends—Facebook friends—when you’re drinking beer. The company’s Brazilian development team has come out with the Buddy Cup, a beer glass with an embedded chip. When two Buddy Cups are clinked together, they automatically send friend requests to the users’ Facebook pages. “Budweiser loves to share in great times with our fans,” said Manuel Rangel Machiavello of Budweiser Brazil in an email. “The Buddy Cup brings together the in-bar experience with Facebook, the most used social media channel for our consumers.” According to Budweiser, users scan a bar code on the bottom of the cup and provide information from their Facebook profiles so the cup can connect to their Facebook accounts.
In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Google Drive. Employees “have been using consumer-based tools designed to share enterprise files,” said Eric Varness, Novell vice president of product management and marketing. As a result, organizations “lose control of their content,” when they are copied to off-site commercial cloud storage services, he said. Filr is designed to provide a way for employees to access their work files from anywhere with an Internet connection, while keeping the files on enterprise servers.
Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the U.S. can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets. Twitter first opened its . Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts comprise the core of the platform, which are designed to help businesses amplify their tweets and gain new followers, respectively. Promoted Tweets are priced on a “cost-per-engagement” basis, so that companies only pay when a user retweets, replies to, clicks or favorites the tweet. Twitter uses similar engagement signals to place the tweet only in certain people’s feeds. With Promoted Accounts, Twitter looks at the company’s current followers and searches for people with similar interests, and recommends matches in that person’s “who to follow” section. Companies then pay Twitter when someone follows their account using the tool. The tools let users target specific countries, regions or metropolitan areas.
processor. The service is also accessible through the web on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Verizon says an iOS version is imminent, as well as support for additional Android devices. Cross-platform compatibility may go a long way towards popularizing it with smartphone users who use multiple devices. The service starts users off with 500MB of free storage, a relatively small amount considering that many web-based cloud providers provide a number of Gigabytes for free. Users can upgrade to 25 GB for only $3/month, though, or 125 GB for $10. Competitors like Box, Google, and iCloud also offer applications that can be downloaded onto mobile devices, and are compatible with many more devices than Verizon Cloud is upon its launch today. Given this embedded competition, Verizon may not intend to become a large-scale cloud storage competitor with their new tool. It may be their intention to focus on adding value to their service as a cellular network.
We live in a digital age, but there’s still a lot of paper out there to contend with, and it can get messy. Luckily, the Doxie One portable scanner ($149) provides a simple solution for dealing with stacks of receipts, documents, recipes and photos, then saving them to a PC, Mac or a cloud service. Even better, the Doxie One isn’t just functional, it’s also good-looking, with a sleek and compact design available in a rainbow of colors (black, pink, purple, green, yellow, red, orange and blue). Measuring 10.5 by 1.7 by 2.2 inches and weighing just 13.6 ounces, the scanner will fit easily on just about any surface and won’t add too much heft to a purse or messenger bag. It’s a good thing too, because the Doxie One is designed to be used on-the-fly. There’s an integrated SD card so you can scan and save documents even when you’re away from the computer. There’s even the option to pop in four AA batteries (not included) for true portability. You can also power the scanner via the included AC cable, which has global adapters for the U.S., U.K., Australia and Europe.
Oracle has won a $100 million ERP project that will replace legacy systems at 34 colleges in Washington state, in a deal that highlights the continued relevance of its PeopleSoft product as it tries to convince customers to adopt its next-generation Fusion Applications. The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges is planning to implement Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus, Human Capital Management and Financials, according to Oracle’s announcement Tuesday. Systems integrator Ciber will work on the implementation, which is estimated to cost up to $100 million and scheduled to be delivered over the next five years, according to the What’s hoped for is a standardized IT platform for human resources, payroll, financials and procurement that replaces the older systems and eliminates the need for manual workarounds, a process that had become unsustainable, according to the announcement.
Intel is expanding into low-cost laptops and tablets starting at $200 with new low-power Atom chips based on an architecture called Silvermont, which the company is expected to talk about next week, according to a source familiar with Intel’s plans. The company expects the release later this year of tablets and laptops with detachable or folding screens priced between $200 and $399 with Atom chips code-named Bay Trail, which is based on Silvermont. Silvermont is the first Atom architecture overhaul since 2008, when the first Atom chip was released and subsequently panned for its performance. Intel has promised better performance and battery life in tablets, smartphones and laptops with Silvermont-based Atom chips. Intel will spill more details about Silvermont at an event to be held on Monday at the company’s Santa Clara campus. Speakers at the event include Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group.
help us do this for Twitter, but Pinterest is a different matter. But unless you are the world's biggest insomniac, you are going to need a service such as Pingraphy to help you out.
Researchers demonstrated flexible, networked e-ink displays that behave like papers on a desk at a conference in Paris. The displays can be used separately or in tandem, opening up new possibilities for a paperless office. Called Paper Tab, the project presented at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference includes three wired, flexible grayscale e-ink displays, similar to Amazon's original Kindle. The displays are not touch-screen devices, but can be bent as a form of input. For example, to respond to an email, users need to bend the top left corner of the display. They would then need to use a Bluetooth keyboard to compose the message. Annesh P. Tarun, a Ph.D. student at the said that computers and tablets are limiting because "you're stuck with this portal through which you have to do all your interactions."