Many enterprises are now planning to move a significant portion of their infrastructure to the cloud, says Dave LeClair, senior director of strategy at Stratus Technologies, a specialist in high availability solutions. A recently released survey conducted by Stratus, North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research found that 75 percent of firms are now reporting the use of some sort of cloud platform, and the worldwide addressable market for cloud computing will reach $158.8 billion by 2013, an increase of 126.5 percent from 2011. ”Enthusiasm for the cloud continues to grow, moving beyond historical concerns such as security,” LeClair says. “But, what is also clear from this year’s results is for cloud adoption to continue accelerating beyond its current pace, companies are going to be looking to vendors to enable always-on infrastructures that support their more critical business applications in this new environment. Companies need to take a hard look at which applications they are putting in the cloud, then, consider what’s involved in managing this shift from a resource, skillset, cost and complexity standpoint, LeClair says. We know first-hand these considerations are not a one-size-fits-all answer and rewriting applications for the cloud will not be the solution in many cases.”
Sprint and AT&T both unveiled new 4G coverage zones today. The realm of 4G wireless networking continues to grow with each passing week, and for business users it has matured from a luxury to a necessity. , bringing AT&T 4G service to a total of 336 markets across the United States. It wasn’t that long ago that wireless providers first started rolling out the next-generation 4G networks. In just a couple of years, though, 4G/LTE networks have become the standard—at least in larger metropolitan areas—and for business users trying to get things done from mobile devices, 4G makes all the difference. even though it’s not.
Videoconferencing is advertised as a tool to reduce travel expenses, but for the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the business, apparently that wasn’t enough. Polycom President and CEO Andrew Miller has resigned after the audit committee of the company’s board found irregularities in his expense-report submissions. He quit Friday, and Polycom announced his departure in its second-quarter earnings announcement Tuesday. Kevin Parker, a managing principal at Bridge Growth Partners and a Polycom board member since 2005, has been named interim CEO. Miller took responsibility for the expense-report irregularities, which didn’t involve any other employees, Polycom said. They weren’t big enough to have a material impact on the company’s current or previous financial results, according to the company. It gave no other details about the reports. Miller also gave up his seat on Polycom’s board. Miller joined the company in 2009 as executive vice president of global field operations and became CEO in 2010. Previously, he had been global president of IPC Information Systems, a financial trading communications company, and CEO of the Norwegian video system maker Tandberg, which has since been acquired by Cisco Systems.
, a way to get your LinkedIn posts and announcements directly into the LinkedIn news feeds of people who aren’t already following you. , but Sponsored Updates are a little different. Rather than shunting your messaging off to the sidebar, these promotional posts will appear directly in your news feed on your LinkedIn homepage, making them much more difficult to ignore. (LinkedIn ads are typically buried at the bottom of the right-hand sidebar and don’t even appear unless you start scrolling down the page.) . It rolls out to the rest of the world—anyone with a LinkedIn Company Page—at the end of this month. to be contacted by the company if they’re interested in getting started with Sponsored Updates (or simply wait a week).
Michael Dell and Silver Lake’s decision to raise the offer to take Dell private is a concession that rival Carl Icahn and affiliated parties may have an upper hand in the wrangling to take over the company, observers of the deal said. Founder Dell and Silver Lake on Wednesday offered shareholders $13.75, an increase from the original offer of $13.65 proposed in February, which was met with opposition from Icahn and other institutional investors, who believed the company was being undervalued. Icahn has led the fight against Dell, playing a major role in getting the company founder and CEO to increase his offer, observers said. Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management made several counteroffers to the Dell-Silver Lake proposal, and Icahn claimed the most recent counteroffer could be potentially worth $15.50 to $18 a share for current shareholders. A vote to approve the new Dell-Silver Lake proposal is scheduled for Aug. 2. Dell on Wednesday delayed the second shareholder vote on the Dell-Silver Lake proposal. Dell perhaps failed to gain enough shareholder backing to approve the deal, observers said.
A recent study that greatly reduces an often-cited estimate on the economic impact of cybercrime and cyberespionage should not give companies a reason to spend less on security, experts say. The , released on Monday, found that Internet-based crime and spying cost the U.S. economy as much as $100 billion a year, not the $1 trillion originally estimated by the Intel-owned security vendor. The study was done in conjunction with the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies. The analytical approach used in the latest findings is closer to reality than the previous methodology based on notoriously imprecise corporate surveys. McAfee acknowledges that the earlier figure, included in President Barack Obama’s 2009 cybersecurity speech, was inflated. ”There were some methodological challenges with the [original] study and we felt that the right thing to do was to work with the top think tank in the world focused on security and come up with a better study to set the record straight,” Tom Gann, vice president of government relations at McAfee, said on Tuesday.
. The partnership will be make it easier for developers to deploy and manage cloud applications, and will be great for businesses looking to take advantage of the cloud. describes it as an open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that gives developers the freedom to choose the cloud services, developer frameworks, and application services that meet their needs. According to the Cloud Foundry About page, “Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications.” IBM may not have the clout it once carried before the rise of Microsoft, but Big Blue is still a powerful name in IT, and recently it has been a driving force behind open source cloud projects. IBM has been a leading supporter of OpenStack, an open source cloud infrastructure initiative. By working with Pivotal to foster development of the Cloud Foundry platform, IBM is now expanding its support for both open source, and the cloud. focused on application development software, shared some thoughts on the Cloud Foundry news. “Given this announcement, I expect to see IBM invest in this project and help drive its governance forward to really achieve critical mass. Cloud Foundry has already garnered significant support from many players and has built up an ecosystem, but putting IBM's imprimatur and resources behind it will be felt in the industry.”
Adding to a growing portfolio of enterprise software it offers as hosted services, Microsoft plans to add Java to its Windows Azure cloud service. “Having support for a Java platform on Azure is something our customers have been asking for,” said Rabellino announced the Azure addition at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, being held this week in Portland, Oregon. “Customers will be able to run their Java workload in a fully supported environment,” he said. Microsoft will offer the Java Standard Edition (Java SE) by the end of the year both as a stand-alone PaaS (platform as a service) and as component of a Windows Server IaaS (infrastructure as a service), both on the Windows Azure service.
Edward Snowden, who leaked documents revealing U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, has received a document that allows him to leave Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, according to news reports. The document allows Snowden to leave the transit zone of the airport, according to a report by Russian state-owned news agency Ria Novosti on Wednesday. He can do so provided that the border service does not object, the report said. Snowden is expected to meet his lawyer at the airport later today, according to an unnamed official cited by Reuters. temporary asylum in Russia earlier in July in an effort to avoid prosecution by the U.S. government, which has indicted him on charges related to the leaks. Snowden is believed to have been staying at the Moscow airport since arriving there on June 23 on a flight from Hong Kong.
Michael Dell has raised his offer to take Dell private by $0.10 per share, to about $24.7 billion, after the company was forced to delay a vote because stockholders seemed inclined to reject the bid. The new bid of $13.75 per share from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners prompted the company to adjourn the special stockholder meeting for a second time while a special committee of the board of directors evaluates the new bid. The meeting will be reconvened at 9 a.m. Central Time on August 2, the special committee said Wednesday. However, the new bid comes with strings attached: The company must modify the voting requirements for its acceptance, Denali Holding, the acquisition vehicle Michael Dell and Silver Lake are using for their bid, wrote in a letter to the board’s special committee.
The White House is opposed to an amendment to a defense spending bill that would limit spending on mass surveillance by the National Security Agency. proposed by Rep. Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, would limit spending only to orders by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that collect phone and other data only of a person who is the subject of an investigation. Former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, disclosed through newspaper reports in June that the NSA was collecting phone metadata from Verizon customers in the U.S. as part of its surveillance which was said to include data collected from Internet companies as well. that it has to retain the bulk data required by its counterterrorism tools, as it need not be retained by telecommunications service providers.
Coming soon to a printer near you: more NFC. Samsung said Wednesday that two color laser printers with near-field communication would be available in the U.S. starting next week. (The printers were in Korea last month.) The products are the Xpress C410W color laser single-function printer, which will cost $229, and the Xpress C460FW MFP color laser multifunction printer, which will cost $399. NFC is still most common in cell phones and tablets. But no matter how much content moves online, everyone needs to print once in a while. NFC is supposed to make it easier for that print to happen through a simple touch, though there’s also an app involved, of course. Brother beat Samsung to the U.S. market with an NFC-equipped inkjet multifunction printer two weeks ago, the , but Samsung’s are the first laser-based models to arrive here. The C410W is your basic, low-end color laser for a home or very small office. The C460FW MFP is based on the same engine but adds a scanner and automatic document feeder for copy, scan, and fax functions. Both products have top print speeds, per Samsung, of 19 pages per minute (ppm) for plain, black text and 4 ppm for color output. Paper handling includes a 150-sheet input tray and a 50-sheet output tray—best suited for low-volume use, in other words.
The hacker group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) broke into the customer support website for Viber, an instant messaging and Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) application available for both mobile and desktop operating systems. The Viber support website was defaced Tuesday and was modified to display the SEA logo and a message telling visitors that “the Israeli-based ‘Viber’ is spying and tracking you.” As publication, the site's main page appears to be back online and functioning. “The Viber Support site was defaced after a Viber employee unfortunately fell victim to an email phishing attack,” a Viber Media spokesman said Wednesday via email. “The phishing attack allowed access to two minor systems: a customer support panel and a support administration system. Information from one of these systems was posted on the defaced page.” The information accessed by the attackers included information needed for customer support like when a user registered, where they registered from and what type of device they use, he said.
Citadel malware is installed on over 20,000 PCs in Japan and actively sending financial information it harvests to servers abroad, according to security software vendor Trend Micro. Tokyo-based Trend Micro said it monitored remote servers in the U.S. and Europe that collect data gathered by Japanese versions of the malware for six days last week. On some days there were nearly 230,000 connections made from 20,000 infected computers. The malware has been designed specifically to target domestic users, collecting financial details corresponding to six Japanese financial institutions as well as popular services such as email from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.
So you’ve seen the light and turned your sluggish PC into a with better, faster gear. That’s a great first step. But putting together a state-of-the-art PC workstation without having a fast, reliable network to help it run at its best is like leaving your souped-up new ride on blocks in your garage. Check out the tips below for ways to upgrade your network and storage, and take your productivity to the next level. Though its speed and reliability make ethernet a must-have for optimal PC performance, Wi-Fi has its place, too. Without it, you’d never enjoy the work-anywhere flexibility of your laptop or mobile devices. Instead of choosing a run-of-the-mill router, go for something with a little more oomph. A simultaneous dual-band router offers twice the bandwidth—2.4GHz and 5GHz—essentially giving you two independent networks. Connect frequently used devices such as your smartphone or tablet to the 2.4GHz band, and reserve the less crowded 5GHz band for high-quality voice and video streaming.
If you were hyped up by the decade-long wait for Diablo 3 and then disappointed by the end result, Torchlight II is your remedy. It's got everything a good dungeon-crawling RPG has: Tons of items, a level-up system that grants more badass powers, and lots and lots...and lots of dungeons. It's even got a pet to take your stuff to town and sell it for you—no need to interrupt the action with a full backpack. This indie gem is filled with humor, Easter eggs, great visuals, and lasting game play. Read for more details.
A pair of severe security problems in millions of SIM cards should be easy for operators to fix, according to the German security researcher who found the issues. earlier this week that millions of SIM cards are likely still using an outdated, 1970s-era form of encryption to authenticate over-the-air (OTA) software updates. to trick some kinds of SIM cards into divulging an encrypted 56-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard) key, which can be decrypted using a regular computer. He discovered that by sending a bogus OTA update to a phone, some SIMs returned an error code containing the weak key. A device could then be sent spyware which accesses critical phone data through the card’s Java Virtual Machine, a software framework present on almost every SIM sold worldwide.
A Texas man was on Tuesday in U.S. federal court with allegedly running a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, allegedly siphoning the virtual currency from victims to pay for rent, food and gambling. Trendon T. Shavers of McKinney, Texas, ran the Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST), an investment scheme that promised 7 percent weekly returns from bitcoin trades intended to profit from market price differences in the virtual currency, according to a from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Instead, the 30-year-old Shavers, who went by the “Pirate” and “pirateat40,” on the popular —is alleged to have used bitcoin investments from new investors to pay interest to early entrants to the scheme and cover withdrawals, the SEC said. He has been charged with violating parts of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Exchange Act Rule. Shavers allegedly collected 700,000 bitcoins from investors, which the SEC calculated was worth more than $4.5 million based on an average of bitcoin’s market price in 2011 and last year. At Wednesday’s market price, 700,000 bitcoins would be worth about $66 million.
Hackers are now using a critical vulnerability in Android to modify legitimate smartphone applications, putting users at risk of being spied on. Security vendor Symantec wrote on Tuesday that it found two applications being distributed in Chinese Android marketplaces that have employed the “master key” vulnerabilities discovered earlier this month. Both applications, used to find and schedule medical appointments, are legitimate but have been modified by hackers, Symantec wrote on its . Inserted into the programs is code that lets an attacker remotely control an Android device and collect data such as phone numbers and the device’s IMEI number. It can also deactivate some Chinese mobile security software programs.
Solid state drives are encroaching on hard disk drives with the promise of faster access to data, but hard disk drives are fighting back—in some cases, with built-in solid-state storage of their own. On Tuesday, Seagate Technology took the fight to the enterprise market, introducing its Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD, which it calls the world’s first enterprise hybrid drive. Shipping now to server and storage vendors and resellers, the new drive is also available as an option in IBM System x servers. Many enterprises are adopting SSDs for the data they need to access most often and most quickly. Though far more expensive per gigabyte than HDDs, solid-state flash devices can read and write data much faster. SSDs in many cases are taking the place of the fastest HDDs, which spin at 15,000 rpm but still don’t match the speed of flash storage, said Forrester Research analyst Henry Baltazar. The Enterprise Turbo combines a 3.5-inch, 600GB 15K drive with 32GB of flash cache. It will cost just slightly more than a conventional 2.5-inch 15K drive and offer more than twice the speed, according to Seagate. It’s as much as three times the speed of a conventional 3.5-inch 15K drive.
Anyone who watches Apple knows how closely the company holds its secrets. No matter what the subject, the company only speaks when it has something to say. So when it does talk about new products, people take note. On Tuesday, as the company announced ): Apple will launch at least one new product in the fall. But that’s all the information he gave.
Windows tablets hold within them an implicit promise: To deliver the full Windows 8 experience in a svelte tablet form factor. than the ARM-based tablet competition. No more. Intel announced Tuesday that new Core Y-series Haswell processors capable of fitting in thin, completely fanless designs are inbound “in the coming months.” While Intel had previously announced its Core Y-series chips would run at a scenario design point—basically, an Intel metric for the power draw during sustained workloads—of 6 watts, the newly announced processors will dip all the way down to 4.5W SDP. (6W variants will also be available.) That 1.5-watt difference between the two is the difference between needing additional cooling and a potentially fanless design, according to Intel
LinkedIn is giving companies the ability to place their marketing content into users’ feeds, in a move that expands the site’s revenue opportunities. LinkedIn, which is traditionally known as a social networking site for professionals, has been testing the program over the past six months with companies like Nissan, Xerox and Adobe. The so-called sponsored updates will be available starting Tuesday to customers who have an account representative and will become available to any business with a company page by the end of the month, said David Hahn, vice president of product management at LinkedIn, in a Tuesday . The marketing content will be visible on desktop PCs as well as on smartphones and tablet devices, and will clearly be marked “sponsored,” appearing in the member’s homepage feed along with organic posts from their network and the companies that they already follow, Hahn said.
You can’t shop anywhere without running into a legion of Redboxes. Now it looks like the cardinal-colored entertainment kiosks are keen to transfer their physical omnipresence over to the digital world. After shoring up its presence on iOS, Windows Phone, and Android (including the forked Kindle Fire tablet), an official Redbox app has just touched down in the Windows Store. Redbox lovers will find a lot to like, though there’s nothing groundbreaking here. In addition to the Most Popular, Coming Soon, and Newly Released lists of movies you’d expect to find in an app like this, the Redbox app can tap into your device’s location to pinpoint kiosks near you, using Windows 8’s baked-in Bing Maps as a backbone. Not sure where a particular kiosk is located relative to you? The app can even provide directions. Once you select a specific Redbox location, you’re able to search the games and movies available in that particular kiosk. (Pro tip: Right-click on the main screen to bring up a bar with Movies, Games, and Featured tabs at the top of the screen.)
A fast, reliable Internet connection is imperative for most small and medium businesses. A new study from Akamai suggests that the Internet is getting faster overall, but just how fast varies from one country to the next—or even between different regions within a country. Akamai gathers data from customers around the world, and analyzes it through its Intelligent Platform analysis tool to produce the quarterly State of the Internet report. The data from the first quarter of 2013 shows a four percent increase in the average global connection speed. place overall this quarter. That makes the United States about 40 percent slower than the first place nation—South Korea—and leaves the US behind Latvia and the Czech Republic. (SBA) study on the impact of broadband speed and price on small business found that an average business in a metropolitan area spends $115 per month for Internet access, while an average business in a rural area spend $93 per month. The catch for rural businesses is that they’re getting significantly slower Internet speeds for the money.
Flipboard magazines have arrived on the Web. You can now publicly share with the entire online world any content you’ve turned into a digital magazine, even if the reader doesn’t have a Flipboard account. The new feature is a continuation of the popular reading that began in March when Flipboard 2.0 first introduced user-curated magazines to the service. Flipboard magazines are exactly what they sound like. Users organize articles based on a theme such as surfing, sharks, Sherlock Holmes, or immigration reform into a single collection. Articles are added individually from around the Web using an applet installed in your browser’s toolbar, or from articles found using Flipboard’s mobile apps.
claims that the tech is installed on 1.1 billion PCs and more than 3 billion mobile phones, along with each and every Blu-ray player known to man. , a company that offers a remote troubleshooting tool for PCs and iOS devices, Java is directly responsible for a whopping 40 percent of its users’ installations of the uber-annoying Ask.com toolbar. Java, the procedure prompts you to both install the Ask toolbar and switch your browser’s default search engine to Ask.com, which is stuffed with ads and far less useful than Google or Bing. Worse, the Ask toolbar option is enabled by default when you’re installing or updating Java—you have to actively uncheck the boxes to prevent your computer from filling up with Ask’s sneakware.
Mark Zuckerberg kann starkes Wachstum bei den Werbeeinnahmen auf Smartphones und Tablets verzeichnen. Gewinn und Umsatz Facebooks liegen über den Analystenprognosen.
Google bringt mit dem Chromecast einen eigenen HDMI-Stick, mit dem Inhalte verschiedener mobiler Quellen auf den heimischen Fernseher gestreamt werden können. Erste Anzeichen für das neue Gerät gab es bereits vor der offiziellen Präsentation.
Google hat Android Jelly Bean in Version 4.3 mit neuen Funktionen ausgestattet. Es bringt neue Kontrollmöglichkeiten für die Multiuserfunktionen und OpenGL ES 3.0 mit.
3D-Drucken könnte die Gesundheit gefährden: US-Wissenschaftler haben festgestellt, dass ein 3D-Drucker eine relativ hohe Konzentration von Nanopartikeln ausstößt. Die Partikel können sich im Körper anlagern.
Die Gruppe Remote Control widersetzt sich durch Nichtzahlen dem umstrittenen Rundfunkbeitrag. Gemeinsam wollen sie Ordnungswidrigkeiten begehen und sich von einem Anwalt beraten lassen.
Einem Medienbericht zufolge setzen Behörden in den USA vor allem kleinere Unternehmen unter Druck, damit diese Generalschlüssel für SSL-Verschlüsselung herausrücken. Die großen wie Google und Facebook sollen da aber angeblich nicht mitspielen.
Ein Vertrag zwischen der Telekom in den USA und dem FBI zeigt: Schon vor den Terroranschlägen 2001 ließ die US-Regierung in großem Ausmaß Daten sammeln.
Nukemap3D ist ein Webangebot, das Nutzern die Kraft von Atomwaffen verdeutlichen soll. Die Nutzer können sich die Auswirkungen einer solchen Explosion auf einer Google-Karte anzeigen lassen.
In einer zweiten Runde will die Bundesnetzagentur feststellen, ob die tatsächliche Datenrate beim Endnutzer immer noch so weit von den Versprechungen der Internetprovider entfernt ist.
Seit fast fünf Wochen hält sich US-Whistleblower Snowden im Transitbereich eines Moskauer Flughafens auf. Nun darf er angeblich nach Russland einreisen.
Die Datenschützer in Deutschland werden keinen Übertragungen von personenbezogenen Daten durch Firmen ins Ausland mehr zustimmen, bis die NSA-Affäre geklärt ist. Bestehende Übermittlungen könnten über das Safe-Harbor-Abkommen ausgesetzt werden.
Ihre digitale Fast-Zwillingsschwester ist schon in The Last of Us aufgetreten, jetzt darf Hollywood-Schauspielerin Ellen Page in Beyond selbst ran. Golem.de konnte ausprobieren, wie sich das nächste Abenteuer von Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain) anfühlt.
Googles Musik-App Play Music erhält ein Update, das es dem Nutzer ermöglicht, Musik per WLAN auf passende externe Geräte zu streamen. Außerdem sollen Nutzer Musik aus der Cloud künftig nicht nur im internen Speicher, sondern auch auf der SD-Karte speichern können.
Nicht mehr wie bisher angekündigt 6 Watt, sondern nur noch 4,5 Watt sollen spezielle Haswell-CPUs in der Praxis aufnehmen. Intel verwendet dafür aber nicht die übliche Angabe der TDP, sondern SDP. Was das bedeutet, zeigt sich anhand öffentlicher Dokumente.
Cisco will Sourcefire, den Anbieter von Snort, für 2,7 Milliarden US-Dollar übernehmen. Sourcefire besitzt auch den freien Virenscanner ClamAV. 2008 wurde die Übernahme von Sourcefire verhindert.
Das US-Unternehmen HyperV Technologies hat eine Schleuder entwickelt, mit der es künftig Satelliten und andere Nutzlasten ins All schleudern möchte. Für den Bau des nächsten Prototyps sucht es Unterstützung durch Crowdfunding.
Kurz vor der mutmaßlichen Vorstellung sind fast alle technischen Daten, Benchmarks und Bilder des neuen 7-Zoll-Tablets von Google veröffentlicht worden. Vermutungen zum Prozessor und der Kamera des neuen Nexus 7 scheinen sich damit zu bestätigen.
Wer seine E-Mails über ein offenes WLAN verschickt, sollte das über eine verschlüsselte Verbindung per TLS tun. Dennoch legen E-Mails danach oft einen größeren Teil ihres Weges durchs Internet unverschlüsselt zurück, hat Michael Kliewe beobachtet.
SPD-Parteichef Sigmar Gabriel will in Deutschland Verschlüsselung per Gesetz durchsetzen. Microsoft, Google oder Facebook hätten "sich willfährig von der NSA für deren Zwecke einspannen lassen."
Kaum ein Publisher setzt so stark auf digitale Distribution und das Onlinegeschäft wie Electronic Arts, jetzt trägt die Strategie Früchte: unter anderem dank iOS-Titeln wie Real Racing 3.
Canon will bald eine DSLR mit einem Sensor mit 75 Megapixeln bauen, der in Schichten und damit vollkommen anders aufgebaut ist als Bayer-Sensoren, die in praktisch jeder Kamera zu finden sind.
Dem Nahbereichsfunk NFC könnte mit einem Ring zum Durchbruch verholfen werden, den der Anwender immer bei sich trägt und so Smartphones und Türen durch Berührung entsperren kann, ohne dass ein Passwort oder ein Code eingetippt werden muss.
Belkin hat für seine Heimautomatisierungslösung Wemo eine Android-App vorgestellt, mit der die Wemo-Geräte aus der Ferne per WLAN oder Mobilfunk bedient werden können. Per If-this-then-that-Unterstützung kann die Schaltung auch aufgrund unterschiedlichster Ereignisse im Web erfolgen.
Apples Gewinn wächst nicht mehr so stark. Im vergangenen Quartal wurden erheblich weniger Dollar-Milliarden verdient als noch ein Jahr zuvor. Der iPhone-Absatz steigt jedoch weiter, während sich das iPad schwächer verkauft. Gewinn und Umsatz liegen über den Analystenprognosen.
Die Erde aus großer Distanz zeigen aktuelle Fotos der Raumsonden Messenger und Cassini. Für die Cassini-Bilder hatte die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa die Erdbewohner eigens zum Winken aufgerufen.
Der Webhoster OVH wurde nach eigenen Angaben gehackt. Dabei könnten verschlüsselte Passwörter entwendet worden sein. Der Anbieter rät dazu, sie umgehend zu ändern. Zugang zu Kreditkarteninformationen sollen die Datendiebe aber nicht gehabt haben.
Paypal lässt keine Zahlungen mehr an den VPN-Anbieter Ipredator zu, der von dem Pirate-Bay-Mitbegründer Peter Sunde aufgebaut wurde.
Nutzer des Betriebssystems Android können mit der App Boinc die Rechenleistung ihres Smartphones der Forschung zur Verfügung stellen. Dabei lassen sich Projekte unterstützen, die nach neuen Sternen suchen oder gegen Aids kämpfen.
Objekte aus dem 3D-Drucker könnten künftig bei Drucken eine Seriennummer oder ein anderes Erkennungsmerkmal bekommen. Es ist von außen nicht sichtbar und kann nur mit einem speziellen Gerät ausgelesen werden.
Lenovos Windows-8-Gerät mit 10 Zoll großem Display ist jetzt auch in Deutschland erhältlich. Das Gerät kostet 500 Euro und kommt mit einer Hülle, die aus dem Tablet ein Notebook mit Tastatur macht.
Von Seagate kommt die nach eigenen Angaben schnellste Festplatte der Welt. Das 2,5-Zoll-Laufwerk mit SAS-Schnittstelle ist für Server vorgesehen und arbeitet mit Hybridtechnik, genannt SSHD. IBM bietet bereits Storage-Systeme damit an.
Vor einem Monat wurde ein Kernel-Modul für Microsofts Exfat-Dateisystem bei Github veröffentlicht. Nun gibt der Entwickler zu, es handele sich um geleakten Code von Samsung und damit um eine Urheberrechtsverletzung.
Der Chef der Swisscom wurde heute tot in seiner Wohnung gefunden. Die Polizei geht von einem Suizid aus, erklärte das Unternehmen.
Der neue Halo-Serienableger heißt Spartan Assault und erscheint nicht für die Xbox 360, sondern exklusiv für Windows 8 und Windows Phone 8. Das Spiel präsentiert sich sehr unkompliziert - zumindest für alle, die über einen Touchscreen verfügen.
Hampoo hat mit dem Glasses-Free 10.1" 3D ein Android-Tablet vorgestellt, das keine Brille für die 3D-Darstellung benötigt. Das Tablet mit Quad-Core-Prozessor und HD-Display soll auch in Deutschland auf den Markt kommen.
Die erste große Veröffentlichung von Apache Openoffice seit der Code-Spende von Oracle enthält viele Teile aus IBMs Openoffice-Fork Symphony. Diesen gab IBM zugunsten des Apache-Projektes auf.
Das mobile Datenvolumen in Deutschland ist um 40 Prozent angestiegen. Bald bringt die mobile Internetnutzung mehr Umsatz als Telefonie.
Asteroiden stellen eine Gefahr für die Erde dar. Die Nasa hat für deren Entdeckung deshalb einen Wettbewerb ausgeschrieben. Möglichkeiten zur Abwehr gibt es viele, schreibt Astronom und Blogger Florian Freistetter.
Nokia präsentiert mit dem Lumia 625 ein Windows-Phone-Smartphone mit LTE, großem Bildschirm und schneller Kamera für 300 Euro. Golem.de hat das neue Gerät bereits ausprobiert und im Video festgehalten.
Auf seiner jährlichen Datacenter-Veranstaltung hat Intel eine Roadmap für Server-CPUs bis zum Jahr 2014 vorgelegt. Dabei gab es auch einige Details zum Atom-Nachfolger Silvermont zu erfahren.