Der Markt für mobile Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) ist im zweiten Quartal 2013 sequenziell gewachsen. Dies ergab eine Studie des Marktbeobachters IHS. Der Umsatz auf dem mobilen DRAM-Markt belief sich demnach im zweiten Quartal dieses Jahres auf 2,8 Mrd. US-Dollar, was einem sequenziellen Wachstum von 26 Prozent entspricht.
Brasiliens Präsidentin Dilma Rousseff hat wegen des US-Spionageprogramms eine multilaterale Aufsicht über das Internet vorgeschlagen. In ihrer Rede vor der UN-Vollversammlung am Dienstag in New York nannte sie das Spähprogramm des US-Geheimdienstes NSA eine Verletzung des Völkerrechts.
Im letzten Quartal hat Blackberry fast eine Milliarde US-Dollar verloren. Eine Privatisierung war daher der einzig mögliche Weg, den Blackberry einschlagen konnte. Die Privatisierung wird dem Smartphone-Hersteller die Möglichkeit geben, sich neu zu organisieren. Um zu überleben, muss Blackberry sich aus dem Handset und mobilen OS-Markt zurückziehen und kein Konsumgüter-Unternehmen bleiben, sondern sich zu einem Enterprise Security Unternehmen entwickeln.
Auch der Online-Speicherdienst Dropbox fordert von der US-Regierung mehr Offenheit zu Geheimdienstanfragen bei Internetunternehmen. Dropbox will Informationen zu Anfragen mit Bezug zur nationalen Sicherheit veröffentlichen dürfen, die geheim bleiben müssen.
Der vor einem Chefwechsel stehende Softwareriese Microsoft will Spitzenkräfte mit Sonderzahlungen im Unternehmen halten. Bei Bedarf sollen Top-Manager zusätzliche Aktienvergütungen erhalten, wie der Konzern am Montag in einer Mitteilung an die Börsenaufsicht bekanntgab.
Egal ob man per Telefonkabel, Fernsehkabel oder Glasfaser mit dem Internet verbunden ist: In den nächsten Monaten erhöhen sich für die meisten Konsumenten die Surfgeschwindigkeiten. Mit neuer Technik wird selbst aus alten Leitungen mehr Leistung herausgekitzelt.
Im Streit mit den USA über das Ausspionieren von Bankdaten europäischer Bürger droht die EU-Kommission mit dem Aussetzen des internationalen Swift-Abkommens. Der Vertrag erlaubt US-Terrorfahndern seit 2010 den gezielten Zugriff auf die Kontobewegungen von Verdächtigen in der EU - allerdings nur unter engen Auflagen für den Datenschutz und den Schutz der Privatsphäre.
Einen Umbau gibt es im Management des Schwerzenbacher Software-Herstellers Soreco. Diana Volkert, bisher Leiterin Services HRM, übernimmt laut Mitteilung die Leitung der Business Unit HRM, die während der letzten zwei Jahre interimistisch von Soreco-CEO Renato Stalder geleitet wurde.
In Finnland gibt es neue Aufregung um den "Goldenen Handschlag" für den scheidenden Nokia-Geschäftsführer Stephen Elop. Als Ende vergangener Woche bekannt wurde, dass der Kanadier mit einer Sonderdotation und Aktien in der Gesamthöhe von 18,8 Millionen Euro ausgestattet Finnland wieder verlässt, hiess es, die Abschiedsbedingungen entsprächen "im Wesentlichen" jenen von Elops Vorgänger als Nokia-Chef, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
Facebook ist in China gesperrt, Nutzer können nur mit Tricks auf das soziale Netzwerk zugreifen. Nun soll der Bann aufgehoben werden, allerdings nur in einer neu geplanten Freihandelszone in Shanghai, berichtet die South China Morning Post unter Berufung auf Regierungskreise.
The partnership will provide access to about 800,000 Fon hotspots in Portugal and Poland to subscribers who buy the 300MB or 800MB AT&T Global Data Add-On services.
BlackBerry. Once upon a time the name was proud and the devices coveted. Oh, how far the mighty have fallen. The remnants of what was once a dominant player in a smartphone business it essentially helped create are now being acquired by a private consortium for a fraction of what the company was worth just a couple of years ago. Let’s take a closer look at how BlackBerry managed to plummet so far, so quickly, and what can other businesses learn from BlackBerry’s mistakes. When I was a security consultant at EDS, the BlackBerry was a sign of prestige. Lots of people were issued a mobile phone, but only the elite were worthy of a BlackBerry. , shared a similar story about his first BlackBerry. “My first Blackberry was a sign of importance—it meant, at least to those of us who got them, that our work was in the company critical path.”
Although already known for being easy to use, the Python programming language has gotten another boost in usability thanks to a new free graphical editor from development software provider JetBrains. JetBrains has split the latest edition of its PyCharm Python IDE (integrated development environment) into two editions, the paid professional edition and a new free community edition. JetBrains hopes that individuals who are new to Python, or who are learning to program with Python, could use the community edition of PyCharm. The community edition is also suited for coding lightweight applications and writing administrative scripts. The free edition of PyCharm comes with the typical functionality a developer would want from a modern IDE, including syntax highlighting, code completion, error recognition and code search.
Though consumers are a big target audience for the , Microsoft is also hoping to woo businesses with features that could make the device easier to secure and manage in IT environments. The software maker introduced this week—the Surface 2 with Windows 8.1 RT and Surface Pro 2 with Windows 8.1. The new Surface 2 features that could be attractive to business users include mobile-device management and virtual private network (VPN) support, said Cyril Belikoff, director of Surface, during an interview at the tablet launch event. The Surface 2 tablet also has remote lockdown and stronger security features compared to the earlier Surface RT, Belikoff said, adding that the device will be easier for IT administrators to manage. The tablet’s starting price is $449, but enterprises buying Surface 2 in bulk could get a discount, Belikoff said. Belikoff also showed a charging cabinet—targeted at hospitals and schools—in which multiple Surface tablets could be charged simultaneously.
Oracle is offering a series of new services that position it as a one-stop shop for all things cloud and directly target the likes of Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com. While Oracle had already offered SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications, database-as-a-service and other products, it announced 10 additional cloud services at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. They include Compute Cloud and Object Storage Cloud, both of which seem aimed at similar services from AWS. Oracle termed its own offerings as secure, “enterprise-grade” and “fully configurable.” The services are currently in preview, according to Oracle’s cloud services website.
What happens in your car no longer stays in your car. The Zubie Key tracks your driving history and can also alert you to car problems. Its reports are very useful, but devices like this also spell the end of driving as a symbol of freedom or escape.
” – spots for drivers to pull over and read or send text messages - throughout the state, in an effort to curb an epidemic of drivers who continue to text behind the wheel. Frequent air travelers have become accustomed to seeing “cell phone parking lots” on the outskirts of airports. These special waiting areas are designed for drivers to use when they’re picking up a passenger from the terminal, the idea being that they keep cars from lingering curbside, lessen traffic from cars circling endlessly in the pickup lanes, and keep everyone safer by ensuring that people chatting or texting on the phone have a place to do it safely, with their car in park. with messages like “It can wait, Text Stop in 1 mile,” have been erected along the roadways surrounding the new Texting Zones to encourage drivers to use them. for distracted driving as of July 26. First time offenders now must pay a fine of $150 if they’re caught ROFLing on the road.
The U.S. Congress should appoint an independent committee to investigate possible surveillance abuses by the U.S. National Security Agency, two high-profile former senators said Tuesday. that investigated intelligence abuses in the mid-1970s. The intelligence reforms set up after the Church Committee found many questionable intelligence practices have been twisted into weaker protections than many of the committee members originally intended, Hart and Mondale said during a Georgetown University Law Center forum. Congress, through a new independent committee, needs to “restore a sense of protection of our First Amendment rights” to free speech, Hart said.
The iPhone 5s officially launched last Friday, but already a group of hackers has so far. , The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) stepped up to the challenge and created a latex mold of a lifted fingerprint that allowed them to slip past the Touch ID defenses. A gang declares, “As we have said now for more than years [sic], fingerprints should not be used to secure anything. You leave them everywhere, and it is far too easy to make fake fingers out of lifted prints.” So, once again fingerprint scanning technology has failed. Right?
Twitter's Amplify advertising program will now push out CBS content.
European politicians on Tuesday demanded that a broad data-sharing agreement between the U.S. and the European Union be suspended, following allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency illegally tapped banking data. The Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) allows the U.S. Treasury to access some data stored in Europe by Swift, the international banking transfer company. But allegations that the NSA accessed this data without going through legal channels has led some members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to declare the agreement defunct. None of those present at the Civil Liberties Committee's Tuesday hearing on U.S. and E.U. countries' surveillance plans had evidence that the NSA has actually breached Swift. The latest allegations are based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden that indicate the NSA spied on Swift. According to the documents, Swift is included in an NSA training manual for new agents on how to target private computer networks. Dutch MEP Sophie in't Veld told the hearing that she considered the agreement "effectively dead."
, a revamped Type or Touch Cover, a wireless adapter that lets you use said covers away from the Surface itself, or a new version of the Arc Touch Mouse clad in Surface-esque stylings. Any preordered gear will ship October 22, the day the second-generation Surface family becomes available to the public. . The new endurance-boosting Power Cover, the Surface Pro docking station, the funky music-tweaking Remix Cover, and the Surface Car Charger won't be released until sometime in 2014 and are still only available to preview, not preorder. , the updated operating system powering the new Surface slates.
A new California law gives minors the right to ask Web sites like Facebook, Google and Twitter to remove or hide any content they wish, essentially allowing kids to “scrub” their digital history before they enter the adult world. in question builds on existing state and fedeal legislation that requires Web site operators to publicly display a privacy policy, and to notify minors who are using the app, site or service that information is being collected about them and to allow thir parents to opt out. It will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, allowing the affected sites enough time to prepare. .) The most interesting element of the new law, however, is the provision that a minor may opt “to remove or, if the operator prefers, to request and obtain removal of, content or information posted on the operator’s Internet Web site, online service, online application, or mobile application by the user”.
A new, non-Apple-sanctioned Android app claims to let you chat with iOS users via iMessage, but there are too many questions swirling around to trust it.
Cloud storage locker Dropbox has joined Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Facebook in their quest for permission to publish the number of data requests they have received from the U.S. government, and the number of users affected by those requests. on Monday. The online storage service has an interest in motions already filed by other tech companies because the government has told Dropbox that it isn't allowed to say exactly how many national-security requests it receives, Dropbox said in the brief. The company is allowed to publish information about those requests only if they are lumped together with regular law-enforcement requests and, even then, only in groups of 1,000, it said. "Because Dropbox received fewer than 100 regular law-enforcement requests last year, reporting in the government's format would decrease Dropbox' ongoing transparency efforts," Dropbox said.
Plug-ins based on the NPAPI architecture will be blocked by default in Chrome starting early next year as Google moves toward completely removing support for them in the browser. . "Because of this, Chrome will be phasing out NPAPI support over the coming year." First developed for Netscape, NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in Application Programming Interface) has long been the most popular plug-in architecture, supported by browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera and Konqueror. However, NPAPI's security shortcomings, like the fact that it spawns processes with privileged access to the underlying operating system, have in recent years led to a surge in attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to silently install malware on computers when users visit compromised or malicious websites. Google, Mozilla and Opera responded to this threat by implementing click-to-play, an optional feature that prompts users for confirmation before executing plug-in based content.
The final brick in the Android Device Manager wall is set with the arrival of remote password resets.
A Gmail glitch that took about 10 hours to fix and hit close to 50 percent of the webmail service's users has been fixed, ending one of the longest, most widespread Gmail disruptions in years. Affected users endured email delivery delays and difficulties downloading attachments due to a still unexplained bug first acknowledged by Google at around 10:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Monday. The company declared it patched at 10 p.m. the start of the problem at close to 9 a.m. and its resolution at 6:30 p.m. On Tuesday, Google offered more details about the cause of the problem and the steps it's taking to prevent it from happening again.
Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something the regular Notepad doesn't: numbered lines.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to regulate only mobile apps that are medical devices and could pose a risk to a patient's safety if they do not function as intended. Some of the risks could be unique to the choice of the mobile platform. The interpretation of radiological images on a mobile device could, for example, be adversely affected by the smaller screen size, lower contrast ratio and uncontrolled ambient light of the mobile platform, the agency said in its recommendations released Monday. The FDA said it intends to take the "risks into account in assessing the appropriate regulatory oversight for these products." to developers of mobile medical apps only reflects the FDA's current thinking on the topic, the agency said. The guidance document is being issued to clarify the small group of mobile apps which the FDA aims to scrutinize, it added. The recommendations would leave out of FDA scrutiny a majority of mobile apps that could be classified as medical devices but pose a minimal risk to consumers, the agency said.
Want to take a smartphone picture with high color fidelity even in poor light? Samsung Electronics has developed a new technology that it claims will deliver just that.
Staples is rolling out an expandable home automation system designed to cut consumer confusion.
of keeping it under wraps. Cyril Belikoff, director of the Surface for Microsoft, declined to comment when asked repeatedly about whether Microsoft planned to release a smaller version of the Surface tablet, geared toward content consumption, rather than productivity. “I didn’t allude to that or anything at all,” he said, when asked if Microsoft would either build a smaller Surface, or, conversely, cede that role to its hardware partners. “Surface is really a great consumer tablet,” Belikoff said. “There are many consumers who buy Surface RT and are loving the Surface or will continue to love the Surface 2. Same with the Pro. Surface Pro is great for businesses, and individual professionals, who love Surface Pro. Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 are great for consumers, for businesses, and large enterprises.”
Facebook is moving ahead with plans to test a new mobile feature to entice more people to buy products while shopping on smaller devices such as iPhones.
NextWorth said Tuesday it has paired up with Lenovo to allow you to at its site and then to receive a Lenovo eGift card or check that will be good for purchase of new Lenovo laptops and tablets. It’s an interesting twist on the subject of trading in used tech for dough, as you’re not limited to recycling only Lenovo products to get in on the deal. NextWorth says computers, smartphones, digital cameras, and more—even from competitors—will be accepted. And, if you trade in a non-Lenovo laptop with NextWorth by Sept. 29, you’ll be eligible for a $20 bonus above the price NextWorth determines the older laptop is worth. Just enter the code TRADEINFORLENOVO when you check out. If you are a big fan of Lenovo products, this deal may be for you. Note that if you are not wedded to or attracted by this offer, there are many other sites where you can trade used electronics for cash.
Spam volumes took a usual seasonal drop in August, but phishing spiked, including a noticeable interest in hijacking Apple accounts. Spam averaged 67.6 percent of all emails in August, down 3.6 percentage points compared to July, wrote Kaspersky Lab analysts Tatyana Shcherbakova and Maria Vergelis in a . But 5.6 percent of those spam emails contained malicious attachments, an increase of 3.4 percentage points over a month prior. The most prevalent malware program was "Trojan-Spy-html.Fraud.gen," which was in 8.1 percent of the emails containing malicious attachments. It's a very old piece of malware, by Kaspersky Lab in 2004. The malware is lodged inside a bogus HTML page that imitates a registration form for banks or payment services. It asks a victim for account information or personal information, which is then sent to a hacker.
Some Twitter users were surprised Monday when they clicked a button to share content from third-party websites but instead downloaded a mysterious torrent file. Twitter said the problem, which affected websites including TechCrunch.com, FT.com and Businessinsider.com, has been fixed, and the Tweet buttons are now functioning normally. As is the case when something strange happens, users suspected either Twitter or one of its technology partners had been compromised. Twitter uses several content delivery networks (CDNs) to serve content and improve the site's performance. Twitter did not indicate the cause of the issue but said in a statement "to our knowledge, the torrent file was not malicious."
BlackBerry's messenger app for Android and iPhone will not roll out this week as the company struggles to block an unreleased version of the Android app that affected its system. The smartphone maker said Saturday it had paused the global rollout of Android and iPhone versions of its BBM app after the unreleased version of BBM for Android was leaked on numerous file-sharing sites. "This older version resulted in volumes of data traffic orders of magnitude higher than normal for each active user and impacted the system in abnormal ways," wrote Andrew Bocking, head of BBM at BlackBerry, in a on Monday. The version the company was planning to release on Saturday addressed the issues, but BlackBerry could not block users of the unreleased version if it went ahead with the launch, Bocking wrote. As active users of the unreleased app neared 1 million, and were increasing, BlackBerry decided that the only way to address the issue was to pause the rollout for both Android and iPhone versions of the app. Besides modifying the system to completely block the unreleased version of the Android app when it goes live with the official BBM for Android app, the company also wants to reinforce its system to handle similar scenarios in future, Bocking wrote.