Im Rahmen einer Zusammenarbeit mit dem Schweizer Alpen-Club (SAC) macht sich Google daran, die Zustiege zu SAC-Hütten fotografisch zu erfassen. Die Aufnahmen selber der Schweizer Hüttenzustiege werden vom SAC gemacht, die technischen Hilfsmittel stellt Google zur Verfügung. In einer ersten Phase wird der SAC mit Google-Equipment durch die Berner Alpen und das Wallis wandern.
Die Deutsche Telekom will einen Teil der von ihr gehaltenen T-Mobile-US-Anleihen verkaufen. Internationalen Investoren werden zwei Anleihen über jeweils 1,25 Mrd. Dollar (921 Mio. Euro) sowie ein 600 Millionen Dollar-Bond zum Kauf angeboten, wie die Deutsche Telekom am Dienstag mitteilte.
Tausende österreichische T-Mobile-Kunden, die dieser Tage ihre Online-Rechnungen erhalten haben, dürften sich sehr gewundert haben, mit wem sie angeblich telefoniert haben sollen. Wegen eines Programmfehlers im Verrechnungssystem erhielten insgesamt rund 7.000 Kunden nämlich die Gesprächsnachweise anderer Kunden.
Mit der Übernahme von Procurian investiert der US-amerikanische IT-Berater und Outsourcing-Spezialist Accenture erneut 375 Mio. US-Dollar, um sich einen der führenden Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Player einzuverleiben. Nachdem Accenture bereits das Service-Geschäft von Ariba übernahm, dürfte das Unternehmen mit der jüngsten Übernahme zum Marktführer für sogenannte Procurement BPO Services aufsteigen.
Roland Zeller hat bei der Parku das Amt des COO (Chief Operating Officer) übernommen und zeichnet damit neu für die operative Geschäftsführung des Online-Parkplatzvermittlers in der Schweiz verantwortlich. Parku holte mit Zeller einen Schweizer Internet-Pionier der ersten Stunde an Bord.
Ein falscher Ueli Maurer treibt auf dem Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter sein Unwesen. Von einem Profil mit Namen und Foto des Bundespräsidenten verschickt er regelmässig Nachrichten an seine mittlerweile über 700 Follower. Das Verteidigungsdepartement (VBS) versuchte erfolglos, den Twitterer zu stoppen.
Der US-Geheimdienst NSA kämpft laut einem Zeitungsbericht mit grossen technischen Problemen, um sein gewaltiges neues Rechenzentrum in Betrieb nehmen zu können. Die Anlage im Bundesstaat Utah werde von Stromschwankungen geplagt, die Metall zum Schmelzen brächten, berichtete das „Wall Street Journal“ unter Berufung auf Projektdokumente und Regierungsbeamte.
Der Iran überprüft den freien Zugang zu den sozialen Netzwerken Facebook und Twitter. Das gab das Telekommunikationsministerium am Dienstag in einer Mitteilung auf seinem Webportal bekannt. Arbeitsgruppen aus verschiedene Behörden seien dabei, die Aufhebung der Blockade dieser beiden Netzwerke zu überprüfen.
Während Apple und Samsung das iPhone 5S und das Galaxy S4 nur Gold färben, geht HTC einen Schritt weiter. Das Unternehmen hat in Grossbritannien eine limitierte Special Edition des HTC One aus echtem Gold präsentiert.
Die auf Security-Technologie spezialisierte Check Point Software Technologies (Switzerland) mit Sitz in Zürich hat mit Armin Thommen einen neuen Security Consultant unter Vertrag genommen. In dieser Funktion verantworte er die Ausbildung und technische Unterstützung der meisten Channel-Partner sowie einzelner Kunden von Check Point in der Schweiz, teilt das Unternehmen mit.
Audiosurf II tweaks its signature style with a new game mechanic that’s sure to be polarizing.
A majority of CEOs are failing to steer their companies towards effective use of new computer technologies, which precludes their organizations from making major business improvements. That’s the conclusion of a new study released Tuesday by the MIT Sloan Management Review and Capgemini Consulting titled “Embracing Digital Technology: A New Strategic Imperative.” The study was based on a survey of more than 1,500 executives and managers worldwide and its authors sought to examine the concept of “digital transformation,” which they define as the use of new digital technologies to trigger significant improvements. Digital transformation is a required goal for companies, and involves the revamping of business processes through the use of social media, mobile, analytics and embedded devices, according to the report.
Today is Patch Tuesday. It also happens to be the 10-year anniversary of the montly security patch update. For October, Microsoft released eight new security bulletins—four rated as Critical and four Important. There is one in particular, though, that deserves the most urgent attention. in the wild. . “Despite the exploit being used in a watering hole attack and Metasploit releasing a module for the exploit, Microsoft did not find it necessary to release the fix out of band.” . “Now that a patch is available we expect to see a rise in the number of attacks using these vulnerabilities.”
(CEX) showcases a little-known third option: Direct public offerings (DPO), a legal method of raising capital by selling stock (or other investments) directly to anyone, not just accredited investors. DPOs are similar to IPOs, except they’re less complicated, less expensive, don’t necessitate the involvement of an investment bank, and don’t result in the company becoming “public,” a classification that would make it subject to onerous reporting requirements and other regulations. The issuing company markets shares to anyone—wealthy and accredited investors as well as regular folks including customers, friends, family, and social media followers—without having to file quarterly reports or hassle with the cumbersome IPO registration process. CEX doesn’t directly handle investment funds but provides businesses and organizations listed on its site a customizable software module the issuers plug into their own websites. It’s a template that helps the business properly inform investors about the investment opportunity as well as an online mechanism the company can use to actually gather cash from investors. Businesses can offer investors a wide variety of securities.
A solar-powered car carrying four people hit speeds of 120 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour) on Tuesday as it raced across the Australian desert in this year’s World Solar Challenge. The car, called , was built by the Eindhoven University of Technology and is currently leading the cruiser class of the biennial solar car endurance race. The cruisers are a newly added class or car intended to carry more than one person and be more practical than the typical sleek, slim and single-person vehicles that compete in the race. At the end of day three of racing, Stella leads three competitors in the class. The is in fourth place almost four hours behind the leader.
It’s not TV, it’s HBO on your cell phone. . A la carte prices are $1.99 or $2.99 for individual episodes in standard definition. HD adds about a dollar to the price tag to those prices, and full seasons run $14.99 to $34.99. All Google Play prices are in line with those on other streaming services, including Amazon’s video service. Also, as with other services, current season programming is not available, but all prior seasons are on offer. on Google’s new Chromecast streaming adapter, which plugs directly into your TV.
Businesses that want their storage organized around virtual machines will get more hardware options and greater scalability later this year from Tintri, a startup that specializes in VM-based storage. On Tuesday, Tintri updated its VMstore line of appliances with two new models and unveiled Tintri Global Center, which lets IT administrators manage multiples of the company’s boxes as one system. Both the hardware and software are scheduled to ship by the end of the year. Tintri rejects conventional ways of organizing storage capacity, so instead of arranging volumes and LUNs (logical unit numbers) of data, administrators manage a pool of storage with allocations for each VM. This can be a useful way of administering storage for highly virtualized workloads, Forrester Research analyst Henry Baltazar said. Tintri’s arrays aren’t suited to general-purpose storage, but as both small and large businesses virtualize more servers, Tintri is relevant to a growing number of IT shops. “Even though it seems like it’s a very niche play ... its a niche that’s growing really fast,” Baltazar said.
Four men have been arrested by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) for drug offenses in connection with their involvement in Silk Road, an Internet underground marketplace for drugs and other illegal items. The FBI shut down Silk Road, a website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity network, in September and on Oct. 1 they arrested a man named Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco, who’s . Hours after the FBI arrested the suspected creator of Silk Road, officers from the National Crime Agency, a new U.K. law enforcement agency that went live Monday, arrested three suspects, two in their early 20s from Manchester and one in his early 50s from Devon. The three men are among several suspects identified as “significant users” of Silk Road as a result of close cooperation between NCA and American law enforcement agencies. Other U.K. suspects are to be arrested in the coming weeks, the agency said Monday.
The controller manufacturer gets into the console business on December 10 for $249.
Qualcomm has backtracked from an earlier statement in which a company executive said Apple's A7 64-bit chip in the iPhone 5s is a marketing gimmick, and that the technical advance had limited benefits in mobile devices.
Intel on Tuesday launched a family of intelligent gateways for the so-called Internet of Things, providing a series of middlemen, so to speak, between embedded sensors and the data they will store and analyze in the cloud. Specifically, Intel said that its new Atom E3800 embedded processor (codenamed “Bay Trail-I”) will work with Intel’s recently-announced Quark SoC X1000 embedded processor to provide ultra-low-power intelligence. The unnamed gateways themselves, due in the first quarter of 2014, will be designed as two models, one each around the Atom and Quark processors. The E3800 includes error correction and industrial temperature tolerances. The new X1000 line was unveiled by Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich last week at the Maker Faire in Rome. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) refers to a the galaxy of embedded sensors, some of which have been embedded in existing legacy equipment, all of which report some form of information. As an example, Kevin Facinelli, executive vice president for intelligent building systems Daikin Applied, noted that these sensors can be used to communicate what portions of an A/C system are costing the most money, which may need to be repaired, and where those components physically reside within the system.
Microsoft tossed Apple users a bone when it released , not a smartphone. So when will the disappointment fade? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer cleared the air somewhat at a Gartner-sponsored event in Florida on Tuesday, . “iPad will be picked up when there’s a touch first user interface,” Ballmer said. In other words, that’s after the finger-friendly modern UI Office apps currently in development appear. Yes, the Surface and its Windows-based counterparts will be the first to feast at the Office tablet table. But did you expect it any other way? Wes Miller, an analyst with the independent Directions on Microsoft firm, offered a contrite (and spot-on) summary on Twitter:
After releasing the “” Chromebook Pixel earlier this year, Google has gone the opposite way for the mass market with the lightweight, low-powered Chromebook 11 from HP. Google and HP collaborated on the design of the new Chromebook, which , with the same ARM-based Exynos 5250 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and two USB ports. Both the old and new laptops have 11-inch displays, each with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels. The improvements in the Chromebook 11 are all about design and fine-tuning. Google this new Chromebook has a sturdier magnesium frame, so it won’t flex when you hold it up from one corner, and it manages to be a tenth of a pound lighter than the Samsung Chromebook, weighing in at just 2.3 pounds. Although the screen resolution is unchanged, the display has 176-degree viewing angles. Google also claims that the Chromebook’s speakers are “finely tuned,” and placed under the keyboard so the sound projects toward the user.
Russian authorities have arrested the main developer of the notorious Blackhole exploit kit, one of the most popular attack tools used to infect Web users with malware. from Fox-IT. The Russian Ministry of Interior did not respond to several requests for comment on Tuesday. However, a source familiar with the investigation who requested anonymity confirmed that the creator of Blackhole, a person who uses the online identity “Paunch,” has been arrested by the Russian authorities. Because the investigation is ongoing, the source declined to share additional information.
After conquering the thermostat, Nest Labs now wants to make smoke alarms intelligent.
with a focus on mobile and a mission to dethrone Gmail. with curated background themes and beautiful transparent layers. The theme you pick will follow you from the Web to your devices as part of Mayer’s efforts to maintain consistency across platforms. . birthday, and made premium features free to mark the occasion. Now disposable e-mail addresses, automatic e-mail forwarding, advanced filters, and 1TB of storage are available to everyone—though Mail Plus customers still benefit from an ad-free experience.
The 5.9-inch Max will supposedly sport a fingerprint sensor. Has anyone thought to put a fingerprint sensor on a phone before?
Eric Schmidt is saying crazy things again, but this time, his zaniness highlights a key point: Android's security problem is vastly overblown
Amazon Web Services has been handed a win in a court battle with IBM over a CIA contract for a cloud computing project worth up to $600 million. A judge at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims sided with Amazon in a case that began when IBM went to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) with complaints about how bids were evaluated when the CIA selected AWS. The GAO partly sided with IBM and recommended that CIA reopen the competition. That didn't sit well with AWS, which filed a complaint the Federal Claims court that it won on Monday.
Do you really want your Google+ pals to be able to text you?
The declassification and release of documents in a case that Yahoo believes will prove it resisted government demands for data collection will likely be delayed after the government said its staff cannot work on it during the shutdown of the U.S. government. The shutdown came into effect on Oct. 1 after U.S. President Barack Obama and Congress could not agree on a budget to keep government agencies open. In a filing made public on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice said that without an appropriation of funds, it cannot meet its Oct. 25 deadline to provide the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with a status report on the government's review of the documents, as DOJ attorneys and employees are prohibited from working, even on a voluntary basis, except in situations such as emergencies that involve safety of life and the protection of property. Yahoo filed the petition for the disclosure of the documents in the 2008 surveillance case after documents released by Edward Snowden, a former contractor of the National Security Agency, suggested that Internet companies had provided real-time access to content on their servers to the agency under a program called Prism. The Internet companies have denied the charge.
A massive data center being built by the National Security Agency in Utah has been plagued by "chronic electrical surges" that have destroyed equipment and delayed its opening for a year, according to a report Monday. , citing project documents and unnamed officials. The data center is expected to be the NSA's main facility for storing, decrypting and analyzing the vast amounts of data it collects through its surveillance programs. Those programs have been under scrutiny since the disclosures about Prism and other data collection efforts earlier this year. The data center has cost a reported $1.4 billion excluding the computing equipment inside, and covers more than a million square feet.
Privacy groups have raised £25,000 ($40,200) to take the U.K. government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over its use of Internet and telecommunications networks to systematically spy on its citizens. The action is supported by the U.K. based groups Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and English PEN as well as by the German Internet campaigner Constanze Kurz. They decided to take the government to the ECHR after recent disclosures that it routinely taps, stores and sifts through the Internet data of British citizens using the U.S. Prism program and its own Tempora program. To fund their legal challenge the groups set a target of raising £20,000, which they reached last Friday, and they have raised £5,000 more since then, Open Rights Group executive director Jim Killock said on Tuesday.
, one of several Web-based small-business accounting services seeking to dethrone Intuit’s venerable QuickBooks, has unveiled a new feature designed to attract QuickBooks customers by simplifying migration. , accessible immediately on Xero’s website, is available to any QuickBooks desktop user who signs up for Xero’s service. You simply upload your QuickBooks file, and Xero says it will populate your account file with the data. Transferring bookkeeping data from QuickBooks to another application or service certainly has been doable in the past, but the process can be painful, typically involving complicated export and import operations. Xero even had instructions on how to do this, but the new service does it for you. Note, however, that while Xero offers a free trial of its service, you can't use the migration tool without becoming a paying customer. Subscriptions start at $19 a month (for up to five invoices and five e-bills) and top out at $39 a month.
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group wants to jump-start a new manufacturing operation in Indonesia next year, potentially bringing in more smartphones to the country. with Indonesian officials about setting up operations in one of Asia's largest nations, which has almost 250 million people. On Tuesday, Foxconn said the talks were ongoing, but expects to finalize its discussions with local partners and government officials in 2014, the company said in an email. The manufacturing supplier is often associated with Apple, but also assembles products for Sony, Amazon.com and other electronics vendors. Some of Foxconn's largest factories are in mainland China, where the company employs over 1 million workers.
paper, and that’s a step in several right directions: increased efficiency, better security, and a reduced environmental footprint. We’ve also added a few ways to eliminate paper from your workflow, the better to declutter your office—and your mind. ’s portable scanners, which offer single- or double-sided scanning capability. They also come with a free service to upload scanned documents to popular cloud services such as Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive, among others. , which brings the line’s one-button scanning to bound and oversize documents. To add a scanner to a crowded office, buy a multifunction printer, which has a scanner built in, plus accompanying software that can create PDFs from scanned documents for storing or sending. Office models will have an automatic document feeder for scanning multiple pages easily. Get one that can scan two-sided documents for the greatest efficiency and convenience.
The Acer V5-552G-X414 is an all-purpose laptop that looks nice, boots fast, and delivers more than enough everyday performance for the average user. It renders movies smoothly on its 15.6-inch, 1366-by-768-pixel display, and it plays a good game up to a resolution of 1024 by 768. The keyboard is better than average, but the touchpad isn't a favorite. The Acer V5 weighs 4.41 pounds—just over 5 pounds when you add its AC adapter—and is handsome in a minimalist fashion. Our test unit appeared entirely in slate gray except for the black keys on its short-throw keyboard—one of the better keyboards I've tried (if not quite up to Lenovo or recent Dell quality). The one-piece rocker-style touchpad, on the other hand, while nicely responsive to movement and taps, bends far too much before registering clicks. It feels odd and sours the overall ergonomic experience. Also, where many laptops provide access panels for the memory and storage, the V5 does not. This makes upgrading a sticky wicket for the average user.
It all started with the 2013 Emmy Awards ceremony, and went downhill for cable and broadcast TV companies from there.
Microsoft will soon allow customers of Internet business exchange (IBX) provider Equinix to directly connect servers into the Windows Azure network, which could speed throughput of hybrid cloud applications. Equinix has a number of customers who don't want to use the Internet to access Azure, said Chris Sharp, Equinix general manager for cloud services. "They want high-throughput, LAN-centered connectivity," he said. The partnership with Microsoft "allows customers to connect to the Azure platform in key Equinix data center locations," Sharp said. The service will be offered to select customers as a beta test in the weeks to come. No word was given on when the service would be commercially available to all Equinix's customers.
with the gaming-console builders, earning design wins with Microsoft (the Xbox One), Sony (the PlayStation 4), and Nintendo (the Wii U). Now the company is turning its attention back to PC gaming with the launch of its R7 and R9 graphics processor families. But AMD has a funny definition of “family,” because some of the new GPUs it recently announced, including the Radeon R9 280X reviewed here, aren’t entirely new: They’re tweaked versions of earlier products. AMD objects to my classifying them as “rebadged” because that term describes an old product that’s merely dressed up with a new name. In this case, AMD’s engineers took last year’s Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, tweaked its specs, and added some new features before slapping a new label on it. But a company spokesperson has confirmed that the Radeon R9 280X “share[s] the same ASIC,” or application-specific integrated circuit, as the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition. in June 2012, and other cards based on that GPU were selling for around $385 the day before this launch. MSI’s card is faster, it delivers several features that aren’t possible with the old GPU, and it’s priced at just $299.