Edward Snowden hat die Sicherheitssysteme des US-Geheimdienstes NSA mit einfachsten Mitteln ausgehebelt. Um an Geheimdaten zu kommen, nutzte er Software, die es gratis im Web gibt.
Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg und seine Frau Priscilla Chan haben in den USA 2013 am meisten Geld verteilt.
Immer mehr nationale Netze und eine steigende Nutzung von internetunabhängigen Kanälen bei Endnutzern: Mehrere Grosskonzerne des WWW befürchten, dass das Internet zerfällt.
Die Steam Machine könnte die nächste Revolution im Gaming sein. Wird sie die Videogamekonsolen ablösen? Was kann sie? Antworten auf die zehn wichtigsten Fragen.
Eine Analystin rechnet mit einer Umsatzsteigerung von bis zu zehn Prozent, wenn Apple eine eigene Smartwatch herstellt. Die Nachfrage soll ähnlich gross sein wie beim ersten iPad.
Kaum ein Android-Smartphone läuft mit der neusten Version Kitkat. Schuld daran ist die zu grosse Fragmentierung des Google-Betriebssystems.
Der Entwickler Dong Nguyen hat sein Hit-Spiel «Flappy Bird» aus allen Stores gelöscht. Fünf findige Basler bringen das kultige Game nun kurzerhand zurück - zumindest fast.
Das derzeit beliebteste Smartphone-Spiel wird heute aus den Stores genommen. Der unabhängige Entwickler ist von der Nachfrage überfordert.
In Deutschland und Österreich wird gefordert, dass für Embedded Content Lizenzgebühren bezahlt werden sollen. In der Schweiz fehlt eine eindeutige Regelung.
Apple-Mitgründer Steve Wozniak rät zur Entwicklung eines iPhones, das mit Android läuft. Steve Jobs würde das wohl gar nicht gefallen: Er verabscheute Googles Betriebssystem.
Blutgruppe, Allergien, Notfallkontakte: Mittels QR-Codes auf Skihelmen bekommen Rettungskräfte auf Skipisten dringend benötigte Informationen.
Weil Samsung Hauptsponsor der Winterspiele ist, dürfen die Athleten sich nicht mit Apple-Smartphones vor der Kamera zeigen. Dafür erhalten die Sportler ein Galaxy Note 3.
Seit 1985 können olympische Wintersportarten zu Hause nachgespielt werden. 20 Minuten liefert einen Überblick über das virtuelle Wintersportgeschehen der letzten drei Dekaden.
Der kleine Vogel im Spiel «Flappy Bird» entpuppt sich als Goldesel: Wie der Entwickler in einem Interview verriet, wirft der Game-Hit monatlich 1,5 Millionen Dollar ab.
A problem identified by Mt. Gox as a bug in Bitcoin software is actually a long-standing technical issue Mt. Gox should have prepared for, the Bitcoin Foundation said Monday. Mt. Gox blamed problems with its currency exchange on a bug in Bitcoin’s software allowing for so-called “transaction malleability,” giving people the ability to change Bitcoin transaction details after the fact. Fraud could be the outcome and Bitcoin’s value has been on a downward spiral since Mt. Gox called out the problem Monday after suspending transactions last Friday. But actually there is no bug—transaction malleability is an underlying issue in Bitcoin’s software, and Mt. Gox should have prepared its exchange for it, the Bitcoin Foundation
Microsoft founder Bill Gates told a Reddit audience on Monday that his new role at Microsoft will be to envision “ambitious scenarios”—which apparently encompass how operating systems, as well as data, will be shared among various Microsoft devices. As he did a year ago, Bill Gates took to the virtual pages of Reddit for an “ Naturally, the most important question was the one about Gates’ new role:
Bing is highlighting bitcoin currency conversions at the top of its search results, the Microsoft-owned search engine said Monday. The conversion works for more than 50 currencies. Search for, say,
Intel has designed a new integrated graphics core that the company claims can improve the battery life of smartphones, tablets and laptops. Graphics can be power hungry and the new power-efficient core, when paired with a CPU, represents a leap in bringing down overall power consumption on chips, said Intel researcher Divya Kolar, in a "This graphics core incorporates several new features that allow it to improve energy efficiency by 40 percent—essentially giving longer battery life for the same performance or improving performance when you really need it,” Kolar wrote.
A U.S. consumer group on Monday added its voice to the growing criticism of Google’s proposed settlement with the European Union’s competition authorities. "We had been impressed with the strong position the Commission had taken in your investigation, unlike regulatory authorities in the United States,” wrote John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project director in a letter to the Commission on Monday. “We cannot understand what prompted this recent change in attitude.” Last Wednesday E.U. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that he was satisfied with Google’s proposals to give comparable display to specialized search services that rival its own. He added that while he would analyze responses from the 18 complainants, he didn’t believe he would change his mind.
A new app for Google Glass may seem trivial, but it represents the future of wearable computing.
Nokia and HTC have settled their long-running patent infringement battles, which played out in several countries and have seen a handful of HTC phones banned from sale in Europe. The two companies, both major players in the smartphone industry, said they have agreed on a “patent and technology collaboration” that will settle all outstanding litigation. Precise details were not revealed, but the companies said HTC will pay Nokia an undisclosed sum and the collaboration will involve HTC’s patents on LTE technology. LTE, often called 4G, is a high-speed wireless data transmission technology being rolled out by carriers in many countries. Nokia’s chief intellectual property officer, Paul Melin, hailed the agreement as validating Nokia’s patents while HTC’s general counsel, Grace Lei, said her company was “pleased to come to this agreement.”
Software vendors have improved their response to security flaws in the last 12 months but some still take too long to patch the highest-risk vulnerabilities, figures from Swiss testing firm High-Tech Bridge have suggested. Comparing 2012 to last year, the firm found that critical flaws were now being patched in 11 days (up from 17), while medium and low-risk flaws were now being fixed in 13 and 25 days respectively (as against 29 days and 48 days). This means that the
Hewlett-Packard’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) spelled out the rules for its March hacking contest, Pwn2Own, which will put two-thirds of a million dollars in prize money on the table for researchers who can hack the biggest browsers and most popular plug-ins. ZDI is HP’s bug-bounty program, run by its TippingPoint division, a maker of intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall appliances for corporate networks. The 2014 edition of Pwn2Own will offer $645,000 in potential awards to hackers who demonstrate exploits of previously-unknown vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) or Apple’s Safari, or the Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, or Oracle Java browser plug-ins.
Verizon is denying a charge leveled by a security expert and seemingly acknowledged by its own customer service department that it is “limiting bandwidth” to Amazon Web Services, and by extension Netflix, in response to a recent court decision. Just a few weeks ago a Washington D.C. appellate
The failure of U.S. financial institutions and retailers to implement more robust cybersecurity measures, such as the smart-card technology widely used in Europe, was questioned and criticized by members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing last week. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut Senators also questioned notification procedures following recent
The Australian nonprofit organization The charity is encouraging people to sign a pledge to put down their phones for intermittent periods during the month of February. Australia is one of the most connected countries on the planet when it comes to mobile devices, according to the 2013 Telstra smartphone index. The perpetual need to keep in touch can
Microsoft last week said it will issue five security updates next week, two tagged as “critical,” to close holes in Windows and the company’s Exchange-based Forefront Protection 2010 security software. Three of the four updates for Windows will affect Windows XP, the 13-year-old operating system that Microsoft One of the two critical updates—and the only one that will apply to Windows—does not even patch XP, according to Microsoft’s typically-terse