Die niederländische Polizei hat die Website Utopia abgeschaltet, auf der Drogendeals und Auftragsmorde angeboten wurden. Utopia galt als bester Klon der legendären Silk Road.
Bilder eines unbekannten Twitter-Nutzers zeigen angeblich das iPhone 6. Bereits ist aber von gefälschten Bildern die Rede.
Apple will komplett auf den Einsatz von Rohstoffen aus Konfliktregionen verzichten. Laut einer Expertin ist der IT-Riese in Sachen Nachhaltigkeit aber keineswegs ein Vorreiter.
Das voraussichtlich im Herbst erscheinende iPhone 6 soll ohne Bildschirmumrandung auf den Markt kommen. Im Internet kursieren bereits Designstudien.
Wie fühlt es sich an, drei Tage lang ohne technische Geräte in seinem Zimmer zu verbringen? Der 16-jährige Michael Helbling ist überzeugt, dass er die Langeweile überleben wird.
Studenten haben ihr Start-up für eine halbe Milliarde Dollar an Google verkauft. Jetzt ist bekannt: Einer der Gründer und drei Mitarbeiter doktorierten an der Uni im Tessin.
Egal ob klobig oder filigran: Datenbrillen gehört die Zukunft. Davon sind viele Hersteller überzeugt, auch Epson. Im Frühling bringt der Druckerkonzern die Moverio BT-200 auf den Markt.
Das Hit-Spiel «Flappy Bird» wurde aus allen Stores gelöscht die Internetgemeinde rätselt über die Gründe. In einem Interview spricht der Entwickler nun erstmals Klartext.
Bis zu 30 GB Daten fliessen pro Sekunde über das Netz der Swisscom. Um sich für die Zukunft zu rüsten, setzt der Branchenprimus auf neue Technologien zur Tempoerhöhung.
Trotz der geplanten Übernahme durch Microsoft arbeitet Nokia angeblich an einem Smartphone mit Googles Android-System arbeiten. Schon Ende Monat soll es vorgestellt werden.
«Sid Meier's Civilization» gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Strategiespielen weltweit. Chef-Designer Ed Beach gibt Auskunft über die neue Komplettausgabe von «Civilization V».
Das Z1 Compact ist der kleine Bruder von Sonys Flaggschiff Z1: Trotz geringerer Grösse muss man beim kompakten Smartphone fast keine Abstriche machen. Ein grosses Plus: Es ist wasserfest.
Immer wieder gibt Snapchat wegen Lücken im System zu reden. Trotzdem setzt der Foto- und Video-Messaging-Dienst seinen Siegeszug fort.
Fast so hart wie ein Diamant und extrem teuer: Kratzfestes Saphirglas kommt bei Rolex-Uhren zum Einsatz. Nun experimentiert Apple mit den Edelsteinen.
Pressure on the cellphone industry to introduce technology that could disable stolen smartphones has intensified with the introduction of proposed federal legislation that would mandate such a system. Senate bill 2032, “The Smartphone Prevention Act,” was introduced to the U.S. Senate Wednesday by Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat. The bill promises technology that allows consumers to remotely wipe personal data from their smartphones and render them inoperable. But how that will be accomplished is currently unclear. The full text of the bill was not immediately available and the offices of Klobuchar and the bill’s co-sponsors were all shut down Thursday due to snow in Washington, D.C.
The two biggest cable companies in the U.S. might be merging. But these companies are already Internet-access monopolies, which is the real problem. And the FCC is the only group that can solve it.
Broadcom got a jump on Mobile World Congress this week, announcing two steps forward in its fledgling LTE silicon business. On Monday, the company While going up against market leader Qualcomm in LTE, Broadcom is also pursuing other hot technology trends, including Arm server chips, SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network functions virtualization). Overseeing all this is President and CEO Scott McGregor, who spoke with IDG News Service on Tuesday. This is an edited transcript of the conversation.
Android dominates thanks to Samsung's Galaxy Gear
Facebook settled a suit over its Sponsored Stories ads, but now privacy advocates say the network isn’t doing enough to protect kids’ information.
Sesame Workshop offers its own take on Flappy Bird with Flappy Bert.
New optical imaging stabilization technology may give LG's camera an edge
LG Electronics’ G Pro 2 has a bigger screen than its predecessor, but improved video and camera features are what the company hopes will make the device stick out from the competition. For LG’s smartphone division 2013 was a good year. The company sold about 46.4 million devices, compared to 25.8 million during 2012, according to market research company Gartner. That was enough make it the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, a spot it shares with Huawei, Gartner said on Thursday. But the company can’t afford to rest on its laurels, because the next ten months promises to be even more competitive than last year. With the G Pro 2 LG hopes to outcompete products like the Galaxy Note 3 from Samsung Electronics and Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra.
Though the benefits of defragging your hard drive are minimal in this day and age, after long periods of heavy use, a pass on the platters with a defragger isn’t a bad idea. Iobit’s Smart Defrag 3 is about as good a program as you’ll find at optimizing your files at the block level. And it’s free. Smart Defrag 3 offers both a classic Windows, and a Metro look that appears right at home in the Windows 8.x modern GUI. I like the 2D Metro look even under Windows 7 so I stuck with that. As a company, Iobit has made hay with the Metro interface, offering both a classic start menu for Windows 8 users, and a Metro-style interface for XP/Vista/W7 users.
There are lots of ways to transfer files between your PC and an Android device, but the simplest method has been to tether one to your PC using a cable. SanDisk has a better idea: Its Ultra Dual USB Drive can be used with Android smartphones and tablets The thumb drive has a standard Type A USB 2.0 plug on one side, and a Micro-B USB 2.0 plug on the other. I tested the 32GB model with an HTC One smartphone. Both of the drive's connectors are protected by a sliding plastic shell that automatically retracts when you push the plug into a USB port (you’ll need to pull the covers back out when you unplug it). Due to the thickness of the thumb drive’s shroud, I had to pop the bottom of my phone out of its Speck case. But I’ve encountered the same issue with right-angled headphone plugs, so this isn’t a showstopper by any means.
Comcast is expected to announce Thursday that it will buy Time Warner Cable in an all-stock deal, according to reports. The acquisition will combine the top two cable operators in the country, and may end a long-standing bid by another cable operator, Charter Communications. The value of the deal, which will require regulatory approvals including antitrust clearances, could be more than $45 billion, according to the news reports. Time Warner Cable is a large provider of video, high-speed data and voice services in the U.S., and had 15.1 million customers as of Sept. 30, including 14.5 million residential customers and the rest business subscribers. With $22 billion in revenue last year, it has cable systems in key geographic areas such as New York state, southern California and Texas.
Lenovo reported a 30 percent jump in its net profit for the fourth quarter of last year, with its earnings driven by a record number of devices shipped. But the company expects its profit will drop in the short-term with the proposed acquisitions of In the quarter ended Dec. 31, the Chinese PC maker’s net profit climbed to $265 million, up from $205 million in the same period a year ago. Its net revenue reached $10.8 billion, up 15 percent year-over-year.
Nvidia isn’t interested in the mainstream smartphone market and will focus its Tegra efforts on tablets and high-end “superphones,” the company’s CEO said Wednesday. "Our non-focus is mainstream phones,” CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during Nvidia’s quarterly earnings call. The chip maker is interested in devices that can take advantage of Tegra’s graphics capabilities, such as gaming systems. It’s also interested in automobiles, where it sees a growing demand for “visual” computing for things like back-seat displays and collision avoidance systems. It’s also interested in superphones, or high-end smartphones with large screens, Huang said.