Die 10-Jahres-Jubliäumsausgabe des Abenteuerspiels «Fable» erinnert an die Zeit, als in Games erste moralische Entscheidungen möglich wurden. Ein Rückblick unseres Gamejournalisten.
In Zusammenarbeit mit einer US-Universität will Yahoo in den nächsten fünf Jahren einen Sprachassistenten entwickeln, der besser als Siri von Apple sein soll.
Die deutsche Firma Pediapress will die englische Komplett-Ausgabe des Online-Lexikons Wikipedia ausdrucken. Die 4,3 Milliarden Artikel sollen in rund 1000 Büchern Platz finden.
Was wird sich verändern? «Nichts!», haben WhatsApp und Facebook nach der Übernahme betont. Ist das für bare Münze zu nehmen? Hier sind die Antworten.
Pflanzen giessen oder Haustiere füttern: Das Start-up Jacando vermittelt Nebenjobs für Personen, die auf Reisen sind. Nun bieten auch die SBB den Dienst für ihre Kunden an.
Gamen wie im Drogenrausch: «Titanfall» bedeutet rasend schnelle Online-Schlachten zwischen Mensch und Maschine. Doch erfindet das Game tatsächlich die Multiplayer-Shooter neu?
In «Donkey Kong Country Returns: Tropical Freeze» sorgt der berühmte Jump'n'Run-Gorilla erneut für affig viel Spass. Allerdings muss dieser bisweilen hart erkämpft werden.
Nächste Woche stellen Samsung, Nokia, Sony und LG an der grössten Handy-Messe Europas neue Geräte vor. Kurz vor dem Start des Mobile World Congress brodelt die Gerüchteküche.
Die App Power Sleep nutzt in der Nacht die nicht benötigte Rechenpower von Smartphones für Gutes: Die leistungsfähigen Geräte sollen so einen Teil zur Krebsforschung beitragen.
Facebook und der SMS-Dienst WhatsApp haben sich auf eine Übernahme verständigt. Der Kauf ist dem Konzern von Mark Zuckerberg insgesamt 19 Milliarden Dollar wert.
22,5 Grad - in diesem Winkel steht ein Mauszeiger im Betriebssystem Windows. Doch wieso ist er eigentlich nicht gerade? Der Grund ist heute kaum noch nachvollziehbar.
Die Razzia bei dem wegen Copyright-Verletzungen angeklagten Internetunternehmer Kim Dotcom in Neuseeland war doch legal. Zu diesem Schluss kommt ein Gericht in Wellington.
Früher als erwartet hat Sony mit der Playstation 4 die Marke von fünf Millionen verkauften Geräten geknackt. Diese Woche kommt die Next-Gen-Konsole in Japan auf den Markt.
Nicht ungefragt filmen, nicht zu lange ins Display starren: Google sagt, wie man sich in der Öffentlichkeit nicht unbeliebt macht, wenn man eine Datenbrille auf der Nase trägt.
Trend Spot would show users of the ride-sharing app which locations are trending in a particular city.
Reported interceptions by an Australian spy agency of a U.S. law firm’s communications with overseas clients violates long-standing legal protections, the American Bar Association charges. The ABA, in a
Verizon Communications now owns its mobile business outright after closing its acquisition of Vodafone Group’s 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. Verizon paid about US$130 billion in cash and stock for the minority stake, giving it 100 percent ownership of the largest U.S. mobile operator. The initial While rival AT&T has fully owned its mobile business for years, Verizon had been running Verizon Wireless as a joint venture with the London-based Vodafone. It will now get both full control of the mobile business and full access to its profits: The buyout will immediately add about 10 percent to Verizon’s earnings per share, excluding adjustments, the company said Friday. Verizon Wireless reported 81 billion in operating revenue in 2013.
The newer smartphone OS entrants competing to chip away at the dominance of Android and iOS are heading to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, and facing a landscape that has changed since last year’s show. Mozilla, Canonical and Jolla are still aimed squarely at Android, but Tizen, backed by Intel and Samsung, faces a more uncertain future, according to analysts. Last year, phones were shown running all four OSes. Since then, the first phones running Firefox OS and Sailfish from Finnish company Jolla have gone on sale, while Canonical and the Tizen camp have suffered from delays. Mozilla’s Firefox OS has been the most successful, but only about 390,000 Firefox OS phones shipped last year, according to IDC, which expects that figure to rise to 2.5 million this year. That will give Firefox OS a 0.2 percent share of the total smartphone market, IDC said.
A service disruption that lasted more than five hours made key Google Web apps malfunction on Thursday. At around 2 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time, Google acknowledged on its The company declared the problem solved at around 7:30 p.m., but didn’t explain what caused it or how many users were affected. Later on, after 10 p.m., the Slides presentation creation app also hit a glitch that lasted for about 30 minutes. Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Early this year numerous media reports suggested that the first Ubuntu phones had been delayed and wouldn’t appear until 2015, but on Wednesday Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that two providers are well on track to bring the Linux-based devices to market this year after all. In fact, Canonical has signed agreements with mobile device manufacturers bq and Meizu to bring the first Ubuntu smartphones to consumers globally this year, Shuttleworth said in a press call Wednesday morning. Bq is a manufacturer of devices in Europe and Meizu is a high-end smartphone manufacturer in China. Canonical aims to have the top 50 apps available at launch and has confirmed Evernote, Grooveshark, and Weather Channel among the first providers. Further details regarding timing, pricing, hardware specifics, and launch markets were not available, but it’s likely the Meizu device will feature the same hardware that company currently has on the market now, he said.
The source code for an Android mobile banking Trojan app was released on an underground forum, making it possible for a larger number of cybercriminals to launch attacks using this kind of malware in the future. The Trojan app had initially appeared on the underground market late last year with a price of $5,000, according to researchers from RSA, the security division of EMC, who spotted the recent source code leak. The malware app, which the RSA researchers call iBanking, is used in conjunction with PC malware to defeat mobile-based security mechanisms used by banking sites. Most PC malware that targets online banking users can inject content into browsing sessions. This capability is used to display rogue Web forms on banking sites in order to steal log-in credentials and other sensitive financial information from users. Such malware can also “ride” the active online banking sessions of victims to initiate rogue transactions from their accounts.
Bitcoin fell below $100 on major exchange Mt. Gox early Friday, dropping under a key psychological threshold. Traders pushed the digital currency as low as $91.50, far below its price at around $537 on two other exchanges tracked by CoinDesk.com. The price on Mt. Gox later recovered to around $100, but it remains the cheapest exchange in the world to buy bitcoin. The price drop followed another update from Tokyo-based Mt. Gox about a technical issue that prompted it to suspend bitcoin withdrawals to outside addresses two weeks ago. Bitcoin had been trading around $850 before the suspension. In the update, Mt. Gox said it is continuing to work to resolve the technical issue, but added that it has experienced “some security problems, and as a result we had to relocate Mt. Gox to our previous office building.”
Critics hated the Gear, but it's not too late for Samsung to absolve its smartwatch sins.
Lately it seems like everyone wants to help us get away from our gaming boxes. Sony lets you run PlayStation 4 games through a PlayStation Vita over Wi-Fi, and you can play certain Nintendo's Wii U games through its GamePad controller. Valve is also And then there's Nvidia, which has been steadily finessing the concept over the last six months. When the company