With Apple's PR chief stepping down, we ask whether the company's public-relations strategy can translate elsewhere. Also, we discuss the relative merits of App.net, RSS, and a hypothetical Surface mini. With guests Caitlin McGarry, Dan Frakes, and Brad Chacos.
Nvidia reported results for the April quarter that exceeded analyst expectations, as the company's customers favored its high-end graphics chips as well as new products for the data center. Nvidia reported profits of $136.5 million, or 24 cents per share on revenue of $1.1 billion. Profits increased 46 percent from a year ago, while revenues climbed 16 percent. Analysts polled by Yahoo Finance had expected earnings of 19 cents on revenue of $1.08 billion. Nvidia's gains were across-the-board, save for its graphics chips that were sold into notebooks, which showed declines as the overall notebook PC market fell. In general, Nvidia's GPU business grew by 14 percent to $898 million, with high-end GeForce GTX GPUs climbing 57 percent. Quadro workstation GPU sales increased, as did sales of Nvidia's Tesla chips for data centers and supercomputers. Sales of Nvidia's Grid, the company's cloud solution, were "up strongly" from the prior year's initial quarter of sales.
For gamers and desktop users looking to shift to the new DDR4 memory as quickly as possible, the wait will end in the third quarter this year. Crucial expects to ship new DDR4 memory for both servers and desktops around the same time in the third quarter, said Michael Moreland, worldwide product marketing manager at Crucial. New DDR memory is usually shipped first for servers and then for desktops, but that trend will change with DDR4, which has been under development for more than five years. PCs will be faster and more power efficient with DDR4, which provides 50 percent more memory bandwidth than DDR3 and 35 percent more power savings.
The Federal Trade Commission has a tiny problem with the way Snapchat describes its core feature, disappearing messages. The thing is, the FTC says, Snapchat’s messages don’t actually disappear. They can be saved in a variety of ways, from simple screenshots to outside apps. Worse, Snapchat was misrepresenting that fact in its privacy policy. So the FTC gave Snapchat
Comcast’s proposed purchase of fellow cable television and broadband provider Time Warner Cable would give it even more leverage in an Internet backbone market where the company has already begun extracting tolls from competitors, a backbone provider said Thursday. Comcast’s proposed $45.2 billion deal would “threaten the innovative and entrepreneurial character and future of the Internet,” said Dave Schaeffer, chairman and CEO of Cogent Communications Group, a backbone provider recently bypassed in a deal in which Netflix agreed to pay Comcast for faster access to its broadband subscribers. The proposed merger has “the potential to cause grave anticompetitive and consumer harms for tens of millions of Americans who require access to high-speed, high-quality, affordable broadband Internet access,” Schaeffer told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee.
It's been nearly a decade since the last Unreal Tournament. A But with Unreal Engine 4 coming down the pipeline, Epic has decided to brush off the Unreal Tournament license and build out a modern version of the classic twitch shooter, the studio announced today. The game is slated for PC, Mac, and Linux and will be freeupon release. Not free-to-play, Epic is quick to specify, but no-strings-attached "Work on the future of Unreal Tournament begins today, and we're happy to announce that we're going to do this together, with you," writes Epic. The game is coming from a core group of veterans inside Epic, and development will take place in the open. Epic has set it up so all content for the game will be available on GitHub for other Unreal Engine 4 developers.
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has joined forces with six vendors to conduct experimental trials of emerging 5G technologies, hoping to lay the groundwork for mobile networks that offer data transmissions at more than 10Gbps. The goal is to confirm the potential of 5G mobile technologies, including the use of spectrum above 6GHz, NTT said, and to pave the way for having a cellular system ready for commercial deployments in 2020. The use of new spectrum bands is expected be one of the key ingredients in future 5G networks. “5G is a moving target right now. There is no standard yet, so people are working in various forums to see what’s going to work. At the moment there is also a lot of positioning and PR,” said Sylvain Fabre, research director at Gartner.
The top 5 percent of data users will see slower speeds at congested cell sites, Sprint warns.
Users looking for Lenovo IdeaPad laptops with 4K screens, some of the earliest laptops of their kind, are going to have to wait longer because they just shipped—but without 4K displays. Initial IdeaPad Y50 (15.6-inch screen) and Y40 (14-inch screen) gaming laptops started shipping this month with high-definition 1920x1080-pixel screens. The 4K display option for the Y50 will be added in July, a Lenovo spokeswoman said in an email. A specific shipping date for the Y40 4K display was not immediately available. The 4K displays will show images at four times the resolution of 3840x2160 pixels, making the laptops good for high-end gaming and multimedia. The laptops were demonstrated in January at the International CES.
Bethesda Softworks announced Thursday that it needs six more months of work on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of Elder Scrolls Online, pushing the release date back from June to this holiday season.
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What's your story? Adobe's brilliant new Voice app, released Thursday, is designed to help you answer that question. Here's our review.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should delay its scheduled May 15 vote on a new net neutrality proposal because of public outcry that the rules aren’t strong enough, a commissioner said. Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel joined the dissenting voices of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s fellow Democrats when she called Wednesday for a delay in the scheduled vote to release Wheeler’s net neutrality proposal and seek formal public comment. With a robust debate over the proposal already under way, the FCC should delay the vote for at least a month, Rosenworcel said
Fujifilm’s There are a lot of DSLR-type features packed into this “bridge” camera—so called because it provides a bridge between a point and shoot camera and a DSLR. The FinePix S1 includes an eye-level viewfinder (of the electronic variety), plus a hot shoe for attaching accessories. Fujifilm also found room atop the viewfinder for a pop up flash that is manually activated by a button sitting just below it on the left.
After a successful launch for iOS, Yahoo's current events app comes to Android with four editions and global availability.
Samsung has appointed a new head of its design team less than a month after the Galaxy S5 went on sale, a change that hints the company has finally taken years of negative feedback to heart. The hardware on Samsung’s Galaxy S line of smartphones has helped make the company the largest manufacturer in the world, but the design and extensive use of plastic has come under fire again and again. “A key element is that the design of the Galaxy S5 falls short. It’s plastic, looks like every other Samsung handset and doesn’t feel premium,” PC Advisor said when
An experimental feature in test versions of Google’s Chrome browser that is intended to provide greater protection against phishing can, in some cases, do the opposite, according to a security company. The “Origin Chip” feature shows the root domain of a website which in theory makes it easier for users to spot if they are going to “paypal.com” or “paypalripoff.com” without the distraction of the rest of the URL describing the exact location of the webpage. Origin Chip is a beta feature in “Chrome Canary,” a browser intended for developers and early adopters that has features under consideration for future release. It moves the full domain out of the “Omnibox,” used for search and to one side of the browser. The feature can be turned on in “chrome://flags/,” a menu of experimental features, in Chrome Canary Version 36.0.1975.0. The experimental feature can also be activated in the stable version of Chrome, however.
If you love hearing yourself talk, Adobe wants to put your voice center stage with a new video app. Voice is designed to be a social media vehicle that can be used by anyone from students to business people. It’s billed as being simpler than shooting and editing a video while having more impact than a slide-show presentation. Targeted at mobile users, the app’s animated videos can be viewed on virtually any mobile device.
Desktop as a Service, auf allen mobilen Geräten, gilt als das ganz grosse Ding. VMware und Amazon haben Konkurrenzangebote präsentiert. Für den Marktführer Citrix wird es eng.
Will die USA Webinhalte löschen lassen, macht sie vor Landesgrenzen keinen Halt. Das ist ein Problem für Schweizer Hoster, da nicht klar ist, ob sie oder die Kunden für die Inhalte verantwortlich sind.
Zu viel Hightech-Kommunikation wie E-Mails und Videokonferenzen ist zwar effizient, aber zu wenig effektiv. Zu diesem Schluss kommt die Studie eines Führungsexperten.
Am ersten Tag der zweitägigen ERP-Messe gaben sich Besucher und Aussteller zufrieden. Den E-Commerce-Award, der am Abend vergeben wurde, räumte PKZ ab.
Mit dem Ascend P7 hat Huawei heute in Paris sein neustes Smartphone vorgestellt. Das 5-Zoll-Gerät besticht wie schon der Vorgänger durch ein extrem schlankes Gehäuse und einen attraktiven Preis.
Eine Studie beweist: ohne Zürich geht in der Schweizer ICT fast nichts. Und ohne ICT geschieht in Zürich wenig. Dazu gibt's Zahlen von Teilmärkten, Jungunternehmen und Regionen. Oder alles, was man über die Schweizerische ICT im Allgemeinen und die Zürcherische im Speziellen wissen muss.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) will in den kommenden zwei Jahren ein ganzes Set an Cloud-Produkten entwickeln und dafür eine Milliarde Dollar ausgeben. Im Mittelpunkt soll eine eigene Distribution der quelloffenen Cloud-Hosting-Software Open Stack stehen, die HP «Helion» nennt.
Der ETH-Spin-off «Qipp» verbindet mithilfe virtueller Profile unsere Lieblingsobjekte mit dem Internet. Dank Smartphones sollen Hersteller mit den Käufern über die gesamte Lebensspanne eines Produkts in Kontakt bleiben.
EMC und VMware präsentieren in Las Vegas ihre Blaupause für eine weltweite, hybride Cloud. Kostenvorteile und Effizienzgewinne überzeugen schon. Aber der Masterplan hat einen Haken.
Seit dem 1. Januar gibt es für Unternehmen Angebote, die Quellensteuer automatisch zu erfassen. Aufgrund von hohen Softwarepreisen war dies für kleinere Firmen bisher kein Thema, der Kanton St. Gallen hat darum eine Gratis-Lösung entwickelt.
Paukenschlag bei SAP: Technikvorstand Vishal Sikka, der die Entwicklung des Hoffnungsträgers HANA massgeblich geprägt hatte, verlässt den Softwarekonzern. Der überraschende Abschied wirft Fragen auf, wie Bill McDermott die künftige SAP-Strategie ausrichten wird.
Der chinesische Internetriese Alibaba plant einen der grössten Börsengänge der Geschichte.
Die Postfinance braucht einen neuen CIO. Enrico Lardelli hat beschlossen, per 1. Januar 2015 zur Graubündner Kantonalbank zu wechseln.
Die Kabelnetzbetreiberin UPC Cablecom hat im ersten Quartal 2014 weiter an Umsatz zugelegt. Auch die Aboziffern stiegen.
Auf der London Book Fair 2014 hat RICOH Europe gezeigt, wie der Wert gedruckter Bücher durch technologische Innovationen gesteigert werden kann.
Swisscom hat im ersten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2014 einen 3,2% höheren Umsatz von 2,82 Mrd CHF erzielt. Ohne Firmenkäufe und auf Basis konstanter Währungen resultierte ein Plus von 1,7%, wie der Telekomkonzern am Mittwoch mitteilt.
Die Echtzeit-Appliance Hana ist SAPs schnellstes Pferd im Stall. Unter vSphere 5.5 sinken die Kosten (Capex/Opex) signifikant, und die Verfügbarkeit steigt auf 99,9 Prozent, verspricht EMC.
Der Software-Anbieter SAS proklamiert die Analytics Factory. Schweizer Firmen setzen zwar auf Analytik im Geschäft, vom Wettbewerbsvorteil sind sie aber nicht voll überzeugt.
Am IBM Symposium blickten Experten in die nicht allzu ferne Zukunft. Auf Basis von Daten, Cloud-Technologie und dem User-Verhalten sollen Computer dann «denken» können.
Das Seco kontrolliert künftig wesentlich genauer, ob die Arbeitszeiterfassungspflicht der Unternehmen eingehalten wird. In der IT-Branche wird derweil diskutiert, ob die Kompensation in Lohn oder Freizeit erfolgen soll.