Archive for ‘2012’

German Telekom launches promotion program in Berlin for start-ups

German Telekom launches promotion program in Berlin for start-ups

The German Telekom began under the name of an incubator space for start-ups in Berlin launched. As the Bonn-based company at the conference NEXT announced he wants to revive the ideas gained from his business. Simultaneously he is planning, together with General Assembly, a U.S. educational institution for technology, design and aspects of business management [...]

Chitika: Nearly 95 percent of the traffic going from Tablet of iPads

Chitika: Nearly 95 percent of the traffic going from Tablet of iPads

Chitika has presented a new analysis of the tablet in its ad network traffic. Thus, almost all Internet requests that emanate from tablets, iPads – namely 94.64 percent. In second place, the Galaxy Tab ranks with 1.22 percent, almost on par with the Asus Prime Transformer. The following tablets are so close together that they [...]

Attribution murderer must tolerate foreign online reporting

Attribution murderer must tolerate foreign online reporting

The Federal Court action brought by a judgment which dismissed the murder convict who wolllte can prohibit the reporting of a strained constitutional complaint from him by mentioning his full name on an austrian site. This is another, but maybe not the last process in a number of actions completed. One of the two convicted [...]

U.S. and China to promise each other cooperation against cyber war

U.S. and China to promise each other cooperation against cyber war

China and the United States have given each other promise not to let it come to a cyber war. In a joint announcement in Washington announced the Verteidigungsminster both countries, Leon Panetta, and Liang Guanglie, a collaboration was “of utmost importance” to not to let it come to a “crisis”. U.S. Secretary Panetta, according to [...]

RIM has expanded its management team

RIM has expanded its management team

Research In Motion increased its top management: It has a new Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. They should help the troubled smartphone manufacturer attempting a turnaround with the operating system Blackberry 10th Both come from outside the company. As Chief Operating Officer is Kristian Tear, previously executive vice president for Sony Mobile Communications. [...]

Micron wants to take over insolvent chip maker Elpida

Micron wants to take over insolvent chip maker Elpida

Micron’s exclusive may negotiate a takeover of the insolvent Japanese chipmaker Elpida. Previously the company had offered $ 2.5 billion by Elpida and set it against its competitors Hynix. As Reuters reports, the provision of trustee and management Elpida was adopted. It provides, inter alia, that Micron will receive two production facilities in Japan, Elpida [...]

U.S. government announces veto CISPA

U.S. government announces veto CISPA

The White House has confirmed, insert the U.S. President Barack Obama to veto the controversial Cyber ​​Security Act is CISPA. As Techdirt reports, the President had earlier threatened the Cyber ​​Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) deny approval. The end of April, passed the U.S. House of Representatives the bill with minor changes. You go [...]

Twitter mobile website optimized for feature phones

Twitter mobile website optimized for feature phones

From now on Twitter users C3 with feature phones like the Nokia access all features of the micro-blogging service (Image: Twitter). Twitter has its mobile Web site redesigned to owners even simpler phones with Internet access – give full access to all features introduced in December – so-called feature phones. Writes like Satya Patel, Vice [...]

Lawyers for the Java ruling: “Copyright for APIs is dangerous”

Lawyers for the Java ruling: “Copyright for APIs is dangerous”

The partial judgment of the jury in the Java process between Oracle and Google leaves many questions unanswered and raises new ones. From News.com interviewed legal experts came to different views as to how the decision is to evaluate and determine the further course of the process is. The jury did have a copyright infringement [...]

U.S. Homeland Security warns of attacks on gas pipelines

U.S. Homeland Security warns of attacks on gas pipelines

operator American natural gas pipelines are refined since at least December 2011, the target phishing attacks. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with the company since March, in an analysis, DHS spokesman Peter Boogaard reported in a mail to News.com. A report by the Christian Science Monitor had preceded her. “The cyber attacks [...]

Twitter teaches Big Data at the American University of Berkeley

Twitter teaches Big Data at the American University of Berkeley

At the University of California at Berkeley is the first time this year a course for Big Data, which deals with Twitter and also join the staff of the social network. They explain the source code available to students and how large online services with a “big data” methods can be evaluated. The course will [...]

Judgment in the Java process: Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights

Judgment in the Java process: Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights

Oracle has reached in the dispute with Google over the use of Java in Android some success. At the end of the first part of the hearing, which dealt with copyright issues, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of Oracle on most points. This includes the question of whether Oracle has demonstrated that Google [...]

Samsung launches compact entry-level smartphone for 200 €

Samsung launches compact entry-level smartphone for 200 €

Samsung has expanded its smartphone portfolio with a compact entry-level model with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The Galaxy Pocket (S5300) has a suggested retail price of 199 euros. Driven is 10.4 times 5.8 times 1.2 centimeters wide and 97-gram phone from a fast 832 MHz processor. The approximately 3 GB of internal memory can be expanded [...]

Fortune 500 list: Apple overtakes IBM

Fortune 500 list: Apple overtakes IBM

Apple has passed in the current from the U.S. business magazine Fortune published list of the 500 largest companies in the world to IBM. With annual revenues of $ 108,249,000,000 occupied the iPhone maker finished 17th Last year he found himself still in 35th place (65.225 billion) and again five years ago, ranked 121 (19.315 [...]

Google may test in Nevada self-steering cars

Google may test in Nevada self-steering cars

The U.S. state of Nevada has granted Google a license to experiment with self-steering cars on public roads, such as the Las Vegas Sun newspaper reports. For the first time a test in real traffic is possible – and not just on a test site. “We are thrilled that we have obtained the first license [...]