Der große US-Bekleidungseinzelhändler Gap hat IBM einen Milliardenauftrag zur Übernahme eines Teils seiner IT- Infrastruktur erteilt. …mehr
Google baut sein Geschäft mit dem Kauf der auf vereinfachte Anzeigenvermittlung für Radiostationen und deren Werbekunden spezialisierten US-Firma dMarc Broadcasting weiter aus. …mehr
Asiatische Trommelwirbel in einem unvollendeten U- Bahn-Tunnel unter dem Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, die Szene in violettes Licht getaucht. …mehr
Hersteller stellt fünfte Version von "Jrockit" vor. …mehr
Red Hat hat das Release 5 Test 2 seiner experimentellen und nicht unterstützten Linux-Distribution Fedora Core veröffentlicht. …mehr
Die norwegische Softwareschmiede Trolltech hat mit "Qtopia Core" eine Entwicklungsplattform für Single-Application-Produkte auf Basis von Embedded Linux angekündigt. …mehr
Der Hersteller weist Vorwürfe zurück, absichtlich eine Backdoor eingebaut zu haben. …mehr
Hendrik Ansink ist als Sprecher der Geschäftsführung der deutschen Bearingpoint-Filiale überraschend ausgeschieden. …mehr
Erstmals seit vier Jahren steigt die Zahl der Stellen im IT-Mekka wieder. …mehr
Der Neustart für die einstige Siemens-Handysparte ist perfekt. …mehr
Der ehemalige Hamburger Regionalanbieter HanseNet ("Alice") geht bundesweit in die Offensive. …mehr
Sage Software geht mit den zwei neuen Versionen der Handwerks-Software "PC-Kaufmann 2006" an den Start. Nach Herstellerangaben sind die Programme vor allem im Bereich Kalkulation erweitert und optimiert worden. …mehr
Das rheinland-pfälzische Handelsregister ist ab sofort auch im Internet einsehbar. Justizminister Herbert Mertin gab den Startschuss für das Elektronische Handelsregister. …mehr
Das kostenpflichtige Online-Portal Legalershop.de bietet einen b2c-Muster-Shop, der die rechtlichen Anforderungen bei Internet-Geschäften veranschaulichen soll. …mehr
Das US-amerikanische Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) hat eine ellenlange Liste seiner für das Jahr 2005 erfassten Sicherheitslücken veröffentlicht. …mehr
Tragbare Geräte sorgen für einen Anstieg des Umsatzes, Konsolen schwächeln. …mehr
In der nächsten Version des Microsoft-Browsers können Benutzer alle Rückstände, die der Besuch von Websites im Browser hinterlässt, zentral beseitigen. …mehr
Windows-Funktion für WLAN-Verbindungen erlaubt Fremdzugriff auf die Festplatte. …mehr
Galt Ihr erster Blick in den elektronischen Kalender des Jahres 2006 auch der Suche nach geeigneten Feiertagen für einen Kurzurlaub? Dann haben Sie vermutlich bei älteren Outlook-Clients vergeblich nach den Feiertagen gesucht. Von Haus aus kennt diese Termine nämlich nur Outlook 2003, in Outlook 2002 - auch als Outlook XP bekannt - sind die Feiertage nur bis 2005 verzeichnet. …mehr
Mit Projekt Quaero hat sich eine deutsch-amerikanische Arbeitsgruppe zum Ziel gesetzt, eine eigene Multimedia-Suchmaschine zu bauen. Die deutsche Beteiligung am vermeintlichen Google-Konkurrenten ist jedoch noch unklar. …mehr
Der Chef der Bundesnetzagentur, Matthias Kurth, drängt die Deutsche Telekom weiter zur Einbeziehung der Konkurrenz beim Bau des VDSL-Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetzes. …mehr
Nach zwölf Jahren als Open-Source- und Betriebssystemexperte beim Markforschungsinstitut IDC wechselt Dan Kusnetzky zur Softwarefirma Open-Xchange. …mehr
Rund 40.000 Songs passen auf die 2,5-Zoll- Festplatte, die mit einem neuen Aufzeichnungsverfahren arbeitet. …mehr
Die Initiative der EU-Kommission für ein Gemeinschaftspatent in Europa hat die organisierten Gegner von Softwarepatenten erneut auf den Plan gerufen. …mehr
Keylogger sind eine Softwaregattung, die sich der Einordnung als "gut" oder "böse" hartnäckig entzieht - von manchen werden solche Tools als Spionagewerkzeuge missbraucht, für viele Arbeitgeber und auch Eltern stellen sie hingegen ein legitimes oder zumindest legales Mittel zur Kontrolle ihrer PCs dar. …mehr
Siemens Business Services (SBS) hat den Zuschlag für ein RFID-Projekt von Unilever erhalten. …mehr
Der BPM-Softwareanbieter (Business Performance Management) Hyperion hat Robin Washington zur Chief Financial Officer ernannt. …mehr
Der führende südkoreanische Elektronikkonzern Samsung Electronics rechnet im laufenden Geschäftsjahr in Deutschland mit einem hohen Umsatzwachstum. …mehr
"nUbuntu", eine Sammlung von Sicherheits-Testwerkzeugen für Netze und Server auf Basis der zunehmend populären Linux-Distribution "Ubuntu", ist jetzt als stabile Version verfügbar. …mehr
Nachdem in der Silvester-Nacht das endgültige Aus für die 0190-Nummern kam, hoffen Abzocker nun auf eine neue Methode: das IP-Payment. …mehr
Passender wäre es vielleicht gewesen, die Kabelgruppe Unity Media hätte sich nicht um die Fußball-Bundesliga, sondern um die Formel 1 bemüht. …mehr
A large program consists of related projects that must be designed, managed and coordinated as a single entity in order to achieve the optimal outcome. Today's IT organizations are developing fewer large programs in-house and buying more outside. This is increasingly due to necessity. After budget-squeezing, downsizing and outsourcing, many firms no longer have enough staff (or the right skills) to deliver on a grand scale. …mehr
The LAPD's new system will let officers check multiple sources of information with one search entry. …mehr
IT managers are facing an increasingly complex array of wireless technology choices, with new offerings such as WiMax-certified devices and notebook PCs that have built-in support for third-generation networks adding to the options that IT has to evaluate and support. …mehr
Oracle Corp. has upgraded a pair of tools designed to improve companies' ability to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other financial regulations. …mehr
When Ray Ozzie posted an announcement to his Weblog about Microsoft's proposed SSE (Simple Share Extensions) for RSS and OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), I was delighted. On the technical front, it's great to see the synchronization DNA of Groove and Lotus Notes finding its way, at last, onto the Web. But on the social front, it was a milestone, too. …mehr
Part of every job is to have that job disappear. It happens for all sorts of reasons, some under our control, some not. We use words like fired, resigned, laid off, outsourced and downsized. While those words may describe what happened, they miss a key point: Whatever happened, losing or leaving a job is always the start of an experience we call "in transition." …mehr
IBM confirms SEC probe is under way …mehr
In the wake of Microsoft 's early release of its patch for the WMF problem, lots of Windows users are unhappy. They complain that Microsoft's patch is designed for Windows XP and 2000, not Windows NT, ME, 98 or 95, even though those operating systems are also vulnerable and tens of millions of copies are still in use. Of course, we all know why Microsoft didn't patch those older Windows versions: They're obsolete. …mehr
Twenty-four years ago, I raised a furor in the database management systems industry. As a rookie analyst -- a stock analyst, no less -- I argued that the then-dominant hierarchical/network data architectures should and would be replaced by "index-based" systems. Over the next few years, I was proved right, as inverted-list and relational products took over the DBMS market. …mehr
Over the holidays, our state agency was very quiet, and I took a vacation, hoping for rest and tranquility. But I found that I had my own security issues to deal with. …mehr
Warning: Hotel card keys may contain personally identifiable data on the magnetic stripe. Is it fact -- or fiction? …mehr
The closing of Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Siebel Systems Inc., expected later this month, could prove to be a boon for Select Comfort Corp. …mehr
Palm Beach Community College is going virtual: virtual servers, virtual network and virtual storage. …mehr
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding a US$1.24 million project that is designed to improve the security of open-source software. …mehr
A few years ago, Lincoln Financial Group completed a project that was originally given the green light based on its ability to reduce head count within a particular department. The project, which resulted in customer service improvements and other benefits, was deemed a success -- that is, until Jason Glazier, chief technology officer at the firm, made an important discovery: No one had ever executed the layoffs. …mehr
Online CRM software services provider Salesforce.com Inc. wants to be known as a platform provider for the hosted market. …mehr
William Peters, vice president of reservation services at Outrigger Hotels & Resorts in Honolulu, is at the apex of two big IT trends. …mehr
Harris Miller was president of the Information Technology Association of America trade group in Alexandria, Va., for more than a decade until he stepped down this month to seek the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia. Miller, 54, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1984. He spoke last week with Computerworld about his new plan to run for public office and Oracle Corp.'s decision to drop out of the ITAA in response. …mehr
Australian CIOs have rated regulatory compliance a New Year priority with organizations keen to leverage standards in a bid to gain competitive advantage. …mehr
The U.S. state of Colorado is testing radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to see if they can help protect elk herds from contagious diseases. …mehr
Utility costs are shooting up because of tight fuel supplies, and that could be bad news for data center owners, who sometimes pay for electricity by the megawatt. …mehr
Relational database management systems have become all but ubiquitous in enterprise computing since 1970, when they were first devised by E.F. Codd. But as powerful and flexible as those databases are, they've proved inadequate for a handful of ultrademanding applications that have to process hundreds or thousands of transactions per second and never go down. Now, the very-high-performance database technologies that sprang up to serve these niche markets, such as options trading and telephone call processing, are poised to move into mainstream computing. …mehr
As part of its monthly security update, Microsoft Corp. last week released software patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its products. …mehr
The Mac maker knows which side its bread is buttered on, and it's not the enterprise …mehr
England's National Health Service Cancer Registry, which monitors the health history of cancer patients from diagnosis through treatment outcomes, is testing new integration tools designed to boost the quality and timeliness of data. …mehr
When the World Wide Web became a mainstream communications medium, people quickly realized that visual appeal was important and, further, that animation attracted a lot more attention than static images. Advertisers especially wanted users to notice their banners and believed that animated graphics gave them an edge. But in the days before broadband access was widely available, animated graphics could mean very long download times. …mehr
At many companies, internal customers have gotten ahead of themselves -- and IT -- in the rush for the latest mobile devices, unaware of the challenges they pose. "They don't realize it takes infrastructure, a wireless signal and a whole bunch of things before you can use a handheld," says Hap M. Cluff, director of IT for the city of Norfolk, Virginia. …mehr
Pfizer Inc. last week unveiled plans to begin shipping its first drug product equipped with radio frequency identification tags to thwart theft and counterfeiting. …mehr
Microsoft's project cuts hurt ... …mehr
Progress upgrades ObjectStore 6.3 …mehr
Change is inevitable, especially in IT. A company can't continue to rely on the same technology that was successful yesterday and expect to be competitive today. It's vital that the CIO and the management staff search the horizon for the latest technology, and they must also have an intelligent strategy for implementing change. …mehr
Contrary to the perceptions held by some people employed by companies that provide you with IT products and services, I have nothing against IT vendors. Sure, I play devil's advocate sometimes, I poke fun at them sometimes, I play hardball with them sometimes. But I can assure you that I have no voodoo dolls that resemble Larry Ellison, Scott McNealy or anybody else. …mehr
As a futurist, I love mid-January. While December may be the season to be jolly, January is most definitely a month for decisions. From Olympian heights, we survey the year past and assemble the information and resources necessary to craft plans for the year to be. What exactly are we going to do this year? 2006 is going to be all about leadership -- creating environments, cultures and behaviors conducive to growth, innovation and meaning-making. As 2006 gets started, we truly do stand on the cusp of something new. …mehr
McAfee CEO resigns to join Websense …mehr
Australia's largest futures broker, BrokerOne, has inked a managed Internet service deal with AT&T. …mehr
Massachusetts names acting CIO …mehr
Microsoft to work on cryptography in India …mehr
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Tuesday said a national identity card would cost the economy up to A$15 billion (US$11 billion) and may do little to stop terrorists. …mehr
Replacing wireless e-mail such as Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service for 1,000 workers would cost US$845,000, or $845 per worker, according to a new analyst study. …mehr
Gap Inc. has signed a 10-year, US$1.1 billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM, the San Francisco-based clothing retailer said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday. …mehr
Pilot fish gets call from enraged manager who's trying to give a presentation and print out copies at the same time -- and nothing's working. "We rushed to the conference room to find that he had plugged both ends of multiple network cables into the small network switch on the conference table, thereby creating a loop and tying up the segment for all," says fish. "After describing the situation, fixing it and letting him know what would happen if he did this, he stated the following: 'I did it to help speed up the network. You guys should have something that detects this anyway.' We said 'You're welcome' and awaited his next boneheaded move." …mehr
Checking rates online for a room at a Sheraton or Westin hotel is no longer a finger-drumming experience, thanks to a new reservation system that uses an object database. …mehr
U.S. federal officials are looking to outsource the IT infrastructure that's needed to support a planned smart-card system for authenticating employees governmentwide. And the outsourcing plan makes sense, given the scale and complexity of the smart-card initiative, IT analysts said last week. …mehr
IT security pros gaining influence …mehr
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's torturous effort to award a telecommunications contract valued at up to US$1 billion could face another challenge: an attempt by an influential congressman to eliminate funding for the pact. …mehr
The newly formed U.S. Animal Identification Organization (USAIO) has assumed oversight of a database that will store information on all livestock in the U.S. …mehr