Nach der Steilvorlage von Motorolas RARZ V3 hatte sich auch Samsung bekanntermaßen im letzten Jahr dazu aufgemacht, verstärkt Ultraslim-Phones auf den europäischen Markt zu bringen. Daher ist es nicht erstaunlich, dass sich am Messestand der Koreaner auch diese besonders flachen Handys stapeln, die längst nicht mehr nur in GSM-Netzen, sondern auch schon im UMTS-Netz funken können... …mehr
Neue Produkte adressieren unter anderem ein integriertes Sicherheits-Management. …mehr
Realtech verspricht SAP-Kunden, die einen Release-Wechsel oder eine Migration ihres R/3-Systems planen, dass die damit einhergehenden Ausfallzeiten mit einem neuen Verfahren nahezu gegen Null gehen. …mehr
Der Chef des neu geschmiedeten Handyherstellers BenQ-Siemens, Clemens Joos, hat die Ziele für das laufende Geschäftsjahr bestätigt. …mehr
Mit dem "Nokia 6136" zeigten die Finnen eines der ersten Handy, das unterbrechungsfrei zwischen WLAN und GSM-Netz umschalten kann. …mehr
Als Konkurrenz für seinen neuen "Jdeveloper 10g Release 3" sieht Oracle vor allem die Open-Source-IDE von Eclipse. …mehr
Axel Knobe, seit 2003 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Gedas AG, soll bei T-Systems die Position des Chief Sales & Service Officer (CSSO) übernehmen. …mehr
Liebe Leser, wie an jedem Montag stellen wir Ihnen heute wieder unsere neue "Frage der Woche". …mehr
Im dritten Quartal dieses Jahres will Seagate eine voluminösere Ausführung seiner Handy-Festplatte herausbringen, wie der Hersteller auf der 3GSM in Barcelona bekannt gab. …mehr
Geldgeber verdoppeln bei dritter Finanzierungsrunde ihre Einlagen. …mehr
Der heutige Marktführer wird von Microsoft-Umgebungen und Linux überholt. …mehr
IBM Lotus hat Patches für ein halbes Dutzend schwere Fehler in seinem Groupware-Client Notes veröffentlicht. Diese stecken hauptsächlich in den Anzeigeprogrammen für Dateianhänge (Attachments). …mehr
Mehre Banken haben in Deutschland mit "Giropay" ein Bezahlverfahren für Online-Geschäfte auf die Beine gestellt. Der Anwender muss dazu keine Software installieren oder sich registrieren. …mehr
Auf der Mobilfunkmesse 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona gab Ericssons President und CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg einen Ausblick auf die künftige Entwicklung der Mobilfunkindustrie. …mehr
Die Übernahmeverhandlungen zwischen Oracle und den Firmen Jboss, Zend und Sleepycat scheinen schwierig. Offenbar wollen die Open-Source-Anbieter ihre Neutralität wahren. …mehr
CA, HP und Oracle stellen neue Produkte vor. …mehr
Das Startup Splunk will seine gleichnamige Suchsoftware für IT-Daten in das quelloffene System-Management-Tool Nagios integrieren. …mehr
Unternehmen können zukünftig "Google Mail" unter ihrer eigenen Internet-Domäne nutzen. Gerade für kleinere Firmen könnte das eine interessante Alternative zu einem eigenen Mail-Server sein. …mehr
Mit der Scanpoint Imaging Classification and Recognition Engine (S.I.C.A.R.E) will der Digitalisierungsdienstleister Scanpoint Europe GmbH seine Services zur Digitalisierung und Verwaltung geschäftsrelevanter Unterlagen optimieren. …mehr
Über die Teilnahme eines Unternehmens an Messen oder Ausstellungen entscheidet in 80 Prozent der Unternehmen die Geschäftsführung oder der Geschäftsinhaber. …mehr
Der Anbieter von Enterprise IT-Infrastruktur und mobiler Software, Sybase, stellt auf der CeBIT 2006 neue Lösungen für Business In-telligence, Datenintegration, mobile Informa-tion sowie SOA-Entwicklung vor …mehr
Das neu gegründete Berliner Unternehmen Lowbudgetmarketing GmbH & Co KG bietet seit Januar 2006 Starthilfe für Existenzgründer und Jungunternehmer. …mehr
Der japanische Netzwerk- und Speicherspezialist Buffalo Technology erweitert mit der TeraStation Pro seine Network Attached Storage (NAS)-Produktserie für die Sicherung großer Datenmengen. …mehr
Der ERP-Softwarehersteller Nissen & Velten zeigt auf der CeBIT in Hannover in Halle 5, Stand A37, die neue Version seiner Business-Software, SQL-Business Version 4.8. …mehr
Der Anbieter von Business-Intelligence-Software (BI) kauft den Spezialisten Firstlogic, um seine eigene Infrastrukturtechnik zu vervollständigen. …mehr
Der chinesische ERP2- und SCM-Anbieter Wavefulsoft steigt mit seiner internetbasierten Lösung EMP Enterprise Management Plattform in den europäischen Markt ein. …mehr
Das Buch "Strategisches Projekt-Management" bietet klar strukturiert einen Überblick über alle wichtigen Techniken des Projekt-Managements. …mehr
Neue Security-Appliance soll Anwender schützen, ohne den Netzverkehr zu verlangsamen. …mehr
Ein US-amerikanisches Unternehmen beansprucht Rechte an der Navigationstechnik. …mehr
Die EMC-Tochter VMware beginnt diese Woche einen breiteren Betatest der nächsten Version 3 ihres Highend-Produkts "ESX Server". Die fertige Version dürfte aber später erscheinen als erwartet. …mehr
Heinz Klinkhammer, Personalvorstand der Deutschen Telekom, ist verärgert darüber, dass die Verhandlungen mit der Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di über den geplanten Abbau von 32 000 Arbeitsplätzen gescheitert sind. …mehr
Den Auftakt der Produktlinie bildet der Transaction Analyzer. …mehr
Microsoft will zusammen mit seinen Hardwarepartnern weiterhin versuchen, mit neuen digitalen Mediengeräten die Dominanz von Apples iPod-Ökosystem zu brechen. …mehr
Microsoft-Kunden können noch bis Ende Juni 2007 für vorhandene Lizenzen von Windows XP Professional ohne Mehrkosten CALs (Client-Access-Lizenzen) für den Terminal Server von Windows Server 2003 erhalten. …mehr
Viele Anleger dürften sich trotz der negativen Wall-Street Reaktionen gefreut haben, dass Google im letzten Quartal seinen Gewinn um 72 Prozent steigern konnte. …mehr
Telekommunikationsunternehmen räumen DSL weltweit höhere Marktchancen als UMTS ein …mehr
Fraunhofer Fokus und IDS Scheer haben Antworten auf diese Frage. …mehr
Die mehr als 4000 Webseiten der Stadt Worms werden barrierefrei. …mehr
Schon seit längerem zeichnete sich ab, dass die Handyhersteller künftig dazu übergehen werden, auf ihren Smartphones eine Antiviren-Software vorzuinstallieren. Grund dafür ist die im vergangenen Jahr angewachsene Gefahr von schädlichen Programmroutinen für Windows- und Symbian-Smartphones. McAfee hatte daher vor wenigen Tagen ein entsprechendes Abkommen mit Sony Ericsson unterzeichnet, jetzt zieht Nokia nach und präferiert dabei die Software des Entwicklers F-Secure für seine S60 3rd Edition Geräte... …mehr
Das Help Desk Institute Central Europe kooperiert ab sofort mit der Schweizer IT Training Academy (ITTA). …mehr
Zu den Highlights der diesjährigen RSA Conference dürfte Verisigns "Identity Protection Network" (VIP) gehören. Mit unter anderem PayPal und Yahoo! gibt es bereits prominente Unterstützer. …mehr
Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) ist möglicherweise gezwungen, Gläubigerschutz anzumelden. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard (HP) hat seine Personal Systems Group (PSG) in vier Unterabteilungen umstrukturiert: Die "Ipaq"-Handhelds werden ab sofort von Dave Rothschild geleitet. Diese Abteilung wurde bislang gemeinsam mit der Notebookentwicklung von Ted Clarke geführt. Zudem unterhält HP in der PSG-Gruppe eine Desktop- und eine Workstationsparte. …mehr
Vodafone und Nokia arbeiten nachhaltig an einer gemeinsamen Strategie für die Symbian-basierte S60-Plattform. Eine entsprechende Mitteilung gaben beide Unternehmen heute auf dem 3GSM-World Congress in Barcelona bekannt. Vodafone glaubt, die Standardisierung von mobilen Betriebssystemen könne für das Unternehmen signifikante Vorteile bringen, da man Applikationen und Mehrwertdienste nur noch für wenige Handytypen anpassen müsste... …mehr
Die Lage am Arbeitsmarkt für IT-Experten mit Fachhochschul- oder Uni-Ausbildung hat sich 2005 etwas entspannt. …mehr
Microsoft will mit direktem E-Mail-Empfang auf dem Handy den Mobilfunkmarkt aufrollen. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Computerchip-Hersteller Intel hat seinen ersten Prozessor mit vier Kernen vorgestellt. …mehr
... at the Demo 2006 conference with an eye to the near future. You didn't have to wander far in the tightly packed pavilion on the grounds of the sprawling Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix last week to get a glimpse of the gadgets, software and services that were being rolled out for IT's sharp-eyed perusal. And there was a little something for everybody. …mehr
CA Inc. recently named Mark Barrenechea its chief technology officer, responsible for its technology vision and strategy. He came to CA in 2003 from Oracle Corp. and has been the company's chief technology architect for the past year. He replaces Yogesh Gupta, who had been CTO since 2000 and is now senior vice president for business development. Barrenechea recently discussed his plans with Computerworld. …mehr
Novell Inc. this week unveiled updates to the Linux graphics subsystem that are aimed at making it a more attractive operating system for desktop users. …mehr
As I work through what it means to reinvent myself and be agile, I'm coming to some insights. …mehr
Research In Motion Ltd. last week disclosed detailed information about a software work-around that the company claims will enable it to continue to support BlackBerry users in the U.S. if a federal judge orders a shutdown of the current version of the wireless e-mail service. …mehr
Connectivity is central to the notion of digital ubiquity. In the earliest days of mobile computing, connectivity required carrying a set of acoustic couplers and attaching a handset at 300 baud. Later came the integration of modems directly into the laptop, running at a blazing 14.4Kbit/sec. More recently, IT departments have helped boost productivity on the road by providing support for Wi-Fi and letting users get access wherever they can find a hot spot. …mehr
As more health care organizations move to pay physicians based on meeting certain quality standards, IT is playing a bigger role in aggregating the data used to measure care. …mehr
It finally happened. We had a security breach that could have severe ramifications for a state agency. …mehr
Borland Software Corp.'s plan to abandon the development tool business to focus on its application life-cycle management (ALM) products found support among some users that are looking to manage software development as a process. …mehr
In ancient Greek mythology, Pandora, whose name means "all gifted," received many gifts from the gods, including the gift of music from Apollo. She was also very curious. Unlike those gods of old, who were displeased with Pandora's curiosity, the developers of Pandora.com say they celebrate that trait and have made it their mission to reward the musically curious with a never-ending experience of musical discovery. …mehr
Pilot fish gets a call from a consultant who says he's supposed to access certain files on a server. How are they used? consultant asks. Fish explains that File 1 gets additions daily. Then, every Tuesday, it's copied to File 2, and File 1 is cleared. Then File 1 gets daily information written to it again for a week. A few days later, consultant calls again. File 1 is empty -- was it deleted? Fish patiently explains the rotation again. Consultant: "Oh yeah, you told me that the other day, but I thought it was useless information that I didn't need, so I deleted it from my brain." …mehr
Iomega Announces CEO's Resignation …mehr
Database Security Tool Due in March …mehr
Citing his experiences as the CIO for the state of Massachusetts, Peter Quinn encouraged would-be adopters of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) to seek out partners willing to put "skin in the game." …mehr
At a recent conference for chief financial officers, participants and presenters appeared to agree that IT maintenance is more than a huge budget line for nondiscretionary spending. The consensus was that it's become something of a slush fund for virtually any costs CIOs want to hide, from R&D skunk works to rogue projects. This assessment of maintenance may or may not be true at your company, but if your executives perceive it to be true, you've got an image problem. And if it is true, you've got a bigger problem. …mehr
Prime Minister John Howard has approved an additional A$130 million (US$96 million) in joint funding to further push electronic health initiatives. …mehr
The computer software industry has three essential vision leaders -- "IBMOracle," Microsoft and SAP. They have a lot in common, such as huge market share, mind share, customer access, financial resources and so on. And being based on the same industry realities, their visions have a great deal in common. But there are great differences, and it's important to keep them in mind. Whether you're looking at buying from the big guys or just using them as templates for your own analysis, the question "What would SAP/Microsoft/IBMOracle advise us to do?" is at least three separate questions. …mehr
Two trendy software development technologies, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and agile programming, are being advanced this week with rollouts from Tibco Software and Rally Software. …mehr
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly begun working with 31 hospitals in 10 large cities to create a system that can send real-time data feeds from emergency rooms to the CDC. …mehr
When it comes to server sprawl, the big picture is bad. …mehr
A U.S. Army supercomputing center with a legacy that dates to the first large computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) launched in 1946, is moving to Linux-based clusters in a major hardware purchase that will more than double its computing capability. …mehr
Die wirtschaftlichen Erwartungen des deutschen Mittelstandes waren im Januar 2006 so hoch wie seit eineinhalb Jahren nicht mehr. Der Index der Umsatzentwicklung legte dagegen nur minimal zu. …mehr
Die Landefeld Druckluft und Hydraulik GmbH verschickt täglich rund 600 Rechnungen - seit kurzem auf elektronischem Weg. …mehr
Die Münchener Collax GmbH präsentiert auf der CeBIT in Halle 5, Stand E64/6, ihre Linux-basierenden Serverlösungen. …mehr
Das Fraunhofer-Institut IPSI stellt auf der CeBIT in Halle 9, Fraunhofer-Gemeinschaftsstand B36, zwei Softwareprototypen vor, die raubkopierte Dateien in Online-Tauschbörsen aufgespüren. …mehr
Der VfB Stuttgart verbessert seinen Fan- und Kundenservice mit einer CRM-Lösung von Microsoft. …mehr
Cogent has bought the voice business division of New Zealand telecommunications service provider GDC. …mehr
A number of government agency Web sites are still not fully compliant with accessibility guidelines and are unlikely to be so until at least the latter half of this year, but the New Zealand State Services Commission is already revising its guidelines. …mehr
ISPs and industry groups are concerned that Telecom isn't playing fair with the new, faster broadband offerings launched on Monday. …mehr
Telecom New Zealand Ltd. wants ISPs to take up a new UBS deal that offers faster upload speeds instead of seeking a regulated service. …mehr
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina said last week that "human error" caused the Social Security numbers of more than 600 of its members to be printed on the mailing labels of envelopes sent to those patients. …mehr
VMware Inc. last week released a free beta version of new low-end virtualization software that can create multiple operating systems on a single machine. …mehr
Charge-out systems allow the IT organization to charge other parts of the company for the IT resources they use. If properly implemented, charge-out -- sometimes called chargeback -- results in more effective use of IT resources, as well as more realistic and accurate business cases. If improperly implemented, charge-out frustrates everyone involved. …mehr
A Fort Wayne, Ind.-based orthopedics clinic with more than a dozen facilities in the state has called in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate a hacking incident that highlights the dangers companies can face from the placement of hidden back doors in their software. …mehr
A new taskforce has been established covering 18 agencies across Australia and New Zealand to combat online fraud. …mehr
The U.S. Department of Energy spent US$4.1 million more than necessary during the past five years to acquire and maintain desktop software, according to the agency's inspector general. …mehr
BEA Systems Inc. Monday will unveil plans to enter the market for people-based business process management for the first time, with a new version of a tool that will allow companies to build and manage collaborative business processes. …mehr
In a new tactic to build support for the use of health care IT, the George Bush administration office charged with promoting the use of electronic health records is setting its sights on consumers. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology is launching four new "breakthrough projects" designed to help spur the adoption of electronic health records (EHR). …mehr
Oracle to Cut 2k Jobs As It Absorbs Siebel …mehr
Once upon a time, configuring or troubleshooting a user's computer meant that someone from IT or the corporate help desk had to actually visit that computer--with installation software, diagnostics and driver disks in hand--and deal with its problems one-on-one. That arrangement was practical for very small organizations, but for the IT administrator who had to support thousands of computers, it was a nightmare. …mehr
Borland Software is blending process improvement and skills training services with its Borland Tempo software to provide the Borland IT Management & Governance (ITM&G) Solution. …mehr
Inouye Resigns as Gateway CEO …mehr
For the past 15 months, a small distributor of herbal remedies in Manitoba has been mistakenly receiving faxes containing confidential data about hundreds of patients covered by Prudential Financial Inc.'s insurance group from doctors and medical clinics in the U.S. …mehr
Oracle Corp. this week unveiled a transportation management application for its E-Business Suite 11i that is based on technology it gained when it bought supply chain and logistics management software maker Global Logistics Technologies Inc. last fall. …mehr
With the growth of the grass-roots organizations beginning to share patient data regionally, the George Bush administration's point man for health IT wants to establish standards and guidelines for how these groups are governed and financed. …mehr
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement this month will begin work on a US$15 million project to integrate the back-end systems of 500 law enforcement organizations across the state. …mehr
A federal program that funds "high-risk" technologies is at high risk of going out of business if Congress approves U.S. President George Bush's proposed federal budget for next year. Since it started awarding grants in 1990, the Advance Technology Program (ATP) has distributed some US$2.2 billion in funding to projects focusing on a range of subjects, including information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and advanced materials. …mehr
A few years ago, the idea of using the public Internet as the primary network connection at MasterCard International Inc.'s branch offices wouldn't have been a serious option. Today, some of the financial services company's smaller offices are doing exactly that. For those locations, the Internet has become the access point for data entry, e-mail and other internal functions. …mehr
Exadel Studio Supports AJAX …mehr
In many respects, the physical and information security groups that coexist within companies are as different from each other as J. Edgar Hoover and Bill Gates. …mehr
This may scare you, but the fact is that you and I have more in common than you might think. For one thing, we're both Computerworld readers. I typically get to read most of the articles before you do, and I'm privy to a lot of what goes on behind the scenes to make them happen. But just like you, I read Computerworld because it's a great resource to keep me abreast of what I need to know in my profession. …mehr
There's no rush to convert the world to IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. So concludes a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce's IPv6 Task Force, which says going slow on IPv6 is just fine. Or, in the report's snooze-inducing language: "The Task Force therefore believes that aggressive government action to accelerate deployment of IPv6 by the private sector is not warranted at this time." …mehr
When it comes to accurate drug testing of college athletes, the National Center for Drug Free Sport Inc. relies on handheld computers instead of paper forms to track data on 25,000 tests a year. Use of handhelds at track meets and other National Collegiate Athletic Association events started in 2002, replacing paper forms used to record testing information, said Frank Uryasz, president of Kansas City, Mo.-based Drug Free Sport, in a recent interview. …mehr
To be accredited or not to be accredited that is the question. …mehr
EC Rejects Microsoft's Bid to Extend Deadline …mehr
Mav-er-ick One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ProCurve networking unit Monday announced a set of 14 switches and related products that broaden its market portfolio while providing features such as wirespeed performance and integrated Gigabit Power over Ethernet capabilities. The products being rolled out include four new switch families and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet module for HP's existing ProCurve 8100 interconnect fabric switch. …mehr
Capital One Financial Corp. is reducing its server count even as it expands and acquires new businesses. To help in that effort, the McLean, Va.-based credit card and financial services company uses virtualization in its servers and networks and is piloting a database virtualization program. In an interview with Computerworld, Lee Congdon, vice president of corporate technology at Capital One, said the company's goals are to reduce technology costs and improve the IT department's ability to meet business needs. Congdon also talked about the industry's role in spreading the technology. …mehr
Encompass, a Chicago-based Hewlett-Packard Co. user group, has been trying to expand its roster by adding a chunk of the 100,000 members of the former Interex user organization, which closed its doors last year. In a recent interview with Computerworld, Kristi Browder, president of Encompass and IT director at Silicon Laboratories Inc. in Austin, discussed that effort and the future of her group, as well as its plans for the HP user conference this fall. …mehr
The Boeing Co. has been discreetly providing feedback to the Mozilla Foundation for the past year or so on features that might encourage enterprise adoption of the open-source Firefox browser. At the top of the list has been a tool kit to help IT departments distribute Firefox with custom configurations to end users. …mehr
