"Die Piraterie hat der Musikindustrie einen enormen Schaden zugefügt. Für legale Anbieter ist es unmöglich, im Konkurrenzkampf mit kostenlosen Download-Möglichkeiten zu bestehen". …mehr
Das Softwarehaus Datev hat seinen Umsatz im vergangenen Jahr nach vorläufigen Zahlen um 5,8 Prozent auf 649,7 Millionen Euro erhöht. …mehr
Die populären Musikvideospiele "Guitar Hero" und "Rock Band" sind der Musikindustrie ein Dorn im Auge. …mehr
Zunächst nur in den USA hat Google begonnen, wie in der normalen Suche Textanzeigen in der Ergebnisliste seines automatisierten Nachrichtensammlers "Google News" anzuzeigen. …mehr
Der Netzriese Cisco Systems hat in dieser Woche mehrere hundert Mitarbeiter auf die Straße gesetzt und reiht sich damit ein in die lange Liste von Hightech-Firmen, die bereits der Wirtschaftskrise Tribut zollen mussten. …mehr
Samsung wird 2009 überwiegend hochpreise Mobiltelefone für die Mittel- und Highend-Klasse auf den Markt bringen. Der Hersteller erwartet dadurch höhere Umsätze und eine bessere Gewinnmarge. …mehr
Microsoft zerrt einem Medienbericht zufolge den Navigations-Spezialisten TomTom mit dem Vorwurf der Patentverletzung vor den Kadi. …mehr
o2 gewann im vergangenen Jahr fast zwei Millionen Kunden und legte beim Gewinn und Umsatz zu. Das erfolgreiche Neukundengeschäft resultiert aus der neuen SIMonly-Strategie, die steigende Zahl der Prepaid-Kunden belastete allerdings das ARPU. …mehr
Hintergrund ist die wachsende Nachfrage des Mittelstands nach Infrastruktur-Outsourcing und Application-Hosting. …mehr
Gigaset Communications, vormals Siemens SHC, will sich auf das profitable Kerngeschäft mit Schnurlostelefonen fokussieren. 293 Mitarbeiter müssen gehen. …mehr
Nach Cisco hat nun auch Juniper Networks mit dem Programm "Stratus" ambitionierte Pläne vorgestellt, um tiefer ins Rechenzentrum der Zukunft einzudringen. …mehr
Der deutsche eBay-Marktplatz feiert seinen zehnten Geburtstag. Das sind in Zahlen ausgedrückt: 4,4 Milliarden abgegebene Gebote und 1,1 Milliarden verkaufte Waren und Dienstleistungen im Wert von insgesamt 42 Milliarden Euro. …mehr
Viele werden jetzt sagen: "Na und?" - aber Google-Mail- und Google-Apps-Benutzer werden vor Freude Purzelbäume schlagen. …mehr
Alarmanlagen, Überwachungskameras, Lichtschranken - der Online-Laden verkauft allerlei, um ein Haus zur Festung aufzurüsten. Doch in seiner eigenen digitalen Präsenz lässt das Unternehmen die Tür für unerbetene Gäste weit offen. …mehr
Der aktuellen Trendstudie von Capgemini zufolge wirkt sich die angespannte Situation auf zwei Fünftel der IT-Budgets aus. …mehr
Auf seiner deutschsprachigen Website hat Palm das Gerät jetzt veröffentlicht und bietet Interessenten die Möglichkeit, sich zum Marktstart benachrichtigen zu lassen. …mehr
Der Hamburger Content-Management-Spezialist Coremedia bringt zur CeBIT einen "Social Application Connector" für sein CMS heraus. …mehr
Nachdem die NV100HD als welterste Digitalkompakte mit 14,7 Millionen Pixel-CCD in die Geschichte einging steht schon der nächste Rekord aus dem Hause Samsung an: Die WB 500 bietet 24-240 mm-Ultraweitwinkelzoom. Bis dato bot keine Digitalkamera ein 24-mm-Ultraweitwinkel mit zehnfachem Zoombereich. Alle weiteren technischen Finessen finden Sie hier im Test. …mehr
Im Alltag des insolventen Chipherstellers Qimonda Dresden gibt es momentan Hürden, an die man vor einem Jahr nicht im Traum gedacht hätte. …mehr
Der Sondermaschinenbauer ersetzt seine zehn Jahre alte TK-Anlage durch ein Hosted-VoIP-System mit GSM-Integration von 300 Nebenstellen. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Mobiltelefon-Hersteller Nokia erwägt den Einstieg in den Markt für Notebooks. …mehr
Der insolvente nordamerikanische Telekomausrüster Nortel Networks streicht in seinem Überlebenskampf weltweit weitere 3200 Stellen. …mehr
Der deutsche Softwareunternehmer Marco Börries verlässt den US-Internet-Konzern Yahoo! Ende April. …mehr
Um die "Soft Skills" seiner Studenten zu schärfen, hat das renommierte Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaretechnik in Potsdam den Berufsflirter und Bestseller-Autor Phillip von Senftleben als Gastdozenten in Sachen Flirten eingeladen. …mehr
A lack of portability standards in cloud computing was cited as a contributor to the shutdown last week of PaaS (platform-as-a-service) provider Coghead, which was acquired by SAP. …mehr
Even though it's less than a year old, Facebook Connect has experienced sharp growth, according to an . The company also claimed that some sites which use the service had doubled their registrations, thanks to Facebook Connect. …mehr
Microsoft developers say they have received more than 500,000 feedback reports so far on Windows 7, and have fixed nearly 2,000 bugs. And while thinks Microsoft should be more open about which bugs are getting fixed, not all of her readers agree. …mehr
Federal agencies, including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, have begun investigating Heartland Payment Systems following a massive data breach at the payment processing company. …mehr
The Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (PAPT) vows to further strengthen its drive against software piracy in the country, with the launch of "Don't Wait until it's too Late!"--an intensive information and geographical expansion campaign targeted at companies using unlicensed software. …mehr
Microsoft on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against TomTom, alleging that the GPS vendor's in-car navigation devices infringe on its patents. …mehr
The headline of the Infoworld story "Coghead customers have five weeks to save their data," posted to the wire Wednesday, has been corrected to reflect that customers have two months to save their data. …mehr
From a manufacturing standpoint, one of the banes of Blu-ray Disc's existence has long been the muddled licensing process. To incorporate the format--as well as the CD and DVD formats--into a device, manufacturers have had to contact each format's patent holders to arrange for a license to include that format in their product. Now, however, Panasonic, Philips, and Sony have joined forces to create a consolidated process for licensing the formats in Blu-ray Disc products. …mehr
If you like to chat with friends on your iPhone using AOL's network, you'll probably be interested in an update in . …mehr
After assuring its clients and partners that it's business as usual, Nortel is now geared to push its entire pipeline projects forward. "Prior to filing of Chapter 11 or credit protection, there was a steady pipeline of projects on going. Even after the announcement, there's no pullout among existing clients," said Armando Pascual, country manager of Nortel Philippines. …mehr
Contrary to Apple's claims, the newest version of Safari is not the world's fastest browser, benchmark scores show. But it is dramatically faster than rivals being built by Mozilla and Microsoft. …mehr
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may fine 600 operators for failing to properly file annual reports proving that they protect customer data. …mehr
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chairman Scott McNealy wants President Barack Obama's administration do what the United Kingdom, Denmark and other countries have done: Encourage, as a matter of policy, open-source software adoption. …mehr
Following a , Facebook is receiving plenty of praise Thursday as word spreads about the social network's . Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans for a democratic-style "open governance" system during a news conference Thursday. The system will allow Facebook users the opportunity to comment and ultimately vote on the site's future policies surrounding data management and the handling of personal information. …mehr
Intel on Wednesday said it had joined Dell and other companies in an attempt to free the term 'netbook' from the clutches of PC maker Psion Teklogix. …mehr
President Obama's address to the joint session of Congress is less than 24 hours old, and the Dow Jones Industrial average is . But according to the prediction markets, people are generally optimistic that the Dow will recover some of its recent losses -- and soon. …mehr
"The real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android." That's Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's on the smartphone market, expressed to analysts during a midyear update in New York. While he acknowledged that the iPhone had "consumer market mojo," he suggested that it did not have the same market potential as the mobile platforms controlled by Microsoft and Google. …mehr
The world's young tech and Web 2.0 guru's have featured prominently in the World Economic Forum's annual list of Young Global Leaders, announced Wednesday. …mehr
Over the past decade, I've been to Apple's Cupertino headquarters many times for assorted product launches (the original iPod and OS X, to name a couple) and PR briefings. But Wednesday's trip for the was a new experience for me. …mehr
PC parts are so cheap, you could easily spend more on 10-user license for than on the hardware on which it's installed. Steve Ballmer mentioned the disparity, noting the upcoming designed as a "low-cost, low-price, low-functionality Windows Server SKU." The skeleton server will be released in the next month or two, although hasn't yet announced . …mehr
Unicode gives you access to some 32,000 symbols and characters, but your keyboard is still stuck in the 1950s (not that a 32,000 key keyboard would be very practical). Getting access to all those characters can be a chore, but the US$25 aims to simplify it. How does it work? Short answer--pretty well, but with a few quirks. …mehr
, whom Yahoo acquired in 2005 when the super-portal bought mobile syncing company Verdisoft, is leaving the company. BoomTown has Boerries' to his team. The message mostly damns Yahoo with faint praise, which is all that seems to be available for such unsung products as: …mehr
Market analysts this week drastically cut estimates for global hardware and component revenue as concerns about the U.S.'s handling of the recession took a toll on investor confidence in vendors throughout the whole IT sector. …mehr
Telstra's dominance of the telco market will continue over the next four years despite and its chance at the A$10 billion (US$6.5 billion) National Broadband Network (NBN), company chiefs said Thursday. …mehr
President Obama, in his joint speech to Congress this week, emphasized that he wants electronic health records to be established for all Americans over the next five years. His recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act earmarked US$19 billion for health information technology spending, $17 billion of which is designated for incentive payments for Electronic Health Record use beginning in 2011. To date, only about 25% of the nation's 5,000 hospitals have rolled out electronic health records systems, and only a small fraction of physician practices have done the same. …mehr
Microsoft has been vocal about its interest in working more closely with the open-source community in the past couple of years, actively promoting interoperability, forging new relationships and donating code to open-source projects. But the patent-infringement suit it filed Wednesday against TomTom has the Linux community, in particular, concerned that Microsoft is only paying lip service to its new approach and plans to continue to threaten Linux distributors with patent-infringement claims. …mehr
If you use iTunes as often as I do, you probably use it to rate your songs. I use iTunes' star ratings to record my favorites, and also to find and sort my tracks. But sometimes five stars just aren't enough. …mehr
After outraged users earlier this month for taking too much control over their content, the social network Thursday unveiled a new plan that will bring users into its policy discussions. …mehr
You already know Safari. It's the only browser that ships with OS X, in the same manner that Internet Explorer is the de facto browser for Windows. Safari rose to greater recognition as the iPhone's touchy-feely Web 2.0 client. You might be aware that OS X and Windows editions of Safari are released in parity, function identically, and are updated automatically through Apple Software Update in response to security and stability issues. …mehr
Everybody loves a bargain, particularly fans of TV shopping networks like . Those high-energy sales pitches are compelling, and I confess that I've been tempted to break out the plastic for an item or two hawked there. …mehr
One of the ways the Conficker worm and other, similar malware slimes its way from computer to computer is by taking advantage of the Autorun feature in Windows. If Conficker finds removable media (like a USB drive) on a PC it infects, it will infect that media in such a way that it will exploit Autorun to attempt to automatically infect a new computer when the drive is connected. …mehr
British statesman once opined there were "lies, damned lies, and statistics." …mehr
Want to become a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), one of the company's elite volunteer army of tech experts? …mehr
I don't have a and, unless I can sell more blood and fast, I'm not about to acquire one of the sleek new models anytime soon. Even if I pre-ordered a Thursday, I understand that my baby daughter would be entering pre-school before Amazon could ship it. …mehr
