Service-orientierte Architekturen, so heißt es, eignen sich vor allem für Großunternehmen. Was hat Sie als CIO eines mittelständischen Betriebs bewogen, ein SOA-Projekt zu starten? …mehr
Seagate Technology präsentiert mit den beiden Servern "BlackArmor NAS 440" sowie "BlackArmor NAS 420" die ersten beiden Geräte einer neuen Produktfamilie. Sie ist speziell für die Speicherbedürfnisse kleiner Firmen mit bis zu 50 Mitarbeitern konzipiert. …mehr
Wir wollen jetzt nicht mit "Enterprise 2.0" die Buzzword-Sau durchs Dorf treiben, aber es fällt auf: Googles gehosteter Programmsammlung "Apps" fehlen Collaboration-Features. …mehr
Mike Nash, Chef der australischen Sicherheitsfirma Tall Emu, hat einen überraschend offenen Chat mit einem Betrüger der Nigeria Connection geführt. …mehr
Wie sich in Notes kompatible Kalendernachrichten für verschiedene E-Mail-Plattformen einstellen lassen. …mehr
Die Bundesregierung will das Millionen-Geschäft mit Kinderpornografie im Internet durch Zugangs-Blockaden massiv bekämpfen. …mehr
Portfolio-Edition nennt Red Hat Version 2 seiner Entwicklungsumgebung "JBoss Developer Studio". …mehr
Die Berliner ThinPrint GmbH hat die Version 7.6 ihrer ".print RDP Engine" veröffentlicht. …mehr
Laut einer Studie der Unternehmensberatung W&P lassen mittelständische Unternehmen in den Bereichen Forschungs- und Entwicklungsmanagement (F&E) sowie im kaufmännischen Projektmanagement erhebliche Optimierungspotenziale ungenutzt. …mehr
Clay Shirky gilt als einer der führenden Theoretiker des Web 2.0. Im Gespräch mit Computerwoche-Redakteur Wolfgang Sommergut erläutert er dessen Auswirkungen auf Unternehmen. …mehr
Obwohl die wirtschaftliche Gesamtsituation auf Talfahrt ist, gibt es bei mittelständischen Unternehmen positive Anzeichen zur Trendwende. Dem Mittelstandsindex von Techconsult und Fujitsu Siemens Computers zufolge hat sich der Abwärtstrend im Februar deutlich verlangsamt und planen Mittelständler wieder mehr ITK-Investitionen. …mehr
Das Industriekonsortium Khronos Group hat im Rahmen der laufenden Game Developers Conference (GDC) eine Initiative angekündigt, um einen offenen und lizenzgebührfreien Standard für beschleunigte 3D-Grafik im Web zu entwickeln. …mehr
Auf den ersten Blick haben Hochverfügbarkeit und Sicherheit wenig miteinander zu tun. Bei genauerem Hinsehen allerdings zeigen sich doch erhebliche Wechselwirkungen und Abhängigkeiten zwischen sicheren und hochverfügbaren Systemen. …mehr
Der Internet-Musikservice Last.fm will in Kürze eine Gebührenpflicht für seine Nutzer einführen. …mehr
Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise verschärft den Wettbewerb im IT-Servicemarkt. Das drückt die Preise für IT-Dienstleistungen. …mehr
Das iPhone ist am besten Weg, sich zur dominierenden mobilen Gaming-Plattform zu entwickeln. …mehr
Der Internet-Telefonieanbieter Skype hat nun Skype 3.0 für Smartphones mit dem Betriebssystem Windows Mobile vorgestellt. Das Programm enthält neue Funktionen und die Benutzeroberfläche wurde verbessert. …mehr
Facebook reagiert auf die heftige Kritik an seinem neuen Layout und will zumindest einige Änderungen vornehmen. …mehr
Der Metro-Konzern ist mit der Übernahme von 24-7 Entertainment weiter in den Markt für digitale Downloads vorgeprescht. …mehr
Für manche Mobilfunkbetreiber kann die 4G-Technologie LTE gar nicht schnell genug Realität werden. …mehr
Richard Stallman, President der Free Software Foundation (FSF), sieht Web-Nutzer in einer "Javascript-Falle". …mehr
Viel zu wenige Organisationen haben Systeme zum Messen und Steuern ihres CO2-Ausstoßes eingeführt, berichten Gartner-Experten. Das könnte sich bald rächen. …mehr
Google hat neue Technik in seine Internet-Suche integriert, die besser "verstehen" soll, was den Nutzer wirklich interessiert. …mehr
Zwischen 45.000 und 63.000 Euro liegt die Gehaltsspanne für Entwickler in den unterschiedlichen Branchen. …mehr
Mit der Einführung eines gezielten Service-Managements, beispielsweise nach Itil, lässt sich das IT-Budget entlasten. …mehr
Im Ringen um ein Gesetz gegen Kinderpornografie hält Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) eine Regelung noch vor der Bundestagswahl für möglich. …mehr
Sharp hat mit dem LK636R3LA19 ein 64-zölliges LCD-Panel für den e-Signage-Bereich vorgestellt, das sich durch eine enorme hohe Auflösung auszeichnen soll. Laut Sharp erreicht es mit 4.096 x 2.160 Pixel eine Auflösung, die die des Full-HD-Standards um das mehr als Vierfache übertrifft. …mehr
Die Deutsche Messe AG in Hannover will mit finanzieller Hilfe von Stadt und Land dem harten Konkurrenzdruck besser standhalten. …mehr
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Premium-Inhalt. Dell is set to update on Wednesday the virtualized storage line it acquired in its purchase of EqualLogic last year, now aiming at the needs of larger enterprises.
Premium-Inhalt. 2009 will be the year SMBs start adopting software as a service (SaaS) in earnest, presenting an opportunity for Microsoft and other vendors to offer services to them despite the economic recession, according to a Microsoft survey.
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Premium-Inhalt. Adobe Photoshop is a remarkably deep and powerful program, but when you want to edit a photo with particularly advanced enhancements, the process can be time-consuming and intimidating. OnOne Software PhotoTools 2 (available in US$160 and $260 versions, each with a 30-day free trial) is a Photoshop plug-in with a large library of effect presets created by top professional photographers.
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Premium-Inhalt. The Recording Industry Association of America's in its battle against illegal file sharing is now underway. AT&T and Cox both confirmed to PC World that they have begun cooperating with the RIAA in some form. Comcast did not say it was working with the RIAA, but did say it was forwarding messages on the behalf of the recording industry to customers. Still a mystery is to what extent ISPs are cooperating with the RIAA and what it takes to get booted from your ISP for illegally swapping copyright protected content online.
Premium-Inhalt. NEC has unveiled its new Australian business structure, which will see 153 staff retrenched.
Premium-Inhalt. Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, was paid a US$1 salary in 2008. He also received $508,763 in other compensation -- which consisted of $402,562 for and $106,201 for personal use of company-chartered aircraft.
Premium-Inhalt. Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company's applications to support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.
Premium-Inhalt. After its undocking from the International Space Station Wednesday afternoon, the crew of quickly began two days of inspections to make sure it can survive the trip home. The astronauts leave after installing the S6 truss and attached last week.
Premium-Inhalt. Internet services for some FairPoint Communications Inc. customers in New Hampshire were down for a period of time on Wednesday.
Premium-Inhalt. The Internet Archive Wednesday announced that it has a new computer behind it its library of 151 billion archived Web pages. The machine fits in a 20-foot-long outdoor metal cargo container filled with 63 server clusters that offer 4.5 million gigabytes of data storage capacity and 1TB of memory.
Premium-Inhalt. TLA Systems on Wednesday released updates to its PCalc calculator applications for the iPhone and for Mac OS X.
Premium-Inhalt. Cloud computing and opportunities it presents for application developers were stressed Wednesday by Amazon and a user of its cloud service during a presentation at the EclipseCon 2009 conference.
Premium-Inhalt. , the third game in Running With Scissor's outrageously irreverent action game series, is headed to the Xbox 360 and PC later this year, and you can get a glimpse at some of the things you can do in the game in the new trailer just released.
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Premium-Inhalt. Wednesday at San Francisco's Game Developer's conference, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that Square Enix has two brand new Final Fantasy titles headed to the Nintendo Wii's WiiWare service later this year -- and .
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Premium-Inhalt. , a startup based in Nyack, New York, has taken Napster-like aim at the US$8 billion college textbook market. The company offers free Web-hosted titles by expert authors. Anyone can download and modify the books' content to fit a specific school's curriculum. Despite the gloomy economy, Flat World Tuesday morning announced $8 million in Series A funding from ., and .
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Premium-Inhalt. "At a time when newspapers, magazines and TV news continue to lose readers and viewers," writes Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi, "the audience for NPR's daily news programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, reached a record last year ... The cumulative audience for its daily news programs hit 20.9 million a week, a 9 percent increase over the previous year." Arbitron ratings show NPR's audience up nearly 50 percent since the year 2000.
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Premium-Inhalt. Plenty of image editors vie for your attention at the App Store. Rather than try to compete by offering to do everything, FocalLab concentrates on selective focus, adding a graduated blur to in-focus areas. With four types of filters as of this writing, the app from handles this specialized editing well.
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Premium-Inhalt. VMware announced that Richard McAniff has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer. McAniff will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Maritz. In his new role, McAniff will be responsible for research and development across VMware's Server and Desktop Business Units.
Premium-Inhalt. Novell Wednesday announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, the operating system designed for the next-generation data center. As data centers become more heterogeneous, customers are demanding a cost-effective platform that can run their applications reliably and with high performance on any hardware platform and hypervisor as well as in appliances and cloud computing infrastructures. With SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Novell is delivering the leading mission-critical Linux* platform to allow customers to economically deploy workloads wherever and however they choose, with complete support from Novell and its global partner ecosystem of solution and hardware providers and independent software vendors (ISVs).