Die Oracle-Anwendervereinigung Doag lobt einige der jüngsten Ankündigungen des Softwarekonzerns auf der "OpenWorld", übt aber auch Kritik. …mehr
Der in Bochum entwickelte Nachfolger des Erfolgsmodells Blackberry Bold 9000, das Bold 9700, ist erstmals auf einer Webseite von T-Mobile erschienen. …mehr
Laut einer Umfrage bewerten immer mehr Anwender das Thema Enterprise Content Management (ECM) als wichtiges strategisches Ziel für ihr Unternehmen. Gleichzeitig steigen aber auch die Erwartungen. …mehr
Mit dem neuen Standard G.hn soll das intelligente Hausnetz für alle möglichen Endgeräte endlich Realität werden. …mehr
Eine Frau stürzte sich aus dem Bürofenster in der vierten Etage, ein Mann sprang von einer Autobahnbrücke, ein weiterer erhängte sich zu Hause - dies sind nur drei der 25 Mitarbeiter von France Télécom, die sich seit Anfang 2008 das Leben genommen haben. …mehr
Nokia zieht Konsequenzen aus dem Rutsch in die roten Zahlen und baut in der Konzernspitze um. …mehr
Unbekannte haben einem Medienbericht zufolge beim Finanzdienstleister AWD zehntausende Kundendaten entwendet. …mehr
Wie ZDNet herausgefunden hat, tricksen T-Mobile und Vodafone mit allen Mitteln um an Bandbreite zu sparen. Die Provider schrecken dabei auch nicht vor Techniken zurück, die hauptsächlich von Cyberkriminellen genutzt werden. …mehr
Michael Hange übernimmt heute das Amt des Präsidenten des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI). …mehr
XML Marker erlaubt die Analyse auch von großen und komplexen XML-Strukturen. …mehr
Den Mischkonzern Siemens holt nach einem Pressebericht wieder einmal seine Vergangenheit ein. …mehr
Bislang praktizieren es noch wenig Unternehmen. Doch die Zukunft des Storage liegt in der Wolke: Die Langzeit-Archivierung von Daten in Clouds ist deutlich kostengünstiger als teure SAN- oder NAS-Technologien. …mehr
Wer sein Task-Managing unter Windows ausführlich und professionell möchte, sollte es statt mit dem systemeigenen Werkzeug mit "Process Hacker" versuchen. …mehr
Die Panne bei Microsofts US-Tochter Danger mit dem Datenverlust von T-Mobiles Sidekick-Kunden hat in Blogs hohe Wellen geschlagen. Die kontroverse Diskussion in der Öffentlichkeit könnte dazu beitragen, die erste Krise von Cloud Computing schneller zu bewältigen. …mehr
Dem Handy-Hersteller Sony Ericsson macht die Absatzflaute weiter zu schaffen. …mehr
Neue Hoffnungszeichen in der IT-Branche: Mit überraschend starken Quartalszahlen haben der Computer-Konzern IBM und der Internet-Riese Google die Erwartungen einer Erholung weiter angeheizt. …mehr
In the insurance business, everyone's headed into the hinterland. But the cost of every new branch can bite deeply. Here's how going Open Source helped ING Life save over Rs 8 crore (US$1.7 million) and funded its expansion plans. …mehr
Mark Bramfitt, who has been an advocate for greater cooperation between data centers and electric utility companies, will leave his job at Pacific Gas & Electric next month, he said on Thursday. …mehr
There was a little bit of everything this week -- Sidekick users got a nasty surprise, Cisco made another acquisition, Oracle had its big user conference while questions lingered regarding the effect its plan to buy Sun will have, Biz Stone insisted he doesn't want to sell Twitter, and the world prepared for the launch of Windows 7 next week even as administrators grumbled their way through a monster patch Tuesday. …mehr
When released the new iPhone 3GS with an updated bootrom, many reports claimed it rendered the handset "unhackable" or "jailbreak-proof." such reports were overdramatic and it was only a matter of time before a new exploit was discovered. While the Dev-Team is undoubtedly working hard in finding a new exploit for the 3GS bootrom, in the meantime, Dev-Team member Eric McDonald addressed sensationalized reports in a released yesterday. …mehr
It is no secret that the worldwide economy isn't in the best of shape. While I'm sure we could argue for days on end what got us all into this mess (I, for one, blame someone other than myself) there are some bright spots. A.T. Kearney, a management consulting company that moonlights as a compiler of bloggable lists of companies, has just released the name of the 25 companies it deems . …mehr
Small businesses can buy open source as an add-on to IBM’s Smart Cube office-in-a-box package. …mehr
U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Americans to help guard against cyberattacks in a first-of-its-kind video published on the White House Web site. …mehr
Our Apple-focused affiliate, , discovered earlier today that an update to the iPhone Developer Program has allowed the use of in-app transactions in free apps, a practice that was previously limited to paid apps. With iPhone game developers dealing with dramatic price shifts and major difficulty selling titles for anything but the lowest prices, this may present an opportunity to developer a more stable way to make money from their apps. …mehr
Rockstar Games has that is joining the growing library of classic Xbox 360 titles available for download through the Xbox Live Marketplace Games on Demand service. …mehr
It's the kind of thing that in many countries might pass largely unnoticed but the launch on Thursday in Japan by Twitter of a mobile Web site could end up being of vital importance to its success here. …mehr
While the ITU marked off another milestone for its G.hn standard for home networking last week, the specification may now face a greater challenge going up against existing technologies. …mehr
The University of New England will receive $5 million in Federal Government funding over the next two years to create a fibre optic connection to the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN). …mehr
In (which was online only) I continued my exploration of a cool programming system called , focusing on the tool's object-oriented, event-driven architecture. This week we'll look at the product's English-like language, a style referred to as by some cynics. …mehr
The managing director of the company responsible for the testing of the Federal Government's controversial wants the results made public. …mehr
As if the mass exodus of delayed games into the early months of 2010 hadn't created enough of a clutter in the new year, EA has planted one of its most anticipated titles in the first month of next year, setting a January 26 release date for the highly-anticipated . …mehr
Throughout this weekend, THQ and PC game download service are teaming up to bring you all three of the popular Red Faction games for 25 percent off their usual price. This means you can get the and for just $7.49, and for $29.99. You can access the sale page right . …mehr
WASHINGTON -- A defining phrase in the military is "by the book," and when it comes to knowledge management and IT, the book ( ) is clear: "The IT community must maintain focus on the needs of its customers." …mehr
Executives from Intel Capital and IBM face insider trading charges after allegedly scheming to provide information that others used to reap millions of dollars in illegal profits, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. …mehr
Hold on to your balloons! This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Ginny Mies, Tim Moynihan, and Mark Sullivan try to cover as much of the week's tech news as possible in 20 minutes. …mehr
The continues today, with the report that maybe after all. That's good news, naturally. But we're still waiting to hear the official account of what exactly went wrong at Danger Inc. …mehr
After a record-setting week of Microsoft and Adobe security patches, Oracle is gearing up for a major update of its own next week. …mehr
Microsoft registered more than 1.5 million downloads of its free antivirus software in the week after it shipped. …mehr
Smile when you talk to research legend . You're on candid camera. …mehr
Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday narrowed its net loss during the third quarter of 2009 as the company inches closer to profitability. …mehr
As a software developer, I can let you in on a little secret: most of us will admit to having a lazy streak. I don't mean that in a bad way--it's just that a good developer likes to find the most efficient way to accomplish any given task. …mehr
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), which oversees TV standards for the U.S., said Friday it has approved a standard for mobile digital broadcasts. …mehr
An Illinois politician's attempt to unmask the identity of an e-mail poster who allegedly made disparaging remarks about her teenage son in an online forum is stirring a debate about free speech rights on the Internet. …mehr
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While Apple's new for iPhones is being widely touted as an antipiracy measure, Apple's more overarching motive seems to be that of keeping the at the development forefront for the coolest new apps for mobile users. …mehr
Rockstar has been slowly revealing details about how the PSP version of will differ from its Nintendo DS (and ultimately iPhone) counterparts on its official website. Last week it revealed the exclusive mission, "Factory Fun" which is an homage to the "classic" mission "Are You Going to San Fierro?" In "Factory Fun" Chinatown Wars protagonist Huang must destroy a warehouse full of "illicit crops" with a flamethrower before escaping unharmed. …mehr
A group of 72 Democratic lawmakers is the latest to question the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's move to create new net neutrality regulations. …mehr
While EA has tested the waters of browser-based gaming with the release of earlier this year, it seems as though the company will be diving even deeper into the world of non-download, non-disc PC and Mac video games, as the company has started a new Flash gaming label called EA2D. The first title, which was revealed on Bioware's blog last week and picked up by earlier today, will be , a 2D tactical RPG spin-off of the upcoming 3D console/PC RPG . …mehr
With the now on for the official shipment of next Thursday, and friends have been cranking up the proverbial hype machine, but not without a few clinks and clanks along the way. …mehr
You can thank Moore's Law and competition for the long-standing pattern of many expensive IT technologies coming down in price over time to the point where small and medium-sized businesses can afford them. Software-as-a-service and cloud computing have accelerated this trend, to the point where even sophisticated hosted call-center systems are now available for a fraction of the price that installed systems cost. …mehr
