Der deutsche Softwarehersteller SAP geht im Industriespionageprozess auf den US-Rivalen Oracle zu. …mehr
Apple hatte gestern seine Homepage durch einen Hinweis auf eine wichtige iTunes-Ankündigung ersetzt. …mehr
Google will mit dem Handy den Bankkarten Konkurrenz machen. …mehr
Data Robotics hat die zweite Generation des "Drobo S" vorgestellt, die nun (neben Firewire 800 und eSATA) mit einem USB-3.0-Anschluss versehen ist. …mehr
Volle Platte, überflüssige Programme, fehlende Updates – die Zahl der möglichen Bremsklötze von Windows ist groß. Lösen Sie die Bremsen. Unser Tuning-Guide erklärt, an welchen Schrauben Sie drehen müssen. …mehr
Eine verbesserte Version des Microsoft-Betriebssystems soll Gerüchten zufolge schon im Januar herauskommen und viele Neuerungen enthalten. …mehr
Google-Chef Eric Schmidt hat einen ersten, kurzen Einblick in Android 2.3 gegeben. Er präsentierte das neue Smartphone-Betriebssystem auf einem Prototypen, vermutlich dem Nexus S. …mehr
Gerade erst in Großbritannien auf den Markt gebracht, wird das erste Android-Tablet von Toshiba Berichten zufolge bereits von technischen Problemen geplagt. …mehr
Die Technik-Auguren waren auf einen schlichten "E-Mail-Killer" von Facebook gefasst. …mehr
Das globale Abkommen zum Schutz geistigen Eigentums im Internet ist nach wochenlanger Verzögerung fertig. …mehr
Die freie Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia bittet ihre Nutzer um 16 Millionen Dollar an Spenden. …mehr
Spätestens seit Red Hat seine Strategie für die Virtualisierung auf KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) ausgerichtet hat, gilt dieser recht neue Hypervisor in der Open-Source-Szene als Nachfolger von Xen. Was macht KVM interessant, und ist es besser als Xen? …mehr
Apple hat beim neuen Mac mini einige dringende Wünsche der Anwender umgesetzt. Lesen Sie im Test, ob die Änderungen den höheren Preis rechtfertigen. …mehr
Der Bundesgerichtshof richtet strenge Anforderungen an die Aktualität von Preisangaben in Preissuchmaschinen. Webshops müssen auf der Hut sein. …mehr
Ein gutes TFT-Display muss nicht teuer sein. Bereits für unter 300 Euro gibt es TFT-Displays mit Full-HD-Auflösung. Der Test präsentiert die aktuellen Modelle. …mehr
Klassiker für wenig Geld: Was taugen wiederaufbereitete Notebooks? Dieser Frage sind wir nachgegangen und schildern unsere Erfahrungen mit zwei Refurbished-Notebooks. …mehr
Der Bundesfinanzhof (BFH) hatte durch drei Urteile vom 22. September 2009 die Grenzen freiberuflicher Tätigkeiten neu gezogen. Nun liegen erste Erfahrungen vor. …mehr
Der Genehmigungs-Workflow einer Open-Source-Lösung soll dafür sorgen, dass geheime Informationen und schädliche Kommentare nicht im Unternehmens-Wiki erscheinen. …mehr
Wofür kann ein IT-Chef persönlich zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden? Wie weit reicht seine Haftung, wo endet sie? Und wie können Manager mit diesem Damoklesschwert im Nacken ihren Job meistern? …mehr
Last week, Google that their Google Voice App was finally accepted into the App Store. You may remember the controversy surrounding Google Voice on the iPhone from September of last year, when Apple first the app. After changing some of its App Store approval policies, Apple began accepting third-party GV apps this past September, but it was unclear as to why the official app hadn't made an appearance until now. In any case, it's here, it works, and it's a huge step forward for the App Store. …mehr
New BlackBerrys will soon look and feel like BlackBerry's , co-CEO Jim Balsillie strongly suggested at the on Tuesday. …mehr
We've had it a week and already we're filling up our office Windows Phone 7 with games. Here are the top-ranked titles on Xbox Live Marketplace so far. …mehr
You know the posts I write here every day? Each month, a handful of them get culled for the print edition of PC World. And in the December, 2010, issue, on page 128, one of my tips ("Fix a Windows 7 System That Randomly Freezes") suffered a small but decidedly confusing editorial error. …mehr
Grab your hoverboards, gang: The next generation of is on the way, and it's going to feel a bit like something out of Back to the Future II. …mehr
The Dell Inspiron Duo tablet (or is it a netbook?) will be officially released November 23, , citing "industry sources familiar with the launch plans." …mehr
Dell's 2350dn offers small and medium-size workgroups a well-rounded , with peppy performance, impressive print quality, and reasonable toner costs for a low price ($300 as of November 16, 2010). …mehr
Until now, CIOs have been flying blind when it comes to empirical, comparable evidence of how the market views IT investments by publicly listed organisations. But new research changes that. …mehr
Most people purchase their PCs from popular vendors such as Dell or Lenovo. However, power users who want something more -- or who have very specific ideas of what they want without the time to actually build it themselves -- may turn to smaller, independent vendors who can accommodate high-performance, individually designed systems. These vendors are popularly known as boutique builders. …mehr
The University of New Mexico's patent arm, STC, filed a lawsuit against Intel on Monday alleging the infringement of a patent related to advanced chip manufacturing. …mehr
To be successful in China, Internet companies need to make peace with market realities they have no control over, including government censorship and bureaucracy, according to Robin Li, CEO of Baidu, the country's search engine leader. …mehr
Apple will announce that its iTunes store will begin selling music by The Beatles on Tuesday, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. …mehr
By now, you've either gotten your first snowfall of the season, or local shops have at least sprayed some fake snow in their windows to simulate the effect. Either way, there's no doubt that the holiday season is here, and you should be readying your camera for action. If it's chilly where you live, be sure to read about how to --and read on for five tips on how to get the best holiday photos this year. …mehr
In the doggone years when small-time retail players make up the market, keeping track of sales transactions covered throughout the operations was a cinch--business owners would often log sales on paper, and compute them with a calculator on day-end. …mehr
I'm fascinated by how technology's center of gravity shifts over time. For a long time Microsoft was the 900-pound gorilla (careful where you stand -- it's got a bad case of gas). More recently Apple and Google have taken turns dominating what we talk about when the topic is tech. Now it's all Facebook, all the time. …mehr
Yahoo is developing technology to help publishers personalize their websites, in much the same way that it helps them to populate their sites with ads, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said on Tuesday. …mehr
Flying--whether we like to admit it or not--is stressful. Thankfully, a variety of apps can help alleviate some of the pressures. One popular option, , allows users to schedule and map flights; version 4.0, released Monday, adds a slew of new features dedicated to helping the world-weary power traveler or vacationing couple. …mehr
Sencha began offering on Monday Sencha Touch, an HTML5-based mobile application development framework for touch-based devices. The company also detailed plans for an upgrade to its Ext JS JavaScript framework. …mehr
CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco handpicks ten BlackBerry applications--six of which are completely free--that can help with shopping, travel, personal entertainment and much more this upcoming holiday season. …mehr
As technology pundits often say, the IT industry is in a constant flux of development and innovation. One technological breakthrough may be the peak of today but we can never say the same for tomorrow. …mehr
This week's uproar over the 's (TSA) use of full-body scanners in U.S. airports shows no signs of easing, as privacy advocates, airline pilots, and grass-roots groups are up in arms over new security-screening measures that opponents find far too intrusive. …mehr
The Alliance for Affordable Broadband (AAB) has upped its campaign against the National Broadband Network (NBN), issuing a second open letter, this time calling upon the independent members of the House of Representatives to push for the infrastructure proposal to be pushed to the Productivity Commission for a cost-benefit analysis. …mehr
Networking hardware vendor Voltaire will introduce a set of switches, based on the next-generation InfiniBand standard, that should beat the inter-switch throughput offered by the latest versions of Ethernet, the company announced Monday. …mehr
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says smartphones will soon support "bump" technology and mobile payments. These new features will be part of the new version of the Android operating system (2.3, Gingerbread), the release of which could come as soon as this week. …mehr
Google is calling on governments to remove "onerous limits" on free information flow in order to realise the transformative economic benefits of the internet. …mehr
China's largest video sharing site has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange as it seeks to raise US$150 million to fund expansion amid tight competition. …mehr
CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco handpicks ten BlackBerry applications--six of which are completely free--that can help with shopping, travel, personal entertainment and much more this upcoming holiday season. …mehr
Micro Express's NBL5100 is a remarkably solid brick of a machine for $1199 (as of November 15, 2010). A matte-black block, this makes a clear statement: You do not care about looks. And that isn't even the "I don't care about looks" deliberateness of . You simply do not care how your laptop looks. Unfortunately, although the NBL5100 has a lot of elements I enjoyed, its operating system holds it back. I can only guess that Micro Express's designers cut a few corners that they shouldn't have. …mehr
With the second annual Umloud show less than a month away, we checked in with one of the show's producers about how the recent Harmonix developments affect the event and the availability of premium band packages. …mehr
Google Voice is finally available for the iPhone. …mehr
Automating business processes bring about many benefits for the enterprise, but implementing the system can cause many months of headaches for most IT managers. Joel Galit, IT manager of Victoria Court, a local chain of hotel and motel establishments, shares the birthing pains in deploying POS systems, during Computerworld Philippines' executive briefing on Point-of-Sale Systems in August. …mehr
