Die COMPUTERWOCHE veranstaltet einen kostenlosen Webcast, um Behörden, Krankenhäusern und Universitäten den komplizierten Übergang auf Windows 7 zu erleichtern. …mehr
Die Software AG hat sich endgültig das Software- und Beratungshaus IDS Scheer einverleibt. Die Zusammenführung sei ins Handelsregister eingetragen worden, teilte die Software AG mit. …mehr
Der Onlineversandhandel Amazon büßt laut dem Marktforschungsinstitut YouGov Deutschland in seiner Beliebtheit wertvolle Punkte ein. …mehr
Die neue Mischung aus "Acer Liquid A1" und "Acer Liquid E" wird ab dem 23.12. beim Versandhändler Otto zum Preis von 379 Euro angeboten. …mehr
Zoff um das E-Government-Projekt eZürich: Der Berliner Dienstleister Zebralog bekam den Zuschlag für Gestaltung und Betreuung. Schweizer Firmen sind irritiert. …mehr
Microsoft arbeitet an einem neuen Windows- System, das für Mobilgeräte wie Tablet Computer mit einem ARM-Chip geeignet ist. …mehr
Die ersten Verkaufszahlen für Smartphones mit Windows Phone 7 sind nicht gerade berauschend, aber es besteht Hoffnung. …mehr
Mit neuen Regeln für den Datenverkehr im Internet haben amerikanische Regulierer eine wichtige Weichenstellung für die sogenannte Netzneutralität in den USA unternommen. …mehr
Adobe will auf Einkaufstour gehen. "Wir hatten im vergangenen Jahr einen sehr starken Cashflow. Den werden wir für Aktienrückkäufe, aber auch für Übernahmen nutzen", sagte Zentraleuropa-Chef Harald Esch dem "Handelsblatt". …mehr
Einst steckten Navigationssysteme in teuren Cheflimousinen, heute kann sich jeder diesen Luxus leisten. Unsere Schwesterpublikation PC WELT hat zehn der mobilen Routenplaner geprüft und sagt, bei welchem Gerät sich die Fahrt zum Händler lohnt. …mehr
E-Mail war gestern, meint Philipp Rosenthal. Er bezeichnet sich als Future Office Evangelist und kümmert sich um den Arbeitsplatz der Zukunft bei Tieto. …mehr
Noch hält IT-Controlling in großen Unternehmen nicht das, was es verspricht. Es fehlt an einheitlichen Standards, Methoden - und häufig auch an gutem Willen. …mehr
Warum bei Innovations-Workshops zur Steigerung der Kreativität im Unternehmen die Rahmenbedingungen entscheidend sind, sagt Jens-Uwe Meyer. …mehr
Neue Betriebssysteme haben für den User oft eine unerfreuliche Konsequenz - seine bewährte Hardware funktioniert nicht mehr, da Treiber fehlen. Dass es auch anders geht, zeigt der Berliner Hersteller AVM, der für seine Fritzboxen bekannt ist. …mehr
Synology America Corp on Tuesday announced the release of its newest server, the . Synology, a manufacturer of network attached storage devices for homes and businesses, has a reputation for creating feature-rich NAS solutions for a variety of audiences, and this latest unit should satisfy small businesses, prosumers, and network administrators. Capable of storing up to 15TB of data, this expansive NAS device is for those with serious storage demands. …mehr
NPR gives Ping a serious ding, a leather cover makes Kindles crash and burn, and we bring you the nativity scene for the ultimate Apple fan in your life. The remainders for Tuesday, December 21, 2010 are following yonder star. …mehr
For professional photographers and serious hobbyists, is key to their image editing workflow. They use it to sort, organize, develop, and publish photos, often as a preliminary to working on their pictures in Photoshop. However, Lightroom's image editing module, Develop, has become so powerful and versatile that for many photographers it is replacing Photoshop for basic editing. What makes Lightroom so valuable is that once you have mastered the program and defined frequently used custom settings (presets), you can move quickly from upload of the pictures to your computer to actually using them. OnOne Software's has over 190 predefined presets that can speed up your workflow, while providing guidance to help you more quickly master the Develop module. …mehr
The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write backdoors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications. …mehr
Computer attacks launched against sites run by human rights and dissident media groups threaten to knock free speech off the Web, a new report warned this week. …mehr
Brocade's installed base of Fibre Channel storage-area networks is both an asset and an albatross. …mehr
Do you have a budding astronomer in the family? Touch Press on Tuesday released , an interactive e-book that follows up on its popular , which Touch Press says has sold more than 160,000 copies. …mehr
The story, "FCC's net neutrality vote criticized from both sides," which ran on the wire Tuesday, has a typo in the fifth paragraph. It has been corrected on the wire and now reads: …mehr
Internet telephony giant Skype blamed its peer-to-peer interconnection system for a problem that some reports said resulted in millions of users being unable to make calls using the service on Wednesday. …mehr
Santa shook his head as he gazed at the PC's screen. "We never should have computerized," he sighed. "Sure, it made inventory and fulfillment and logistics much more effective. But now someone has leaked my list of who's been naughty and nice this year to WikiLeaks. We'll never hear the end of it." …mehr
U.S. officials say a plea agreement has been reached in an involving New Jersey IT consulting firm Vision Systems Group Inc. …mehr
A major Skype outage affected up to 10 million users on Wednesday afternoon, and things are just now returning to normal. …mehr
Fresh from replacing the Zain brand with its own, Airtel is set to roll out a mobile money transfer service across Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, anchored in the company's One Network platform. …mehr
It's been nine months . It gives third-party developers access to the same cloud platform as , which offers organizations tailored, private versions of Gmail, Google Docs, and other Google apps. It's all part of Google's push to get workers into cloud-based applications, and away from . …mehr
If you’re anything like me, earlier this month was big news for a couple of reasons: , and, almost more importantly, the fabled . Why this is important news to you may differ from me, though. …mehr
A Blaine, Minnesota, man has pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into his neighbor's Wi-Fi connection to e-mail death threats and child pornography, apparently with the intention of causing trouble for the unsuspecting neighbor. …mehr
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit asking a court to stop a "far-reaching" Internet enterprise that allegedly made millions of dollars by luring customers into trial memberships for bogus government grants and money-making schemes, then repeatedly charging them monthly fees for memberships they never ordered. …mehr
Mozilla Wednesday shipped Firefox 4 Beta 8, the last preview it will release this year before it makes a run toward a final version in 2011. …mehr
As I clack out these words, Christmas is just three days away, many of you have come down with NeedtoBurnSickDaysitis and are away from work, on your way to visit family and other assorted loved ones; and you still haven’t figured out what gift to give to those you treasure most. May I suggest that rather than another pair of wooly socks or reindeer-themed undergarments you instead share some of the technology skills you’ve acquired over the years? …mehr
The original Real Racing set the standard for racing games on iPhone and iPod touch — a very high standard. manages to raise the bar even further to bring you possibly the best racing game available for iOS so far. …mehr
The end of the year is a time for assessment, and that goes for outsourcing, too. While it's easy to point fingers at IT service providers for problems that have arisen over the past twelve months, customers play a significant role in the success or failure of any outsourcing deal. …mehr
New CEO Arun Oberoi doesn't exactly bristle at Viridity Software getting lumped into the vendor category, but he wants to make sure the Burlington, Mass., company is seen as more than that. …mehr
The Outercurve Foundation, an open source projects venue initially begun by Microsoft, has accepted into its domain the ConferenceXP project, which features an extensible e-learning and collaboration platform, the foundation said on Wednesday. …mehr
Opera Software introduced on Wednesday a widget runtime platform for the Google Android operating system, leveraging the WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) technology. …mehr
The Kindle e-reader is set to become this year, but if you're hoping to see a Kindle under the tree Saturday be careful about the protective case you use with your new gadget. A small number of Kindle users report that Amazon's leather case for the Kindle is causing their e-reader to crash and require a manual reboot. …mehr
Perhaps the best thing to be said about IT hiring in 2010 is that mass layoffs tapered off significantly from their height during the 2008-09 recession, and that the long-term trend finally seems to , albeit at a slow pace. …mehr
If you love Grover--and who doesn't?--there's a special holiday treat available this week: an iPad storytelling app starring the lovable Muppet. …mehr
Expanding its reach into the medical IT services market, Dell that it has agreed to buy medical archive services company InSite One Inc. …mehr
Amid the flurry of updates the App Store team is approving before taking a much-deserved holiday vacation, a new version of Apple’s app has appeared with some key new features. …mehr
On Wednesday, computer and portable device accessories maker Newer Technology announced the release of its NuStand Alloy iPad and Mac Mini stands. The new stands are available now for $25 each. …mehr
