Wenn es nach dem französischen Start-up Wysips geht, werden Smartphone-Displays Ladegeräte überflüssig machen. …mehr
Der enorme Wachstumsmarkt von Applikationen, kurz Apps, steht einem extremen Fachkräftemangel gegenüber. Ein Studium in den sogenannten MINT-Fächern, also Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik bietet Absolventen exzellente Jobchancen weltweit. …mehr
Auf der CTIA Wireless stellte Samsung eine überarbeitete Version des Galaxy Tab 10.1 vor. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass die ursprüngliche Variante sang- und klanglos von der Bildfläche verschwindet. …mehr
Microsofts Cloud-Plattform Windows Azure wird inzwischen von Unternehmen für ganz unterschiedliche Anwendungen und Geschäftsprozesse genutzt. Drei Fallbeispiele demonstrieren die neuen Möglichkeiten von Windows Azure. …mehr
Am morgigen Freitag startet der Verkauf des iPad 2 in 24 Ländern. Doch wo gibt es das Apple-Tablet zum günstigsten Preis? In Deutschland jedenfalls nicht, wie ein Preisvergleich ergab. …mehr
Der Suchmaschinenbetreiber Yahoo hat zunächst in den USA mit "Search Direct" ein Feature gestartet, das verändern soll, wie User das Web erleben. …mehr
Mit eigenen Animationsvideos können die YouTube-User ihrer Kreativität künftig freien Lauf lassen. Die Google-Plattform stellt den Anwendern ab sofort neue Tools zur Verfügung, um sich selbst als Produzenten beweisen zu können. …mehr
Der Tech-Blogger Sascha Pallenberg zeigte in seiner Keynote zur Android-Entwicklerkonferenz droidcon in Berlin auf, wohin sich die Hardware von Smartphones und Tablets in nächster Zeit entwickeln wird. …mehr
Entgegen der langläufigen Auffassung ist der Bekanntheitsgrad von Smartphone-Apps und deren Nutzung bei europäischen Autobesitzern nur sehr mäßig. …mehr
Die App "1Password" von Agile Web Solutions schützt Zugangsdaten und andere wichtige Informationen. …mehr
Der Internetdienstleister United Internet hat den Umsatz 2010 dank der Expansion in neue Geschäftsfelder deutlich gesteigert. …mehr
Bei der CnMemory Airy 3,5-Zoll USB 3.0 1 TB kostet das GB nur 7 Cent. Der Test prüft, ob auch das Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis der externen 3,5-Zoll-Festplatte stimmt. …mehr
Nach der Entscheidung von Microsoft, künftig auf Windows Phone 7 als mobile Plattform zu setzen, brauchen viele Firmen eine geeignete Alternative. …mehr
Der "Superb Batch Renamer" (1-4a Rename) macht seinem Namen bei der Umbenennung tausender von Files alle Ehre. …mehr
Wer als Facebook Poweruser keinen Klick zuviel verwenden möchte, sollte einen Blick auf das Social Network Access Keyboard (S.N.A.K.) von socialkeyboards.com werfen. …mehr
Bei der Auswahl des richtigen Servers steht Firmen heute ein breites Angebot zur Verfügung. Wir sagen Ihnen, was Sie bei der Serverwahl beachten sollten und wie Sie den richtigen Server finden. …mehr
Die chemische Industrie braucht IT-Spezialisten mit und ohne Branchen-Know-how. …mehr
Wie Sie mit einem Website-Erstellungsvertrag Streitigkeiten über Ihren Internet-Auftritt vermeiden können, sagt Yvonne A. E. Schulten. …mehr
Nachträgliche Änderungen sind immer ein Ärgernis, doch in der Softwareentwicklung sind sie nie komplett auszuschließen. Dies ist kein Grund zu Verzweifeln, wenn man effizient und schnell darauf reagieren kann. …mehr
IBMs Strategie für die Cloud steht auf zwei Säulen: Neben LotusLive für Collaboration setzt der Konzern auf ein breites Dienstleistungsangebot. …mehr
Microsoft is recognizing enterprise realities with its new accommodations for rivals' smartphones in an upcoming version of System Center Configuration Manager, an industry analyst said on Thursday. …mehr
Oracle's net income for the third quarter ended Feb. 28 rose 78 percent to US$2.1 billion over the same period last year, helped by strong software sales and an improving hardware business, the company said Thursday. Revenue for the quarter jumped 37 percent to $8.8 billion. …mehr
There are great and , but where are the decent budget tablets? The answer could be Huawei's S7 Slim, an Android 2.2 OS 7-inch tablet shown here at CTIA. Tablet maker Huawei offers a bright spot among a sea of mediocre "value priced" tablets that I've seen with its S7 Slim offering. …mehr
The , the software implementation that allows batch processing of petabytes of data, is expected out this year, says a executive. …mehr
The universe is a pretty expansive matter, and it takes years of patient researching by various scientists to find even the smallest of discoveries to answer burning questions about space and galaxies. Some of the people who look at how galaxies were created are astrophysicists, such as Rob Crain. …mehr
The Sceptre E420BV-F120 has a list price of $1299 (as of March 23, 2011), but can be found around the Internet for about half that price--and it's not really a surprise as to why. This is slim and simple, but it seriously falls short in the picture department. You can find some pluses--for example, this Sceptre generously offers five HDMI ports--but ultimately its picture quality leaves too much to be desired, from leaking light around the screen edges to extreme noisiness and graininess in the initial out-of-the-box setup. …mehr
Apps are all about choice. And nowhere is choice more appealing than in the world of Web browsing. In the early days of smartphones, users had no choice but to use the browser that came installed with the operating system, but now we have multiple choices: This week saw the release of Mozilla's Firefox 4 for Mobile, and Opera's Mini 6 and Mobile 11. Both browsers look to expand on the bundled mobile browsers' functionality by adding easy-to-use features and social network sharing. …mehr
We've seen , and heard hints that Research in Motion might expand its BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet OS to support Android apps, too. Now, just hours after the CTIA show in Orlando closed up, RIM announces that not only will the support Android apps, but also native C/C++ code. This is in addition to supporting HTML 5, Flash, and Adobe AIR, and of course BlackBerry Java. …mehr
Yet another reason to take extra precautions while browsing Facebook arose today as surfaced that traffic destined for Facebook from AT&T's servers took a misguided loop through China and South Korea this week. …mehr
BlackBerry PlayBook users won't initially be able to get their BlackBerry e-mail directly on the tablet, but will have to tether a BlackBerry phone wirelessly to it, a Research In Motion executive said this week. …mehr
Research In Motion announced on Thursday that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications. …mehr
The online travel community today informed its members that an unspecified portion of the TripAdvisor email list of its membership was stolen by an attack on a vulnerability in its system. …mehr
Sure, Google is a nice search engine and all, but when was the last time it rewarded you for using it? I can see the t-shirt now: "I searched the Web with Google, and all I got were these awesome results." …mehr
Windows Phone 7 users are not happy about the slow pace of updates to their smartphones. …mehr
In a novel use of the software, National Public Radio is using the Splunk log search engine to analyze Web traffic for its audio streams and downloads. …mehr
Oracle's net income for the third quarter ended Feb. 28 rose 78 percent to US$2.1 billion over the same period last year, helped by strong software sales and an improving hardware business, the company said Thursday. Revenue for the quarter jumped 37 percent to $8.8 billion. …mehr
The MacBook Air's thin, light, and portable design is good news to both on-the-go customers and those who prefer to acquire their wares using five-finger discounts. But since Apple designed the Air to be thin to include a traditional notebook security slot, has taken matters into its own hands. …mehr
An iPhone app that measures smartphone radiation and offers tips on minimizing absorption has been nuked by Steve Jobs. …mehr
Research In Motion announced on Thursday that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications. …mehr
Verizon Wireless CIO Ajay Waghray ORLANDO -- IT innovations at Verizon Wireless have been put to work behind recent online customer account management systems and upgrades to Verizon store kiosks, said Ajay Waghray, CIO at Verizon Wireless. …mehr
Four days before its official release this Sunday, March 27, the Nintendo 3DS hit the streets of Manhattan and fell into the hands of dozens of happy users--none of whom seemed to mind that the units were tethered to live Nintendo representatives. …mehr
Industry rumor is building this week that RSA, the division of EMC, is poised to acquire NetWitness, a privately-held company whose flagship product is used by U.S. government agencies and in the enterprise to detect and analyze security threats. …mehr
Sometimes it feels like this is Angry Birds' world, and the rest of us are just living in it. …mehr
Steve Jobs is back on Disney's board and it's like he never left. Because he didn't. Elsewhere, Google takes a (perhaps somewhat misplaced) stand, and the FCC says it's going to ask the hard questions, really and truly. The remainders for Thursday, March 24, 2011 are all ears. …mehr
A project to ensure privacy and anonymity on the Web that helped dissident movements in Iran and Egypt was honored by the Free Software Foundation in the group's ceremony. The Free Software Foundation also honored an individual who created an Adobe Flash player clone that contains no proprietary software. …mehr
Despite having moved mostly to the cloud over the last few years, e-mail attachments remain a core fixture of my daily work. Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, and pictures continue to stream steadily into my inbox hour after hour throughout the day. If I didn't have a way to know whether the attachments I receive are the most recent versions, I'd be at the mercy of my overworked colleagues to make sure I don't sink an hour or two into editing some outdated version of an important document, only to have to redo it later with the right version. To help keep my attachments straight, I use a plugin called . …mehr
Motorola Mobility is buying up experienced cell phone engineers, says a report from , and there are strong rumors the company is working on an entirely new mobile operating system. Last year Motorola was rumored to have purchased Linux mobile specialists Azingo, too. …mehr
The recent theft of a small number of digital certificates, used by Web browsers to verify the identity of secure Websites, has put Safari users at potential risk, according to security developer and research firm . The security developer says it’s due to a limitation in the way Apple's browser handles the validation of online identities. …mehr
"I hear his name bandied about a lot, but I don't know him. I don't know who Henson is. He seems to have his hand in a lot of things around here, but I don't particularly know what that means." …mehr
Kelly Services Inc., a Troy, Mich., provider of workforce services, has launched a number of cloud computing initiatives -- for applications such as customer relationship management and messaging and collaboration. CSO contributor Bob Violino recently interviewed Rosie Rivel, senior manager of IT global risk and compliance at Kelly, regarding risk and the cloud. …mehr
CIOs should focus on content creation while sharing non-core infrastructure with other institutions, according to Commonwealth Bank group executive for enterprise services and CIO, Michael Harte. …mehr
If I had to name just one tech tool that has completely transformed the way I work, it would have to be Dropbox. But Dropbox only gives you 2GB of free storage (3GB if you jump through some hoops and spam your friends about the service) before you have to pony up $10 a month for an upgrade to 50GB. And I'm way too cheap for that. But with a couple of free downloads, you can get Dropbox-like simplicity in Windows Explorer with Microsoft's free SkyDrive storage service. …mehr
The ViewSonic VT4210 LED HDTV is simple and unassuming, and it's a decent choice if you're without all the frills common in today's sets. This 42-inch set sports an antiglare, antireflective TFT active-matrix LCD and 1080p image resolution, but it also has zero Web features, few input ports, and less-than-excellent speakers. The VT4210 (about $750 as of March 18, 2011) is surprisingly thin and light, however, so if it's a basic TV you're seeking, this may be the one. …mehr
This Spring's delivered something totally new to the US mobile market: 3D phones. Sprint introduced the while AT&T launched the , a US-branded version of the international . Both are incredibly powerful phones with glasses-free 3D displays. But I have to wonder: Do we really need to see 3D content on a screen that small or is 3D going to be a gamechanger in the smartphone world? …mehr
have a secret: Although they sell us data plans on their 3G or 4G networks, the idea of us actually using data brings them out in a cold sweat. Put simply, they're to cope. There are forecasts that in 2012 cellular data requirements will reach 4.56 million terabytes--double that of this year. …mehr
Aircell will introduce a mobile voice service for business aircraft and a smartphone specially designed for in-flight use late this year, the company said Wednesday. …mehr