Der Online-Händler eBay will den E-Commerce-Spezialisten GSI Commerce für insgesamt rund 2,4 Milliarden Dollar schlucken. …mehr
Angesichts überbordender Bewertungen für eine Handvoll Internet-Firmen fühlt sich mancher an die "Bubble" des Jahres 1999 erinnert. …mehr
Facebook umwirbt angeblich den früheren Obama-Sprecher Robert Gibbs. …mehr
Samsung Electronics bringt im April seine Solid-State Drives (SSDs) der "Serie 470" für Endkunden in den Handel. …mehr
Wir stellen Ihnen die besten Anwendungen vor, die für die 64-Bit-Version von Windows 7 optimiert sind. …mehr
Die weltgrößte Video-Plattform Youtube sucht einem Pressebericht zufolge den Schulterschluss mit Hollywood. …mehr
In Zeiten von Skype und Chat wird es für Amateurfunker immer schwieriger, Nachwuchs zu finden. …mehr
Nach dem verheerenden Erdbeben zeichnet sich ab, wie stark die japanische und die weltweite Elektronikindustrie betroffen sind. …mehr
Mit dem Quicktionary 2 TS Scannerstift von Hexaglot lassen sich Textpassagen aus Büchern und Dokumenten einscannen und direkt übersetzen. …mehr
Google arbeitet einem Pressebericht daran, Android-Smartphones mit Near Field Communication (NFC) als digitale Geldbörsen einzusetzen. …mehr
Komplette Serversysteme unter Windows Server 2008 virtualisieren - das schafft Hyper-V: eine schlanke Software(Abstraktions-)schicht, die virtuellen Maschinen (VMs) eine schnelle, stabile und vor allem flexible Ablaufplattform direkt auf der Hardware bietet. …mehr
Die Teilnehmer der Studie "Branchenkompass 2011 Telekommunikation" zweifeln an den ehrgeizigen Breitband-Ausbau der Bundesregierung. Sie halten die Pläne für illusorisch. …mehr
Was Sicherheit anbelangt ist die Skepsis gegenüber der Cloud groß. Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) der Dell Services Group hat einen anderen Standpunkt. …mehr
Die Deutsche Telekom und France Télécom weiten laut einem Pressebericht ihre Kooperation aus. …mehr
Der Tarifstreit bei der Deutschen Telekom ist beigelegt. …mehr
Eine motivierende Aquariums-Simulation, ein 3D-Funktionszeichner oder ein Sonnensystem-Lernprogramm. Die Vielfalt der für den Browser Opera erhältlichen Widgets ist enorm. Wir stellen Ihnen eine Auswahl vor. …mehr
Das OVF (Open Virtualization Format) ist ein einheitliches Format für virtuelle Maschinen, es wird beispielsweise von VMware, Red Hat oder auch Virtual Box unterstützt. Mit dem OVF Tool lassen sich bestehende VMs in dieses Format konvertieren. …mehr
iMac, iPod, iPhone und iPad brachten den Computerhersteller Apple auf die Überholspur. Doch rund um den Konzern war nicht immer alles Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen. …mehr
Mit "iLock" von MMMOOO können Blackberry-Nutzer einzelne Anwendungen, Ordner oder gar Dateien und Mail-Adressen mit einem Passwort absperren. …mehr
Das SOA Innovation Lab öffnet seine bisher allein den Mitgliedern vorbehaltenen SOA-Trainings allen Unternehmen. In den Seminaren lernen IT-Manager, Projektleiter, IT- und Business-Architekten den Umgang mit Service-orientierten Architekturen. …mehr
Der pctv picoStick Gold ist ein sehr kleiner DVB-T-Stick, der sich damit gut für den mobilen Einsatz anbietet. Die Empfangsleistung ist überzeugend. …mehr
The film Limitless topped the box office after its opening week, and the movie's opening sequence may go down in history as one of the most memorable and immersive shots of all time. …mehr
The complex Stuxnet worm, which some allege was designed by US and Israeli government agents to cripple Iranian nuclear technology, could be re-engineered at far less expense by civilian hackers to inflict more general damage, says anti-malware company founder Eugene Kaspersky. …mehr
At times we all want things we can't afford. Most of us defer or scale back our ambitions. The New Zealand government wants something it can't afford: national rollout of ultra-fast fibre for New Zealand, to which it is contributing just $1.35 billion dollars -- roughly a third or less of the total cost. It is therefore pulling all the regulatory and policy levers at its disposal to justify its business case and attract private investment. …mehr
Six months after Parliament passed legislation to comply with European privacy laws, companies are still waiting for the all-clear to do business in Europe. …mehr
, whose Cold War era invention of technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84. …mehr
is a $1 iPhone app from that vows to keep your device safe from theft, but suffers from hilarious flaws. …mehr
In the U.S., management accounting often takes a back seat to public accounting. This is despite the fact that even within the , nearly as many members say they work in industry -- 39% -- as the 44% who toil away in public accounting jobs. …mehr
The forecast for the next version of Apple's mobile operating system is overcast. But if you're not so much interested in the future of Apple as you are the past--and you have $3000 to blow--then you're in luck. Elsewhere, Sprint makes a surprise announcement (surprise not included), and a popular iOS franchise makes its way to the big screen. Sort of. The remainders for Monday, March 28, 2011 are coming soon, to a theater near you. …mehr
Google's Android operating system is expected to dominate the Asia Pacific smartphone market by 2016. …mehr
Credit Union Australia (CUA) has announced it will migrate its core banking platform to Tata Consulting Services' BaNCS system over the next two years. …mehr
Apple watchers are buzzing about a possible iOS 5 launch this fall, suggesting the company will break from recent tradition and release the new mobile operating system software after its next iPhone. …mehr
A solo Iranian hacker on Saturday claimed responsibility for stealing multiple SSL certificates belonging to some of the Web's biggest sites, including Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo. …mehr
It has been quite a month for organizations mishandling bad situations. In all of these cases, delays in reporting the problem made it worse, and in one case the decision to not be forthcoming about the actual risk may cost a company most of its customers. …mehr
Creating a Facebook page has become a standard practice among small businesses as a way to communicate and interact with customers and professional contacts. As a way to explore your customers' wants and needs even further, features, so that in addition to asking your Facebook friends questions, your friends' friends can respond as well. Facebook has also added other new features. …mehr
I recently did on start-ups that are aiming to ease IT's pain. , which developed a software-as-a-service for technology business management (TBM), was among the companies featured. …mehr
Champions of software patents are urging Parliament to revisit the ban on patenting "computer programs" in the presently drafted amendments to the Patents Act 1953. They suggest the law as it stands will be unclear and will possibly contravene existing international agreements. …mehr
If you find it hard to hire the right tech pros this year, you are not alone. According to a report by recruitment service provider Hudson, companies are aggressive in hiring tech talent in 2011. …mehr
Workers in telecom departments may be understandably apprehensive about switching from TDM to , since it could conceivably put them out of work. …mehr
PCWorld's eSports Update will be reporting this week on the GSL, TSL3, and plenty of other exciting events--one of which is the upcoming . MLG 2011 kicks off on April 1st in Dallas, and features competitions in StarCraft 2, Halo: Reach, and Call of Duty: Black Ops, for a prize pool of over $1 million. We were able to go straight to the top of the ladder and pitch a few questions to MLG CEO and co-founder Sundance DiGiovanni. …mehr
Citizens with a concern about privacy and unwilling to trade it off against access to international services from the likes of Google or Facebook are a growing section of the public, says Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff. …mehr
Sprint Nextel has vowed to fight AT&T's proposed US$39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, calling the deal a bid to create a new telecommunications duopoly. …mehr
Privacy as a basic "right to be let alone" has been the subject of rarefied legal debate and less complex arguments from laypeople who insist, at the extremes, that they are entitled to own all their personal information, or that they "have nothing to hide" and wouldn't care who knew the most intimate details of their lives. …mehr
A common criticism of Google Docs when it first launched was that it was primitive. Its word processor was barely better than WordPad, for example, which has been free with Windows since the 1980s. …mehr
A patent-pending robot hand, originally revealed back in October, seems to be capable of picking up liquids, messy mayonnaise and other sauces without altering or changing its gooey shape. Say hello to the SWITL. You'll want to check this out. …mehr
Productivity, as I see it anyway, is the art of focusing your attention where it counts. For sales people, that means knowing which of your efforts are likely to close a deal, and which will just keep your wheels spinning. That's relatively easy to do in person, when you can read the facial expressions of your audience throughout a presentation to get instant feedback on who's listening, who's bored, and who has unspoken concerns about slide 7. A new cloud presentation and meeting tool called aims to give you similar instant feedback over the Web. …mehr