Einem Pressebericht zufolge fährt Google in Sachen Android einen immer weniger offenen Kurs - mit dem Ziel, die Fragmentierung des mobilen Betriebssystems aufzuhalten. …mehr
Die Männerfreundschaft der Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates und Paul Allen gehört zu den Legenden der Computerindustrie. …mehr
Der Computerhersteller Acer braucht einen neuen Chef. …mehr
Dem Enzyklopädie-Projekt der Wikipedia laufen die aktiven Nutzer davon. …mehr
Die kostenlose To-Do-App "Android's Simple Task Recording Dashboard" (Astrid) von Todoroo kann vor allem mit ihren erweiterten Funktionen punkten. …mehr
Europas größter Elektronikhändler Media-Saturn sucht den Befreiungsschlag im Internetgeschäft: Die Metro-Tochter übernimmt den Online-Händler Redcoon. …mehr
In der Führungsetage des Internet-Unternehmens Twitter geht das Stühlerücken weiter. …mehr
Vom 31. März bis 13. April 2011 beantwortet Ralica Yancheva Fragen zu Ihren beruflichen Perspektiven in der IT. Die Personalberaterin von Conargus in München ist auf die Besetzung von IT-Positionen spezialisiert. …mehr
Bislang saß Microsoft in Kartellangelegenheiten immer auf der Anklagebank. Nun reicht der Konzern selbst seine erste Beschwerde ein - gegen Google. …mehr
Google stemmt sich gegen den wachsenden Einfluss des Online-Netzwerks Facebook und will seine Suchergebnisse stärker auf den Freundeskreis eines Nutzers ausrichten. …mehr
Der VMware Server 2.0 ist bei vielen Anwendern als Virtualisierungsplattform im Einsatz. Allerdings ist zum Beispiel das Ändern des VM-Namens mit Hilfe des Web-Interfaces nicht sehr nutzerfreundlich. Wir zeigen, wie es trotzdem schnell und komfortabel geht. …mehr
Mit Windows Phone 7 wollte Steve Ballmer die Vormachtstellung Apples im Mobilfunkmarkt brechen. Doch Microsofts Mobile-Strategie scheint zu floppen. …mehr
Mit dem Kartenleser von M.I.C können Sie Ihr iPad um eine Schnittstelle für CF-Karten sowie einen USB-Port erweitern. …mehr
Beim Cloud Computing verlässt der IT-Verantwortliche die Komfortzone des eigenen Corporate Network. Welche Kompetenzen braucht er, um seine neuen Aufgaben zu bewältigen? …mehr
Google is upgrading on Thursday its tool for analyzing Web page performance, making it available directly via the Web and offering smartphone page analysis. …mehr
The volume of phishing attacks dropped in 2010 to less than a quarter of what was seen in the previous two years, according to IBM's annual research report on threats and risks. There was still plenty of spam, however. …mehr
The WA Government is to provide $39.2 million in first phase funding to encourage the private sector to build and maintain mobile communications services in regional and remote areas of the state. …mehr
Five members of the online bank-theft gang caught by an international investigation called face more than 30 years in prison in some case after being found guilty in federal court in Los Angeles. …mehr
On Thursday, GameStop, the world's largest video-game retailer, signaled that the company will not be left behind by the industry's move to digital distribution. GameStop announced the company had reached an agreement to purchase Impulse, Inc., a digital distribution platform provider, and has acquired Spawn Labs, a team of game streaming and virtualization experts. With the two moves, GameStop took steps toward achieving relevancy in a digital-distribution field that has long been dominated by services like Steam, Direct2Drive, and Apple's Mac and iTunes App Stores. The acquisitions suggest that GameStop is not only acknowledging the limitations of a store retailer market strategy but that there's still money to be made in the PC gaming market. …mehr
Media streaming is nothing new to Android users; we've been enjoying our music from the cloud for some time, thanks to the . Now, . Both apps allow you to sync your desktop music folder to the cloud, so with either one you can access your media library via the associated Website or mobile app. But how do the two services compare on mobile performance, features, and design/usability? We pitted mSpot Music and Amazon Cloud Drive against each other to see which one would come out on top. …mehr
The combination of Ubuntu 's growing popularity with all the big changes coming up in the next version mean that Natty Narwhal, or Ubuntu 11.04, might just be the most widely and anxiously anticipated release of the open source operating system ever. …mehr
When earlier this month, its laundry list of features included the ability to take projects you created on your iPad and open them in the desktop version of Apple's music-creation application. There was a catch, however: before that could happen, Apple needed to update to support that feature. …mehr
Amazon does an about face on licenses for cloud music, and we go three for three in matters legal, including an eye-rolling patent suit against Apple and a surprise antitrust complaint. The remainders for Thursday, March 31, 2011 demand a retrial. …mehr
There has reported a one third decrease in global spam volumes, according to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence monthly report. …mehr
Twitter is warning users of the popular UberSocial Twitter-messaging software that direct messages they send may not be private. …mehr
has posted a new for its upcoming , which will either be named the --its moniker in the video--or the smartphone-like when it arrives this summer. …mehr
South Australian ambulances will be able to tap directly into emergency response and medical information systems via a high-speed mobile broadband network under a new project flagged by the state government. …mehr
Samsung and Visa will roll out a mobile payments program in London in time for the Olympic Games next year, they said Thursday. …mehr
I'm not sure how to say this, but I'm starting to think I might be antisocial. …mehr
According to figures released today by ABI Research, will be on 45% of shipped in the year 2016, as it will take up most of the market share vacated by the soon-to-be-defunct Symbian operating system. Although Android will come to be the dominant player in the smartphone market, this doesn't mean that others will necessarily see a big cut in their own market shares. …mehr
Fool that I am, I mistook the press emails pinging my inbox the past few months with the words "IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover" in the subject for another expansion to the IL-2: Sturmovik console game series. …mehr
Dell Thursday offered detailed instructions for adding the Windows Phone 7 "copy and paste" update to its star-crossed Dell Venue Pro smartphone. …mehr
An adventurous but deadly Egyptian cobra this week created an for a few businesses clever enough to take advantage of the Twitter sensation. …mehr
Amazon.com recently introduced Cloud Player, an Internet-based service that allows you to store up to 5GB of music and access that music from a Web browser, Android device, and--if you know the trick--an iOS device. Here are the steps for using Cloud Play. …mehr
A top Republican lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, today said the H-1B visa plays a "vital role" in the economy and thus its cap should be increased. …mehr
There are some cases where urgent notifications are important, like a Twitter direct message, a new e-mail in your business inbox, or breaking news on a particular topic. Boxcar has been , and more recently, the Web--now the company wants too. …mehr
WA Police will make use of IP cameras connected by wireless to lift the security surrounding the leaders of some 70 countries and their entourages at the forthcoming 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) meeting to be held in Perth. …mehr