Vielen Unternehmen fällt es schwer, Enterprise-2.0-Techniken in ihre Organisationsstrukturen zu integrieren, beobachtet Professor Rüdiger Zarnekow vom Lehrstuhl für Informations- und Kommunikations-Management an der TU Berlin. …mehr
Amazon.com hat die Forensik zum EC2-Ausfall am Wochenende abgeschlossen und eine ausführliche Erklärung mit pflichtgemäßer Entschuldigung gegenüber der Cloud-Kundschaft veröffentlicht. …mehr
Mit dem kostenlosen Tool lassen sich die Einträge des Bootmanagers von Windows 8, Windows 7 und Vista bearbeiten. Die Konfiguration erfolgt komfortabel über eine grafische Benutzeroberfläche. Die Software unterstützt die Einstellungen des Boot-Menüs für Windows, Linux und Mac OS X. …mehr
Der Siegeszug des Internets hat die Medienwelt grundlegend verändert. …mehr
Das zähe Geschäft mit Flachbildschirmen und Fernsehern drückt trotz höherer Umsätze den Gewinn des südkoreanischen Technologiekonzerns Samsung Electronics. …mehr
Seitdem sich das Internet auch in kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen und Handwerksbetrieben als Informations- und Kommunikationsmedium weitestgehend etabliert hat, sehen sich auch KMU und Handwerk den damit verbundenen Sicherheitsrisiken ausgesetzt. …mehr
Das Flattr-Modell für die freiwillige Honorierung von kostenlosen Inhalten im Netz soll deutlich präsenter werden. …mehr
Der Handy-Hersteller Motorola Mobility hat im ersten Quartal von guten Smartphone-Verkäufen und der Einführung seines ersten Tablet-Computers profitiert. …mehr
Während bei Apple die Verkaufszahlen für das iPhone explodieren, wird RIM seine Blackberrys schwerer los als erwartet. …mehr
Der Softwarekonzern Microsoft hat die schwächelnden Verkäufe von neuen Computern gut weggesteckt. …mehr
Mit der Open-Source-Software VirtualBox können Benutzer Betriebssysteme virtualisieren. Ein Test zeigt, was der kostenlose Hypervisor leistet. …mehr
LED-Technik ist voll im Trend bei Farblaserdruckern: Aktuelles Beispiel ist der handliche Xerox Phaser 6010V/N fürs kleine Büro und den Heimarbeitsplatz. Was der Drucker taugt, zeigt der Test. …mehr
Die Pentax RS1000 können Sie dank Wechselcover Ihrem täglichen Outfit anpassen. Lesen Sie im Test, wie sich die Digitalkamera hinsichtlich ihrer Bildqualität schlug. …mehr
Zum Sichern von Daten und Verzeichnissen ist unter Linux rsync zu empfehlen. Weil es sich um ein Konsolen-Tools handelt, lässt es sich auch gut in Scripts einsetzen. Für die Datensicherung kann rsync via ssh auch auf andere Rechner zugreifen. …mehr
Photoshop, Call of Duty, oder Office – unsere Touchpad-Tipps lassen Sie jede Situation schnell & präzise meistern. Und wir verraten, wie Ihr Touchpad intelligent wird. …mehr
Die Samsung Story Station 3.0 2TB bietet mit brutto 2000 GB jede Menge Platz für Daten. Ob die externe 3,5-Zoll-Festplatte auch qualitativ zu überzeugen weiß, klärt der Test. …mehr
Der Aufwand für die Fehlerbeseitigung nach der Entwicklung ist fünfmal höher für als Test- und Korrekturläufe in der Frühphase des Projekts. …mehr
Welche straferechtlichen Normen auf die Stellung des Datenschutzbeauftragten anzuwenden sind, sagen Dr. Sebastian Kraska und Alma Lena Fritz. …mehr
Die Commerz Real AG hat Vorstände, Bereichs- und Abteilungsleiter sowie Vertriebsmitarbeiter mit iPhones ausgestattet. Das verursacht den Verantwortlichen aber kaum Kopfschmerzen. …mehr
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The weak first quarter growth in gross domestic product announced by the government Wednesday was blamed, in part, by a decline in public sector spending. But some tech vendors, including Hewlett-Packard, selling to the federal government may not be hurt by this. …mehr
Say hello to the World's tiniest camera. At at just 1mm-wide, 1mm long, and 1.5mm tall, it's smaller than a typical match head, and it lives on a single silicon chip. …mehr
Every so often, the legal staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission issues what are known as Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations. While these C&DI's don't break new ground, they can help corporate finance chiefs sort through nuances that the regulations themselves don't address. …mehr
I realize we're a long way from the days of pen-and-paper ledgers. But we're also, it seems, far from taking full advantage of the tools available today to ease financial tasks. …mehr
Citigroup was already in hot water, over a gender-discrimination suit last year. The banking giant, it may be noted, has a lot of women working for it, many in search of equal opportunity for advancement. …mehr
It seems like this is the perfect week to talk about what happens when two powerful opposite forces meet, in light of the weather we're experiencing in the U.S. this week - rampant tornadoes. In nature they're destructive, usually in a negative way. I'm thinking that for government IT, the convergence of cold budget news with a hot government IT environment is likely creating some destruction that, overall, is positive. Some of the casualties of the destruction: duplicitous data centers, duplicitous services, underutilized software and applications, to name a few. And government CXOs are huddling together, weathering the storm, making decisions on how to rebuild. Seriously, this could be just the kind of traumatic event we've been waiting for. …mehr
Representatives from both and will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy and , two U.S. senators confirmed on Thursday. …mehr
Right now, tells me I'm using about 2.6GB of the 25GB storage capacity that comes with my account. For many of you Gmail users out there, the amount of data archived in your account could be a heck of a lot more. My point is this: The more messages you've got archived in Gmail, the harder it can be to find what you need when you need it. So if you're not already deeply intimate with Gmail's advanced search operators, there's no time like the present to get to know them. …mehr
In recognition of Super Mario Bros.' 25th anniversary (which was last year, but who hates?), Converse is producing a set of Super Mario-branded Chuck Taylor sneakers. The shoes -- in white or black -- feature various poses of Mario's sprite from the original game, and the added detail of eyes added to the Converse star, resembling the game's Super Star power-up. …mehr
Windows comes with a decent assortment of fonts, but they're pretty basic. If you want to jazz up your newsletter, school report, work documents, or even video titles, you need to find an outside source. …mehr
Avast! Virus Lab has discovered a dirty trick that cybercriminals are using to encode malware exploits and payloads into PDF files. Adobe says that the this trick has been used in a relatively small number of attacks, as well as one targeted attack. …mehr
George Francis Hotz, commonly known as GeoHot, the hacker most widely recognized for cracking the Apple iPhone and Sony's PlayStation 3 -- the latter activity invoking Sony's legal wrath -- recently posted about the PSN crisis at his online blog. …mehr
While Apple has vaunted to a leadership position in mobile computing with its iPhone smartphone, Microsoft is looking to chip away at Apple's dominance, releasing on Friday an API tool intended to help developers migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone. …mehr
Google and Oracle each submitted proposals on Friday to reduce the number of claims in their Java patent infringement lawsuit, which could help bring the case to a speedier conclusion. …mehr
A graduation announcement. A page torn from a calendar, noting a father's birthday. Tattered pictures of children. An ultrasound image of an unborn baby. …mehr
The NSW State Government has announced plans to roll out 4300 interactive whiteboards across the state, with the $23 million project set to make learning more interactive. …mehr
With the Burnout series on apparent hiatus, it seems other developers are trying to fill the void with their own takes on heart-pounding "action racing" -- just look at Split/Second or the upcoming Ridge Racer Unbounded. But EA themselves adds a new contender with the , which EA says will take gamers "on the race of their lives." Just what does that mean? Apparently, the game is about escaping trouble, as you'll be buzzing through roads in and out of cities as you're chased by the cops, or maybe some other entity. The also suggests some other precarious situations, like being stuck upside down on a train track, as you can see at the end of the clip. …mehr
According to the New York Times, security investigators uncovered forum chatter of a possible $100,000 ransom demand that was made for the credit card data allegedly stolen from the PlayStation Network. …mehr
Great Scott! Marty and Doc Brown are in another time-traveling adventure. After stopping his grandfather's assassination and dealing with notorious gangster "Kid Tannen" in the previous episodes of the series, Marty has to break out of an authoritarian alternative 1986 and save a young Doc Brown from a most unfortunate marriage. Released today on Windows PC and Mac, look for this latest episode (and the rest of the series) on Steam. …mehr
Research in Motion's having a rough couple of weeks. First, the Blackberry Playbook got panned by critics, snubbed by AT&T and dissed by Verizon Wireless. Now, RIM is angering Wall Street by slashing its Q1 forecast, thanks to weak smartphone sales. It didn't help that a Nielsen survey found Blackberry falling out of favor among consumers as . …mehr
Sony tried to by stating that the credit card data was encrypted, but attackers claim to already be selling that credit card data online. Either one of these parties is stretching the truth, or encrypting data doesn't offer the level of protection we think it does. …mehr
Look out, Apple: Amazon's just fired a shot that could challenge iTunes' dominance in digital music. Amazon has slashed the price of several popular songs to just $0.69 on its Amazon MP3 service. The same songs are still $1.29 on iTunes. …mehr
Oracle will have to wait a bit longer to get its hands on the US$1.3 billion awarded to it last year by a jury in its corporate theft lawsuit against SAP. …mehr
Internet records were smashed Friday by the first royal wedding of the social media era, as streaming video enabled billions to avoid the event's brutal 2 a.m. wake-up call and watch the goings-on later instead of working. …mehr
Here's welcome news to advertisers. A recent study showed that consumers in Southeast Asia are willing to watch advertisements in exchange for free music. …mehr
Valve announced today the summer release of Portal 2 DLC #1, the first of planned content packs for the game. …mehr
Amazon has released a detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week and identified the culprit: A configuration error made during a network upgrade. …mehr
Hiring expectations in Hong Kong have reached a new high this quarter, said recruitment service provider who released a Q2 survey report Thursday. …mehr
Have you gotten a Facebook Chat message that links to a site that purports to show you an age-progression of how you'll look in 20 years? It could be a scam. …mehr
As the fallout from the PlayStation Network data breach continues, U.S. Department of Homeland Security has now gotten involved in the resulting investigation. …mehr
The iBuyPower Chimera XLC is loud in all the right ways. Its aggressive looks include a slick black finish and fun, fiery decals. Its well-designed chassis is packed with premium powerful components that run silently, despite the plethora of massive fans. And at $2700 (as of April 29, 2011), it stands out as one of the more cost-effective entries on our . …mehr
Finally the and have hit Hong Kong. …mehr
Was the iPad 2 design leaked? Seems like there's some good evidence to that fact. Elsewhere, Microsoft wants to capitalize on the success of iOS and Verizon takes its first step in admitting smartphones have a problem. I now pronounce these the remainders for Friday, April 29, 2011. …mehr
Having a cost-effective national telecommunications infrastructure is vital if major broadband projects like the NBN are to be adopted by industry and consumers, according to two communications managers. …mehr
