Meldungen vom 10.10.2011
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Schluss mit dem Dienstwagen!
Kein Anspruch bei Krankheit
Die Privatnutzung eines von der Firma gestellten Autos ist eine vertragliche Gegenleistung für die erbrachte Arbeit des Angestellten. Daraus folgen besondere Regeln für den Krankheitsfall. Ann-Charlotte Ebener* nennt Details. …mehr
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Erneuter Kollaps im europäischen RIM-Rechenzentrum
Blackberry Internet Service
Zu früh gefreut: Am Dienstag morgen hatte RIM das Ende der Störungen bekannt gegeben. Im Laufe des Tages beklagten Blackberry-Nutzer in Europa aber erneut massive Ausfälle. …mehr
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Google Deutschland feiert 10. Geburtstag
Jubiläums-Website
Vor zehn Jahren hat ein Google-Vertriebsmitarbeiter das erste Büro des kalifornischen Internetkonzerns in Deutschland eröffnet. …mehr
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madvertise bekommt Geld von US-Investoren
Zweite Finanzierungsrunde
US-Investoren sind bei dem Berliner Unternehmen madvertise eingestiegen, das auf Werbung auf mobilen Geräten spezialisiert ist. …mehr
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Uralt-Gesetz hilft USA bei Ermittlungen gegen Wikileaks
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Windows Phones mit Dualcore und LTE in Arbeit
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iPhone 4S am ersten Tag über eine Million Mal vorbestellt
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Video zeigt das neue Google-Handy
Nexus Prime
Eigentlich sollte das neue Referenzgerät Nexus Prime am 11. Oktober vorgestellt werden, die Präsentation wurde aber abgesagt. Wie ein neues Video zeigt, lohnt sich das Warten auf den neuen Termin. …mehr
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Kabelloses Keypad mit Trackball
Gadget des Tages
Für alle, die bei der Arbeit auf dem Laptop nicht auf ihr geliebtes Nummernpad verzichten wollen, bietet brando.com seit kurzem ein kabelloses Nummernpad mit integriertem Trackball. …mehr
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Cloud Computing funktioniert nur mit EAM
Best Practice
Neue Sourcing-Offerten wie Cloud Computing oder Software as a Service erfordern eine exakte Planung der Enterprise Architecture, damit sie in die bestehende IT-Landschaft passen. …mehr
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Der Wertbeitrag der IT ist steigerungsfähig
CIO Snapshot
Nachzuweisen, dass sie ihr Budget wert ist, gehört zu den größten Herausforderungen der Unternehmens-IT. Nicht immer gelingt ihr das, denn der Wertbeitrag ist nur schwer messbar. …mehr
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Steve Jobs im Familienkreis beigesetzt
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Buchbranche will Warnhinweise bei illegalen Downloads
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Der ultimative Text-Editor für große Dateien
Kleine Helfer
Editoren gibt es wie Sand am Meer. Wer jedoch mit großen Log-Files oder sonstigen unhandlichen Textdateien umzugehen hat, der wird sich über "TheGun" freuen. …mehr
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Die spektakulärsten Softwarefehler
SQS präsentiert
Die Software-Tester der SQS Software Quality Systems präsentieren die schlimmsten Software-Fehler des vergangenen Jahres. …mehr
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Hacker spüren Sicherheitslücke im "Staatstrojaner" auf
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Wie CIOs "Bring Your Own" sicher umsetzen
Internationaler Webcast
Consumerization zwingt IT-Chefs, verschiedene mobile Geräte sicher einzubinden. Die Expertenrunde stellt Migrations- und Rollout-Konzepte vor. …mehr
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Peppen Sie Ihre Lieblingsfotos auf
Kostenlose Bildbearbeitungs-Tools
Mit diesen 24 kostenlosen Programmen verschönern Sie Ihre liebsten Bilder. …mehr
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Unverzichtbare Tricks für Office
Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Für Microsofts Büro-Dreigestirn gibt es viele nützliche Tipps, mit denen das Arbeiten beträchtlich leichter fällt. …mehr
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Her mit den Frauen!
Fachkräftemangel
Hilfe, Deutschland gehen die Fachkräfte aus! Damit die Not nicht zu groß wird, empfehlen Gewerkschaften und Wissenschaftler, Älteren und Frauen bessere Chancen zu geben. …mehr
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Die Spitze vom Datenberg
CW Spezial Top 100 - Business Intelligence
Unternehmen gelingt es derzeit nicht, ihre Datenschätze zu heben und damit die Geschäfte voranzutreiben. Business-Intelligence-Anbieter wollen das ändern und haben dabei vor allem unstrukturierte Daten im Blick. …mehr
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SSD-Test - Corsair Force Series GT
Sehr gute Praxis-Performance
Corsair positioniert seine Force Series GT als sehr schnelle Solid State Disks, die die Grenzen von SATA 6 Gb/s ausreizen. Transferraten von über 500 MByte/s sind somit Pflicht, hohe IOPS werden ebenfalls versprochen. Im Test zeigt sich, ob die Force GT ihr Geld auch wert ist. …mehr
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Acer Aspire One D257
Netbook im Test
Auffälliges Gehäuse, neuer Prozessor: So will Acer die Aufmerksamkeit auf sein Netbook Aspire One D257 lenken. Reicht das für eine gute Test-Note aus? …mehr
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Raum für Innovationen schaffen
Innovation im ITK-Bereich
Kaum ein Begriff wird so häufig strapaziert wie die "Innovation" - auch und gerade im ITK-Bereich. Aber wo ist Innovation eigentlich möglich, und wie wirkt sie sich aus? …mehr
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Apple's Siri has Rival in Sensory
Premium-Inhalt. Among the features of the which should start reaching consumers' hands this week, is a baked-in personal assistant app called . The software uses speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and tight integration to the phone's built-in apps to create a "personal assistant" to perform a multitude of tasks for you. As powerful as Siri is, however, a speech recognition product made by a company called Sensory, Inc. may outshine Apple's offering in the long run.
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Survey: Java losing popularity among developers
Premium-Inhalt. Despite the recent release of a major upgrade to the platform, Java is losing popularity based on the latest monthly assessment of programming languages by Tiobe Software.
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Facebook 4.0 update brings native iPad support
Premium-Inhalt. After months of and , Facebook launched an updated version of its iOS app on Monday with .
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Five Siri alternatives that give your older iPhone a voice
Premium-Inhalt. After last week’s , Siri was one of the most talked-about features. With Siri, the iPhone 4S will be able to answer just about anything you ask it, from the weather report to nearby points of interest. It can also read messages and notifications aloud and even let you dictate messages of your own instead of relying on the phone’s on-screen keyboard.
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Netflix's Qwikster Backtrack is a Bad Idea
Premium-Inhalt. Netflix's last few months have been a complete disaster.
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Epson Artisan 837: Great Photos, Tons of Features and Cheap Inks
Premium-Inhalt. The Epson Artisan 837 (print/copy/scan/fax) is a high-end home unit that aims to give you pretty much every feature you could possibly want, plus stunning photo quality. Although its $300 purchase price (as of October 4, 2011) is dear, its ongoing ink costs are quite reasonable.
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Keep Track of Your Money with Quicken 2012
Premium-Inhalt. Are you good with money? In an economy where every penny counts, it is crucial to stay on top of where your money is coming from and where it's going. Intuit has added new features to Quicken 2012 that improve the venerable finance software and help consumers and small businesses manage their finances better.
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Verizon, VMware plan dual-persona phone software
Premium-Inhalt. Verizon Wireless will announce dual-persona software with partner VMware later this week, closely following AT&T in unveiling a way to separate mobile handsets into business and personal segments.
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Nintendo Releasing Mario & Sonic Edition Blue Wii in UK
Premium-Inhalt. Although the newest configuration of the Nintendo Wii lacks backwards compatibility and Wi-fi support, the Big N is still promoting the popular Mario & Sonic Olympics series with a brand new holiday bundle.
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The Easy Way to Turn Your Nook Color Into an Android Tablet
Premium-Inhalt. I'm a big believe in simplicity. (The column isn't called Hassle-Full PC, after all.) So when given the option between something simple and something complex, you can bet I'll choose the former every time--even if it means spending a few bucks.
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Auto-hiding applications in Lion
Premium-Inhalt. Reader Harlan Lachman finds his Mac too cluttered for his liking. He writes:
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This Lego Battlestar Is Six Feet Long!
Premium-Inhalt. We’ve seen some pretty crazy cool and Lego replicas but this six-foot-long Battlestar probably tops all of them. This massive Battlestar Bezerk inspired by the re-imagined original Battlestar Galactica from took Lego enthusiast in two months to build.
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Ubuntu 11.10 Is in the Wings: Three Days and Counting
Premium-Inhalt. It's now been almost six months since the release of and that means it's about time for the next version of Canonical's popular Linux distribution to make its official debut.
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Spec Showdown: Acer Aspire S3-951 Ultrabook vs. 13.3-inch MacBook Air
Premium-Inhalt. The first wave of Intel-inspired Ultrabook laptops meant to challenge the MacBook Air start landing this week with the leading the way.
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Facebook acquires start-up friend.ly
Premium-Inhalt. Facebook has acquired friend.ly, a start-up that created a Facebook app designed to help users pose questions to online friends.
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Mozilla relies on search deals for 98% of revenues
Premium-Inhalt. Mozilla today said that income from its search partners, including rival browser maker Google, increased by 19% last year.
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Carriers offer products to help businesses adapt to workers' smartphones
Premium-Inhalt. The nation's leading wireless carriers are making more products and services available to businesses to integrate and support their workers using wireless smartphones and tablets.
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Google, Samsung right to delay Nexus Prime, analysts say
Premium-Inhalt. Steve Jobs' was praised worldwide as a business visionary following his death last week. Analysts say also had immediate business impacts on both Apple products and those Android-based machines sold by rivals.
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Macworld Superguide sale: Save on 16 popular titles
Premium-Inhalt. Here at , we pride ourselves on offering helpful tips, tricks, and information not only through our magazine and on our website, but through our popular Superguide book series. As we approach our sixth anniversary, we're moving our webstore; to celebrate, we're cleaning house and offering you, our readers, , available as printed books and CDs.
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24 Fingered Robot Massages Your Head While Washing Your Hair
Premium-Inhalt. Robots are usually designed to be helpful, but sometimes we can't help but wonder if they're making us lazy. Such is the case with a robot out of Japan that can for you.
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Quicken 2012: A Lot to Offer the Budget Weary
Premium-Inhalt. If you're really on top of your money, never run up balances on multiple credit cards, don't miss payments and never bounce checks, you probably don't need the new version of Quicken, the popular personal finance software program from Intuit. But if you, like me, could use a little help, Quicken 2012 has a lot to offer.
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1M iPhone 4S pre-orders prove naysayers wrong, say analysts
Premium-Inhalt. Critics who last week lambasted Apple's new iPhone 4S as a lukewarm upgrade have been proved wrong, analysts said today.
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iOS Developer Claims Publishers Are 'Buying Their Way Up the Charts'
Premium-Inhalt. Speaking with , Ian Harper of Hungry Shark developer Future Games of London claimed that larger, more profitable publishers were effectively "buying their way up the charts" by making use of Cost Per Install marketing programs.
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Google Targets JavaScript with Dart
Premium-Inhalt. Google today pulled the wraps off an "early preview" of its Dart programming language. Dart is squarely aimed at providing an alternative to JavaScript, which has become the "lingua franca" for developers of web applications, but a nettle to Google.
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Homeland Security Develops a 'Pre-Crime' Detecting Machine
Premium-Inhalt. Here at GeekTech, we glee over almost anything that gets us a little closer to a Minority World-esque technology. But there’s also the whole pseudo-utopia created by pre-crime detection by psychics. Well, it turns out we’re pretty close to that aspect too, but instead of precogs the Government is using technology.
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AT&T's Toggle to deliver enterprise apps to Android phones
Premium-Inhalt. AT&T on Monday announced plans to offer a new service, called Toggle, that will securely run enterprise apps like email on any Android phone a worker chooses to buy.
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How to convert PDFs to Word (and other formats)
Premium-Inhalt. While the PDF file format is a great tool for sharing documents while retaining their formatting and for assuring that documents aren’t changed (contracts, for instance), sometimes you need to the text from a PDF. You may need to copy a paragraph, a page or more, and edit it in a document, or in another word processor or text editor. While you can select text in a PDF, chances are that this text will be seriously munged. You’ll often see odd breaks, or no breaks at all, and styles will be lost. There are ways, however, that you can convert a PDF to formatted text. Here’s how to do this.
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Kenyan banking security regulation spurs growth of data centers
Premium-Inhalt. The Kenyan government's regulations for back up and disaster recovery plans in the banking sector has spurred growth in data centers, as businesses move to comply to new rules.
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African states urged to ratify Budapest Cybercrime Convention
Premium-Inhalt. The Council of Europe (CoE) not to be confused with the more powerful European Union (EU) is leading the rest of the world in a push to have more countries ratify the Convention on Cybercrime. CoE's former Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal affairs, Head of Economic Crime Division, Alexander Seger, was recently in Nairobi for the sixth Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Seger now heads CoE's new cybercrime division as the organisation reorganised itself to put more structure on cybercrime.
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IBM plans to change Nairobi to a smarter city
Premium-Inhalt. "A city is made of man-made systems" says Tony Mwai, General Manager IBM who describes a city as a system of systems where each of them has its own information needs.