Applikationen und mobile Geräte lösen bei IT-Sicherheitsexperten am häufigsten Bedenken aus. Bei Cloud Computing fehlt ihnen noch Fachwissen, wie die Global Information Security Workforce Study herausfand. …mehr
Rund um betriebliche Weihnachtsgeschenke an Geschäftspartner oder Mitarbeiter gelten einige steuerliche Besonderheiten. Schenker und Beschenkte sollten daher einiges beachten, damit das Finanzamt nicht die Weihnachtsstimmung trübt. …mehr
Das Bundesarbeitsgericht hat entschieden: Der Urlaubsanspruch eines Arbeitnehmers, der verstorben ist, erlischt mit dessen Tod. …mehr
Sieben von zehn Entscheidern wünschen sich ERP-Systeme (Enterprise Resource Planning), die After-Sales-Prozesse besser unterstützen. Der Anteil der ERP-Kosten am gesamten IT-Budget liegt meist bei 21 bis 30 Prozent. …mehr
Was müssen Entwickler heute können? Wir haben uns beim Softwarehaus BSI umgehört, wo sich für uns der Absolvent eines Master-Studiengangs, ein Young Professional und ein "alter Hase" austauschten. …mehr
Paul To, CIO of , shares his firm's leveraging of technology to meet customer needs and human capital challenges facing his team. …mehr
Microsoft's Kinect hasn't had many good video game titles come out and even then, only a handful are interesting to hardcore gamers. Make that less than a handful if you hate dancing. But it's interesting tech nonetheless, and Microsoft is pushing to have it have a life outside of gaming. …mehr
Sega Sammy, the financial holdings group that houses both Sega and the Sammy Corporation, is reporting dwindling profits for the Q2 portion of the fiscal year. …mehr
Seagate today announced that it's bumping the platter rotation speed in all of its flagship Barracuda desktop hard drives from 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm. …mehr
Juniper Networks' suite of mobile security and device management tools is coming to three Samsung Electronics devices, marking the first time the company has provided its SSL VPN software for Google's Android OS. …mehr
WiMax carrier Clearwire has stopped selling postpaid service plans and dual-mode 3G-WiMax client devices, two moves that make it less of a competitor to its main wholesale customer, Sprint Nextel. …mehr
A five percent increase in revenue saw the New Zealand technology export sector pass the $7 billion mark for the first time, according to a new report due to be released tonight. …mehr
Telstra has proposed changes to its structural separation undertaking (SSU), which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Independent Telecommunications Adjudicator (ITA) would share equal resolution powers to alleviate concerns that the latter would favour the telco. …mehr
and renewed an MOU on co-operation in various areas of information and communications technology, the Hong Kong SAR government announced recently. …mehr
Phil McKinney, vice president and chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's Personal Systems Group, will retire from the company at the end of this year, he wrote in a on Monday. …mehr
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has confirmed that . …mehr
With its upgrade of Google Reader on Monday, Google has shut down the native social content-sharing features of the popular RSS feed manager and shifted the functionality in modified form to Google+. …mehr
Despite regulatory attempts over recent years to beef up the audit function in general, audit committees often are derided for lack of effectiveness. One paints a bleak picture, for example, demonstrating that audit committees are almost never called to account for their inadequacies -- never mind that, under Sarbox, auditors have been required since 2002 to disclose audit committee ineffectiveness. …mehr
Nearly all of China's over 5,000 group buying sites will eventually go under as tough competition and diminishing cash reserves force them to fold, according to the CEOs of two leading group buying sites in the country. …mehr
The popularity of consumer devices combined with the launch of four learning hubs has caused the to deploy desktop virtualisation software across its campuses. …mehr
Taxpayers and the Federal Government have both benefited from the rollout of a National Telepresence System (NTS) in 2009 with savings of $12 million in travel costs reported. …mehr
Canonical, which has great ambitions to extend its to such devices as smartphones and tablets, is prepared to reach out to developers to get them to build the applications necessary to make the platform successful. But the company will have its work cut out for it, given that established providers on the market have a substantial head start. …mehr
A new and different looking for Gmail is now landing in users' inboxes. …mehr
Dell just a week ago, but this ultraportable is already and can be shipped as early as tomorrow. …mehr
The MSI GT780DXR (let's just call it the GT780) is a monster of a machine, loaded with nearly everything you'll need to play games like a champion. This roomy laptop has a large amount of memory, plenty of hard drive space, and numerous extra features. …mehr
"In the last year of his life, he studies a book of paintings by Mark Rothko, an artist he hadn't known about before, thinking of what could inspire people on the walls of a future Apple campus." -Mona Simpson, …mehr
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers wrapped up its 42nd meeting in Dakar, Senegal, last week, with a commitment to continue supporting developing countries and steps taken to resolve a thorny issue related to management of the new .africa generic top level domian (gTLD). …mehr
If you've poked around PCWorld in recent weeks, you've learned and . Today, let's talk about one of my favorite approaches for installing Windows 8, well, anywhere: by way of a flash drive. …mehr
Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of this networking overhead, speeding responsiveness in Web applications, argued a Web app expert. …mehr
Google is launching a new initiative called GoMo aimed at helping businesses build websites for the mobile age. …mehr
Ten years ago, Logicalis, a systems integrator, would have needed a wiretap to overhear the grumblings of a competitor's dissatisfied customer or prospect. But when a Logicalis sales representative stumbled across a LinkedIn status update revealing an individual's frustration with a rival company's cloud service, he knew just what to do. …mehr
has taken the lead in the U.S. smartphone race. According to research firm , HTC had a stellar third quarter, claiming more than a quarter of the U.S. market, and shipping more smartphones than either or . …mehr
Worldwide processor shipments went up during the third quarter this year and Advanced Micro Devices gained market share from Intel over last year despite being hurt by manufacturing problems, according to a study released by Mercury Research on Tuesday. …mehr
When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security receives information about potential threats to the U.S., agents may turn to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. …mehr
