Laut der Studie Third Place Working des Arbeitsplatzdienstleisters Regus möchten viele Menschen an alternativen Arbeitsplätzen tätig sein. Die Vereinbarkeit von Privatleben und Job spielt dabei die größte Rolle. …mehr
Der neue CEO Tim Cook hat versprochen, dass Apple sich unter seiner Führung nicht verändern werde. Aber natürlich macht er manche Dinge anders als Steve Jobs. …mehr
Wikileaks-Gründer Julian Assange ist im Kampf gegen seine Auslieferung von Großbritannien nach Schweden erneut vor Gericht gescheitert. Am Mittwoch verlor er in zweiter Instanz. Die Luft wird nun für ihn immer dünner. …mehr
Die deutschen Datenschützer verstärken den Druck auf Facebook mit neuen Vorwürfen. …mehr
Egal ob Smartphone-Test oder App-Sammlung. Mit dem neuen COMPUTERWOCHE-Newsletter "Mobile & Apps" sind Sie immer optimal informiert. …mehr
Sony steuert auf den vierten Jahresverlust in Folge zu. …mehr
Was machen Sie denn beruflich? Wer diese Frage prägnant beantworten und sein Gegenüber begeistern kann, hat seinen nächsten Kunden oft schon an der Angel. …mehr
Das kostenlose Tool "Wifi Analyzer" von farproc hilft Android-Nutzern dabei, Access Points einzurichten, die Kanalbelegungen zu überprüfen, Fehler zu beheben oder auch eine Sicherheitsüberprüfung vorzunehmen. …mehr
Der Webhoster bietet mit seiner 1-Klick-Installation eine neue Option an, um Anwendungen auf den Managed Server zu bringen. …mehr
Mobile Computing boomt, aber der unkomplizierte WLAN-Zugang bleibt in Deutschland die Ausnahme, beklagt Dell. …mehr
Die Version 3.3.11 des Android Market (als App) enthält Neuerungen, die vor allem die Verwaltung der heruntergeladenen Anwendungen deutlich erleichtert. …mehr
Mit dem Re-Case hat die taiwanesische Firma eine Schutzhülle für das iPhone auf den Markt gebracht, die aus recyceltem Abfall besteht. …mehr
Die Telekom verschiebt die interne IT zu T-Systems. Im Zuge dessen löst Karl Kornwolf den bisherigen CIO Steffen Roehn ab. …mehr
Im Rahmen seines "Project Moonshot" will Hewlett-Packard (HP) Server mit Prozessoren auf Basis der besonders stromsparenden Chipdesigns von ARM entwickeln. …mehr
Der Facebook-Streit zwischen der Landesregierung von Schleswig-Holstein und dem regionalen Datenschützer Thilo Weichert spitzt sich zu. …mehr
Die Datenberge wachsen unaufhörlich und Experten mahnen die Unternehmen, die Informationsfluten in die richtigen Bahnen zu lenken. Doch was ist dran an "Big Data"? Wir wollen von Ihnen wissen, was Sie von dem neuen Hype-Thema halten. Machen Sie mit bei der großen COMPUTERWOCHE-Umfrage und gewinnen Sie mit etwas Glück eine Digitalkamera von Panasonic. …mehr
Der virtuelle Raum im Internet braucht nach Ansicht von Experten weltweit feste Richtlinien, wie sie auch im wirklichen Leben bestehen. …mehr
Der digitale Personalausweis wurde als Durchbruch für ein sichereres Internet angekündigt, vor allem dank Zusatzfunktionen wie die Online-Identifizierung. …mehr
Tippen Sie bloß nie den Begriff „Reboot“ in Ihr Smartphone… Lesen Sie alles zu diesem und acht weiteren Software-Schlamasseln. …mehr
Experten für Qualitätssicherung machen den größten Sprung. …mehr
Allen Unkenrufen zum Trotz hält sich die Faxkommunikation in vielen Unternehmen. Allerdings ist dabei nicht mehr ISDN gefragt, sondern "over IP". …mehr
Auf einheitlichem Sicherheitsniveau sollen Bund, Länder und Kommunen künftig zusammenarbeiten. Das hat der IT-Planungsrat kürzlich in Stuttgart beschlossen. …mehr
Die Virtualisierungslösung VirtualBox ist in der Lage, physische USB-Anschlüsse in virtuelle Maschinen durchzureichen. Grundvoraussetzung dafür ist das Extension Pack. Doch auch wenn das Erweiterungspaket installiert ist, erkennt das Programm auf einigen PCs keine USB-Geräte. …mehr
Die Open-Source-Community bietet eine Fülle an mächtigen Werkzeugen zum Aufbau und zum Verwalten von Private Clouds in der Unternehmens-IT. …mehr
Welche Auswirkungen die neue EU-Richtlinie für den Internet-Handel haben wird, beschreibt Johannes Richard. …mehr
CIO Circle, CIO Forum, Finaki - Sie sind überall Mitglied und offenbar sehr gut vernetzt. Was halten Sie von dem geplanten Zusammenschluss der drei Organisationen? …mehr
Laut Gartner soll der Outsourcing-Markt 2011 um 7 Prozent wachsen. Jeder zweite Anbieter will jetzt Neukunden gewinnen und steigert dafür das Marketing-Budget. …mehr
Interesse, Erwartungen und Ansprüche - beim Cloud Computing ist alles überwältigend. Ein Blick auf abgeschlossene SaaS-Projekte verschafft Bodenhaftung. …mehr
Cloud-E-Mail wird sich schrittweise in Unternehmen durchsetzen. 2014 soll die 10 Prozent-Marke fallen. Googlemail muss allerdings noch etwas nachbessern. …mehr
Mobile Anwender erwarten viel von Internet-Angeboten - gerade in Deutschland. Unternehmen müssen dem Rechnung tragen, tun sich aber schwer. …mehr
People who want to limit the behavioral advertising and tracking they are subjected to on the Web aren't well served by some popular privacy tools, according to a Carnegie Mellon University study. …mehr
Yahoo said on Tuesday that it has arrived at a definitive agreement to acquire Interclick, a provider of targeted advertising services, for about US$270 million. …mehr
David Cameron said more women on boards will curb excessive pay outs to the country's top directors after revealed that directors' pay had increased by 49 percent in the last financial year. …mehr
Due to a reporting error, the story "AMD gains processor market share over Intel in Q3," posted to the wire on Tuesday, misstated Intel's processor market share during this year's and last year's third quarter. Intel held an 80.3 percent market share during this year's third quarter, and an 80.6 percent market share during last year's third quarter. …mehr
Facebook was recently invaded by a robot army created by four researchers to demonstrate the ease at which online social networks can be maliciously exploited by the unscrupulous. …mehr
Google Reader is the first screen many people look at when they wake up. Likely the most popular RSS app, Reader has been a crucial news and research gathering and sharing tool for millions of users since 2007. Google on Monday announced changes to Reader, which won't welcome. …mehr
The emerging 802.11ac standard, which is aimed at gigabit-speed wireless LANs, will be quickly adopted over the next four years but will still be dwarfed by the current 802.11n technology, research company In-Stat said in a new report. …mehr
It's difficult to believe in this era of time-shifted TV watching when DVRs, Hulu, and other services seem to rule the roost, but there are still plenty of people who want to watch shows the old-fashioned way--when the networks want them to. , a $2 iPad app from , is aimed straight at the audience. …mehr
A lot has changed in Easeus ToDo Backup Free since I last reviewed it as version 1.1. Then, it was already the most competent free backup program in existence with both file backup and imaging of partitions, but it lacked niceties such as scheduled scans. Version 3.0 has addressed every complaint I had and added tons of functionality. It now schedules and performs incremental and differential backups, images your system partition from within Windows, and no longer splits files unless you want it to. …mehr
Last month, a faulty electrical outlet in my charming turn-of-the-century studio apartment sparked a fire while I was out of the house. Many of my gadgets were singed, and what wasn't directly burnt still suffered damage from smoke and/or water from the automated sprinklers. Truly, it was a geek's worst nightmare! My trusty MacBook Pro, iPad, Xbox 360, and countless other gadgets were bricked, including my primary backup hard drive (thank goodness for data recovery). So, for my first blog back at GeekTech I thought it would be apropos to compose this short list of fire prevention gadgets I only wish I knew about before the incident. …mehr
The marks "a critical component of the comprehensive regulatory reform of the derivatives markets," Chairman Gary Gensler's said at the October open meeting at which the new regime was approved. …mehr
Cloud storage provider Carbonite this week announced enhancements to its small office, home office online backup service, which now offers bare metal backups and file versioning, making a new copy of a file each time it's changed. …mehr
Despite explosive growth in smartphone usage, many businesses still have a website that . If a potential customer can't navigate your store's site from a handset, there's a good chance they'll walk over to the shop of your competitor that has a mobile-ready site. …mehr
In September representatives from India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) got together to talk about the Internet. : The 'Net needed help from the United Nations in the areas of developing policies, technical standards, operation, dispute resolution and crises management. …mehr
Risk management continues to be a hot topic among both corporate directors and management. For starters, risk management has been in the focus of that, among other activities, "require companies to describe the board's role in the oversight of risk." …mehr
The job of the CIO is not what it used to be. No longer are well-run data centers and solid uptime metrics the measures of success - now CIOs run the business process and technology is the tool. The metric a company should use to measure the performance of its CIO these days is agility, and companies that don't-or that limit the ability of their CIOs to maximize agility-will struggle to compete in today's market. …mehr
The Bank of England may be forced to inject a greater cash stimulus into the British economy than the due to the impending threat of recession across Europe, according to a Reuters poll. …mehr
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday will begin hearing arguments in a involving the government's authority to use GPS tracking devices in criminal investigations without first obtaining a court order. …mehr
People who want to limit the behavioral advertising and tracking they are subjected to on the Web aren't well served by some popular privacy tools, according to a Carnegie Mellon University study. …mehr
Ron Johnson rides off into the sunset, Hulu Plus probably won't be riding onto the Apple TV any time soon, and Pete Townshend rides an unsteady metaphor. The remainders for Tuesday, November 1, 2011 are gonna ride on. …mehr
New Zealand's business community ranks broadband, or telecommunications in general, second behind physical transport as the infrastructure "having the most potential to contribute to New Zealand's future economic prosperity". …mehr
Power and cooling solutions firm Emerson Network Power is providing energy-efficient IT infrastructure for Asia's largest green data centre, being built by Malaysian IT solutions provider Teliti International. …mehr
The scoop: MegaPlex MG-850HD projector, by Epson, about $800. …mehr
Disruptive technologies and the rise of bring your own (BYO) devices are two of the biggest challenges facing IT managers, Juniper has claimed. …mehr
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Is your workshop like mine? 37 screwdrivers, 16 of which are nearly identical; a saw over here, a saw over there--wait, where did I leave that saw? Corel's PaintShop Pro X4 ($100, as of October 17, 2011) is like my workshop, too--enough tools to serve the needs of almost anyone, assuming that they can find the right one for the job at hand. Though PaintShop Pro X4 is a powerful, extremely capable image-editing application, it would benefit greatly from having a ruthless cleanup crew step in and throw some stuff away. …mehr
Boeing Co.'s finance chief, James Bell, a 40-year veteran of the Chicago-based aerospace concern, announced his retirement, slated for next April 1. Bell, who is 63 and has served as CFO since 2003, also will leave his posts of executive vice president and corporate president. …mehr
It's no secret around these parts that we're on iOS. Apple's mobile music app hits all the right notes, appealing to newbie musicians and professionals alike, offering massive amounts of functionality behind the guise of an easy-to-use interface and playful instrument designs; it's almost hard to believe the program has only been around since March. …mehr
It's clear that companies are increasingly using social networking to connect with customers--Facebook said brands on its site get 100 million "likes" per day--but it's also clear that they are having varying degrees of success. …mehr
Apple is confirming what owners of the iPhone 4S and other iOS devices already know: The latest version of its mobile OS--iOS 5--seems to make your battery lose its juice faster than before. The company now says it plans to release a software update to address the problem. …mehr
Angry iPhone 4S owners take note: You were right about the battery problems with your new smartphone. …mehr
has rolled out a new mobile app for Bing built with HTML5 and available first only to and users, not to Phone users. It may be another indication that Microsoft is turning its attention away from its home-baked development platforms .Net and Silverlight and toward the industry-standard HTML5. …mehr
Sony has released a new pair of digital binoculars that include Full HD (1080p) video recording. The Sony DEV-5 binoculars are capable of 20x magnification and in addition to recording 2D video can capture stereoscopic 3D footage (at 1080i) and still images, and record stereo sound. …mehr
Since its first day serving the corporate finance community, nine months ago, CFOworld has been dedicated to helping clear up questions about cloud computing. But rather than asking the same tech-based questions that the CIO might ask, we've been putting ourselves in the shoes of finance chiefs. …mehr
After a couple of high-profile departures, HP on Wednesday announced some executive appointments, including a new CIO. …mehr
Folks with limited arm movement, either through accidents, old age or disability, can often find it particularly hard to put on clothes. With this in mind, researchers created a robot capable of . The robot has two arms, and is designed to lift clothing over your head and body. The bot even practices on itself (after being shown by a human) to get the technique just right. …mehr
Electrons don't like to sit still. That's why the electricity grid has developed over the last 150 years without the benefit of energy storage. Energy storage is--in whatever form it might take--an elaborate attempt at getting electrons to behave while in a passive state. It's been clear for thousands of years that energy storage is physically possible. What has held it back from widespread adoption (outside of fossil fuels and consumer electronics batteries) has been safety. Safety can be achieved, but the cost of engineering danger-mitigation solutions makes most energy storage systems too costly. A recent string of safety incidents at new energy storage facilities around the world have underlined the fact. …mehr
The Asia Pacific enterprise smartphone market is set for a shakeup over the next five years, with analyst firm Ovum predicting that Windows Phone handsets will make up 25 per cent of sales by 2016. …mehr
Rovio's mega-popular "" game has surpassed 500 million downloads, an astounding achievement for what was already the world's most popular mobile game. In fact, Angry Birds devotees worldwide play 300 million minutes of the game every day, the company says. …mehr
Every day until the end of the year, Acer is giving away an Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook to one Facebook fan. …mehr
Last month, C Spire Wireless announced in the U.S. On Tuesday, the regional carrier announced that the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 will be available on its network Friday, November 11; it also unveiled cellular pricing plans for Apple's smartphones. …mehr