Welche Inhalte sind im Netz frei verfügbar? Welche Nutzung ist illegal? …mehr
Die Entscheidung über die nächste Generation der SIM-Karten für Handys wird angesichts des Streits zwischen zwei Industriegruppen um Nokia und Apple länger dauern. …mehr
Der Dortmunder IT-Dienstleister Adesso AG hat die Mehrheit am Münchner E-Business-Spezialisten Arithnea GmbH übernommen …mehr
Wer noch eine alte Tape-Sammlung im Keller verstaut hat, aber kein Abspielgerät besitzt, könnte sich mit dem Tape Express von Ion anfreunden. Das Gadget überspielt die Musik auf den Computer oder lässt sich als konventioneller Walkman nutzen. …mehr
Mit seinem neuen, zunächst auf die USA beschränkten Angebot "Consumer Surveys" expandiert Google wieder einmal in ein neues Geschäftsfeld. …mehr
Freie Daten für alle: Die Wikipedia entwickelt eine maschinenlesbare Datenquelle für Informationen aller Art. Jeder kann mitmachen und selbst Daten eingeben oder die Ergebnisse für eigene Web-Projekte nutzen. …mehr
Angesichts desaströser Geschäftszahlen besinnt sich der Blackberry-Hersteller Research in Motion (RIM) auf seine Wurzeln: Services für Geschäftskunden. …mehr
Zu lange Arbeitszeiten, zu wenig Geld und viele Zwischenfälle: Eine unabhängige Inspektion bescheinigt Apples größtem Produktionspartner Foxconn massive Probleme bei den Arbeitsbedingungen. Foxconn gelobt Besserung. Apple hatte die Inspektoren selbst eingeladen. …mehr
Googles Plattform Android ist der König im Smartphone-Markt, hinkt bei Tablets aber Apples iPad weit hinterher. Mit einem eigenen Online-Shop will der Internet-Riese angeblich demnächst die Verkäufe ankurbeln. …mehr
Die Krise beim Blackberry-Anbieter RIM spitzt sich weiter zu. Das vergangene Quartal fiel mit einem Umsatzeinbruch und roten Zahlen erneut enttäuschend aus. Der aus Deutschland stammende neue Chef Thorsten Heins kündigte große Änderungen an. …mehr
Die ersten drei Modelle der neuen One-Familie von HTC werden ab dem 2. April in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz angeboten. …mehr
Schlechte Leistung gefährdet den Erfolg von Business-Intelligence-Projekten (BI), warnen die Experten von Barc. Wer jedoch vom Start weg die verschiedenen Einflussfaktoren im Blick hat, kann den Nutzen seines BI-Systems erhöhen und Investitionen sichern. …mehr
Die tägliche Arbeit lastet sie nicht aus, die Weiterbildung wurde verwehrt. Soll sich die junge Fachinformatikerin eine neue Stelle suchen? …mehr
Welche Betriebsausgaben noch als angemessen anzusehen sind und deshalb steuerlich abgezogen werden können, hat ein Finanzgericht entschieden. …mehr
Zu viele Lizenzen kosten unnötig Geld, zu wenige bringen juristischen Ärger. Diese Formel bezeichnet das ewige Kreuz mit dem Lizenz-Management. …mehr
Nach einem Urteil eines Landessozialgerichts erhalten Arbeitnehmer, die am letzten Arbeitstag krankgeschrieben werden, ab dem Folgetag Krankengeld. …mehr
Windows 8 lässt sich erstmals offiziell auch von einem USB-Speicher starten. Unser Autor probiert die To-Go-Variante mit mehreren Festplatten aus und liefert eine Einschätzung des neuen Features. …mehr
Another week, another announcement of new mobile malware found infecting Android phones. The new bug this week is DKFBootKit, a nasty bit of work that can come packaged inside seemingly legitimate applications--much like most of the other mobile malware we've seen thus far. What sets DKFBootKit apart from malware like , is that DKFBootKit replaces certain boot processes and can begin running even before the system is completely booted up. …mehr
CCP Games held their annual Fanfest last week in Reykjavík, Iceland and I was on location checking out Dust 514 and everything new happening in . While DUST may be the newest property to come from CCP, they aren’t backing away from EVE. In fact, they demonstrated during the show how they plan to bring the two together in a way that has never been done before. …mehr
Due to a reporting error, Wednesday's story, "AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million," as well as the update that ran on Thursday, gave an incorrect figure for the amount of carbon emissions that AOL eliminated. The correct figure is almost 20 tons. …mehr
Qualcomm is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 chip for thin and light Windows 8 laptops, which the chip maker hopes will steal some thunder from Intel's second wave of ultrabooks due later this year. …mehr
Will an online store selling Android tablets help Google compete against the market-leading iPad and the less-expensive Kindle Fire? …mehr
Since Apache Maven, the brainchild of Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl, emerged as a top-level Apache Software Foundation project in 2003, the Central Repository has become a primary source of open source components. Jackson says the Central Repository receives four billion requests per year for its 300,000 components. …mehr
Thanks to optimism about the U.S. economy and some good signs from tech vendor financial reports, IT companies Friday ended their best quarter on the markets since the end of 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst and shares plunged. …mehr
Google will open an online store where it will market and sell tablets directly to consumers, with some of the devices potentially being co-branded with Google's name, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. …mehr
Intuit has set up a pilot program that allows farmers in India to find the best prices for their crops, simply by exchanging a few SMS messages on their cell phones. …mehr
Why should your small office buy a low-end color laser for $400 to $500 when you could opt for the $150 (as of March 25, 2012) Epson Workforce Pro WP-4020 instead? Good question, especially when you compare it to models like the $450 . The Workforce Pro WP-4020 offers superior speed and color graphics, near-laser-quality text, and more features, plus a significantly lower price per page. …mehr
The wait for a new iPad ordered online from Apple stretches one to two weeks, but customers can walk into a company store today and buy a tablet, according to a stock sampling. …mehr
Tim Cook is the CEO of CEOs, Apple is the consumer brand of consumer brands (in Japan), and ebooks are the, uh, books of books. That can only mean that the remainders for Friday, March 30, 2012 are the remainders of remainders. …mehr
The mobile payment service launched last week to a select group of retailers, and it will be available later in 2012 to all businesses. How does it appear to stack up against , and other mobile payment systems that use a card-reading device? …mehr
Dell said this week it is expanding its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud through a partnership with another company. …mehr
The startup Bump Labs threw its hat into the crowded mobile payments ring on Thursday, launching an app that allows people to exchange money by tapping their phones together. …mehr
Good Old Games , with fundamental changes to the digital distributor’s catalog. Rather than exclusively selling, well, good old games, the popular service will begin to offer modern titles of both the “AAA” and indie varieties. The latest additions include Trine, , The Whispered World, the forthcoming indie first-person dungeon crawler Legend of Grimrock, and even Treasure Adventure Game, a new indie game available for free. Spacechem and Darwinia are also on the way, and GOG claims more than 20 decidedly not old titles in the pipeline for the next few months. …mehr
Intel Ivy Bridge processors may finally be on their way to new desktops and laptops, according to leaked launch schedules. …mehr
This week's roundup of iOS apps includes big improvements to the much-loved Instapaper app, as well as a whole new way of seeing and calculating numbers. …mehr
The Hitachi is a great-looking portable hard drive that offers fast transfer rates and additional online storage. …mehr
Mac users are nearly three times more likely to be running an early version of the OS X Mountain Lion operating system than PC owners testing Microsoft's Windows 8, the Chitika online ad network said today. …mehr
Welcome to Esty …mehr
Speaktoit Assistant is an Android app that in many ways resembles Apple's Siri for . It acts as a virtual assistant that can respond to voice commands and perform Web searches and other simple tasks. You can use Speaktoit Assistant to launch apps, find contacts, compose email or text messages, create calendar events, give directions, and more. …mehr
The has security experts focusing anew on the good and bad of PCI DSS. On one hand, the standard offers a clear blueprint on how to handle such a breach. On the other hand, compliance is usually not the cure, as this latest incident demonstrates. …mehr
Ever notice how much cooler photos look when they have rounded corners? …mehr
With just a few weeks remaining before the final release of "Precise Pangolin," Canonical on Thursday released the second and final beta version of the free and open source operating system. …mehr
I'm a huge fan of the for saving Web articles for later reading, sans ads and messy formatting and layout. It's great when you don't have time to read a longer article immediately, or when you want to save an article you found on your iPhone so you can later read it on your Mac or iPad's larger screen. is a similar popular service. Both are also useful for archiving interesting articles for later browsing or sharing. …mehr
Epson (yes the guys that make printers), has invented what could be the coolest headwear since on Star Trek: The Next Generation. …mehr
Ukrainian authorities have shut down a long-running forum that was used to trade tips on writing malicious software, a sign the country's law enforcement may be watching hackers more closely. …mehr
A few months ago, a Hungarian man got a hold of a business executive's personal mobile device containing corporate customer data. The man called up the company asking for $50,000 to not expose the information. What did the company do? It called Websense, an enterprise security company. …mehr
CCP Games is known for their successful, slightly insane Sci-Fi MMO, EVE Online. The game is exclusive to PC, and sees players fighting for dominance in massive spaceships across a single, shared universe that's home to hundreds of thousands of players. When they announced that they were developing a new title, a free-to-play first-person shooter for consoles wasn't the first thing that came to mind. But DUST 514 is coming: I was given some hands-on time with the game at CCP's Fanfest 2012 last week in Reykjavík, Iceland, and it surprised me in more ways than one. …mehr
Two U.S. agencies seized 270 websites in 2011 for alleged copyright infringement, but just 22 of those sites were targeted for digital piracy, with the rest allegedly selling counterfeit products, according to the annual report from the government's intellectual-property enforcement coordinator. …mehr
The more you use Twitter, the more overwhelming the micro-blogging service can be. That's because the more you're on the service, posting more information, following more folks, and consuming more information, well, it can all quickly become too much. That's when finding the information that matters to you can become nearly impossible. But not when you use PostPost: This free service has found a way to dig through the chaos of Twitter to bring you content that's personally relevant to you. …mehr
Only a small cloud sporting the Skype logo indicates that inside the former brewery in central Stockholm is the company's development center, where 100 developers from 23 countries work on all of the Skype versions, most recently the one for Windows Phone. …mehr
