Vom 3. bis 16. Mai 2012 beantwortet der Recruiting-Director vom IT-Dienstleister Atos, Jörg Bolender, Fragen zu Karriereperspektiven in einem internationalen IT-Beratungshaus. …mehr
Die Website der britischen Polizeibehörde zur Bekämpfung des organisierten Verbrechens (Soca) ist durch einen Hackerangriff lahmgelegt worden. Man habe die Internet-Präsenz nach einer sogenannten DDoS-Attacke am späten Mittwochabend vom Netz genommen, sagte ein Polizeisprecher am Donnerstag in London. …mehr
Die Bezeichnung "Facebook-Revolution" für die Proteste in der arabischen Welt halten Forscher zwar für übertrieben. Doch Studien bestätigen, dass Online-Dienste ein zentrale Rolle beim "arabischen Frühling" spielten. …mehr
Nachdem letzte Woche die Appliance „Sun ZFS Storage“ angekündigt wurde, folgt jetzt die „Sun ZFS Backup“. …mehr
Jeder große Notebook-Hersteller will auf dem Ultrabook-Markt mitmischen. Mit gleich drei neuen Modellen steigt Sony in den Ring. …mehr
Der finnische Handyhersteller Nokia hat eine neue Front im erbitterten Patentkrieg eröffnet, die derzeit in der Mobilfunk-Branche tobt. …mehr
Wem gehört das Netz? Die Bloggerkonferenz re:publica beschäftigte sich mit kritischen Fragen zu privaten Eigentumsverhältnissen öffentlich genutzter Internet-Plattformen. …mehr
Mit Roaming Europe und Roaming Global bietet die Deutsche Telekom für Geschäftskunden zwei neue Tarifoptionen an. Diese bieten sich für Unternehmen an, deren Mitarbeiter auch im Ausland unterwegs sind. …mehr
Der US-amerikanische Gadget-Hersteller Griffin hat mit dem SmartTalk Solar eine neue Bluetooth-Freisprechanlage im Angebot, die sich bei Strommangel mit Sonnenenergie auftankt. …mehr
Nach Schätzungen der Gesellschaft für Unterhaltungs- und Kommunikationselektronik (gfu) werden 2012 hierzulande über 18 Millionen Smartphones verkauft werden - mehr als doppelt so viele Geräte wie einfache Mobiltelefone. …mehr
Microsoft will nach dem jüngsten Update seines Cloud-Angebots mit SkyDrive für private Nutzer durchstarten. "Wir haben in der vergangenen Woche wichtige Fortschritte gemacht", sagte Dharmesh Mehta, Microsoft Manager für Windows und Windows Live, der Nachrichtenagentur dpa. …mehr
Erfolg ist gefährlich: Nach verschiedenen anderen Bedrohungen hat nun offenbar die Welle der Drive-by-Downloads Android erreicht. …mehr
Im Rahmen der CeBIT will das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung zusammen mit der Deutschen Messe AG 2013 erstmals den "CeBIT Innovation Award" vergeben. …mehr
Der Halbleiterspezialist Infineon hat die Talsohle schneller durchschritten als erwartet. Nach einem ordentlichen zweiten Quartal hob der Chiphersteller seine Umsatz- und Gewinnprognose für das gesamte Geschäftsjahr leicht an. …mehr
Obwohl sich das iPad ideal für die Filmwiedergabe eignet, zickt es bei zahlreichen Formaten oder dem Zugriff auf UPnP-Freigaben. Die App BuzzPlayer HD behebt diesen Nachteil. …mehr
Wirtschaftsspionage, Hackerangriffe oder gezielte Attacken gegen Regierungsnetze: Die weltweite Vernetzung über das Internet birgt auch Gefahren. Innenminister Friedrich pocht auf eine stärkere Kooperation zwischen den Staaten, um Angriffe abzuwehren. …mehr
Mit der "Blue Card" hat die Berliner Koalition die Zuwanderung von Facharbeitern und Akademikern aus dem Nicht-EU-Ausland neu geregelt und die Gehaltsschwelle für IT-Profis deutlich abgesenkt. …mehr
Wer Geschäfts- und Kommunikationsanwendungen verzahnt, schafft durchgängige Prozesse. Der Schlüssel dazu ist Unified Communications. …mehr
Nicht immer muss der Arbeitgeber dafür sorgen, dass der erfolgsabhängige Gehaltsanteil eines Mitarbeiters unverändert bleibt. …mehr
Analysts with Lookout Mobile Security have found websites that have been hacked to deliver malicious software to devices running Android, an apparent new attack vector crafted for the mobile operating system. …mehr
Continuity is a free puzzle game that pretends to be a platformer. Like most side-scrolling platform games, you control a character that runs across the screen, jumps to climb and avoid obstacles, and must make its way to the end of the level. Unlike any other platformer I know, you must shuffle the level itself to get to the end. …mehr
British high-end audio manufacturer only recently jumped into the headphone business, but the company is already expanding its product line—on Thursday, the company announced new Apple-compatible P3 headphones. …mehr
Apple's senior vice president for iOS software Scott Forstall just cashed in a load of Apple shares to the tune of $38.7 million. …mehr
Just hours after releasing the advance notification for , which consists of seven bulletins, brought some closure to its biggest security threat of the year. …mehr
Are you faced with the need to do a software portfolio analysis but find the prospect daunting given the scattered nature of your operation? A new -based offering from Cast might fit the bill. …mehr
The jury may have reached a deadlock in the copyright phase of Oracle’s intellectual property lawsuit against Google, although the judge cautioned against jumping to any conclusions. …mehr
Tobias Erichsen's rtpMIDI brings networked MIDI to the PC. MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a longstanding protocol for digitally transmitting musical information such as notes, the velocity with which a key or drum was hit, and much more. You might also recognize the name from those files used for ring tones in cell phones--just one of the myriad of uses for the protocol. …mehr
Facebook will be valued at US$85 billion to $95 billion, rather than the $100 billion that had been widely rumored, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. …mehr
Lawyers for Oracle and Google tussled before the judge Thursday over how much money Google made from Android, a question that will affect how much Google pays in damages if the jury hearing the intellectual property case decides against it. …mehr
Microsoft today said it would ship seven security updates next week, three critical, to patch 23 bugs in Windows, Office and its Silverlight and .Net development platforms. …mehr
Apple's iPad reclaimed a larger share of the global tablet market last month, in part because of a more-serious-than-expected slump in sales of the hot Kindle Fire in the first quarter, IDC analysts said today. …mehr
The latest shadowy hacker group to strike is calling itself The Unknowns, and they're bragging they've hacked NASA Glenn Research Center, the U.S. Air Force, the European Space Agency and others, posting some network-access details. …mehr
The eighth paragraph of the story, "Samsung launches the Galaxy S III smartphone," incorrectly stated the type of processor in the 3G version of HTC's One X smartphone. The story has been corrected on the wire and that paragraph now reads: …mehr
The days of having to pay for two separate data plans for your smartphone and tablet may soon be at an end, says Gartner analyst Hughes De La Vergne. …mehr
Yahoo acknowledged on Thursday that its new CEO, Scott Thompson, does not hold a degree in "accounting and computer science" as his resume and the company's financial filings claimed, and instead majored only in accounting. …mehr
VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data. …mehr
Samsung Electronics has launched the Galaxy S III, which comes with a quad-core processor, a bigger screen and a host of software features, including voice recognition, the company said at an event in London on Thursday. …mehr
Samsung executives today claimed that their new Galaxy S III was "enhanced with nature and human emotion." While we can't exactly verify that claim, we can take a look at some of the specifications and features on Samsung's latest smartphone. …mehr
Oracle and SAP are at odds over whether the concept of "hypothetical" software license fees can be factored into damages in the upcoming retrial of Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against SAP, and the outcome could sharply affect the scope of any judgment in the case. …mehr
The U.S. government expects to provide both money and standards guidance for healthcare providers to deploy and use health information exchanges (HIEs) in a way similar to how electronic prescribing was quickly adopted. …mehr
Samsung Electronics has launched the Galaxy S III, which comes with a quad-core processor, a bigger screen and a host of software features, including voice recognition, the company said at an event in London on Thursday. …mehr
Information security people think that simply making users aware of security issues will make them change their behavior. But security pros are learning the hard way that awareness rarely equals change. …mehr
Canon’s Pixma MX892 Wireless Inkjet Office All-In-One (for printing, copying, faxing, and scanning) is suitable for a home or very small office. It delivered good output quality in our tests, and supports both automatic duplex printing and scanning, for a reasonable $200 (as of April 27, 2012). It's also handsome, solidly built, and moderately fast. Among its shortcomings are an awkward control panel and an absence of high-yield replacement ink cartridges, which other office-minded models in the same price range make available. …mehr
Samsung Thursday unveiled the Galaxy S III, the highly-anticipated successor of the popular Galaxy S II, and of course, the iPhone’s newest big rival. The Galaxy S III is like a sequel to the Galaxy Nexus that was made in collaboration with Google, but has a bigger screen, a beefier processor, and a better camera. …mehr
Samsung on Thursday unveiled a larger Galaxy S III smartphone in London, and said the phone would be sold in the U.S. this summer after launching in Europe on May 29. …mehr
A group representing authors in a copyright case slammed Google in court on Thursday, saying the company's book-scanning project has hurt millions of authors whose works have been digitized. …mehr
The main developers behind the popular Ceph open-source storage framework announced today that they have created a new company, dubbed Inktank, to provide paid support and consulting for the system. …mehr
A Windows developer, upset at the likely demise of Windows Live Writer as part of Microsoft's move to retire the Live brand, has launched an online petition drive to save the tool. …mehr
Is a cyberattack by Iran against the U.S. a realistic threat? And if so, could it be defeated by a technique called "bullet time," that slows Internet traffic just enough to give critical infrastructure defense systems time to respond? …mehr
