Vom 17. bis 30. Mai 2012 beantwortet der Münchner Manager Jens Rieger Karrierefragen im CW-Online-Forum. …mehr
Der Navigationsanbieter TomTom hat eine neue App für iPhones vorgestellt. Diese kennt nahezu alle fest installierte Radaranlagen und warnt den Nutzer vor Blitzern auf seiner Strecke. Fehlende Anlagen lassen sich mit einem Klick hinzufügen. …mehr
Das iPad 3 hat vorgelegt, die Android-Konkurrenz will gleichziehen: Displays mit hoher Auflösung und leistungsfähige Prozessoren sind 2012 die Top-Trends bei den Tablets. Wir stellen Ihnen die aufregendsten Neuheiten dieses Jahres vor. …mehr
Es gibt viele legale Möglichkeiten für Rentner, weniger Steuern zu zahlen. …mehr
Hochschulabsolventen aus Informatik-Studiengängen werden knapp. Kommen sie aus Karlsruhe, liegen ihnen die Arbeitgeber zu Füßen. …mehr
Sometimes you pull the short straw. …mehr
The MSI GT70 is a formidable everyday performer, as well as an excellent gaming machine. When the unit's closed, it even looks the part. Flip it open, and MSI might have been better off shooting for an under-the-radar aesthetic rather than incorporating what look like elements from a Cadillac body kit. Appearances aside (beauty is in the eye of the beholder), the GT70 is a very powerful laptop with only minor foibles. …mehr
As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score. …mehr
Anyone who has spent time trolling social networks, reading a newspaper or just browsing the Internet recently has probably heard of , the mega-viral cause, marketing video that seemed to pop up out of nowhere and captured the attention of millions. …mehr
Today, as companies seek to both consolidate their vendor relationships and multisource, they tend to engage with a small number (typically two to nine) of preferred, very large IT services vendors that can be centrally governed. The strategic objectives of consolidation are important: Services clients can prequalify a few preferred suppliers that all users of IT services can easily and safely engage with. However, given the rapid pace of technology change, the need for agility, the new business stakeholders, and the rise of cloud services, a company's IT and innovation requirements are often best met by multiple best-of-breed suppliers. …mehr
Environmental activists want Apple to clean up its cloud act, Cupertino wants to silence Siri complainers, and a noted screenwriter gets ready to put words in Steve Jobs’s mouth. The remainders for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 are all out of bubblegum. …mehr
Security--the topic, and thus the department--sometimes gets pigeonholed as a downer. Maybe from time to time you notice a coworker avoiding getting in the elevator with you. A CSO once told me it's even worse when you get in the elevator and some wiseacre turns to put his hands on the wall--as if expecting you to frisk him. …mehr
Move over, 10 blue links. Google Knowledge Graph is the search giant's latest attempt to provide direct answers in its results instead of just sending people elsewhere. …mehr
Google+ now has , but data shows that once we’re signed up for Google's social networking site, we lose interest in it quickly. …mehr
Olympus reached back to its design roots when crafting the new OM-D E-M5 micro four thirds camera. The original OM line of film SLRs was known for its rich feature set and stylish, compact design. Now, released as a digital body, the first offering in the new OM-D line is the E-M5. Based on my initial testing, both in the lab and the field, this latest generation is destined to achieve even greater glory than the original. …mehr
If you're a Verizon customer upset that your next smartphone contract won't include unlimited data, Sprint would like to remind you that you have an alternative. …mehr
Knowledge is power, especially for anyone looking to start a new business or boost an existing one. Docstoc, home to hundreds of documents and resources for business folk, packs an awful lot of knowledge into its . …mehr
Dedicated mobile hotspots have been around for a few years now, but they've gotten progressively easier to use. And with the advent of 4G service, they’ve become notably faster, capable of connecting to more devices, and just a lot more useful. …mehr
Given the , it shouldn't be that surprising to see the annual Worldwide Developers Conference take on more of a mobile focus. In recent years, Apple has used the week-long get-together for developers to unveil and . …mehr
You've come up with a brilliant idea--it could be the next Facebook social network, the next Tesla automobile, the next Half-Life videogame--but you need seed capital to get the project off the ground, and venture capitalists won't give you the time of day. What's an aspiring entrepreneur to do? You could give crowdfunding a shot. …mehr
Here's a question most of us can probably answer, at least approximately: How many hours do you spend in front of your computer every week? But here's a trickier one: How much of that time do you spend doing productive work, and how much of it do you spend watching cat videos? RescueTime ($9 per month) is an online service that tries to answer this question, and sometimes even succeeds. …mehr
The calendar on Jstanaway's Android phone displays appointments that he never made--hundreds of them from someone else's calendar. He can't delete them. He asked the forum for advice. …mehr
Apple devices -- ever more popular in the workplace -- are about to become more popular with cyber criminals. …mehr
This pressure might leave you wondering the keys to developing a policy and how best to implement it. These seven core ideas should be a part of any good Bring Your Own Device program. Each idea comes with many important questions to ask yourself, your IT associates and your executive team while developing a BYOD policy. …mehr
I must admit, I'm a fan of the Windows Metro interface, albeit not the way it's tacked onto Windows 8. That might predispose me to like Genie Timeline Backup 2012 Free, which has embraced the Metro look and feel big time. However, I'm actually predisposed toward the program because when I previously reviewed the pay version, Genie Timeline, I found it to be solid, effective, efficient, and easy to use. …mehr
About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyze vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company. …mehr
When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head." …mehr
Despite reports earlier Thursday suggesting that Apple would disallow Mac App Store apps from employing systemwide keyboard "hotkey" shortcuts, sources close to the matter confirm to that such apps remain welcome in the cozy confines of Apple's software store. …mehr
If you're not familiar with the Association of Computer Machinery's (ACM) (ICPC) sponsored by IBM Corp., just think of it like the "March Madness" of computer programming. …mehr
: If you’re like most computer users, you’ve never heard of it, yet it’s one of the foundations of a good software interface. To oversimplify, Fitts’s Law says that the larger an onscreen object is, and the closer that object is to the pointer, the less time it takes to access the object. Thus, it takes less time and effort to access bigger interface elements (buttons, menus, folders, and the like) than smaller ones at a given distance. …mehr
With Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning, the company set its initial share price at $38 today. …mehr
Reader Jim Young has a trash that’s starting to stink up the place. He writes: …mehr
Mobile data consumption is projected to increase, by 2016, ten times more than its current usage rate, according to research conducted by business intelligence firm, Informa Telecoms and Media. …mehr
The retail landscape is changing and mobile devices represent key enablers of the change, noted Elias Ghanem, PayPal's managing director of Southeast Asia and India. He was presenting at PayPal's Mobile Commerce Innovation event held today at Singapore's Mandarin Oriental Hotel. …mehr
KEE's $30 for iPhone 4/4S is a two-piece hard-shell case, and its pieces come in nine colors each--making a total of 81 possible color combinations. Despite the allure of customizability, however, I was disappointed to find this case's soft matte finish to be easily scratched and marred, even within the short time that I tested it. …mehr
Apple has issued an update to its OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3, but has left developers using the mid-2007 MacBook Pro unable to run the new build. …mehr
If you are collecting Steve Jobs books, there's another one to add to your collection, although this one is aimed at children. …mehr
The $150 (as of April 16, 2012) Canon Pixma MX512 (copy/fax/print/scan) is a bit of a mixed bag. Print quality--aside from color graphics on plain paper, which suffered from an excess of orange--seemed very good. Output speeds were easily fast enough for a home office, and the unit sports Wi-Fi as well as an automatic duplexer. On the other hand, the control panel is inefficient and black ink is expensive. …mehr
For a pocketable camera, the 14-megapixel ($350 as of May 15, 2012) is about as loaded as they come. The trait that will jump out at you--literally, if you're facing the camera--is the Lumix ZS20's 20X-optical-zoom lens (24mm to 480mm). Like that zoom lens, the Lumix ZS20's laundry list of features keeps on going and going. …mehr
People are more likely to tell the truth in a text message than in a voice interview, according to researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. …mehr
Standards play strategic roles in various systems. Network standards optimize data flow and access in a complex and changing networking environments. They are as numerous and varied as the environments they guard and analyze. …mehr
In retaliation against Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocking some video-sharing and torrent websites like The Pirate Bay under Indian court orders, Anonymous, the "hacktivist" organization, today took down the websites of the ruling Congress Party and the Supreme Court of India. Anonymous, which in the past has been credited with taking down the websites of the MPAA, RIAA, the FBI, the US Department of Justice and child pornographers, took down these sites in what is understood to be DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. …mehr
The University of Kentucky says it has reshaped its business intelligence (BI) capability as a result of adopting SAP's in-memory system, HANA. Vince Kellen, the university CIO, calls it a "disruptive technology," and for this institution at least, that appears true. …mehr
David Kappos, the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, received a friendly reception from a House committee yesterday as he offered an update on the agency's progress in implementing the landmark patent reform legislation enacted last September, a billed hailed by many tech firms as a major achievement for their IP-heavy industry. …mehr
