Google ist jetzt auch ein Handy-Hersteller: Der Internet-Konzern hat die Übernahme des Mobilfunk-Pioniers Motorola heute abgeschlossen. Damit steht Google jetzt erstmals selbst im Kreuzfeuer des Patentkriegs der Mobilfunk-Branche. …mehr
Das aktuelle "BrandZ"-Ranking im Auftrag des Werbegiganten WPP sieht den iPhone- und iPad-Hersteller Apple mit einem Markenwert von 182,9 Milliarden Dollar weit vor allen anderen. …mehr
EMC präsentierte auf seiner Hausmesse in Las Vegas 42 neue Produkte und Funktionen. Zudem meldet der Storage-Spezialist die Übernahme eines Cloud-Synchronisations- und Datei-Sharing Anbieters. …mehr
Microsoft hat mit So.cl nun ein eigenes soziales Netzwerk gelauncht. Die Plattform versteht sich als Recherche-Tool für Studenten, die sich zu unterschiedlichen Themen austauschen können. …mehr
An Freiberuflerinnen und Unternehmerinnen richtet sich der Softwareanbieter Projectplace mit seinem web-basierten Tool, mit dem sich Projekte organisieren lassen. …mehr
Ein Drittel aller Standorte und damit 13,3 Millionen Haushalte in Deutschland könnten laut Analyse des Informationsportals 4G.de den mobilen Hochgeschwindigkeitsstandard bereits nutzen. …mehr
Neben Intel und Samsung interessieren sich auch HTC, Acer und Asus für Tizen. Bereits Anfang der zweiten Hälfte dieses Jahres sollen erste damit ausgestattete Geräte auf den Markt kommen. …mehr
Wie zufrieden sind Deutschlands Praktikanten? Ein Report liefert überraschende Ergebnisse. …mehr
Beim Abschluss von Verträgen zwischen Freiberuflern und Projektanbietern gibt es wieder mehr Diskussionsstoff. Nur 60 Prozent der Freiberufler unterschreiben den vorgelegten Vertrag ohne Änderung, jeder siebte Vertrag kommt gar nicht erst zustande. …mehr
Während Microsoft in Europa und den USA mit Windows Phone in Bezug auf die Marktanteile kaum eine Rolle spielt, rechnet sich der IT-Riese auf dem wachsenden Markt in China offenbar gute Chancen aus. …mehr
Mit der nächsten Version von Microsofts Cloud-basierender Verwaltungslösung "Windows Intune" reagiert der Softwareriese auf die zunehmende Mobilisierung in Unternehmen. …mehr
Angriffe auf die Unternehmens-IT sind weltweit die Art von Wirtschaftskriminalität, die Firmen am meisten hilflos macht, so eine Studie von Kroll. …mehr
Der Streit um Musikvideos bei YouTube wird die Justiz in Deutschland noch lange beschäftigen. Nachdem sich die Google-Plattform und die Gema am Verhandlungstisch nicht einigen konnten, legten beide am Montag Rechtsmittel gegen das Urteil des Landgerichts Hamburg ein. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Mobilfunkkonzern Vodafone hat im vergangenen Geschäftsjahr (bis Ende März) vom starken Auslandsgeschäft und dem Boom des mobilen Internet profitiert. …mehr
Personaler schätzen das wissenschaftliche Know-how eines Promovierten, es ist aber keine Karrieregarantie. …mehr
Wie Unternehmen es schaffen, eine länderübergreifende Kultur aufzubauen und Führungskräfte zu qualifizieren. …mehr
Der Anteil von Cloud-Anwendungen in europäischen Unternehmen soll sich bis 2014 verdoppeln. Dennoch bleibt der alte Kontinent das Schlusslicht. …mehr
Elgato has announced its first gaming focused product, the . The new product allows gamers to capture gaming footage and upload it to YouTube with ease. …mehr
If you, like me, live out of of last Sunday's , , posted to YouTube by high school science teacher and photographer of Redding, California, may be the next-best thing to actually being there. It's even got a nice synthesizer-heavy backing track which reminds me of the better music from those wonderful 80s-produced science and nature videos I grew up watching. …mehr
Dell on Wednesday reported a drop in profits for the first quarter, weighed down by a revenue decrease and slower sales of consumer products. …mehr
The next iPhone's screen may be embiggened, but can Tim Cook's compensation get any higher? Elsewhere, Steve Jobs gets big honors. The remainders for Tuesday, May 22, 2012 are big in Germany. …mehr
The $400 (as of May 22, 2012) Brother MFC-9125CN stands out among other low-cost for having decent speed and toner costs. Though this MFP is unremarkable otherwise, it's a legitimate option for a small office seeking an inexpensive print/copy/scan/fax machine. …mehr
Privacy fans, take note: A new technology, called Indoor Positioning System, could push your worry meter to the max. IPS allows pinpoint tracking of any Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smartphone or tablet, within a building. This means that an IPS service could easily track you--right down to, say, the table you're occupying in a mall's food court--as long as your mobile devices' Wi-Fi is turned on. And, if you're a typical device user, your Wi-Fi is always on, right? …mehr
The Mac Gems blog is all about reviews of great, inexpensive software, but I occasionally highlight a good deal on Gems, as well. Today is one of those times, as I've got a couple notable promotions to cover. …mehr
The upcoming will represent "a dawning of the rebirth" of Redmond's ubiquitous operating system, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. …mehr
Facebook's Timeline profiles may be getting a redesign, but this one probably won't trigger a backlash. …mehr
Chrome has some handy ways to keep your myriad bookmarks just a click away, and for Facebook junkies to keep status updates front and center. …mehr
Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's upcoming 7950 XRS core routing system, which will bring the French-American equipment vendor for the first time in about a decade. …mehr
Businesses can now remotely control enterprise mobile applications developed for Apple's mobile platform with the latest version of Soti's MobiControl Software Developer Kit for iOS, announced Tuesday. …mehr
There's been much attention focused lately on Canonical's recently released but it's by no means the only popular Linux distribution out there with a major update in the offing. …mehr
SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. …mehr
Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, Dell's CEO said on Tuesday. …mehr
According to Macworld UK, Shenzhen-based Proview has rejected a RMB100 million (US$16m) iPad trademark offer from Apple. The Chinese firm owns the rights to the name, having won a legal decision in a PRC court. …mehr
CIOs face a common set of thorny challenges these days, namely the pressure to deliver innovations even as they seek to cut or hold down spending, according to an array of senior IT executives who spoke on Tuesday at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. …mehr
In the world of TV set top boxes, has managed to hang in there, despite heavy competition from TV service providers, Apple, Google, other third parties, and even the TVs themselves. Tivo on Monday a couple of new products that they hope will give them an edge over the competition--the key product being Tivo Stream, which will allow Tivo user to stream content to iOS devices. …mehr
These days, even the most powerful PC is not of much use without a solid Internet connection. And even if your connection is great, do you know how much data you consume, and at what rates? And can you tell which applications are connecting to the Internet, and where they're connecting to? NetSpeedMonitor is a small, unobtrusive donationware utility that can help you answer all of these questions. …mehr
The next time you go scuba diving in a coral reef somewhere while on vacation, make sure all those fish you're swimming with are actually real. You may actually find yourself swimming with an . …mehr
In its third day of trading, Facebook's stock is still in a slump, taking the shine off the frenzy that led up to the company's initial public offering (IPO) last week. …mehr
If your printing and scanning needs are light, the $100 Canon Pixma MX432 will likely fill your needs. Though the unit lacks an automatic duplexer, it provides a single-sided automatic document feeder, and the price is certainly attractive. On the other hand, black ink costs are quite high and Canon omits no manual duplexing support for OS X. So if you use a lot of black ink or will be printing from a Mac, you should look elsewhere. …mehr
A growing number of smartphones have NFC (near-field communication) capabilities to make mobile payments, but accessories and ultrabooks also now increasingly have the same technology. DeviceFidelity is offering a protective case with NFC that allows iPhone users to make contactless payments, and Barclaycard is offering a sticker that attaches to a smartphone for users to make mobile payments. HP is offering an ultrabook with NFC for data exchange with mobile devices. …mehr
SAP is buying cloud-based e-commerce vendor Ariba for US$4.3 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. …mehr
Brocade this week said it added hardware-based support for the software-defined networking (SDN) API and protocol to its NetIron and MLX series routers as part of a broader SDN strategy. …mehr
With more and more TV viewers to their cable provider's video service, Comcast announced a move Monday that may give its subscribers an incentive to resist that trend. …mehr
It's a DVD burner! It's a Wi-Fi hotspot! It's a media streamer! Wrapping your mind around the --a unique storage and streaming product with a singularly unintuitive name, a perplexing appearance, and several very specific uses--is rather challenging. Ultimately the Optical Smart Hub ($130 as of May 4, 2012) presents an intriguing concept for in a mobile world, but it stumbles in its design and presentation. …mehr
Having managed and rescued dozens of projects, and helped others do so, I've noted that there is always one critical success factor (CSF) that has either been effectively addressed or missed/messed up. …mehr
Since the launch of Double Fine Adventure, a gaming Kickstarter campaign which raised over $3 million earlier this year, game designers and gamers have quickly embraced the possibilities of crowd-funding to finance original and unusual games. Swift Kick is PCWorld's attempt to highlight gaming Kickstarters we think are worthy of your attention. …mehr
Change is never easy, especially when it's one of your favorite services making the changes--and forcing them on you. But, if you're one of the many Twitter users still lamenting the in the new Twitter, you don't need to be sad any longer. Classic Retweet, a simple and Google extension, can return you to the glory days of Twitter's retweet feature, allowing you to append your pithy comments to everything you retweet …mehr
EMC has acquired Syncplicity, an enterprise file-management service provider, for an undisclosed sum. …mehr
A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has determined that a Kodak patent asserted in a complaint against Apple and Research In Motion is invalid, Kodak said on Monday. …mehr
