Hewlett-Packard macht noch keine Angaben dazu, wie stark der weltweite Abbau von 27.000 Arbeitsplätzen Deutschland treffen wird. …mehr
Der Marktforscher NPD Group hat in seiner jüngsten Studie die Verkaufszahlen von Laptops, Netbooks und Tablets analysiert. Demnach liefert Apple alleine beim iPad mehr Stückzahlen aus, als alle anderen Hersteller von ihrem kompletten Portfolio an tragbaren Computern. …mehr
Das IT-Blog TalkAndroid bestätigt frühere Gerüchte, dass Google in diesem Jahr mehrere Android-Smartphones und -Tablets unter eigenem Namen anbieten will. Und fügt ihnen neue Informationen hinzu. …mehr
Nach den Friedensverhandlungen von Apple und Samsung in dem erbitterten Patentstreit hüllen sich die Unternehmen in Schweigen. Lediglich die "Korea Times" berichtete unter Berufung auf ihre Quellen, die beiden zerstrittenen Unternehmen hätten "nicht zu einer klaren Einigung" gefunden. Offizielle Angaben gibt es nicht. …mehr
Oracle droht eine schmerzhafte Niederlage in dem großen Prozess gegen Google wegen des Smartphone-Betriebssystems Android. …mehr
Die Deutsche Telekom hält an ihren mittelfristigen Zielen für die neuen Geschäftsfelder fest. …mehr
Das Geschäft von Hewlett-Packard (HP) schrumpft. Das Management reagiert mit drastischen Maßnahmen und will 27.000 Stellen streichen. …mehr
Phishing-Angriffe, Bespitzelung und Spam können jeden treffen. Deshalb tut Selbstschutz Not. Ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel dazu sind Security-Tools. Wir stellen Programme vor, die Windows-PCs im Netz sicherer machen und vor Betrüger schützen. …mehr
Leerer Akku, volle Speicherkarte - solche Foto-Pannen verderben die gute Laune. Mit unseren Tipps gelingen Ihnen perfekte Bilder in jeder Situation. …mehr
Schraubenzieher ade: Wenn Sie wissen wollen, welche Hardware in Ihrem PC arbeitet, brauchen Sie nur die passenden Diagnose-Tools. Wir stellen drei Gratis-Programme vor. …mehr
Glassboard ist ein sicherer Weg, um Inhalte mit Freunden und Kollegen zu teilen. Nur wer explizit zu einem Board eingeladen wurde, der sieht auch die freigegebenen Inhalte. …mehr
Wie die jüngste Erhebung des Hotspot-Betreibers iPass ergab, hat die neue Mobilität der Mitarbeiter ihre Licht-, aber auch ihre Schattenseiten. Viele von ihnen sind so sehr auf die durchgängige Anbindung angewiesen, dass sie als "abhängig" bezeichnet werden könnten. …mehr
Mit der Exilim EX-ZR200 bringt Casio eine weitere Digitalkamera mit flotter Serienbildfunktion. Ob das Modell auch bei den Auflösungs- und Rauschmessungen überzeugen konnte, verrät der ausführliche Test. …mehr
From nine to five und alle im Büro - das war einmal. Heute arbeiten Mitarbeiter oft weit verstreut und zu unterschiedlichsten Zeiten. …mehr
Die Wahrnehmung des Rechts auf Überwachung der Wiedereingliederung ist nicht von der Zustimmung der betroffenen Arbeitnehmer abhängig. …mehr
Lesen Sie in unserem Ratgeber, wie Sie mit kostenlosen Linux- und Open-Source-Tools Ihre Daten retten und sichern können! …mehr
Das Spiel Angry Birds hat viele Parallelen zum CIO-Job. Wir zeigen, welche das sind und wie man ein besserer CIO werden kann. …mehr
Online anonymity is once again under attack. This time, it comes from the New York state Senate floor, where is bill is aiming to cut down on cyberbullying, protect small businesses, and -naturally - protect politicians from anonymous attacks during campaign season. …mehr
About 4.5 million Catholic school students will get access to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud e-mail and collaboration suite as part of a 3-year deal the software vendor struck with the Catholic International Education Office (OIEC). …mehr
Unlike iOS's Notes, OS X's built-in app for quick notes, Stickies, goes beyond simple text. Still, it feels dated these days, and perhaps its biggest flaw is that it doesn't sync across Macs or with your iOS devices. If you're looking for something a bit more modern that lets you create and manage text notes, and access those notes anywhere you've got an Internet connection, () may be the solution. …mehr
Facebook , but that's not stopping the site from releasing a social photo-sharing app of its own. …mehr
Google has embarked on a final campaign to warn the remaining half million PCs it reckons could still be infected with the DNSChanger malware that they risk losing Internet connectivity on 9 July. …mehr
Box unveiled for its cloud storage service aimed at making it easier for business customers to manage and protect data stored in the cloud. Among the various cloud storage and file sharing options available Box already stands apart from the crowd in catering more to businesses than consumers, and these latest improvements put even more distance between Box and its rivals. …mehr
Facebook its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company to acquire the popular photo-sharing app Instagram. …mehr
It's been more than three years since , and the long-term direction of its bigger--if not better--outsourcing business is no more clear than it was on the day the deal closed. …mehr
Facebook on Thursday launched , a new standalone iPhone app for browsing your friends' photos and sharing new ones of your own. , it might be sweating bullets right now. …mehr
Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon. …mehr
With its new search/browser app Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a . …mehr
Anyone who's ever driven a sports car knows the thrill of taking it out on the highway and pressing down on the gas. After years of driving an economy car and chugging up hills, the way a sports car leaps to respond to such challenges is hard to forget. …mehr
Microsoft appears to be closing in on a release of Microsoft Office for both iOS and Android this fall, despite previous denials. …mehr
on Tuesday announced a new effort aimed at helping everyday users of the Web become more proficient at developing and helping to create it. …mehr
What's the best operating system for businesses? If you were to ask Microsoft, you'd probably expect them to preach the virtues of the company's upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which arrives later this year on both PCs and tablets. …mehr
Today's smartphones have bigger and better screens than ever before. But, while a 4- or 5-inch screen may feel roomy on your mobile device, it's probably less than a quarter the size of to the screen that your laptop or desktop boasts. If you'd like to use all of those inches for viewing and controlling your , meet AirDroid, a handy mobile application that allows you to take complete control of your Android device via your computer's Web browser. …mehr
Tracker's PDF-XChange Pro 2012 ($74) bundles a number of PDF-XChange apps that together attempt to create a suite comparable to the $449 , just for much less money. According to Tracker, PDF-XChange Pro is a favorite download for corporations--and based on price alone, what CFO wouldn't be happy? But is PDF-XChange Pro 2012 a good deal for the little guy, too? …mehr
If you need to do a project for school, and also happen to have a lot of spare time on your hands, then maybe you should give stop motion a go. Seriously--because you can recreate something like , and it will look almost like the real thing. …mehr
Google chairman Eric Schmidt announced this week at the London Science Museum that his company would fund the U.K. charity Teach First, which will provide teacher training and student equipment, including the Raspberry Pi, for the purpose of improving computing education in the country. …mehr
PCWorld tests computer products in real-world settings with applications that an average PC user is likely to use day in and day out. To evaluate monitors, we assemble a jury of PCWorld editors and analysts to rate the performance of each product as it displays a number of test screens. …mehr
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries. …mehr
Previewed at , Autodesk's has hit the App Store for all to test and play with. Being the naturally curious sketcher that I am, I took it for a quick spin. …mehr
Although Microsoft and Yahoo are search partners, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) may complain that Yahoo's new Axis search add-on is slowing down the browser. …mehr
offers a mobile antivirus and security app for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and BlackBerry devices, called . For $29.95 per year, it protects you and your mobile device from viruses, spyware, identity theft, and online fraud. The app also offers antitheft, parental controls, and data backup--all of which can be accessed via BullGuard's web-based control panel (that it calls the Mobile Security Manager). …mehr
Color blindness is not a serious condition for most people who have it, but it can still be annoying. My own color blindness--called protanopia, also known as "red-green" color blindness--makes it difficult for me to distinguish between green, yellow, and red colors. When I pick color schemes for designs, I avoid embarrassing mistakes by using Adobe Kuler or . But even with these tools, communicating about colors was still a challenge--until I found the free Colorblind Assistant. …mehr
Tim Cook's in the kitchen, whipping up some tasty Apple turnover; Yahoo bakes its keys right into its latest product; and a Rogue Amoeba iPhone app apparently isn't to Apple's taste. The remainders for Thursday, May 24, 2012 are slaving over a hot stove. …mehr
Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rather than as links. …mehr
If there's one phrase I associate with the future, it's control panels. You know, the gleaming, custom built set of controls that provide a direct interface to the advanced machines that we use in our every day lives, here in the futuristic world of the 21st century. …mehr
What's this? An unannounced 14-inch Ultrabook called the Dell XPS 14 has popped up on Amazon. The specs suggest this superthin laptop will give other Ultrabooks a run for their money--it's got an Ivy Bridge processor, Nvidia discrete graphics, an HD+ display, and 12 hours of battery life. …mehr
The Google+ app for Android just received a big update that simplifies the way users can start Hangout video chats from their phones. …mehr
Google has gone big with the changes in the latest version of its mobile search app for iOS, starting with full-screen searches and views for the iPhone. Other changes introduced in Wednesday include speed improvements, an enhanced yet simplified user interface, and gesture tweaks for easy navigation. …mehr
3D printers are awesome. There's a catch, though: The printers are nowhere near inexpensive enough for most people to just pick one up. We've seen some cheap ones like the , but that will still run you up $500. What if you could get one for free, though? …mehr
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries. …mehr
It's after dinner hour and you're still at work searching for the font your boss requested. You want to strangle the person who suggested the Boss keep a scrapbook of designs they like. How long can it take to match a font to this magazine clip? Find My Font Pro ($70, 30-day free trial) is here to help. How much it can help depends on your sample quality and the rarity of the font.Find My Font Pro is really easy to use. Simply open your bmp, gif, jpg, pbm, pgm, png, ppm, tif, xbm, or xpm file, then use the tools to select the text of the unknown font. To make matching fonts easier, Find My Font offers tools to magnify, rotate, split letters (for when your letters are too close together to get a good sample), and alter the baseline shift if your sample letters are not straight. In addition, if your image is not high resolution, you'll probably need to hold down shift to select additional pixels of the letter to give Find My Font a good sample.Once you have your mystery-font letters selected, enter the actual letters using upper and lower case, and no spaces. Find My Font Pro searches your computer and the internet quickly. (The $50 Standard edition checks only local drives for your mystery font.)Unfortunately, Find My Font is not very accurate when it comes to especially detailed or archaic fonts; or from a low-resolution file. And Find My Fonts will be no help if you don't know what the corresponding letters are (as is common with dingbats or pictorial fonts). Plus, if you have a PDF, you'll need to convert it first into an image file (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .pbm, .pgm, .png, .ppm, .tif, .xbm, or xpm) readable by Find My Font or take a screenshot.Find My Font did much better at identifying standard fonts, especially those from a really clean sample. This may be useful if you see a font you like, but can't afford it and need to search for a similar freeware alternative. That said, if you have no budget to purchase fonts, you're unlikely to want to spend $70 on Find My Fonts, and when the 30-day trial has expired, my guess is that you'll prefer a free online service like MyFont.com's , which works the same as Find My Font, only without the local search.Once you have a number of matches, chose the best fit and use Find My Font to purchase (if the font is not freeware) and download the font from the official owner of the font set. This is a useful addition to Find My Font, as is the automatic installation of fonts if you happen to be running Windows 2000 or XP (Windows Vista and 7 don't require you to install fonts, just drop them in your fonts folder).Unfortunately, Find My Font doesn't include the function that I would find most useful: a font creator for those fonts you just can't match. How great would that be, to take a sample of the closest match in Find My Fonts and be able to tweak it until it matched perfectly? Something for a future, slightly more expensive pro version, maybe. If this is a function you really need, try ($79) or (if you need it for commercial purposes) ($199). Both versions offer a free trial, and are good---if not complex---programs to create a bespoke font. If you're on a tighter budget, try similar Type 3.2 ($65), or its free version with limited functionality.Find My Font could be useful if you have a clean sample of a font you know is somewhere hidden in your fonts folder, or may be an easy match. Other than that, Find My Font may be your last resort when others fail, but depending on the font you need, you may be better off searching one of the many font sites online. …mehr
Samsung and Apple can't find a compromise, IBM employees lose out on Siri, and Jony Ive tears up about Apple's next great product. The remainders for Wednesday, May 23, 2012 can't win for losing. …mehr
PCWorld tests computer products in real-world settings with applications that an average PC user is likely to use day in and day out. To evaluate monitors, we assemble a jury of PCWorld editors and analysts to rate the performance of each product as it displays a number of test screens. …mehr
Service-level agreements and legal standards for cloud offerings will become more customized to individual customers and vertical industries as the cloud market continues to mature and providers look for ways to differentiate their offerings, researchers at the University of London predict. …mehr
Automator--OS X's automation utility--gets overlooked far more than it should. It's not terribly difficult to use and it can ease the burden of performing repetitive tasks. In this week's video I cobble together a couple of simple Automator workflows--one for easily compressing files and folder and adding them to email messages and another for creating an automatic backup routine between two volumes. …mehr
A pair of security researchers have proposed an extension to the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that would allow browsers to detect and block fraudulently-issued SSL certificates. …mehr
, a new searching and browsing tool that syncs between your Web browser of choice and your iOS devices. …mehr
It's fairly well established now that QR codes, well, kind of suck. Although lots of people own a smartphone or gadget with a scanner now, no-one really bothers to scan them--that's . Still, that doesn't mean smart uses of the technology should go unnoticed, just like Korean Emart's . …mehr
A federal judge in Kentucky this week upheld a lower court's decision to throw out crucial evidence in a drug case because the evidence was gathered with the help of a GPS tracking device that was installed without a warrant on the suspect's vehicle. …mehr
What a difference a year makes in the . …mehr
