Erstmals hat die zum Telekom-Konzern gehörende Management-Beratung Detecon International den ICT-Award für außergewöhnliche Leistungen und Produkte in der IT vergeben. Die Gewinner: testCloud, Transinsight und UPcload. …mehr
Die Unternehmerin Roya Mehboob hat in Afghanistan eine Software-Firma gegründet, die ausschließlich Frauen einstellt - in einem Land, in dem Frauen zumeist nicht außerhalb des Hauses arbeiten und nur fünf Prozent der Menschen Zugang zu einem Computer haben. …mehr
Betreiber eines drahtlosen Netzwerks (WLAN) sollen künftig nicht mehr so schnell haften, wenn WLAN-Nutzer im Internet gegen das Gesetz verstoßen. …mehr
Aufgrund rückläufiger Servicegeschäfte ist bei Deutschlands zweitgrößtem Softwarehersteller Software AG der Umsatz zurückgegangen. …mehr
Microsoft weitet seine Klage gegen Motorola Mobililty auf den Mutterkonzern Google aus. Das teile das Software-Unternehmen aus Redmond bei einer Anhörung vor dem Landgericht München am Donnerstag mit. …mehr
Anderthalb Monate nach der Entscheidung eines US-Gerichtes zugunsten von Apple, wurde dieses Urteil jetzt revidiert. Samsung darf das Galaxy Nexus damit wieder in den USA verkaufen, mehr wert ist allerdings die Wirkung der Revision. …mehr
Amazon-Chef Jeff Bezos sprach mit der Nachrichtenagentur dpa über den Wettbewerb im Tablet-Geschäft und seine Erfahrungen in der Amazon-Kunden-Hotline. …mehr
Analyst Bob O'Donnel von Marktforscher IDC hält die Preispolitik der Hersteller, die sich bei Windows-8-Tablets an herkömmlichen Laptops orientiert, für einen groben Fehler, der sich schnell rächen könnte. …mehr
Wenn Sie schon einmal Rechnungsbelege mühsam aus Ihrer Mailbox extrahieren mussten, ist Mail Attachment Downloader (MAD) das richtige Tool für Sie. …mehr
Samsung posititioniert sein neues Smartphone "Galaxy S3 Mini" gegen Apples iPhone 5 und lockt mit einem günstigeren Preis. …mehr
Erfahren Sie, wie Sie Windows 7, Windows XP und Windows-Server im Netz wirksam gegen Viren, Würmer, Trojaner und andere Bedrohungen absichern. …mehr
Der drittgrößte US-Mobilfunk-Provider Sprint ist Übernahmeziel des japanischen Softbank-Konzerns. Entsprechende Pressemeldungen wurden nun bestätigt. …mehr
Der Online-Händler Amazon startet demnächst eine digitale Leihbücherei und bringt ein neues Kindle-Modell früher als erwartet auf den hiesigen den Markt. …mehr
Zu den bekanntesten Online-Diensten, die Microsoft für Unternehmen anbietet, gehört Exchange Online. Dabei stellt der Software-Anbieter gehostete Exchange-Postfächer zur Verfügung. Mitarbeiter können diese nahezu so nutzen, als stünden sie in der eigenen Infrastruktur. …mehr
Fujitsu will mit dem Stylistic M532 ein Tablet für den Einsatz im Business und Freizeit gleichermaßen anbieten. Sicherheit und VDI-Integration auf der einen Seite, zahlreiche Multimedia-Features und schickes Design für die Privatnutzung. Im Test überzeugt das mit Android arbeitende Quad-Core-Tablet. …mehr
Die Preisunterschiede bei Notebooks verschiedener Hersteller ist enorm, auch wenn die Ausstattung augenscheinlich sehr ähnlich ist. Ist der Preis gerechtfertigt, oder wird hier der Markenname mitbezahlt? …mehr
In einem neuen Labor von Humboldt-Uni und Bundesdruckerei sollen zehn Studenten und Mitarbeiter an sicheren Identitäten forschen. …mehr
Das Startup Weclapp aus Marburg spricht mit einer ERP-Suite aus der Cloud mittelständische Firmen an. Zum Auftakt gibt es Warenwirtschaft und CRM zur Miete. …mehr
Sie besitzen eine große Musik-Sammlung auf Ihrem Android-Gerät? Wir stellen Ihnen Apps vor, mit denen Sie diese komfortabel verwalten können. …mehr
Es ist das "Entdecke-dich-selbst-Buch" für die Generation Tablet. Hier geht es nicht entlang der Buchstaben, sondern entlang der Bilder und Grafiken. Und das Ganze in einem Buchformat, das näher an den Tablet-Rechnern ist als am klassischen Buch - nur ein bisschen dicker. …mehr
Ziele sind für ein Team wie der Leuchtturm für ein Schiff. Vor allem in unruhigem Gewässer geben sie Orientierung und Ansporn, sagt Karl Heinz Lorenz. …mehr
The information security industry is in an unsustainable inflationary spiral due to low unemployment and rising salaries, according to not-for-profit membership body (ISC)2. …mehr
A parliamentary committee in the UK is investigating the relationship between China-based networking giant Huawei and BT, following a damning US report that said the Chinese company posed a threat to its national security. …mehr
A single mystery algorithm that placed and cancelled orders on Nasdaq's stock exchange accounted for 4 percent of all quote traffic on the US stock market last week, according to market data firm Nanex. …mehr
The UK's guidelines for policing offensive comments on social media websites are to be reviewed by lawyers, academics and social media companies, such as Twitter and Facebook. …mehr
Networking vendor, Brocade, has announced a range of its Ethernet and storage area networking (SAN) fabric switches have been integrated by Hitachi Data Systems for networking technology in its new Unified Compute Platform (UCP) converged infrastructure solutions. …mehr
Japan's Softbank, which is in negotiations to make a major investment in U.S. operator Sprint Nextel, is also mulling a competitive bid for MetroPCS, Japanese media reported Friday. …mehr
For the last few years, I've been using a flip case for my iPhone to keep it safe and to store cards I needed instant access to--transit passes, memberships, and the like. Unfortunately, the iPhone 5's new elongated design put the kibosh on reusing my beloved case for a third year running, so out on a case hunt I did go. …mehr
A rift has developed between WikiLeaks and the hacker collective Anonymous, threatening a partnership that the rebel groups have leveraged in their self-described campaigns against government secrecy and corporate malfeasance. …mehr
Australia's demand for superfast broadband and the need for better fixed-line telecommunications infrastructure is growing, NBN Co said. …mehr
There's a new iPod touch on the block and, in many of the ways that most matter, it's a doozy. While it's tempting to compare it to a phone-less iPhone 5--particularly given its similar height, weight, thickness, and Lightning connector--the iPod touch is a device intended for a different audience. An audience that skews younger than the iPhone's and one that desires a cool media and game player that can stand on its own rather than feel like an iPhone's hobbled sibling. And for this reason, a comparison to the is more apt. …mehr
For the lack of standards, a good portion of an entire city was lost. …mehr
India's competitive managed services market is expected to undergo consolidation, leaving space for just a handful of players, according to an ABI Research report. …mehr
Hong Kong workers are keen on adopting mobile workstyles and offices in the city will use 18 percent more computing devices for work by 2020. …mehr
Data plan prices for 4G networks might be 20 percent higher than those of 3G, but there are signs that 4G tariffs will be lowered thanks to competition among operators, according to ABI Research. …mehr
Australian and Korean B-boys will settle their differences by videoconference in a dance battle set to go off this Sunday. Australia's research-and-education broadband network, AARNet, will connect three large public screens in Melbourne, Perth and Seoul in a demonstration of technology bridging distant cultures. …mehr
Last week I needed to take a screen shot on my phone to show someone a security flaw on a recently launched website (ahem, Wheedle). Apple's iOS has the ability to take screenshots by pressing the home and lock button at the same time, but there is no pre-bundled app to edit and annotate screenshots. …mehr
Treasurers in Asia are paying little attention to operational risk, according to a survey of 80 finance and treasury executives based in Hong Kong and Singapore. …mehr
If you've been using to rip Blu-ray movies to your hard drive, you may have noticed that the resulting MKV movies can be very, very large. If you want to reduce the size of those files without manually stepping through a lengthy and rather complex demuxing, transcoding, and remuxing process--or even looking those words up--downloading RipBot264 is the order of the day. …mehr
As you might guess, this new Windows 8-based Sony all-in-one isn't your average AIO. Inside the modest exterior beats the heart of an Ultrabook, along with a ten-point multitouch screen and a built-in battery. So you can either think of the Tap 20 (also known by the sexy name SVJ20215CXW) as a smallish AIO or a really big tablet. In reality, it's a little of both. …mehr
This weeks roundup of iOS apps is full of Hurt. Trust us. …mehr
Researchers at the User Interface Software Technology conference this week demonstrated unique projects that took advantage of a new, pressure-sensitive "forcepad" that could debut in ultrabooks as soon as next year. …mehr
With iPhones running iOS 6, some users are unable to change their default ringtone selection. To see if you have this bug, start by going to Settings -> Sounds -> Ringtone. From the list that appears, tap the name of the ringtone you want to be the default. A checkmark now appears after the selected tone. The next time you receive a phone call, your selected ringtone should play. If it does, all is good. …mehr
Back in August the Free Software Foundation launched a new aimed at helping buyers of digital content avoid products encumbered with restrictions, so it only makes sense to see the advocacy group follow up this week with a similar effort targeting hardware. …mehr
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is broadening its portfolio with the release of a Unified Compute Platform (UCP). …mehr
Scarcely a week goes by these days without the emergence of some new approach to the vexing facing Linux users on Windows 8 hardware, and this week is no exception. …mehr
Well, that's one lingering answered. …mehr
More than a year after its acquisition by Twitter, popular social media management application TweetDeck has a whole new look. Twitter has a new version of TweetDeck that sports a more flexible layout and the option for a brighter new design. …mehr
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. …mehr
Over the past two years, OTG Management, an operator of airport restaurants, has spent $10 million putting some 600 iPads in passenger waiting areas and on dining tables. This is just the beginning, too. The iPad project is taxiing for takeoff with 7,000 iPads to be deployed across four North American airports in the next 18 months. …mehr
Reports of weakness in the hardware and components sectors rolled in this week from market researchers and vendors, contributing to an overall decline in confidence in tech on the part of IT analysts and investors. …mehr
Leave it to a company that makes handbags and diaper bags to make a laptop bag thats practical, comfortable, and attractive. I carried JuJuBes $200 messenger-style laptop bag around for a week, carting it to work and home again on my bike and on public transportation. Not only did it fit all of my daily essentials, it was easy to carry and relatively compacteven when stuffed with a laptop, a wind breaker, and enough toiletries and makeup to stock the shelves of a tiny Walgreens. …mehr
It's nice to be versatile, and the $105 Akitio Cloud Hybrid is just that. You can use this single-bay drive box either for network-attached storage (NAS) via the unit's ethernet jack, or for direct-attached storage (DAS) on a PC or Mac via the box's USB 3.0 port. …mehr
The is the newest member of Western Digitals portable hard drive family. Its not wildly different from previous My Passport models, but the Edge does have USB 3.0 connectivity, and has slimmed down to an ultra-thin 4.40 by 0.43 inch enclosure. The My Passport Edge also has many of the features weve come to expect from Western Digitals Mac-centric drives: pre-formatted using HFS+, Time Machine compatibility, WD Security, and WD Drive Utilities. It comes in a 500GB capacity and is backed by WDs three-year warranty. …mehr
Looking for a Halloween font that's more trick than treat? Let these creepy five send a shiver up your spine, without scaring your pocket bookbecause all are free for personal use. They'll all run on Windows and Mac, so the only surprises are the ones you write yourself. …mehr
Australia's top banks are moving forward with plans to support near field communications (NFC) despite Apple's decision not to support the contactless payment technology in the iPhone 5. A number of NFC-enabled devices running Google's Android mobile platform are available in Australia, including smartphones from Samsung, HTC and Sony. …mehr
New Zealand police officers have been given various levels of training in the extent of police powers under the Search and Surveillance Act, but there may still be matters open to future interpretation, says police assistant commissioner Malcolm Burgess. …mehr
