Es wurde Zeit: Mit neuen (Cloud-)Services, die teils aus Akquisitionen entstanden, will Big Blue vor allem die Bereiche Mobile und Big Data Security besetzen. …mehr
Die Samsung-Smartphones wurden um ein NFC-Modul im Micro-SD-Format erweitert, um die Zugangskontrolle sicherer zu gestalten. …mehr
Das iPad Mini wird angeblich ab dem 2. November erhältlich sein, 10 Tage nach der Vorstellung am 23. Oktober. Erste Details zur Ausstattung des kleinen iPad sind wohl bereits bekannt. …mehr
Laut einem Bericht des Bitkom ist in diesem Jahr in Deutschland die Nachfrage nach Tablet-Computern unerwartet stark gestiegen. Der Hightech-Verband stützt sich auf eine Prognose von EITO, der zufolge mit 3,2 Millionen verkauften Tablets gerechnet wird. …mehr
Twitter hat einer Bitte der Polizei in Hannover entsprochen und den Account der rechtsextremen Gruppe "Besseres Hannover" gesperrt. …mehr
Google stellt am 29. Oktober Neues rund um das Betriebssystem Android vor. Gerüchten zufolge weden darunter neue Smartphones und eine weiterentwickelte Version des Android-Betriebssystems sein. …mehr
Vom 18. bis 31. Oktober 2012 beantwortet André Häusling Ihre Karrierefragen, vor allem bezüglich der Chancen im Umfeld der agilen Softwareentwicklung. …mehr
Der Online-Handel boomt und Ebay profitiert davon. Umsatz und Gewinn legten im dritten Quartal ordentlich zu. …mehr
Fallen Speichersysteme eines Unternehmens durch einen technischen Defekt aus, bedroht das im schlimmsten Fall die Existenz des Unternehmens. Mit der richtigen Strategie geht der Speicher-Crash jedoch glimpflich aus. Für den Ernstfall stehen professionelle Datenretter bereit, die Daten selbst in aussichtslos erscheinenden Lagen schnell wieder herstellen können. …mehr
Die Applikation AnyTAG NFC Launcher nutzt die NFC-Funktionen aktueller Smartphones, um zuvor definierte Aktionen auszuführen, sobald der Nutzer das Smartphone an einen der Tags hält. …mehr
Immer mehr Fernsehgeräte aber auch Monitore setzen auf 3D. Während der Anteil an 3D-Inhalten stetig steigt, sind jedoch nach wie vor ein Großteil an Sendungen und Filmen im herkommlichen 2D verfügbar. Was muß bei der Wiedergabe von 2D-Inhalten auf 3D-Fernsehern oder Monitoren beachtet werden? …mehr
Die Virtualisierung von Hardware, Control-Software und Anwendungen soll flexibler als traditionelle Netze sein und den Anforderungen des Cloud Computings besser gerecht werden. …mehr
Wir haben Wolfgang Schwab von der Experton Group gebeten, den Trend zu vorkonfigurierten Systemen aus Analystensicht zu bewerten. Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM und Oracle gehen den Markt nach seiner Einschätzung unterschiedlich an. …mehr
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that owners of Windows RT hardware, including the company's own Surface RT, must acquire a commercial license for Office 2013 to use those devices' bundled Office apps at and for work. …mehr
Google today reported a for the third quarter, an unexpected slip that highlighted an online industry still struggling to make money on a growing mobile market. …mehr
Toshiba has introduced a new line of computers that, in keeping with Windows 8's emphasis on touch, offers an array of products with displays that can be poked and pinched. …mehr
Come Oct. 26, when Microsoft is set to stage a release party in New York City, consumers may have to choose between a tablet with Windows 8 or Windows RT. The operating systems look and feel the same, but devices will differ on performance, price, battery life, usage and application support. …mehr
Google's third-quarter financial results are out early and its shares are taking a beating because the company missed revenue and net income expectations. …mehr
Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company's poor third-quarter financial results, which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. …mehr
IBM's Watson computer -- best known for having competed successfully with human players in the TV quiz game Jeopardy -- is building its knowledge-base for its first 'serious' uses, in the medical world and the finance industry. Both are of great potential benefit to humanity as well as promising markets in the billions of dollars to IBM, says Manoj Saxena, general manager of the group developing Watson. …mehr
If you are set to buy a Windows 8-powered soon after its launch, you may have to switch to AT&T. A number of training videos for sales representatives have leaked and indicate that the Lumia 920 will be exclusive to the mobile carrier for the first six months after the phone's launch. …mehr
There's never any shortage of excitement and anticipation surrounding the major updates to that arrive twice each year, and Thursday's brand-new release is no exception. …mehr
Facing a sluggish PC market and deferring revenue from sales of its upcoming Windows 8 OS, Microsoft reported US$4.47 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013, a 22 percent decline from the same period a year earlier. …mehr
With a $249 Chromebook, Google is taking its biggest shot yet at bringing Chrome OS to the mainstream. …mehr
Chip company Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it would lay off 15 percent of its workforce as it tries to inch back to profitability at a time when the PC market is slumping. …mehr
Dell mapped out the next phase of its data center strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. …mehr
Webroot is here. The new security suite from Webroot includes a variety of updates in the areas of performance, and the overall user experience. But, the most notable feature of SecureAnywhere 2013 is that it now also protects Mac OS X. …mehr
The $130 Canon Pixma MG4220 will easily handle the needs of a home office, but its ink costs are higher than average, and they're ludicrously expensive if you make the mistake of purchasing the low-capacity PG-240 and CL-241 cartridges. On the other hand, the unit provides nice output, makes quick work of business documents and copies, and automatically duplexes--a nice feature set for the price. …mehr
Information about sales, profits and margins for specific Apple products should be made public, the judge hearing the company's lawsuit against Samsung Electronics ruled on Wednesday, though a higher court's decision could keep the data from ever being revealed. …mehr
A U.S. consumer electronics industry association is proposing "Ultra High Definition" become the common name for a new generation of television sets that offer a resolution four times that of today's high-def standard. …mehr
on Thursday released in the Mac App Store, though at a price higher than the company had initially intended to charge. The company says the app's $20 fee comes due to Twitter's increasing limitations on third-party apps. …mehr
As the Web increasingly becomes a conduit for expression of social unrest, Zambia and Malawi are moving to close down and more closely monitor online media. …mehr
While open-source tools help SMBs make good use of the latest technologies at lower cost, firms need reliable tech support for products used when they grow larger. …mehr
Due to a technical error, the CIO.com story, "FCC Paves Way for 4G LTE Mobile Broadband Service," which ran on the wire Wednesday, was missing its lede. The story has been corrected on the wire and the lede reads as follows: …mehr
Verizon Wireless' Share Everything plan, introduced in June, has helped boost the average Verizon wireless phone bill by 6.5% to $145 a month. …mehr
The lure of virtual desktop infrastructure - less costs for endpoints, reduced power requirements, lower management costs, better - is compelling but mastering the environment is tricky, say users that have embraced the technology. …mehr
If you've never seen chef Gordon Ramsay in his early television appearances--the original UK Kitchen Nightmares in particular--they're really spectacular. …mehr
Apple is expected to unveil its smaller iPad, dubbed 'iPad mini', at its official event on Tuesday, and it speculation is that the device could have a . However, new leaked parts that allegedly belong to Apple's upcoming tablet suggest otherwise. …mehr
These days, everyone wants to invoke Apple to score some political points-and for good reason. …mehr
Anyone even loosely following SAP lately should know that the company's goal is to reorient its entire product family around the , which first became generally available last year. According to SAP, HANA provides a level of performance improvement that can be nothing short of dazzling. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard and Dell have published compatibility lists of printers and multifunction devices for the upcoming Windows 8 and RT tablet OSes, with a large number of models listed as bring incompatible with Windows RT. …mehr
HP has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to the General Motors payroll, as the automaker , the two companies announced Thursday. …mehr
Facing a sluggish PC market and deferring revenue from sales of its upcoming Windows 8 OS, Microsoft reported US$4.47 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013, a 22 percent decline from the same period a year earlier. …mehr
Wall Street doesn't doubt that Juniper Networks is in play, but does doubt EMC's interest in the company. …mehr
