Im 2.Quartal 2006 soll Sony's Anfang September auf den Markt gekommene mobile High-End-Konsole Sony PSP ernstzunehmende Konkurrenz aus Großbritannien bekommen. Laut vieler Stimmen im Web plant Tiger Telematics, bekannt für seine Windows Mobile-Konsole Gizmondo ein Nachfolgemodell mit Widescreen-Display... …mehr
Nur erfolgreiche Geschäfte könnten Arbeitsplätze sichern und schaffen, kommentierte Siemens-Chef Klaus Kleinfeld die bei SBS und Com geplanten Stellenstreichungen. …mehr
Die SAP AG ist bei der Suche nach einem Ersatz für den vom Konkurrenten Oracle weggeschnappten Retail-Spezialisten Retek nun offenbar fündig geworden. …mehr
Symantec stellt mit der Symantec Gateway Security 5600 Series die dritte Generation seiner Security Appliances vor, die speziell für mitteltändische Unternehmen konzipiert wurdern. …mehr
Mehr als 1700 Anwender von Business-Software haben im Rahmen der Studie "ERP-Zufriedenheit Deutschland 2005" ihr Urteil abgegeben. Dabei stellten sie den Herstellern und ihren Produkten im Schnitt die Note "Gut" aus. …mehr
Bernhard Rohleder, Hauptgeschäftsführer des Bundesverbands Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM), kommentiert den Ausgang der Bundestagswahl: "Die Wahl hat nicht die notwendige Klärung der politischen Verhältnisse gebracht. Wer auch immer die künftige Bundesregierung stellt: Die begonnenen Reformen müssen beschleunigt und vertieft werden." …mehr
Multinational outsourcer EDS has retrenched 106 applications development staff from its Australian operation, however the company is vehemently denying the redundancies are payback for failed wage negotiations late last month. …mehr
IBM recently announced its IT optimization strategy, which, it says, will help companies better align their IT infrastructure with their business processes. The end result -- streamlining a company to provide the best services at a minimal cost. …mehr
Technology from New Zealand financial management software provider Greentree is being used in Botswana. …mehr
At last week's HP Global Partner Conference held in Las Vegas, HP CEO and president, Mark Hurd, said in his opening keynote address that one of the main strategies for HP going forward will be to eliminate the complexity of doing business with the technology giant. …mehr
When Hurricane Ivan tore through the Florida panhandle a year ago, J.T. Young was one of hundreds of residents whose homes were damaged. So when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, the regional CIO at Gulf Power Co. was quick to lend support to some of the more than 600 workers at sister company Mississippi Power Co. who either lost their homes or suffered significant property damage. …mehr
When it comes to open source vendors and innovation, Bill Gates doesn't waver. In an interview at Microsoft's annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) last week, Gates told CNet, "I don't think that someone who completely gives up license fees is ever going to have a substantial R&D budget and do the hard things, the things too hard to do in a university environment." …mehr
At the OpenWorld conference this week Oracle will announce a deal with EDS to combine both companies' application management and modernization services as a single offering. …mehr
Rally Software Development is adding an Eclipse plug-in as well as features such as advanced filters for defect management to its hosted service for software lifecycle management. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to acquire IT asset and service management software vendor Peregrine Systems Inc. in a cash deal for US$425 million, the two companies announced Monday. By integrating Peregrine's products into its HP OpenView systems management suite, HP said it hopes to position itself as one of the market leaders in asset management software. …mehr
Application development for handheld devices will become a key focus of the Eclipse Foundation for open source tooling. Nokia will announce on Monday that it has joined Eclipse and is proposing a project to build a framework for mobile Java developer tools. …mehr
Positioning its middleware as a comprehensive SOA platform, Oracle on Monday will roll out an upgrade to its application server that adds a business rules engine, boosts support for Web services, and features an updated ESB (enterprise services bus). …mehr
While many issues remain unsettled in the area of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, IT security experts believe that it can be the next major target for various attacks. …mehr
The U.S. Coast Guard is deploying the BelManage IT management system from Maynard, Mass.-based Belarc Inc. on its 40,000 desktops, servers and laptops, the company announced today. The system has already been implemented on 23,000 machines. …mehr
Last week Oracle announced its acquisition of Siebel Systems for US$5.85 billion. According to Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison: 'Siebel's CRM OnDemand was one of the main motivators for the acquisition.' …mehr
Seeking to address the increasing concerns in rural health systems, the Development Bank of the Philippines, through IT subsidiary DBP Data Center Inc. (DCI), has teamed up with health-care solutions provider Salus Informatics Inc. to develop IT solutions for the public health sector. …mehr
Digitizing medical records in the U.S. could save the health care industry as much as US$81 billion a year and help medical practitioners avoid mistakes, according to a study released last week by the Rand Corp. …mehr
Cicso Monday announced its SME offering, dubbed the Cisco Business Communications Solution. According to the company the reason for delving into the SME arena is that it wants to bring its enterprise offerings down to the SME -- thereby levelling the playing field between SMEs and enterprises. …mehr
Indelibly scarred by the all too human mistakes of its previous senior management, the Australian Department of Immigration, Multiculturalism and Indigenous Affairs has rekindled its faith in information technology. …mehr
Not only is the Philippine contact center industry having difficulty finding qualified agents, given the poor 3 percent to 5 percent acceptance rate, but it is also finding it hard to retain a significant part of its current workforce. …mehr
Web-Content-Management ist inzwischen fester Bestandteil von Enterprise-Content-Management- Plattformen. Spezialisierte Produkte sind jedoch oft die bessere Wahl. …mehr
Viele Unternehmen putzen ihre Karriereseiten hübsch heraus, um talentierte Stellensuchende anzulocken. Einigen gelingt die Eigenwerbung besonders gut. …mehr