Das Schweizer Unternehmen ImCoSys präsentiert auf der CeBIT ein PDA-Smartphone mit Navigationsqualitäten. Als Betriebssystem soll Linux zum Einsatz kommen. …mehr
In seinem ersten Interview als Deutschland-Chef der IBM relativiert Johann Weihen das seit mehr als zehn Jahren propagierte Bild vom Dienstleistungskonzern. IBMs Geschäft stehe auf den Säulen Hardware, Software und Services, erklärt er gegenüber den CW-Redakteuren Wolfgang Herrmann und Christoph Witte. …mehr
Das Jahr 2006 scheint in der Entwicklung von Trojanischen Pferden zwei neue Trends zu setzen. Zum einen nutzen Hacker seit Kurzem brandneue Ideen, wie beispielsweise Trojaner-Bausätze zur individuellen Gestaltung eines Schädlings, um das Geschäft mit dem Internet-Betrug zu verfeinern. Zum anderen suchen sie ständig nach neuen Zielen. Das berichtet der Software-Anbieter Panda Software. Er beschreibt den Trojaner "RedBrowser.A" als ein Beispiel für beide Entwicklungen. …mehr
Der Voice-Portal-Spezialist Crealog zeigt auf der CeBIT CreaVoice Interactive Video Response (Stand B67 in Halle 12. …mehr
Die nach eigenen Angaben weltweit erste Communications Suite für Microsoft CRM 3.0 präsentiert die Cycos AG auf der CeBIT (Halle 4, F47). …mehr
Der weltgrößte Halbleiterproduzent Intel hat 3,1 Millionen Dollar in Lockdown Networks investiert, einen Anbieter von Security-Appliances. …mehr
Das IT-Adventure Netzwerk will junge innovative Unternehmen auf der CeBIT in der Innovation Area CeBIT Business Solutions Halle 5/ D68 zusammenbringen. …mehr
Der Anbieter Navigon und der Autovermieter Sixt kooperieren zur CeBIT 2006. …mehr
Die Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG setzt bei der Kommissionierung in einem ihrer Hochregallager auf Pick-by-Voice. …mehr
Beim IT-Sicherheitsanbieter Acunetix, können 5000 Unternehmen ihre Web-Site einem kostenlosen Sicherheits-Audit zu unterziehen. …mehr
Der Chef des britischen Mobilfunkanbieters Vodafone, Arun Sarin, steht auch nach den angekündigten Verkaufsplänen für die japanische Tochter weiter in der Kritik. …mehr
Was bisher nur aus Science-Fiction-Filmen bekannt war, soll bald auch für gestohlene Notebooks Realität werden. …mehr
Konsolidierung, Effizienzsteigerung und Internationalisierung gehören zu den aktuellen Herausforderungen, denen mittelständische Anwender im Bereich Unternehmenssoftware begegnen. …mehr
Neue Angriffsmethoden, immer leistungsfähigere Appliances und das Bemühen um besser geschützte Clients sind derzeit die Hauptthemen im Security-Markt. …mehr
Liebe Leser, wie an jedem Montag stellen wir Ihnen heute wieder unsere neue "Frage der Woche". …mehr
Die Deutsche Telekom hat sich zufrieden mit dem Absatz ihres Festnetz-Handys gezeigt. …mehr
Freenet.de will mit einem Handy, mit dem man unterwegs auch über das Internet telefonieren kann, in den Mobilfunk-Markt einsteigen. …mehr
Der Netzgigant propagiert "Unified Communications" als seine Vision einer konvergenten VoIP-Welt mit integrierten Anwendungen. …mehr
Die Windows-Variante für Einzelhandel und Gaststätten unterstützt Peripheriegeräte per Plug and Play. …mehr
Traditionelle Medien suchen verstärkt nach Möglichkeiten, am boomenden Online-Werbemarkt zu partizipieren. Jüngster Beweis ist die Übernahme von iVillage.com durch GEs Fernsehtochter NBC Universal. …mehr
Mit ERP Xpert liefert Infor auch ein neues User-Interface aus. …mehr
Die Reihen gegen Microsoft schließen sich. Unternehmen wie IBM, Oracle und Sun sowie Forschungseinsrichtungen haben sich jetzt zusammengeschlossen, um den Einsatz des Open-Document-Formats zu verbreiten. …mehr
Die Art und Weise, wie der Datenbankspezialist Security-Mängel in seinen Produkten beseitigt, hat ihm heftige Kritik eingebracht. …mehr
Nach IBM bringt nun auch der Rivale BMC spezielle System-Management-Produkte für kleine bis mittelgroße Unternehmen auf den Markt. …mehr
Microsoft hat betont, dass in sein kommendes Windows "Vista" keine so genannte Backdoor eingebaut wird, über die Ermittlungsbehörden auf verschlüsselte Dateien zugreifen könnten. …mehr
Die genaue Höhe des Investments ist nicht bekannt. …mehr
Der Anbieter von ID-Management-Lösungen präsentiert neue Single-Sign-on-Option. …mehr
In einem Vergleichstest der GPS Gesellschaft zur Prüfung von Software aus Ulm wurden zwölf ERP-Lösungen von elf Herstellern miteinander verglichen. Dabei konnte die "Oracle E-Business Suite" mehr Punkte einheimsen als SAPs "Mysap ERP". …mehr
Die Ankündigung des Providers, künftig für die zuverlässige Zustellung kommerzieller E-Mails kassieren zu wollen, hatte in den vergangen Tagen zu massiven Protesten geführt. Nun will das Unternehmen ein Stück weit einlenken: Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen sollen ausgenommen werden. …mehr
AMD bringt heute drei neue Varianten des Server-Prozessors "Opteron" heraus, um weitere Anteile an einem Markt zu gewinnen, der einst exklusiv von Intel bedient wurde. …mehr
Die Startup-Company Oco führt das Geschäftsmodell von Salesforce.com in ein neues Anwendungssegment. …mehr
Vergangene Woche provozierte Sun-CEO Scott McNealy den Konkurrenten HP mit dem Angebot, die Unix-Derivate Solaris und HP-UX zu verschmelzen. Jetzt legte Suns Softwarechef nach. …mehr
Das US-amerikanische Justizministerium hat eine Ermittlung bezüglich möglicher heimlicher Absprachen der vier weltweiten Musikfirmen ("Majors") bei der Bepreisung von Online-Musik eingeleitet. …mehr
Die Stanford University richtet ein neues Research Center ein, das sich der entstehenden akademischen Disziplin der Corporate Governance widmen soll. …mehr
Von 765 befragten CEO wollen 65 Prozent ihre Unternehmen in den nächsten zwei Jahren radikal verändern. Damit reagieren sie auf zunehmende Konkurrenz und Marktveränderungen. …mehr
"Auf eigenen Wunsch und mit sofortiger Wirkung" verlässt der Deutschland-Chef von Colt Telecom das Unternehmen. …mehr
Audeosofts "Resoom" konzentriert sich auf IT-Spezialisten. …mehr
Nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes in Wiesbaden sind deutsche Haushalte mit DVD-Systemen, Digitalkameras und MP3-Abspielgeräten gut ausgestattet. Dies gilt allerdings vor allem dann, wenn in den Haushalten auch Kinder leben. …mehr
Der größte amerikanische Telekomkonzern AT&T will den Konkurrenten BellSouth für 67 Milliarden US-Dollar über einen Aktientausch übernehmen. …mehr
One generalization we can make about computing is that over time, most technology items become cheaper, while at the same time, they become faster. This is true of broadband in its most common forms. Both Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and high-speed Internet cable services are available to millions of business and residential users worldwide and are now cheaper and faster than ever. Which is better for your situation as a telecommuter depends on your needs as well as what you or your company is willing to pay. …mehr
Along the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast, six months after Hurricane Katrina struck, there's a big deadline ahead for IT managers: June 1, the start of the next hurricane season. …mehr
Ingres Corp. was spun out of CA Inc. late last year to develop and sell the durable database technology that was released to the open-source community a year earlier. Dave Dargo, Ingres' chief technology officer, talked about the status of the new company and its place in the database community last week in an interview with Computerworld. …mehr
Gateway Agrees to Settle HP Patent Suit …mehr
Providence Home Services said that it fired one employee and that three others resigned in connection with the theft of backup computer tapes and disks from a parked car in Portland, Ore. …mehr
John Carini, CEO of iEnterprises Inc.... deployment is on your agenda. That is, make a top 10 list of required features and stop there. "People try to do too much with CRM," observes John Carini, CEO of iEnterprises Inc. in Murray Hill, N.J. "Do the top 10 things people do every day, and stop. If all CRM applications were rolled out in that fashion, you'd bring more value and have more success." Of course, he says, once you get those 10 things right, you can do more. But, he contends, the value of each subsequent item on the list diminishes in comparison with the effort it requires. Carini's company has been creating CRM tools for Notes users since 1995 and wireless CRM apps for the past five years, and he concludes that the best implementations -- whether wireless or wired -- have been highly focused on achieving specific goals. The CRM on the Go technology offered by iEnterprises lets you deploy in-house software as well as Salesforce.com, Siebel and most other commercial CRM applications on BlackBerry handhelds, and it can be bought as either a service or as packaged software. Expect to see CRM on the Go on Windows Mobile devices in Q3 and on Symbian-based handhelds by year's end. Write up your top 10 list of got-to-have mobile features and then stop scribbling. Annual subscription pricing starts at US$200 per user. …mehr
It's top marks to technology, nil for paper, at a long-established health food company on New South Wales' Central Coast about 80 kms north of Sydney. …mehr
Hardly a week goes by without the controversial issue of software patenting hitting the news. Particularly controversial are the business-method software patent filings that are inundating the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent attorneys are characterizing obvious and normal business methods of processing information as "machine systems" and describing the logic for automating a manual or semi-manual business method as an invention. And the patent office continues to accept such applications. …mehr
The opening last week of the National Intelligent Transport Systems Center in Port Melbourne has been a labor of love for technology sponsor NEC Business Solutions. Bristling with electronics, the center has combined more than A$2 million (US$1.49 million) of systems and applications to develop a cutting-edge multimedia and communications nerve center with tendrils stretching far across Victoria. …mehr
Satyam Expands in China as Costs Rise …mehr
Missouri State University's school of information systems and Web startup Savvica Inc. don't have a lot in common apart from tight budgets. In the recent past, their spending limitations likely would have meant choosing open-source software such as MySQL or Postgres as a database. …mehr
In seinem ersten Interview als Deutschland-Chef der IBM relativiert Johann Weihen das seit mehr als zehn Jahren propagierte Bild vom Dienstleistungskonzern. IBMs Geschäft stehe auf den Säulen Hardware, Software und Services, erklärt er gegenüber den CW-Redakteuren Wolfgang Herrmann und Christoph Witte. …mehr
To IT managers, high-stakes supercomputing may seem like the land-speed record: a freak show, amusing but hardly relevant. Oh, a car broke Mach 1? And a defense lab has a 280 TFLOPS computer? Cool. Now let's get back to work. …mehr
Mobility is definitely one of the key themes of 2006 with many organizations putting "mobility strategies" in place this year. The big challenge will be getting it right as it comprises a wide range of technologies from wireless handheld devices, mobile applications, wireless networks, VoIP over Wi-Fi and possibly RFID. …mehr
It seems that I get more questions about the MBA degree than any other career development topic. It appears to hold a uniquely prominent space in the minds of ambitious managers and would-be managers among the IT ranks. …mehr
In a departure from its traditional upgrade schedule that usually coincides with the change of seasons, Salesforce.com Monday announced Unlimited Edition, a product line that will sit above Enterprise Edition. …mehr
Listening to end users describe how they do their jobs and then watching them at work has led to some eye-opening moments for Franz Fruehwald, CIO for the Catholic Human Services unit within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. …mehr
While security breach notification laws are forcing businesses to take more responsibility for their data, the debate continues over when consumers should be notified of an incident. …mehr
A user calls IT and asks to have some reports reprinted. "These lists are printed once a quarter and consist of 10,000 pages, with an average of two pages per client," says pilot fish who fields the call and orders the reprinting. "The lists are also on our intranet as PDF files. Two days later, I saw that user in the hall pushing a cart filled with paper. Aren't those the lists I got for you two days ago? I asked. "Yes," he responded, "but I only need the lists of a single client. I'm bringing these to the shredder." …mehr
Tangible Software Solutions, a Canadian based software development and consulting company, has released version 2.5 of its VB.NET to C# conversion utility, Instant C#. Instant C# converts source code at all levels of implementation and handles code snippet conversion, external assembly references and ASP 2.0 web site conversion, according to Tangible Software Solutions president, Dave Doknjas. …mehr
At the VoiceCon Spring 2006 conference this week, rivals such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Avaya Inc. are poised to announce support for each other's IP communications technologies under the banner of the Session Initiation Protocol and other open standards. …mehr
Parasoft rolls out testing tool …mehr
Dassault agrees to purchase MatrixOne …mehr
About a year and a half ago, a group of IT directors at Partners HealthCare System Inc. took a look at their 1,200-strong organization and made a bold admission: They weren't as creative as they used to be. Despite pioneering technology efforts in the '80s and '90s, the IT group faced a health care landscape that was more complex and competitive than it was 10 years ago. "One of the things that occurs when you grow in size is you lose a bit of your entrepreneurship and innovation," says Mark Woodward, corporate director at Boston-based Partners. "We wanted to try to get some of that back." …mehr
Research firm IDC Corp. is playing down allegations by Toshiba Corp. that some vendors are inflating their sales figures in the cut-throat Australia-New Zealand notebook market. …mehr
Fresh on the heels of Cisco announcing it had bundled a number of its communications products, Citrix said Monday it was collaborating with the networking giant to integrate telephony into its hosted enterprise applications range. …mehr
Software development company Taskey, based in Canberra, Australia, is looking to Microsoft's .NET to increase the functionality of its Web-based management software. …mehr
Americans don't seem to be too upset with the idea that the People's Republic of China is censoring Internet content perused by its residents using the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines. …mehr
Sonic Software Corp. last week brought out a new version of its Actional service-oriented architecture (SOA) management tool that it said will provide business users with more visibility into business processes. …mehr
As a federal trade commissioner between 1997 and 2005, Orson Swindle was involved in the launch of the Federal Trade Commission's National Do Not Call Registry and participated in policy deliberations about information security and privacy. Now senior policy adviser and chairman at the Center for Information Policy Leadership -- a privacy think tank whose members include The Proctor & Gamble Co., Eli Lily & Co. and Microsoft Corp. -- Swindle talked with Computerworld last week about some of the privacy challenges facing corporate America. …mehr
Even though I had promised myself I was going to settle down and be happy in my current job, I interviewed for a security manager position at a large medical center. It was closer to home and offered better pay, and the gung-ho recruiter made it sound like there might be interesting projects to work on. …mehr
With nearly 300 brand-name products sold around the world, The Procter & Gamble Co. is renowned for its innovation. Throughout its 169-year history, the consumer products giant has applied its technological know-how to everything from superabsorbent diapers to structured paper towels. …mehr
Talent Management …mehr
Here's a secret of successful innovation: Change big, not small. No, that doesn't just mean you should think big when it comes to innovations. It means literally that you should only make big changes. Leave small things the same, and you'll be better off. And your users will be much better off. …mehr
Open source software is used by 17.5 percent of New Zealand ICT (information and communications technology) companies, according to the 2005 HiGrowth ICT sector survey. …mehr
Six months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the country is a bit better prepared for a major disaster -- but numerous obstacles remain, a panel of communications experts said late last month. …mehr
If necessity is the mother of invention, then a skunk works is her creative big sister. And if you follow the logic of that family tree, necessity is also the mother of skunk works. …mehr
For many years, vendors have been promoting intelligent storage switches, particularly for virtualization projects. Initial implementations, however, relied mainly on appliances that created performance bottlenecks and were application-specific and difficult to scale. As a result, end users have been slow to adopt those so-called smarter solutions. …mehr
RIM pays $612.5M to settle NTP suit …mehr
I have little doubt that when a lot of people read the news on our Web site last week that the Canadian company Corel and the Chinese company Lenovo had inked a deal to ship Corel's WordPerfect office productivity suite on a new line of Lenovo PCs, they could barely contain their disgust. …mehr
It's not what's coming into the corporate network that concerns Gene Fredriksen. It's what's going out. For the chief security officer at securities brokerage Raymond James Financial Inc. in St. Petersburg, Fla., leakage of sensitive customer data or proprietary information is the new priority. …mehr
Rebecca Dorries is one of the seven graduates to have been selected from a pool of 6500 applicants, for the Qantas IT graduate program this year. After completing high school in 2001, Dorries chose to study for a Bachelor of Information Technology at Queensland's Griffith University, where she discovered that IT could offer more career options than she had first imagined. …mehr
Enterprise Connection (EC) was recently awarded a contract to provide its software licence management solution to the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) in South Africa. …mehr
Communicating is something that all people do, irrespective of disabilities. In order to broaden the way in which people communicate, Vodacom has launched a cellphone for the blind or partially sighted. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday that it is supporting ChinaGrid, one of the world's largest grid computing implementations. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) CIO Randall Mott says HP's planned IT consolidation will deliver lights out data centers and system administrator-to-server ratios in excess of 1-to-200. In an interview Monday at the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Conference, he stressed that HP will be open about its progress and the lessons learned along the way as the company works to reduce the number of data centers from 85 to 6. Mott also spelled out some of the approaches he plans to take with the consolidation. Excerpts from the interview follow: …mehr
Impi Linux and Arivia.kom have announced a joint initiative aimed at solving the technical skills shortage currently experienced in the Linux and open source space in this country. …mehr
Susan Webb enrolled in a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Edith Cowan University along with 20 other females and 130 males. By the time Webb graduated in 2003, the number of females had dropped to four. This led Webb to undertake a PhD about the declining participation of women in IT. Webb tells Computer world that it "ain't easy" to be a woman in IT and you need to have a thick skin... …mehr
What is it about hardware manufacturers that turns them into complete imbeciles when it comes to software? I do not just mean writing software, but deciding what to include and how to get it to customers. …mehr
Georgetown University in Washington has called in the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a server breach that may have exposed confidential information including the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers belonging to more than 41,000 people. …mehr
Kagisano Group Holdings has invested R1.3 million(US$210,000) in call center technology from Spescom DataFusion and the Nasdaq-listed, Spescom group. …mehr
Sony Ericsson last week announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Google to provide Blogger and Web search as applications on all new generation phones. …mehr
Eight of the companies who tendered for the three-year South Africa State IT Agency (Sita) tender to provide open source distribution (operating system and applications), and related software support services for PCs for the agency and government, have been approved. …mehr
he only slapstick in Hewlett Packard Co. CIO Randall "Randy" Mott's approach to IT is the Three Stooges art on his tie. Although Mott may smile from time to time as he describes the challenges involved in consolidating his company's internal IT operations, there's nothing haphazard about his goals: to cut costs and improve operations. …mehr
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Monday announced that it has acquired NuView Inc., a Houston-based provider of network-attached storage management software. NuView's products focus on managing files in distributed, heterogeneous architectures through global namespace technology. Brocade said the software will be offered as part of its Brocade Tapestry products. …mehr
There's probably no wireless topic today that's more confusing than WiMax. It doesn't help that there are really two WiMax specifications (one of which doesn't even exist yet), or that the very name WiMax implies a relationship with that other "Wi" that isn't even there. So, let's start at the beginning. We generally organize wireless technologies by range -- the effective distance that the technology, when implemented, is designed to cover. This is the most important parameter in radio design; range determines many key elements of a given product, including physical size, power consumption, cost and the type of antenna required. Less range means smaller, cheaper and (usually) better battery life as well. It also means we can reuse the frequencies involved a short distance away, making the best use of the scarce resource that is the electromagnetic spectrum. …mehr
Ingate Systems, which develops firewall technology and products that aim to enable SIP-based live communication for the enterprise, while maintaining control and security at the network edge, intends to expand its sales reach into South Africa and other African countries through a distributor agreement with i-Security. …mehr
As businesses become more global through acquisitions and market growth, an ongoing challenge is finding new and better ways to use IT to expand their successes to other operations around the world. At Computerworld's seventh annual Premier 100 IT Leaders conference, IT executives from four companies with worldwide operations shared their expertise Monday in a discussion titled "Executing the Global Agenda" that highlighted some of the lessons they've learned while sharing a bit of the tactical maneuvering that is often part of the process. …mehr
What do Premier 100 honorees, alumni and conference attendees think about major issues of the day? Well, almost 70 percent already use Web services, 60 percent say their architecture is centralized and becoming more so, and knowledge of the business is the No. 1 trait they look for in emerging IT leaders. Oh, and the toughest department in their companies to work with? Sales. …mehr
