Immer wieder beklagen Verbände, Institutionen und Hersteller die Arglosigkeit, mit der Anwender sich im Internet aufhalten. Sie monieren die Gedankenlosigkeit, ja nachgerade Fahrlässigkeit, mit der sich PC-Benutzer im Web bewegen, ohne ihre PCs gegen die vielfältigen Gefahren zu wappnen. …mehr
Der niederländische Unilever-Konzern gliedert seinen europäischen Bereich Informationstechnik teilweise aus. …mehr
Noch billiger als mit einem Discounter telefoniert man über VoIP-Handys. Woize will als erster Dienstleister einen Client für Symbian-Smartphones bringen. …mehr
Der angeschlagene TK-Ausrüster will sich mittelfristig aus weniger erfolgreichen Bereichen zurückziehen. …mehr
Am diesjährigen "India Code Jam" von Google nahmen wieder mehr als 14.000 Enwickler teil. …mehr
Am vergangenen Freitag verloren die Aktien von Salesforce.com fast fünf Prozent, nachdem der gehostete CRM-Dienst des Anbieters tags zuvor wieder einmal ausgefallen war. …mehr
Microsoft hat bestätigt, dass es es für sein Windows-Live-Portfolio eine Produkt- und eine akademische Suche entwickelt. …mehr
Nicht wie kürzlich kolportiert Oracle, sondern Red Hat kauft JBoss - für zunächst einmal 350 Millionen Dollar. …mehr
Der kalifornische Wimax-Pionier (Wimax = Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) sichert sich das fünfte Mal in Folge Risikokapital. …mehr
Die New Yorker Softwareschmiede Xandros bringt im Mai eine Server-Version der vor allem durch ihre Benutzefreundlichkeit bekannten Linux-Distribution. …mehr
Die branchenspezifische ERP-Komplettlösung soll zum Paketpreis von 88 000 Euro auf den Markt kommen. …mehr
Intel hat auf seinem Developer Forum (IDF) in Taipeh einen Konzept-PC vorgestellt, der gleichzeitig auch als LCD-TV herhalten kann. …mehr
"Jackrabbit" ist nicht nur eine Referenzimplementierung für den Java-Standard JSR-170, sondern ein voll funktionsfähiger Dokumentenspeicher. …mehr
Liebe Leser, wie an jedem Montag stellen wir Ihnen heute wieder unsere neue "Frage der Woche". …mehr
Morgen schickt Pluck seinen Sammeldienst für Blog-Inhalte "BlogBurst" an den Start. …mehr
Der Security-Anbieter kündigt Version 8.0 des "IM Manager" (Instant Messaging) an - erstmals unter dem eigenen Brand-Namen. …mehr
Laut Medienberichten bereitet ein Konsortium aus TK-Konzernen und Private-Equity-Firmen ein Übernahmeangebot für den britischen Mobilfunkanbieter vor. …mehr
In der ITK-Branche herrscht wieder Zuversicht. …mehr
Experten warnen vor plattformübergreifendem Schädling. …mehr
Die Start-up Webaroo will heute einen Dienst vorstellen, mit dem man zuvor heruntergeladene Web-Seiten anschauen und durchsuchen kann, wenn man später offline ist. …mehr
Trotz Kündigung darf ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter laut Urteil des Berliner Arbeitgerichts von der elektronischen Kommunikation im Unternehmen nicht ausgeschlossen werden. …mehr
Welche Farbe hat die nächste Green Card? …mehr
Mit "Secure Blue" will die IBM die Sicherung von Informationen auf PCs, PDAs und Handys einfacher und billiger machen. …mehr
Die Java-basierende ERP-Lösung soll sich über Web-Services leichter an neue Geschäftsprozesse anpassen lassen. …mehr
Das Produkt TestPartner reiht sich in Microsofts Team System ein. …mehr
Sun Microsystems hat in seiner Scalable Systems Group 200 Arbeitsplätze oder sieben Prozent der weltweiten Belegschaft gestrichen. …mehr
Essen, Standort des übernommenen Karstadt-Quelle-Rechenzentrums, wird in den kommenden Wochen zur Deutschland-Zentrale von Atos Origin. …mehr
Mit einer gehosteten Ausführung von "Crystal Reports" steigt Business Objects heute tiefer in den Markt für Software als Service ein. Zielgruppe sind vor allem Mittelständler. …mehr
Stärkung der Beratung in den Bereichen SAP und Human Resources. …mehr
Kein gutes Quartal für Sicherheitsspezialisten. …mehr
Mehr Wettbewerb für das Hochgeschwindigkeits-Internet VDSL würde einer Studie zufolge bis zu 60.000 Arbeitsplätze in Deutschland schaffen. …mehr
Der Software-Anbieter caatoosee in Leonberg (Kreis Leonberg) hat seine Restrukturierung abgeschlossen. …mehr
Der Computerhersteller und IT-Dienstleister Lintec hat 2005 trotz Restrukturierung rote Zahlen geschrieben. …mehr
Die "Application Control Engine" (ACE) und das "Application Velocity System" (AVS) dienen hauptsächlich dazu, auch große Enterprise-Anwendungen sicher und schnell ablaufen zu lassen. …mehr
In an effort to allocate limited IT resources effectively across the organization, many corporations are considering establishing charge-out systems. They believe charge-out -- also known as chargeback -- will make consumers of IT services better stewards of company resources and allow the organization to better align IT usage with corporate priorities. …mehr
It's wasn't so much the maturation of technology that prompted Jim Haney, CIO at Harley-Davidson Inc., to implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA). It was the realization that "I don't have a lot of other tricks to pull out of my IT toolbox," he explained. …mehr
Fear can be a powerful generator of upstanding conduct, say Stephen Wagner and Lee Dittmar. But business runs on discovering and creating value. In this month's Harvard Business Review, the authors discuss how smart companies are finding unexpected value in Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Wagner, who is the managing partner of the U.S. Center for Corporate Governance at Deloitte & Touche LLP, and Dittmar, who leads the enterprise governance consulting practice at Deloitte Consulting LLP, talked with Computerworld's Kathleen Melymuka about how companies can use compliance to their advantage. …mehr
Bei den T-Online-Homepage-Produkten "Starter", "Basic", "Advanced" und "Professional" ist die neue Domain-Endung ".eu" kostenloser Bestandteil des jeweiligen Kontingents. …mehr
Cisco Systems Inc. is moving to tap into an emerging market for speech analysis software that call center supervisors can use to track conversations with disgruntled customers. …mehr
Some companies are eyeing emerging on-demand business intelligence offerings to boost access to data without having to make additional infrastructure investments. …mehr
None of the IT managers in the audience at a Gartner Inc. outsourcing conference in Orlando last week seemed to bat an eye when they were warned that a lack of discipline in managing multisourcing relationships could result in "large-scale business disruption." …mehr
Die Transtec AG, ein Hersteller von IT-Systemen, bietet ab sofort die Notebooks "Levio 210" und "Levio 550" mit Intel-Centrino-Duo-Mobiltechnologie an. …mehr
When it comes down to it, a security manager's job is about protecting information assets. But no matter what kind of business you're in, if you can't find all the data, you can't protect it. …mehr
Staying awake is job 1 …mehr
Software without a good user interface is -- well, it's useless. Unfortunately, UIs aren't nearly as well understood as more objective "speeds and feeds" kinds of product characteristics. Products with snazzy demos often prove disappointing in real life. Meanwhile, truly good UIs are hard to explain beyond an "I know it when I see it" vagueness. But difficulty notwithstanding, UIs are too important not to write about. And so, to steal a line from sportswriter Peter King, here are six things I think I think about UIs. …mehr
207,000 Marines' data goes missing …mehr
Chinese IT policies raise U.S. concerns …mehr
Die Bundesregierung soll mit ihrer Offensive für Innovation und Wachstum die Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft fördern. …mehr
Iona updates its ESB …mehr
Microsoft purchases BI tool maker …mehr
There's certainly no lack of choices when it comes to wireless communications and networking technologies. With all the currently available forms of wireless access -- cell phones, 3G, Wi-Fi, WiMax, Bluetooth, power lines, and 802.11a, b, g and n -- you wouldn't think there's room for anything more. But technology marches forward, and in the next couple of years, we're going to be seeing a new and different wireless technology. …mehr
U.S. federal census takers will use wireless handheld computers instead of pens and paper when they next hit the streets in 2010, provided that a US$600 million project designed to automate the collection of census data goes as planned. …mehr
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must bolster its information security to protect corporate financial data and other sensitive information stored in its IT systems, according to a report released late last month by the Government Accountability Office. …mehr
Kleinen bis mittleren Unternehmen bietet der ERP-Hersteller HS - Hamburger Software - das neue Erweiterungsmodul "Anlagenbuchhaltung für die Rechnungswesen-Anwendungen IBM Finanzwesen und IBM Finanzbuchhaltung" an. …mehr
Ron Jensen began his IT career as a self-professed "propeller head." But now he is the purchasing manager for IT professional services at construction equipment manufacturing giant Caterpillar Inc. …mehr
Der Anteil an Spam-E-Mails und Instant-Messaging-(IM)-Attacken stieg im März deutlich an. Virenattacken gingen dagegen zurück. …mehr
Der Software-Hersteller für Routenplanung will seinen "map&guide truck navigator" ab Herbst auch mit Daten für das französische Straßennetz anbieten. …mehr
Priceline.com Inc., the online travel service, has bet its business model on the fact that Web-savvy customers like to help themselves -- in this case, to deals on airfare, hotels, car rentals and the like. The Norwalk, Conn.-based company has extended that model to its customer service operations, adopting an e-service strategy to complement its telephone-based call center. If customers run into trouble during a travel search, they're encouraged to try self-service or e-mail options -- more cost-effective ways to handle services issues -- before resorting to a phone call. …mehr
California's new voter registration database -- whose creation the U.S. federal government once called a model for other states -- may prevent thousands of eligible voters from casting ballots in a June 6 statewide election, officials fear. …mehr
Apple Computer Inc.'s development of software that lets Intel-based Macintosh systems run Windows XP natively met with the approval of several Mac-friendly IT managers, who said last week that Apple's embrace of Microsoft's operating system should make it easier to deploy the company's hardware. …mehr
Although a latecomer to the CRM business, Microsoft Corp. has quietly been luring customers away from more established rivals such as Siebel, now part of Oracle Corp. …mehr
I've talked in the past about how IT departments need to rethink their positions against the widespread use of Apple computers and Mac OS X in their organizations. I've talked about the fact that many of the old myths from the mid-'90s about the Macintosh just aren't true. There's plenty of software for the platform, proprietary protocols are a thing of the past, and the price of entry isn't that different from what you'd pay for a system from any Tier 1 PC vendor. …mehr
Chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers face a dearth of management skills in the future if the prevailing workplace attitudes held by Generation X and Y staffers do not change. …mehr
Alan Carter faced a daunting challenge when he took over the network technology program at Green River Community College early last year. The Auburn, Wash.-based school had not updated to Windows Server 2003, and its curriculum was outdated. Enrollment in the program had shrunk to only four students. "It was in disarray, and there was a huge disconnect" between the school's program and local employers, says Carter, an IT instructor. "And I think the problem was more on our side than on the employers' side." …mehr
EMC Corp. said that Intel Corp. has agreed to resell its low-end storage array through its cadre of value-added resellers. …mehr
When auditors come knocking at the door of Boise State University's IT department, executive director David O'Neill has a quick way of dealing with them. Rather than rounding up senior engineers to sit down with the auditors and spend hours answering questions about the university's IT systems, O'Neill instead relies on an automated application-mapping tool to quickly produce an up-to-date inventory and diagram of all the software systems and the relationships among them. …mehr
Clinical information systems vendor Cerner Corp. has won the implementation contract under the State of Victoria Department of Human Services HealthSmart program to implement IT applications across all public sector health providers. …mehr
Die Bochumer Windream GmbH und der Distributor Adviva Computertechnologie GmbH mit Sitz in Bad Homburg bieten gemeinsam ein Lösungspaket zum Thema Dokumenten-Management und Archivierung mit EMC "Centera" an. …mehr
Being a project manager today is a lot different from playing that role a few years ago. Just ask Brenda Dunn, a project manager/business analyst at Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. in Fairfax, Va. She recently headed up a project to build a critical relocation system for the privately owned realty firm. …mehr
Microsoft to ship IE patch on Tuesday …mehr
Bundeswirtschaftsminister Michael Glos hat jetzt den Vorstandsvorsitzenden des Kölner Softwarehauses GUS Group, Heinz-Paul Bonn, in den Mittelstandsbeirat der Bundesregierung berufen. …mehr
IBM officials expressed little concern that the company's storage sales to small and midsize businesses (SMB) will be hurt by Intel Corp.'s agreement to resell EMC Corp. systems, announced at last week's Storage Networking World conference. In an interview with Computerworld at the event, Andy Monshaw, general manager of system storage at IBM, discussed the EMC move, user complaints about high storage pricing and the state of tape technology. …mehr
Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des deutschen Mittelstandes hat sich im März deutlich beschleunigt. …mehr
Good morning, my stalwart friends and Agility Corps recruits. As I promised last month when I inaugurated this virtual group of IT practitioners, today I'm going to talk about encounters with complexity. …mehr
Australia's maritime industry is using innovative technical solutions to deal with a new security mandate to be introduced by January 1, 2007. …mehr
If the rumblings of the attendees at last week's Storage Networking World conference are any indication, the IT community -- users and vendors alike -- is so desperate for alternatives that exploring them has become something of a professional lifestyle. …mehr
Augsburger Studenten haben das Portal "IT-Brücke" im Auftrag von Microsoft entwickelt. …mehr
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a project to overhaul its application development process to provide management with a view into the agency's IT projects. …mehr
The Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) plans to create a computer literacy standard among local universities and colleges to meet the anticipated inflow of 'cyberservices' jobs in the Philippines. …mehr
Several IT officials expressed their disdain for inflated storage costs -- whether equipment, management software or maintenance -- during a panel discussion at Storage Networking World in San Diego last week. …mehr
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist last week issued subpoenas to three electronic voting machine manufacturers in an effort to find out why each of them has refused to do business with the state's Leon County. …mehr
Microsoft Corp. last week said that it plans this year to extend the mobile version of its SQL Server database to run on all versions of Windows. …mehr
Utilizing open source to develop their dream-turned-to-reality project, the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) proudly unveiled the Science.ph portal that aims to become a central search facility connecting government and private research institutions in the Philippines. …mehr
Jim Pulliam remembers his disbelief when he first arrived in Utah to take over as CIO at Salt Lake Community College two years ago. "I couldn't believe how many organizations [in Utah] were still on Novell [NetWare LAN software]. It just shocked me." …mehr
Focus, simplicity and enforceability are the keys to crafting corporate information security policies, according to IT managers who attended the annual InfoSec World conference in Orlando last week. …mehr
Is Boot Camp really Apple's big play for the enterprise desktop? Naaah. The enterprise desktop is a commodity world. The commodity PC market is a cutthroat business with razor-thin margins in which vendors have no way to differentiate themselves except with low prices. Apple doesn't do commodities. Apple sells comfort and convenience to midmarket users and luxury to the high end. But the commodity desktop? Fuggedaboudit. …mehr
Software maker Oracle Corp. is gunning after the embedded systems market in Asia-Pacific, citing market potential in countries like the Philippines that are embracing new technologies like 3G and radio frequency identification (RFID). …mehr
A Japanese telecommunications company has partnered with Philippine player Globe Telecom in launching a new international call service that offers calling services from Japan to the Philippines. …mehr
Symantec realigns after Bloom departs …mehr
Microsoft took a step into the hosted CRM market at Convergence 2006 in Dallas, announcing the Micro-soft Dynamics CRM Professional Edition for Service Providers. …mehr
Wi-Fi zeros in on laptops'... …mehr
Ricoh hat sein Drucker-Portfolio um die A4-Farblaserdrucker "Aficio CL3500N" und "Aficio CL3500DN" erweitert. …mehr