Wer mit einem Dollar Einsatz 500 Dollar verdienen will, der wettet darauf, dass Barack Obama in seiner Antrittsrede das Wort "Cocaine" fallen lässt. Noch besser ist die Quote für "Angela Merkel" und die "Axis of Evil". …mehr
Obwohl häufig genutzt, werden Kurzmitteilungen im Business-Umfeld bislang eher stiefmütterlich verwaltet. Für eine Gleichbehandlung mit dem mobilen E-Mail-Verkehr sorgt Mobile Express von Efficasoft. …mehr
Der taiwanische Handyhersteller HTC verwendet für einige seiner Modelle in Zukunft den Chipsatz Tegra von Nvidia. Das berichtet die International Business Times. …mehr
Thomas Lünendonk vom gleichnamigen Marktforschungs- und Beratungshaus bricht eine lange Lanze für professionelle Zeitplantechniken. …mehr
Die Slingbox von Sling Media verspricht, das Fernsehsignal vom Wohnzimmer aus im ganzen Haus und per Internet sogar auf der ganzen Welt verfügbar zu machen. Damit verpassen Sie auch im Urlaub nie wieder ihre Lieblings-TV-Serien. Hier erfahren Sie, wie das im Detail funktioniert. …mehr
Das größte deutsche Apple-Handelsunternehmen Gravis steckt offenbar tief in der Krise. Wie das Online-Journal Macnotes.de heute, Freitag, unter Berufung auf ein Schreiben an die Belegschaft berichtet, habe man die Umsatzziele für das abgelaufene Jahr 2008 weit verfehlt. …mehr
Trend Micro und BigFix haben angekündigt, ihre jeweiligen Anti-Malware- und System-Management-Techniken zu integrieren. …mehr
Nach Ansicht der US-Steuerbehörde Internal Revenue Service (IRS) lastet auf Transaktionen in virtuellen Welten wie World of Warcraft oder Second Life eine Steuerschuld. Diese will das Amt nun eintreiben, wie das Branchenportal neowin.net berichtet. …mehr
Knapp zwei Wochen vor dem geplanten Produktstart hat Kogan Technologies seine "Agora"-Smartphones auf Android-Basis gestoppt. Grund sind "mögliche zukünftige Kompatibilitätsprobleme", wobei speziell eine zu geringe Displayauflösung genannt wird. …mehr
Am Frankfurter DE-CIX, einem zentralen internationalen Internet-Knoten hat sich der Verkehr verdoppelt. Für 2009 rechnen die Betreiber erneut mit deutlichen Zuwachsraten. …mehr
RIM hat mit dem Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip erstmals ein Klapphandy im Programm. Damit sollen vor allem Anwender angesprochen werden, die typische Blackberry-Funktionen wie Pushmail nutzen wollen, aber auf intuitive Bedienung und kompakte Maße Wert legen. Auf HSDPA und UMTS müssen Nutzer jedoch verzichten. …mehr
Mit einer neuen Softwarelösung ermöglicht Microsoft den Betrieb älterer Windows Programme unter Vista (und sicher auch Windows 7). Das Zauberwort heißt - wenig überraschend - "Virtualisierung". …mehr
Der ERP-Spezialist Lawson hat Arnold Ruegg zum Vice-President für Lawson Professional Services Emea ernannt. Ruegg war zuvor bei T-Systeme Enterprise Services für den Vertrieb von Ersatzteilen, Importeur-Lösungen und CRM-Software in der Autoindustrie zuständig. …mehr
Durch das offene Betriebssystem Android können sich immer mehr Elektronikfirmen zu Handy-Herstellern aufschwingen. Das neueste Modell soll vom israelischen Komponentenhersteller Compulab kommen. Das Exeda sieht aus wie ein Industrie-Handheld zum Erfassen von Lagerbeständen. …mehr
Bei Multi-Core-Prozessoren immer mehr Rechenkerne auf einen einzelnen Chip zu packen, macht Supercomputer nicht unbedingt schneller. …mehr
Die rechtliche Zulässigkeit von Online-Videorekordern beschäftigt derzeit sowohl den Obersten US-Gerichtshof als auch den hiesigen BGH. …mehr
Die Deutsche Telekom steigt beim Kundenbonusprogramm Happy Digits aus und verkauft ihren Anteil an den Kooperationspartner Arcandor …mehr
Europäische Unternehmen sind sich durchaus bewusst, dass ihre Web-Applikationen hohe Sicherheitsrisiken bergen. Was gezielte Schutzmaßnahmen betrifft, besteht laut einer von F5 initiierten Umfrage allerdings Nachholbedarf. …mehr
Die Machtverhältnisse schienen lange geklärt. Doch neue technische Entwicklungen und Konkurrenten im Data Warehousing fordern die Platzhirsche heraus. …mehr
Macs werden in Unternehmen immer wichtiger. Die Fachzeitschrift "Macwelt" und der Mac-Spezialist Brainworks zeigen in einer gemeinsamen Seminarreihe, wie sich Macs in bestehende Umgebungen integrieren lassen. …mehr
Der Handy-Hersteller Sony Ericsson hat im vierten Quartal erneut rote Zahlen geschrieben. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Chip-Konzern Intel hat die globale Wirtschaftskrise zum Jahresende voll zu spüren bekommen. …mehr
Für rund 47.000 Euro hat der bekannte deutsche Blogger Robert Basic am Donnerstag sein Blog "Basic Thinking" verkauft. …mehr
Businesses worldwide are under attack from a highly infectious computer worm that has infected almost 9 million PCs, according to antivirus company F-Secure. …mehr
As solid-state disk (SSD) technology closes in on hard-disk drive (HDD) capacity and price, experts say it may not be long before spinning disks are a thing of the past and a computer's storage resides in flash memory on the motherboard. …mehr
I just ordered a new PC. That's right, I'm doing my part to help the economy (or so I told the missus). When it arrives, I'll get to enjoy the kind of fun that usually requires a visit to the dentist's chair: migrating all my programs, data, and settings to the new machine. …mehr
At the same time the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) was making a 10% employee layoff Thursday, the association's CEO e-mail was hacked and a hoax lay-off memo sent out that disparaged the organization as sexist and filled with overpaid "good 'ol boys." …mehr
Microsoft has been sued by a small Wisconsin business for allegedly misrepresenting the capabilities of its Live Communications Server product, selling the company more licenses than it needed and not providing a refund or other products to solve its original problem. …mehr
The may be on the verge of installing an ERP system from , potentially resulting in one of the largest public-sector deployments to date for the Walldorf, Germany-based software vendor. …mehr
Steinberg unveiled the next major version of its digital audio workstation, Cubase, at the NAMM music show in Anaheim, Calif. …mehr
Tech industry stalwart Gartner cancels its cornerstone event scheduled for this spring, reduces its workforce by more than 100 and proves that IT watchers aren't immune to the that the vendors they cover and the clients they serve are facing. …mehr
Although the shutdown of a California Web hosting company eradicated several prominent botnets last year, others have stepped up to fill the gaps, a security researcher said Friday. …mehr
Intel's fourth-quarter profit plunged 90 percent from a year earlier, as the chip maker battled a worsening economy and recorded a steep loss from investments. …mehr
The dropped news Wednesday that the US will finally receive the uber-cute puzzle platformer next month. While we'd normally scoff at getting a game after Europe of all continents, there's a very bright silver lining to this cloud. It's only going to be twenty bucks! …mehr
Sega's upcoming brawler passed through ratings groups ESRB and BBFC (U.K.) with flying colors recently, and gamers can now rest assured that no changes have been made to the content. Easily the most controversially violent title to be released on the Wii, developer Platinum Games worked closely with the ESRB and BBFC to ensure that their stylistic gore would undergo before hitting store shelves. …mehr
Cisco has announced that Stephen Thomas "Tep" Misa has been appointed as country manager for its Philippine operations. In this role, Misa will manage all of Cisco's business operations in the country,reporting to Christian Hentschel, Cisco's managing director for Emerging Countries in Asia. …mehr
Computer maker Lenovo has clarified reports that it is shifting its Asia Pacific (AP) headquarters from Singapore to Beijing, saying that many HQ functions, including some Asia Pacific ones, would still remain in Singapore. …mehr
Netbooks are more than a fad, and fill an important niche in the market for consumer PCs, according to a Forrester Research report. However, the report warned that manufacturers were confusing consumers with "dangerous" branding strategies. …mehr
Ping An Insurance of China will soon deploy a new integrated IT platform to drive a quarter of its business growth. …mehr
Now that has been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to chair the , he can expect to be a very busy man over the next four years. …mehr
Faster wireless broadband in the U.S. may be held hostage to the already lengthy transition to digital TV if the deadline for shutting down analog broadcasts is pushed back, according to critics of an extension. …mehr
New year, new threats. And Symantec claims it is ready to defend users against malicious software (malware) attacks now being tried out by well-organized cyber criminals. …mehr
If you own a PS3 or Wii game console, you can now watch on your television. Currently in beta and announced only Thursday in by the YouTube Team, the offers a remote control-friendly user interface for the popular video site. …mehr
Here's our list of the biggest security incidents involving the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental misconfigurations. But all of them disrupted traffic to Web sites or entire networks because of incorrect routing messages being propagated across the Internet through BGP. (Read the latest on , and about .) …mehr
Wednesday night, I took the red-eye back to Boston, and wondered during the safety demonstration: Would the passengers on board a commercial passenger jet really have much of a chance of surviving an emergency landing on the water? …mehr
, who also developed the unique puzzle game , have unleashed another quirky game to the in the form of Magic Ball. Playing like a mix between Breakout and Boom Blox, Magic Ball tasks the player with destroying large, colorful environments, ranging from medieval castles to tropical locales. …mehr
Watching Yahoo and Microsoft while trying to work out a merger deal last year was like watching two awkward teenagers at a their first high school formal. But, with cofounder Jerry Yang out as CEO and Carol Bartz in, the dancing days may not be over. …mehr
China-based ZTE Corporation last week announced the world's first WiMAX mobile video surveillance terminal, the Mi100. …mehr
In order to offer hands-on training to Asia, Canadian educational firm SMART Technologies has opened a regional training centre in Malaysia. …mehr
Craig Barrett spent decades using his business skills to make Intel the world's most powerful semiconductor company. He has now turned his attention to an even bigger challenge -- spreading computers and education throughout the developing world. …mehr
Using environmentally friendly products from 67 different companies, Vision Development has built an exceptionally green home in Studio City, California. Both a demonstration house and the actual residence of Vision owner Marty Meisler, was built "in partnership with a regional utility company through their Advanced Home Case Study Program." The California-based Vision Development should not be confused with the Colorado-based company of the same name. …mehr
Scientists have more data at their disposal than ever before -- often more than they can properly examine. But should make it easier for them to visualize huge data sets. And cheaper, too; software based on the algorithm can run on personal computers with as little as 2GB of RAM. …mehr
What is it about Steve Jobs that makes otherwise sensible journalists completely lose their marbles? This week's coverage of has hit some surprising new lows in journalistic IQ. …mehr
has posted the results for the top 10 most frequently rented video games of 2008. In , which was compiled by Rentrak, seven of the ten games that were rented the most last year are for the Xbox 360. The remaining three titles are for the Nintendo Wii, leaving the PlayStation 3 entirely absent from the top 10. …mehr
Since Apple announced that Steve Jobs until June, I've seen rampant speculation on Steve Jobs' health, and I've seen some wonder if without Jobs. It's all quite understandable; after all, Steve Jobs is by far the biggest figure in the company. But after reading a (warning: Lam uses lots of profanity) on Gizmodo where he becomes completely unglued when responding to criticism he and Gizmodo received regarding their coverage of Jobs' health, I really think it's time for us in tech circles to take a step back and get a reality check of the situation. …mehr
Millions of Windows computers have been The situation is "not getting better," but rather is "getting worse," according to security software vendor F-Secure. …mehr
The sudden announcement that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking has the Web abuzz with ominous predictions, abrasive judgments, and maybe even a few conspiracy theories. It would appear that the ongoing-and certainly sad-saga of the iconic Jobs' health battles has raised hackles of many a blogger, with much of the ire directed at Apple's handling of the affair. …mehr
, Capcom's fifth chapter in their renowned zombie-slaying survival horror franchise and first Resident Evil game on Xbox 360 and PS3, releases on March 13, 2009, but you don't have to wait two months to play the game. …mehr
Open-sourcing is either good news or bad news for users of the microblogging service, depending on who's doing the talking. …mehr
New York State has cancelled the multibillion-dollar contract it awarded to M/A-COM to build a statewide wireless network for public safety use, saying the vendor has failed to adequately deliver on the deal. …mehr
The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) has announced a network upgrade worth about US $1 million to cope with rising demand for faster response times. …mehr
