Sie sind seit knapp fünf Monaten im Job. Können Sie da überhaupt schon Erfolge verzeichnen? …mehr
US-Forscher haben einem Käfer einen Mikrochip eingepflanzt, mit dem sie das Insekt fernsteuern können. Der Käfer startet und landet per Funksignal und biegt auf Wunsch rechts oder links ab. …mehr
Die deutschen Mobilfunknetzbetreiber haben wieder ihre Anträge bei der Bundesnetzagentur eingereicht. o2 fordert fast eine Verdopplung seines Terminierungsentgelts für eingehende Gespräche. T-Mobile und Vodafone beantragen weniger, E-Plus ist sogar für eine Senkung. …mehr
Die Bochumer Polizei hat Ermittlungen wegen eines Eigentumsdelikts aufgenommen. Dass es sich dabei um den Diebstahl virtueller Güter in einem Online-Spiel handelt, macht die Untersuchung zum Präzedenzfall in Deutschland. …mehr
General Mobile will anscheinend bald sein erstes Dual-SIM-Handy mit dem Betriebssystem Android präsentieren. …mehr
Die Internet-Plattform von Zimory bietet Anwendern kurzfristig und flexibel Zugang zu Server- und Speicherkapazitäten. …mehr
Multifunktionsgeräte mit Fax-Funktion sparen Platz und Geld. Im Test zeigen fünf Modelle von Brother, Canon, Epson, Lexmark und Hewlett-Packard, was sie können. …mehr
Beschäftigte der IT-Industrie haben keinen Grund zum Jammern: Von den 100 besten mittelständischen Arbeitgebern in Deutschland kommen allein 19 aus der ITK-Branche. Den Hauptpreis gewinnt CRM-Anbieter CAS. …mehr
Die Funktechnik Wimax startete vor einigen Jahren als Alternative für die Breitband-Internetzugänge per DSL und UMTS. Damals zeichnete sie den Festnetz- und Mobilfunkanbietern Sorgenfalten auf die Stirn, weil neue Konkurrenz drohte. Jetzt steigen immer mehr Firmen aus dem Wimax-Geschäft aus. …mehr
Der japanische Elektronikriese NEC will angesichts erwarteter Milliardenverluste wegen der Wirtschaftskrise weltweit über 20.000 Stellen streichen. …mehr
Der vorläufige Insolvenzverwalter des Chipherstellers Qimonda, Michael Jaffé, sieht nur noch bis Ende März eine Chance zur Rettung des Dresdner Werkes. …mehr
Der frühere Chef der Telekommunikationsfirma Freenet Eckhard Spoerr und sein Finanzvorstand Axel Krieger sind am Freitag wegen verbotenen Insider-Handels zu hohen Geldstrafen verurteilt worden. …mehr
Die Finanzkrise zwingt Unternehmen dazu, ihre Werbestrategie zu überdenken. …mehr
Nachgemachte Hotelreservierungs-Seiten zocken monatlich mehr als 70.000 Reisende ab, berichtet der Branchendienst "eTurboNews" (eTN). …mehr
Nokia hat sein Desktop- und Helpdesk-Management an den indischen IT-Dienstleister HCL ausgelagert. …mehr
Der US-Computerhersteller Dell bereitet sich einem Pressebericht zufolge auf einen Einstieg in den Handy-Markt vor. …mehr
Viele Sicherheitsexperten haben derzeit das "Clickjacking", bei dem vermeintlich harmlose Klicks im Browser User ungeahnten Gefahren aussetzen, im Visier. …mehr
"M3 Analytics for Manufacturing" von Lawson soll Industrieunternehmen erlauben, Geschäftsinformationen aus Vertrieb, Finanzen, Beschaffung und Lagerhaltung beziehungsweise Logistik auszuwerten. Auf diese Weise könnten sie beispielsweise Kostentreiber einfacher aufzuspüren. Die Software arbeitet mit dem ERP-System M3 sowie dessen RPG-Vorgänger zusammen. …mehr
Die von ihrem Gründer Jimmy Wales geforderte Einführung strengerer Kontrollmaßnahmen auf dem englischsprachigen Wikipedia-Portal hat innerhalb der Autoren-Community der Online-Enzyklopädie eine heftige Protestwelle ausgelöst. …mehr
Das Wiener IT-Unternehmen CUBiT hat im Rahmen der IT-Fachmesse ITnT sein Appliance "directINSIGHT:Director" (dID) vorgestellt. …mehr
Flexible Vergütung, Firmenwagen, Weiterbildung: Wenn Unternehmen hier mehr versprechen als sie halten können, rächt sich das bitter. …mehr
Die beiden japanischen Elektronikkonzerne Toshiba und NEC führen Medienberichten zufolge Gespräche über eine Zusammenlegung ihrer Halbleiter-Geschäfte. …mehr
Die komfortable Installation von Google-Gadgets auf dem Linux-Desktop hat sich "gOS" auf die Fahnen geschrieben. …mehr
Mit "gOS" erhalten Linux-Enthusiasten ein PC-Betriebssystem, bei dem Google Gadgets bereits vorkonfiguriert sind. Die Software basiert auf "Ubuntu". …mehr
Der weltgrößte Online-Einzelhändler Amazon.com hat durch ein Rekord-Weihnachtsgeschäft trotz der Konjunkturkrise einen kräftigen Gewinnsprung erzielt. …mehr
Nortel this week announced that it has decided to discontinue its mobile business and end its joint agreement with Alvarion. …mehr
posted a 14% hike in fourth-quarter sales that nonetheless fell short of Wall Street expectations. …mehr
Anyone daring to hope for better financial news from IT vendors this week has been sorely disappointed, as the financial report season continues with layoff announcements by SAP, IBM, Sprint, AOL, Citrix, Texas Instruments and Eastman Kodak, as well as losses and revenue declines. …mehr
The odds are pretty good that this will never happen to you, but should a floating head of U.S. President Barack Obama pop up on your desktop Monday morning, know this: You've been hit with the Obama worm. …mehr
Singaporean contract chip maker Chartered Semiconductor will lay off 600 workers as the company grapples with sinking demand for semiconductors, executives announced Friday. …mehr
News arrived this week via the that Michigan State University had dropped disciplinary action against a student who had been accused of spamming and network abuse because she sent e-mail about a controversial campus matter to 391 faculty members. …mehr
Cramming ever more transistors into CPUs has not troubled chip makers and AMD Inc. The problem, rather, has been how to handle the extreme heat generated by the movement of so many electrons in such a tiny space. …mehr
Graphics chip makers are feeling the economic pinch, with fourth-quarter sales tumbling from where they were a year ago, according to a market researcher. …mehr
So help me, I'll always be a fan of Windows' Quick Launch toolbar. Wednesday I showed you how to do , and before that you learned . …mehr
Although and have continued to post solid earnings over the past year, they are unlikely to emerge from the current recession unscathed. …mehr
Oracle has issued 102 subpoenas to 99 former customers of TomorrowNow, the now-shuttered SAP subsidiary at the heart of Oracle's lawsuit against SAP, according to a court document this week. …mehr
Nortel Networks has pulled out of a deal to resell WiMax equipment from Alvarion and help fund development of Alvarion's WiMax base stations. …mehr
-- a rarity in today's business networks -- is becoming more common, so it makes sense for corporate telephony executives to figure out now how they will make the transition, experts say. …mehr
Entrusting enterprise data to a storage provider's online cloud may be no more risky than putting it in a proprietary storage platform in your own data center, according to some analysts and users. But there are specific steps you should take to prevent problems. …mehr
Services that store enterprise data in a "cloud" on the Internet raise questions that organizations are just beginning to ask, but for all their limitations, they may be no more risky than on-site storage platforms. …mehr
First of all this week I wanted to correct something I wrote last week: I discussed the technique of "freezing" PCs to prevent malware changes and mentioned a previous version of Faronics' Deep Freeze, which does just that, had been hacked. The current version, which has been out for four years, has not been hacked. also has an enterprise version, which I plan to look at in a future Gearhead column. …mehr
Believing that video is the most effective way to communicate and share information, Cisco recently tapped its Philippine office as the third country in Southeast Asia to implement the company's TelePresence technology. …mehr
Late last year, Panasonic launched the . …mehr
NFL IT guru David Port claims he doesn't have a favorite football team, but on Sunday he'll be working his . As the league's vice president of information technology, Port and his IT staff are responsible for building a temporary network to support NFL staff and thousands of journalists during Super Bowl week. …mehr
The is fielding three teams for Sunday's Super Bowl. The first two are well known: the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The third, more anonymous one is the 17-member IT staff that the NFL has assigned to work in Tampa, Fla., the site of this year's game. …mehr
is developing a robot that consumes biomass, such as plant material, and converts it to electricity to power itself. The whimsically-named (EATR) is intended for jobs where regular, conventional fueling would be impractical, such as military recognizance. …mehr
says that more than a quarter of clicks on ads served by Google and similar companies are fraudulent. disagrees. …mehr
In what is a clear sign of the times, nearly 400,000 square feet of office space in Santa Clara, California. …mehr
Internet search engines have focused largely on crawling text on Web pages, but Google is knee-deep in research about how to analyze and organize structured data, a company scientist said Friday. …mehr
Your mobile devices have secrets, which is why you should r before each use. But if you're especially nervous about onlookers seeing your screen over your shoulder, the same kinds of are also made in mobile phone sizes. …mehr
When stopped selling in 2007, several industry observers predicted that the PC and server maker would eventually move on to sell smart phones. …mehr
New details dropped in my inbox Thursday for Epilogue downloadable content (DLC), and I'd figure why not share the new information with my favorite community. According to the press release (read below), Prince of Persia Epilogue features a new region called The Underground Palace, a new energizing power and sprinting clash attack, and more unlockable skins for the Prince and Elika. Prince of Persia Epilogue releases for consoles on February 26th. …mehr
Games for your iPhone and iPod touch remain one of the more popular sections on the App Store, with page upon page of offerings to browse. Since there's so much heat and light focused on iPhone gaming of late, it's little wonder that rumors have spread about a within the store. …mehr
This morning sat down with Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who amid insight into the current of the video game industry, casually mentions to the reporter that Activison has "this product called DJ Hero coming out later this year which is a turntable that you can actually play competitively, spin discs and mix songs." …mehr
Meet Justin King -- the one-man IT shop. At the 5-year-old Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at in Houston, IT plays a key role in innovative research involving fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machines. …mehr
If you're searching the Internet specifically for blog posts, Google's basic search isn't the best way to do it. Not only will your results be cluttered with non-blog pages, they'll will be skewed toward sites like that have figured out how to win at search engine optimization to get to the top of Google's results. is a much better tool for the job. It lets you sort results by a relevance score, or sort by date to display the newest posts. …mehr
THQ launches a brand-new website for their upcoming fighting title, , complete with trailers, screenshots and more. …mehr
Will Apple really slap a lawsuit on Palm the minute the Palm Pre starts shipping as a Sprint smartphone later this year? has lots of people thinking so. The reason: Apple's newly awarded patent for multi-touch technology, which also drives the interface for the Palm Pre. Just when it began to look like Palm had finally produced an iPhone killer, Apple has conveniently found a way to shut down the whole show. …mehr
If the only time you set your iPhone down is to catch a wave, then Surf Report from deserves a spot on your mobile device. With this app close at hand, you'll always know what the surf conditions are where ever you happen to be. …mehr
Lawl Mart's Duck Hunt, an iPhone and iPod touch game that has been available at the App Store, can't be found any more. The developer says that the game came down at the request of Nintendo, which alleges copyright infringement. …mehr
Nintendo has announced release dates for many of their most anticipated games for both the DS and Wii. Check them out here! …mehr
You may not have heard of the Zumbafone yet, but its makers are confident it could revolutionize the way you communicate. Of course, they won't tell you much more -- because the Zumbafone is currently considered top-secret, and you don't have clearance to enter the land of Zumba Lumba. …mehr
Netbook. Subnotebook. Mini-notebook. Mini-laptop. Mini. Why so many names for the same low-powered laptop with 10-inch screen and no optical drive? …mehr
user interfaces and a new version of Bluetooth top list of mobile technologies to watch in 2009 and 2010. …mehr
The victims of a have sued (BofA) for helping the fraud occur by continuing to do business with the alleged perpetrators despite numerous signs of illegal activity. …mehr
Saul Anuzis, the chairman of the Michigan Republican State Committee, is a top contender to become chairman of the Republican National Committee. He's got something George Bush never had: . His rival for the post, Ken Blackwell of Ohio, retorts, "I have 4,000 friends on Facebook." …mehr
Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon says that growing presence in certain international markets is a strategic goal for the company. However, he said that expansion in the country with one of the world's largest Internet populations -- China -- is not a priority. …mehr
