Nach Beschwerden über Werbeanrufe für Gewinnspiele - mit teuren Folgen - hat die Bundesnetzagentur nun die Konsumenten gestärkt: Die Telekom darf entsprechende Gebühren nicht mehr über die Telefonrechnung verlangen. …mehr
Das Branchenportal Digitimes will erfahren haben, dass Apple das iPad 2 in drei Ausstattungsvarianten auf den Markt bringen wird: mit WLAN, mit WLAN und UMTS sowie mit WLAN und CDMA. …mehr
Das neue Jahr beginnt mit einer guten Nachricht für Handynutzer: Die langersehnten Universal-Ladergeräte kommen. …mehr
Oakland/Walldorf (dpa) - Der Softwarekonzern SAP wird für den Klau von Daten des US-Erzrivalen Oracle gleich mehrfach zur Kasse gebeten. …mehr
Spielemacher sieht keine Zukunft für kostenpflichtige Android-Apps. …mehr
Das Android-Fanblog Droidlife hat Produktbilder des erst gestern als HTC Thunderbolt identifizierten 4G-Smartphones für den US-Netzbetreiber Verizon veröffentlicht. …mehr
In einem chinesischen Forum wurde ein unbekanntes Android-Smartphone von Sony Ericsson gesichtet. Es könnte sich um den Nachfolger der Handy-Zwerge X10 Mini und Mini Pro handeln. …mehr
Postkarten, Papierfotos, das Festnetztelefon oder Freunde aus Fleisch und Blut: Vieles scheint allmählich aus unserem Leben zu verschwinden. Zehn (angeblich) unmoderne Dinge und Phänomene. …mehr
Apple und einige App-Hersteller sind vor einem nordkalifornischen Gericht verklagt worden. Ihnen wird vorgeworfen, Nutzerinformationen an Werbenetzwerke weitergegeben zu haben. …mehr
Das Internet wird auch im Jahr 2011 die sinkenden Einnahmen der gedruckten Zeitungen nicht ausgleichen können. …mehr
Nokia Siemens Networks muss wegen Verzögerungen beim Genehmigungsverfahren in China auf den Abschluss der angekündigten Übernahme von Motorolas Netzwerkgeschäft warten. …mehr
Die spanische Costa Blanca lockt auch IT-Freiberufler an. Arrangieren muss man sich nur mit längeren Mittagspausen. …mehr
Die Grafikkarte Evga Geforce GTS 450 FPB ist bereits ab 100 Euro zu haben. Der Test prüft, wie viel Multimedia- und Spiele-Leistung Sie dafür bekommen. …mehr
Wenn IT-Projekte scheitern, liegt das oft an ähnlichen Faktoren. Dabei ließen sich die Stolpersteine leicht umgehen. …mehr
Worauf sich Unternehmen einstellen sollten, um mögliche Schwierigkeiten zu vermeiden, sagt Dr. Sebastian Kraska. …mehr
Über das Verhältnis zu den Kunden und die künftige Geschäftsausrichtung sprach SAP-Co-Vorstandssprecher Jim Hagemann Snabe mit CIO-Redakteurin Riem Sarsam und CW-Redakteur Martin Bayer. …mehr
Sometimes, apps come along whose core functionality seems so magical that you feel simply obligated to try them. , a free-with-an-asterisk app from , falls precisely in that category. You point your iPhone's camera at words in one language, and see an instantaneous live preview that digitally replaces the text with its translation. …mehr
Capcom's stand-alone adventure starring Dead Rising 1 protagonist Frank West and Dead Rising 2 star Chuck Greene releases on Xbox Live Arcade today. …mehr
Gaming giant Nintendo Japan just listed over 30 Nintendo 3DS apps and games the public will have a chance to test drive when Nintendo World 2011 gets underway in Tokyo next month. …mehr
According to data compiled by ASCII Corporation, Pokemon Black Version and Pokemon White Version for DS and the PSP were the best selling software and hardware in Japan this year. …mehr
Nokia Siemens Networks' US$1.2 billion acquisition of Motorola's cellular networks business has been delayed pending a review from Chinese government regulators. …mehr
Classic puzzle game Bejeweled gets a makeover in PopCap's newest version of the game, Bejeweled 3. The original game, which was released in 2001, was also followed up by Bejeweled 2, Bejeweled Twist, and Bejeweled Blitz. This latest addition to the casual series brings fresh graphics, sounds, and all new modes of play. …mehr
A developer made a game about her grandparents' 70-year marriage using actual documentary techniques. It's a game you'll probably never play -- but here's why it's important, anyway. …mehr
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen yesterday filed a last-minute revision of a patent infringement lawsuit against 11 technology companies to include detailed claims that targeted Google's Android operating system, Apple's iTunes and App Store and Facebook's "Like" feature. …mehr
Viewing 3D TV while out and about is just one of the technological treats that 2011 may have in store. LG is expected to announce a new Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) at CES 2011. While that by itself isn't too impressive, the new models are expected to support 3D video playback. …mehr
New to the Mac? Welcome to the Mac world. Things probably look a little strange around here. There's no Start menu down at the bottom of the screen. Menus stay up at the top no matter which application you're using. And those green, yellow, and red buttons in window corners don't do exactly the same things they did on your old PC. …mehr
Federal authorities have charged a California woman with securities fraud for allegedly passing detailed financial information on Nvidia and Marvell Technologies to portfolio managers at two hedge funds. …mehr
Apple's TV and movie rental business is already a tenth that of Netflix's, according to estimates by an industry analyst. …mehr
Everyone has a different way of managing their Web favorites--the sites they visit regularly. My method of choice is the Favorites Bar, which spans the top of the browser and puts my most-visited sites a single click away. …mehr
Xequte Software's inexpensive isn't always appealing to look at, but it sure is easy to use. DVD PixPlay walks you through the slide show creation process, allowing you to create and share a full-featured slide show in just five steps. …mehr
Skype's CIO Lars Rabbe on Wednesday offered a frank assessment of the recent 24-hour lapse in its Internet telephony service, in a that also laid out what the company is now doing to make its network more robust. …mehr
Yesterday I compiled a list of the most popular clean energy blog posts of 2010 in the IDC Energy Insights community. Today it's time to do the same for our smart grid blog. As with the clean energy blog, I do this partially because it's expected, partially because it's fun and partially because we can infer which topics were the most important to our followers. …mehr
One may be the loneliest number, but that's how most people use GarageBand--sitting alone in front of their Mac, playing along with loops and building songs track by track. And while this method works well for solo artists, it can be time-consuming when working with a band. …mehr
Like many companies, EMC looked to the Cloud as a means to address growth, reduce costs, and manage a data centre that was rapidly approaching 100 per cent utilisation. …mehr
Nintendo of Japan reveals 31 Nintendo 3DS titles available for viewing by the general public next month at Nintendo World 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. …mehr
The days of e-mailing the whole office to ask if anyone has a mobile-phone charger that fits your phone are numbered, as European standardization bodies on Wednesday released harmonized standards for a common charger. …mehr
Late last year, we covered an on a single chip. That sounds impressive, but a new prototype makes this looks like child's play. …mehr
Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. …mehr
Skype today blamed last week's outage on a combination of overloaded instant messaging servers, buggy software, and the failure of its "supernode" infrastructure. …mehr
Have you ever wanted to build, share, and use awesome Flash creations? The Website lets you do just that (and unless you speak Japanese, then you may want to check out the fully ). After a substantially long period of drooling in front of my monitors, I found a couple awesome Flash scripts that you need to check out. If you're sitting at home bored out of your mind, then Wonderfl is definitely a site to check out. …mehr
With , Apple has streamlined and simplified the process of installing Mac OS X. While older versions of OS X made you decide what kind of installation you wanted to perform before you even specified what to install, Snow Leopard's installer gives you a single installation path. It's considerably easier. …mehr
The new paradigm of mobile banking carries with it inherent risks, but there's no reason for consumers to be less confident about the security of their data if the right safeguards are in place, says the chief technology officer (CTO) of Sydney-based Westpac bank. …mehr
Halfbrick Studios releases its newest title, Raskulls, on Xbox Live Arcade today. Halfbrick is known better for creating games on iPhone and PSP. …mehr
Microsoft Office 365, a suite of business-focused, cloud-based applications that was , is actually a repackaging and updating of various offerings -- optimized for the . The intent is to give small businesses the kind of benefits that up until now only large companies have been able to get from services such as Exchange and SharePoint. …mehr
If you plan on purchasing a to pacify your toddler on long car-trips, think again--Nintendo says the handheld console should not be used by children under six. …mehr
There are few DIY building materials as great as Lego. There are few DIY projects as great as pinhole cameras. So if you can manage to merge the two into one project, well, you my friend deserve an award. One industrious DIYer not only built a pinhole camera out of Lego, this person . …mehr
Analysts and researchers are coming out with some crazy predictions about iPad shipments in 2011. Today's outrageous number comes from market analysts at DigiTimes Research predicting Apple will order 65 million iPad screens from its suppliers -- LG Display, Samsung and Chimei Innolux -- by the end of 2011. DigiTimes Research's projections are based on its report that iPad screen shipments for November reached 2.7 million -- 1.5 million from LG, 1.2 million from Samsung. …mehr
