Die App "Animail" von der sixtyten GmbH kombiniert Twitter und E-Mail in einer Oberfläche und kanalisiert so die tägliche Nachrichten-Flut. …mehr
Research in Motion (RIM) bewirbt das für Business- und Privatkunden gedachte "Blackberry Playbook" als bessere Alternative zu Apples iPad. Zu Recht? …mehr
Das Test-Center der COMPUTERWOCHE-Schwester InfoWorld präsentiert die besten Hard- und Software-Produkte für 2011. …mehr
Wenn der Chef einem die Freundschaft anbietet, ist das in Zeiten von Facebook und Co. nicht nur von Vorteil. Ein CW-Gespräch mit dem Arbeitsrechtler Professor Peter Wedde über die Tücken im Umgang mit sozialen Netzen und arglose Mitarbeiter. …mehr
Die Stadtwerke Düsseldorf betreiben seit kurzem das Pilotprojekt "E-Mobil NRW". Was trägt die IT dazu bei? …mehr
The extradition hearing for WikiLeak's founder Julian Assange is set to begin Monday in London, with his lawyers prepared to make arguments he could eventually end up in Guantanamo Bay if first extradited to Sweden. …mehr
Branches of the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations are launching on Friday the 2011 Develop for Privacy Challenge, a competition for mobile application developers to address privacy concerns about mobile phones and other portable devices. …mehr
Telstra has set about assessing the initial impact of cyclone Yasi on its network and the safety of its staff in North Queensland. …mehr
Google Storage is one of the newest and most promising entrants into the cloud storage market. Its integration with other Google services such as Google App Engine makes it a viable threat to the current leader, Amazon S3. The service is currently in closed beta, but if you're lucky enough to snag an invite, you'll probably want a more advanced manager than Google's bare-bones Web app, which supports little more than bucket creating and file uploading. For accessing advanced features of Google Storage such as setting HTTP headers or access control levels (ACLs), Google offers the command line utility . But unless you're a console guru, a graphical manager such as is highly preferable. …mehr
It's Super Bowl weekend, and you know what that means: commercials, commercials, commercials. Verizon and AT&T are lobbing shells at each other via ads, while Motorola is prepping a familiar-looking spot for its Xoom tablet. Also, what do doctors and leopards have in common? Strangely enough, the iPad. The remainders for Friday, February 4, 2011 will return after these messages. …mehr
Even if Microsoft did copy Google's search results the practice couldn't be scaled enough to mimic Google's algorithms in any widespread and meaningful way, search industry analysts and executives said. …mehr
Federal authorities are investigating a computer intrusion at the company that runs the Nasdaq stock exchange, …mehr
Research In Motion's BlackBerry WebWorks Application Platform lets developers use standard Web tools to create applications that work like native programs on RIM's smartphones and PlayBook tablets, company officials said Thursday. …mehr
of , even at PCWorld; I'm . But I've been turning over in my mind different perspectives on the cloud. I've tried to set aside the views of the IT executive, who seems to dominate the debate. …mehr
