Mehrere hunderttausend Internet-Nutzer haben sich seit Sommer eine "De-Mail"-Adresse gesichert. …mehr
Google sieht sich mit einer weiteren Beschwerde gegen eine marktbeherrschende Stellung bei der Internet-Suche konfrontiert. …mehr
Microsoft liefert für Windows Phone 7 das erste Update aus. Die versprochenen Funktionen Kopieren, Ausschneiden und Einfügen liefert es aber nicht. …mehr
Auf dem Personal Computer verbarrikadieren wir uns vor Online- Kriminellen mit Firewalls und Antiviren-Software. …mehr
Heute erscheinen das Service Pack 1 (SP1) für Windows 7 und dessen Server-Pendant 2008 R2 für die Allgemeinheit. …mehr
Windows Phone mache es möglich, neue Handys schnell und preisgünstig auf den Markt zu bringen. Mit diesen Argumenten, so Firmenchef Stephen Elop, überzeugte Microsoft Nokia vom Wechsel. …mehr
Grundsätzlich gilt folgende Faustregel: Wenn auf Ihrem Rechner Office 2007 problemlos läuft, können Sie auch Office 2010 installieren, insbesondere die Mindestanforderungen an CPU und Arbeitsspeicher sind identisch. …mehr
Bislang ist die Bewegungssteuerung "Kinect" nur ein Zubehör für die Spielkonsole "Xbox 360". Mit einem Software Development Kit (SDK) will Microsoft sie auch für den PC erschließen. …mehr
Auch die Facebook-Nutzer in Deutschland kommen nun sukzessive in den "Genuss" der sogenannten "umgehenden Personalisierung". …mehr
Der Kabelnetzbetreiber Kabel Deutschland hat dank starker Geschäfte mit dem Kombi-Produkt Internet und Telefon ("Triple Play") ein solides drittes Quartal verzeichnet. …mehr
Mit Beginn der Frühschicht haben in Nordrhein-Westfalen am Dienstag erneut Beschäftigte der Telekom ihre Arbeit niedergelegt. …mehr
Im vorigen Jahr absolvierten die ersten Software Process Improvement (SPI-)Manager ihre Ausbildung. Tanja Torzewski gehörte dazu. …mehr
Das frisch erschienene Update der iPhone-App "COMPUTERWOCHE News" hält mobile Leser noch besser auf dem Laufenden. …mehr
Die neue EX-TR100 aus dem Hause Casio bietet ein innovatives Design mit schwenkbarem Bildschirm. …mehr
Mit der Coolpix S1100pj bringt Nikon seine zweite Digitalkamera mit integriertem Projektor. Lesen Sie im Test, wieso das Gerät nicht überzeugen konnte. …mehr
Drei Kerne für unter 700 Euro? Das Notebook Acer Aspire 5551G mit 15,6-Zoll-Bildschirm macht's möglich. In ihm steckt der AMD-Triple Core Phenom II N830. …mehr
Throw away your MiFi! Forego the heartbreak of tethering! Give up the struggle of Internet Sharing from a mobile broadband modem through your laptop! The Personal Hotspot feature can slice (through your mobile bill), dice (up your cables), and make pounds and pounds of Wi-Fi devices connect to the Internet. But, wait! There’s more! Personal Hotspot does its job well, too. …mehr
Really like that video you posted on Yahoo Video? Well, if you want it back, you better hurry up and download it. …mehr
Sometimes you just need a little extra oomph when it comes to managing files—perhaps you often need to adjust timestamps on your digital photos, or you lock files to help prevent them from getting overwritten. If you’re nodding your head right now, PublicSpace.net’s new utility, , might be worth a look. …mehr
Lenovo and Sony on Tuesday announced faster laptops based on Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors, which the PC makers said could offer longer battery life than models based on Intel's older chips. …mehr
As promised, Microsoft today started offering Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Windows Update. …mehr
Due to a reporter's error, the Computerworld (US) story, "Semantic Web gets down to business", posted to the wire Monday, misidentified the company that Michael Lang works for. …mehr
will host on March 2 an event in San Francisco where the company is expected to announce the next version of its popular tablet, according to a technology blogger at the Wall Street Journal. …mehr
Bug fixes and security patches don't make for the most exciting Windows update, but they're the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely available for download. …mehr
Just one day after three major third-party mobile applications for allegedly violating its use policies, the social network reinstated them. …mehr
An intriguing on Monday unveiled a cheap monitor that includes built-in PC functionality. The Acer DX241H is an , but it also features an operating system running on top of an ARM Cortex-A8 chip--the same processor commonly found in cell phones and tablets. All this comes in at around just $400, although that price would likely be significantly lower if the product reaches the United States. …mehr
Here's the scenario: Your IT team writes a web service, and part of its WSDL interface includes a hash algorithm the team came up with on their own. You publish the API and your business partners use your clever little hash in integrating with across cloud services. Years later, you get a letter from a lawyer from a town in Texas you've never heard of, claiming you've infringed on a patent you never heard of. Your team scrambles to replace that hash algorithm, but that means a change to your API and some of your business partners resist making the change. It doesn't matter though: the infringement has already occurred, and you're going to pay somebody quite a bit of money even if you can prove your innocence. …mehr
An iPhone developer today said trying to get information from Apple about its new subscription model is like "hitting a brick wall," and remains unsure whether his app will have to toe the new line. …mehr
Verizon Wireless said today that it will use Tektronix Communications' Iris software to support network monitoring of the Verizon LTE network, which is now in the early stages of being rolled out. …mehr
It's a rare week indeed that doesn't see the emergence of some fresh news of , but lately the evidence has been coming particularly fast and furious, suggesting that there really is no stopping the mobile platform--at least not anytime soon. …mehr
In the hotel business, IT people are used to having to create standardized technology services to share with parts of the company that they don't necessarily own. …mehr
Xerox has released two new laser printers and a multifunction model, all aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses create professional-looking documents at an affordable price point. …mehr
BioWare's demo just went up on Xbox Live, for those curious to sample the roleplaying sequel's new action-slanted battle engine. The PC and PlayStation 3 versions weren't available at the time of this post, but should be available later today. …mehr
The Internet has played a crucial role in the popular revolts that have inflamed the Middle East and Italian communications experts claim they contributed significantly when they launched an appeal for an Internet Bill of Rights at the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis several years ago.The wave of popular rebellions that have shaken undemocratic Arab regimes from Cairo to Bahrain and Tripoli began in Tunisia in mid-December after a street vendor vented his anger at the police by setting himself on fire.News of Mohamed Bouazizi's dramatic gesture was spread by the country's estimated 2 million Facebook users, while WikiLeaks' publication of U.S. diplomatic cables detailing the corruption of the ruling family added to popular resentment of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.Internet-based social networks have been vital in summoning protesters to public demonstrations, but Italian analysts say the Internet has been even more important for the way it has fostered popular anger and a desire for freedom."The net has been fundamental for the gradual creation of a public consciousness that paved the way for the revolt," said Alessandro Gilioli, author of "The Enemies of the Net," a new book about the obstacles to the development of Internet in Italy. "It provides instant communication that produces its effects over the course of years. It can take a blogger five years to develop a reputation for credibility," Gilioli said. "President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt closed it down too late."A four-day closure of Egypt's Internet network is estimated to have cost the country US$90 million in lost earnings, said Gilioli's co-author, Arturo Di Corinto. "They shut down the four main Internet providers, but left the Noor network running. Noor handles 8 percent of Egypt's Internet traffic, in particular that of the banks and the stock exchange. The bankers and stockbrokers provided a bridge for the demonstrators, which was something the authorities didn't expect," Di Corinto said.A complete national shutdown has rarely been achieved, Di Corinto added. Nepal in 2005 and Burma in 2007 were rare exceptions, he said."Internet created a more cosmopolitan public opinion, interested in dialogue and in discovering alternative lifestyles. People found they weren't alone in criticizing the regimes. It affected the middle classes, who were themselves connected to the people in power," Di Corinto said in an interview.Di Corinto attended the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005 as a reporter for the left-wing daily Il Manifesto. It provided an opportunity for contact between Western visitors, particularly Italians, and local bloggers and democracy activists, opening up the country to modern communications."The Tunisians were very hospitable. They saw us as cousins," Di Corinto said. Even President Ben Ali was in favor of the process of technological modernization and had his own page on Facebook, with 120,000 followers, he said."To suggest that we prepared the country for what has happened now sounds wild, but it's not wrong. Those exchanges created a different public opinion, ready for change," Di Corinto said.The IT expert said the idea of an Internet Bill of Rights was proposed by an Italian Green Party senator, Fiorello Cortiana, and proved particularly important. "It created a breach. It was an important moment for Africa," Di Corinto said.The appeal for the Bill of Rights was signed by Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, and Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation, as well as by the Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, his country's culture minister at the time, and by David Byrne of the Talking Heads. But the overwhelming majority of the initial signatories were Italian.Like Di Corinto, Cortiana also believes the Tunis summit prepared the ground for today's democratic revolutions. "It was a seed planted in fertile ground, even though it wasn't the only one," Cortiana, who now works for the regional administration in Milan, said in a telephone interview. "I'm proud to have planted it."Many people opposed the choice of Tunis as the location for the summit precisely because the government was not democratic, but Cortiana disagreed. "It was a great decision to hold it there. I told people that in the name of freedom we had to go there to plant a seed, an element of restlessness. It gave people a different view on things," he said.Cortiana said the three most important things to come out of the summit were a press conference with the Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, the call for an Internet Bill of Rights, and the opening of a cybercafe in the Tunis Casbah that enabled ordinary Tunisians to participate in the debate.Both Cortiana and Di Corinto acknowledge the risk that the Middle East's democratic revolutions could be hijacked by Islamic fundamentalists, simply because they are often better organized than other opposition groups."The risk certainly exists in those countries, but the digital and interactive dimension can be a very powerful antidote. The United States is coming to realize that the net can export democracy much more effectively than the army," Cortiana said."The Internet has become the public space of the 21st century, the largest that has ever been known. Interactivity is what makes it different, and that is really the key," he said. "The disintermediation of the net creates the circumstances under which knowledge can be shared and ideas freely exchanged."Ben Ali was brought to power 23 years ago in a bloodless coup engineered, at least in part, by the Italian secret services. So it is perhaps appropriate that Italians should have played a role in the process that led to his ouster. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard reported a jump in profit for the first quarter of its 2011 fiscal year but sales were dragged down by weakness in its PC and services divisions. …mehr
Toyota Australia plans to offer a Cloud-based management system for 200 of its car dealerships nationally as part of an ambitious four-month migration of existing dealers to Fujitsu’s data centres. …mehr
Vodafone Australia today wrote to its customers to share plans about its network performance and improvements to customer service, in a bid to repair its image following a tumultuous few months. …mehr
What defines IT marketing? It's the business activity of presenting IT products, services, and capabilities to constituents in a way that makes them eager to fund and utilize. While many security groups focus their communication activities on end user activity awareness, they have stopped short of planning for the fundamental activity of presenting their products, services, and capabilities to their key stakeholders. There are many reasons given for missing this critical step, such as attitudes of security professionals, lack of business acumen to develop effective marketing and communications strategies, and the ever present too-much-work reason. But as security decision-makers report higher into the organization and take on more responsibility, it will be more essential than ever to have an effective marketing and advocacy plan in place. …mehr
ViewSonic has unveiled the world's first dual-SIM Android smartphone, the V350. …mehr
The pro-Iran hacktivist group that defaced the Baidu and Twitter Web sites a year ago has hit another target: the U.S. Government's Voice of America news site. …mehr
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will move to the next stage of testing its Ngara wireless technology in December this year with plans for field trials in the NSW town of Armidale. …mehr
Star Traders RPG is an open-ended game of trade, exploration, and combat. It resembles the , but with a science-fiction makeover. …mehr
Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) has named Gary Moore as its first COO, formally giving CEO John Chambers a sidekick to help transition the switching and routing king into new markets in the and beyond. …mehr
Recalling all those AOL disks promising hundreds of hours of free usage (minus the disks), Microsoft is offering up to 750 free hours of use on its Azure service as an enticement for developers to try cloud computing, the company announced Tuesday. …mehr
While Sony's busily , it seems Microsoft's getting busy courting them. The company says it plans to release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows software development kit this spring. …mehr
A series of major Web site crashes that added to storm-related commuting chaos has the leaders of Boston's transit system promising improvements, while the site's webmaster has been reassigned to a presumably less high-profile position. …mehr
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a new online feature that allows active duty and retired service members to access their electronic health records (EHRs) with the click of a mouse. …mehr
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday reported strong profits for its first fiscal quarter of 2011 but the results were dampened by weakness in its PC and services divisions. …mehr
A legal battle threatened to break out last week after a 3D modeller initially claimed copyright on a he created for use with a 3D printer. The design is based on the famous optical illusion. …mehr
Have a question about digital photography? Send it to me [mailto:question@davejoh.com]. I reply to as many as I can--though given the quantity of e-mails that I get, I can't promise a personal reply to each one. I round up the most interesting questions about once a month here in Digital Focus. For more frequently asked questions, read my newsletters from , , and . …mehr
Lenovo on Tuesday announced the first ThinkPad laptops running Intel's latest Sandy Bridge chips, which help make the PCs faster and more power-efficient than older models. …mehr
Back when music was confined to a physical medium, audio enthusiasts would pay top dollar for high quality record, CD, and tape players made with the finest components. Those days are generally behind us, but if you think iTunes is the be-all and end-all of digital music playback, the folks at would have you think again. The company's new premium digital music player, , is aimed toward the discerning listener and offers a variety of tools to maximize your listening experience. …mehr
Cybercriminals in Eastern Europe have begun using a dangerous new malware program to steal from online bank accounts in the U.S. …mehr
When I signed up for a Twitter account in the summer of 2009 I spent some time thinking about whether or not I should protect my tweets. As a novice Twitter user, I had to decide whether the benefits of protecting my tweets outweighed the drawbacks. Looking back, I do not regret my decision to protect my tweets, and I'll tell you why. …mehr
Many businesses have in the past few years, and while in the corporate world, few workers exploit its full power. However, just a handful of free extensions can provide invaluable business tools. …mehr
Apple is set to launch a brand new line of MacBook and notebooks, and according to some reports the new models will be available this week. …mehr
Somehow, you can meticulously connect each cable from your PC to your various gadgets and peripherals, carefully ensuring that they don't twist or overlap, and yet within minutes the back of your PC will look like a vinyl-coated mound of spaghetti. …mehr
Guo Ruiqiang says he still feels sick more than a year after he suffered chemical poisoning while working on an iPhone production line. …mehr
