Erst die Allianzen mit Yahoo!, Facebook und Nokia, jetzt der Kauf von Skype: Microsoft schmiedet weiter einen Gegenpol zu Apple und Google. …mehr
YouTube mausert sich zur Online-Videothek. …mehr
Das Geschäft mit den digitalen Datenspeichern ist im Umbruch. …mehr
Trotz Sicherheitsbedenken setzt der Storage-Anbieter EMC weiterhin auf die Cloud. Neue Produkte und Analysetechniken sollen die Datenmengen in Zaum halten. …mehr
Microsoft hat eben die offizielle Mitteilung zur geplanten Übernahme von Skype veröffentlicht. …mehr
In einer Studie registriert der Berater SoftSelect steigende Nachfrage bei SaaS, mobilem Zugriff und Anbindung ans Internet. Aber offenbar haben noch längst nicht alle Anbieter ihre Hausaufgaben gemacht. …mehr
Das im deutschsprachigen Raum führende Netzwerk für Geschäftskontakte XING hat Zahlen zum ersten Quartal 2011 veröffentlicht. …mehr
US-amerikanischen Presseberichten zufolge wird Microsoft um 5 Uhr früh (Ortszeit, das wäre 14 Uhr MESZ) die Übernahme von Skype bekanntgeben. …mehr
Der Halbleiterhersteller Infineon kauft dem Insolvenzverwalter von Qimonda Fertigungsanlagen in Dresden ab. …mehr
Nach dem HTC Flyer und dem HTC EVO View 4G hat der Hersteller offenbar noch ein heißes Eisen im Feuer. Das HTC Puccini soll mit einem 10 Zoll großen Display ausgestattet sein und den schnellen LTE-Funk unterstützen. …mehr
Nach langem Feilschen hat Apple große US-Magazinverlage doch noch für sein Abo-Modell auf dem Tablet-Computer iPad gewonnen. …mehr
Google kündigt vermutlich schon heute zur Eröffnung seiner Entwicklerkonferenz I/O 2011 seinen Cloud-Streaming-Dienst "Google Music" an. …mehr
Die Projekt-Management-Preisträgerin Claudia Donig erläutert im CW-Gespräch, wann Teilzeitarbeit trotz großem beruflichen Stress funktioniert. …mehr
Mit dem "LG Optimus Speed" kommt das erste Smartphone mit einem Dual-Core-Prozessor hierzulande in den Handel. Die Kollegen von der "PC-Welt" haben sich das Gerät angeschaut. …mehr
Logitechs neue TV Cam for Skype bietet Skype über den Fernseher in HD-Qualität. …mehr
Nach der Rechtsprechung des Bundesfinanzhofs gibt nun die Finanzverwaltung Richtlinien vor. Alexander Uhl stellt sie vor. …mehr
The mobile powerhouse is cruising to new heights with 100 million activated devices, 4.5 billion downloaded from the Android Market, and 450,000 developers building tools for Android phones and tablets, Google said Tuesday as it kicked off the fourth annual Google I/O developers conference. …mehr
ZTE won the most new wireless contracts in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a report by EJL Wireless Research. …mehr
Motion projectors don't exactly have a reputation for being all that cool. In general, they're used for watching documentaries or projecting work. However, the guys behind the Fabricate Yourself Kinect hack--which let you create a mini-figure of yourself out of foam--have come up with a new use for the handheld variety of projectors. …mehr
My mailbox is filling up again with questions, so it's time to get busy answering them. In the last I covered Internet Explorer, PC parts, and customizing Windows icons. This week I answer questions about Firefox 4, Microsoft Word, and Windows LIve Mail. …mehr
In a stunning example of the left hand of government not knowing what the right hand is doing, a representative from the U.S. Department of Justice reminded a Senate subcommittee today that his agency wants to require wireless carriers to keep records of users' location and web sites they access on their smartphones. …mehr
Cardinal Santos Medical Center (CSMC), an upscale hospital located in San Juan City, is blanketed with WiFi signals. …mehr
Microsoft is downplaying the threat posed by one of the three bugs the company patched today, said security researchers. …mehr
Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developers conference by giving people what they'd been speculating about for months - an online music service. …mehr
Facebook users still do not use privacy controls to protect themselves, and a third of children under 18 are below the site's minimum age of 13, Consumer Reports reported in its June issue. …mehr
Square Enix has unveiled the first teaser for the fifth in the Hitman series, offering some tantalizing clues as to what Agent 47 might be up to next. …mehr
The Computerworld (US) story, "Some Verizon users still reporting LTE modem problems," posted to the wire on Tuesday, named a source who later asked not to be named. …mehr
In this week of big headlines for both and , the quiet escalation in the war between Google images and Bing images has gone virtually unnoticed... until now. …mehr
LAS VEGAS - EMC at its annual trade show today an upgrade to its data-caching appliance that allows arrays to replicate data between applications over distances greater than 2,000 miles. …mehr
When the power goes out and you're faced with a houseful of futilely blinking clocks in desperate need of setting, your Mac can help. Hints reader jsdetwiler figured out a clever way to turn his Mac into a talking clock. When the clocks go out, he can dial his speakers way up and run a little command line script, then move leisurely from room to room, synchronizing all of his clocks to his Mac's time. …mehr
The may not sell like it used to, but that doesn't mean Apple has stopped tinkering with its tiny music player. A new photo allegedly shows a next-generation iPod nano with a rear-facing camera. …mehr
The Beijing Apple Store settles up with a injured customer, a rumored next-generation iPod nano makes an appearance, and there's yet another supposed use for Apple's massive data center. The remainders for Tuesday, May 10, 2011 are just blowing in the wind. …mehr
I was a having a conversation with another fellow security professional at the CSO Perspectives seminar a few weeks ago and he used the word "disintermediation" to make a point about his website. We had a bit of a chuckle about how that word that was used (rather, overused) during the dot-com days. The context back then was that the new, online world was going to obsolesce the traditional world of bricks-n-mortars through the "disintermediation" process of cutting out the no-value-adding, costly infrastructure of middle-men. …mehr
Cisco Tuesday unveiled a wireless LAN controller that allows centralized management of up to 500 branch office locations from one data center. …mehr
Monday's mentions of "Alan Wake 2" spurs Remedy to comment, but the new game won't exactly be a true sequel. Will E3 hold the answer? …mehr
Ford Motor Co. wants to use the Google Prediction API to predict driver behavior and use that input to make cars perform better. …mehr
That little green robot must be struggling to catch his breath. …mehr
Google officially announced , a passive-locker music streaming service compatible with Android devices and Web browsers. Google demonstrated a keen talent for renaming existing iTunes features and presenting them as striking new innovations. …mehr
Brink's review scores have shown that it is a game that well and truly splits opinions, and sparked several Internet arguments. Pete Davison questions whether or not this is a bad thing. …mehr
Even though Verizon Wireless claims its fast LTE network is "up and running" following an April 26 outage, it's still not working for some customers, including 50 Chicago-based users of laptops with LTE modems. …mehr
Lloyds TSB is trying to scotched rumours that its group CIO Darryl West is to join IT giant HP. …mehr
