Erst knipsen - dann scharfstellen: Die junge US-Firma Lytro verspricht nicht weniger als eine Revolution in der Fotografie. …mehr
Google trifft Ixquick: Wer die bewährten Ergebnislisten der Google-Suche nicht missen möchte, gleichzeitig aber Wert auf Datenschutz legt, bekommt eine neue Alternative. …mehr
Vielen Unternehmen ist nicht bewusst, dass Schriftlizenzbestimmungen genauso strikt sind wie die Bestimmungen für Software-Lizenzen, deren Missachtung rechtliche Folgen hat. …mehr
Mozilla hat sich von Google anstecken lassen und veröffentlich Updates für den Firefox-Browser nun in kürzeren Abständen. Gestern Abend ist bereits die Version 5.0 erschienen. …mehr
Das kalifornische Unternehmen Adobe, Spezialist für Kreativ-Software, hat Umsatz und Gewinn im zweiten Geschäftsquartal gesteigert und gibt sich auch mit Blick auf das Gesamtjahr optimistisch. …mehr
Auf der Community-Seite zur Blog-Software Wordpress mussten alle Passwörter zurückgesetzt werden. …mehr
Nach Angriffen auf Computer von Sony, des US-Geheimdiensts CIA und einer britischen Polizeibehörde gerät die Hackergruppe LulzSec jetzt selbst unter Druck. …mehr
Island erarbeitet zurzeit mit reger Bürgerbeteiligung online eine neue Verfassung. …mehr
Der finnische Handy-Hersteller Nokia hat seinen Geschäftsbereich für mobile Dienste neu aufgestellt und mit seiner Geodaten-Tochter Navteq zusammengeführt. …mehr
Mili bietet mit dem Power Pico Projector (HI-P60) einen Mini-Projektor für Apples iPhone und iPod. …mehr
Die Fujifilm Finepix X100 ist keine Digitalkamera für den Massenmarkt: Sie arbeitet mit 23-Millimeter-Festbrennweite, und für das Einstellen von Blende und Verschlusszeit hat sich der Hersteller auch etwas Besonderes einfallen lassen. Lesen Sie den Test. …mehr
Der Siegeszug mobiler Anwendungen geht weiter. …mehr
Der Halbleiter-Markt hat laut Marktforschern nicht so stark unter der Tsunami-Katastrophe in Japan gelitten wie befürchtet, wird in diesem Jahr aber dennoch etwas schwächer wachsen als gedacht. …mehr
Das Acer Aspire One D255 ist ein günstiges Netbook mit Windows 7 – und mit Android. Welche Vorteile das doppelte Betriebssystem bringt, klärt der Test. …mehr
Das ZDF geht mit seiner Krimiserie "Flemming" ins Internet. …mehr
Sie suchen ein neues tolles Smartphone und kennen sich mit Social Media aus? Dann nehmen Sie an unserem Gewinnspiel auf Facebook teil! …mehr
Der Münchner IT-Dienstleister Consol erklärt, was Unternehmen in Virtualisierungsprojekten unbedingt vermeiden sollten. …mehr
Arbeitgeber möchten viel über ihre Mitarbeiter wissen. Doch die haben ein Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung. In diesem Spannungsfeld spielt sich der Datenschutz ab. …mehr
Für die Stadtverwaltung von Edinburgh ist Cloud Computing kein Fremdwort mehr. Sie setzt auf ein Virtual Data Center (VDC), um ihre Services zu flexibilisieren und die Kosten zu senken. …mehr
Welche Rechte hat der Arbeitgeber gegenüber einem Mitarbeiter, der schlechte Leistungen erbringt? Von Michael Henn und Christian Lentföhr …mehr
Reader Ash wants to know if there's a way to password-protect individual folders in Windows 7: …mehr
The this week is an eye-opener for companies. The class of plaintiffs -- 1.5 million current and former female employees -- alleged that Wal-Mart systematically discriminated against them. …mehr
Oracle said Tuesday that it entered into an agreement to acquire FatWire Software, a privately-held company that specializes in software for businesses to manage their websites. …mehr
The coast is not yet clear for LightSquared's hybrid satellite-LTE network despite the company's announcement on Monday that it has found a solution to interference with GPS. …mehr
Cheapy D of told earlier that he'd received a ship date for his order, indicating that the item would be with him in early January. …mehr
On the Tuesday before , the big "press conference day," I was watching Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, and Sony trot out their new games and "experiences" to an international audience. As the day went on, I believe I had this subconscious concern enter my head, but it didn't really pop out until after Sony's press conference was done. After watching their presentation with Uncharted 3, NBA 2K12, some more games with guns, and the re-unveiling of the PS Vita and all its neat-o software, I asked out loud, "Uh, were there any Japanese games there?" …mehr
Nintendo representatives were quick to point out that all of the at this year's E3 were purely to show off the console's capabilities, not to serve as confirmation of any in-development titles. But in a , Miyamoto pretty much confirmed that they're committed to bringing a new Zelda to . "This is an HD system, our first HD system, and we want to create a real HD Zelda game for it." …mehr
In their constant bid to try and earn more advertising dollars for Xbox Live, Microsoft is introducing Kinect-enabled advertisements (via the New York Times). …mehr
How do you follow up a day that saw the release as well as stealth updates to the and product lines? If you're Apple, you roll out a couple of printer drivers aimed at hardware from Epson and Lexmark. …mehr
Cloud computing is widely perceived as a threat to Microsoft, because the maker of and Microsoft Office earns the lion's share of its money selling licenses for packaged software. …mehr
The hacking group known as LulzSec pledged to continue their online rampage Tuesday, a day after U.K. police arrested a man allegedly affiliated with the group. …mehr
National Harbor, Md. -- Increasingly, it's the chief financial officer (CFO) who has direct oversight of the IT department and IT-related spending, but it turns out the CFO has a low opinion of the CIO and the entire IT group. …mehr
Back on June 9, in Lodsys's patent infringement lawsuit against various iOS, Mac, and Android software developers. The court has yet to rule on Apple's motion, and now may take even longer: Lodsys on Tuesday filed an …mehr
EMC plans to create 500 new jobs in Utah by the end of 2015 to staff a new customer support center. …mehr
More than three years after its original filing, Apple has finally been granted an iPhone patent that could potentially see the touchscreen smartphone market become much more monopolized. …mehr
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Amazon had turned into Apple, because for months the rumor mill has been going wild with chatter of an Amazon tablet. …mehr
Twitter has quite possibly become the widest, most insightful, and perpetually open window into the minds of the masses that the world has ever seen. Its large and growing group of users post everything from news about current events to, yes, the occasional photo of what's for lunch. All this tweeting can be invaluable for any number of uses--but only if you know how to find what you need. …mehr
With the , Apple breaks new ground--not just with its flagship video editor's interface and underlying infrastructure--but with the whole mindset of what it means to be a working professional video editor. …mehr
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken aim at two Latvian gangs that allegedly made tens of millions of dollars by sneaking fake virus warnings onto victims' computers and then charging them to clean up the mess. …mehr
When you're on an airliner and fly through layers of clouds, you see first-hand that they come in many forms - sometimes hazy, sometimes translucent and sometimes so dense that you can't see through them. In many ways, cloud computing is similar - there are lots of gray areas, and it's hard to know exactly what you might get from each cloud offering. …mehr
A hacking group in the Netherlands promises to publish photos, phone numbers and addresses of members in response to similar treatment by LulzSec. …mehr
Authorities in the U.K. today charged a 19-year-old with using a botnet he controlled to take down the Web site of a national police unit. …mehr
In June of 2003, we ran a . We titled it "All Over the Map," which pretty much tells you what we concluded about how security was handled at the time: a bit like a ship with no home port, passing from executive to executive. The article had examples of security variously reporting to Human Resources, Facilities, Operations, Legal, and IT. Responsibility without authority was a theme. …mehr
Microsoft's BPOS cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage on Wednesday, the latest in a string of technical problems in recent months. …mehr
There's a reason it's called beta software. While Apple's latest developer build is certainly a glimpse into the promising future of iOS 5, it's not for everyone. Missing features, broken apps, and general quirkiness is abound- though you can't say they didn't tell you so: Apple specifically recommends only installing beta software on dedicated testing hardware. They also warn that once you install iOS 5, there's no going back. …mehr
Wish your iPad or iPod could hold more media? That your hotel room's Internet connection was wireless? That you had a portable Time Machine drive when traveling? Hitachi's upcoming , announced Wednesday, offers a solution to all these challenges and more in one compact package. …mehr
While Internet carriers may fret about Netflix, Hulu and other streaming media services saturating their bandwidth, Internet forefather Vint Cerf has a simple answer for this potential problem: Increase bandwidth exponentially. …mehr
One of the pioneers of casual gaming is on the verge of being acquired by an unknown party, according to a report by . …mehr
Several web sites are built off of social gaming, and it looks like Google is opening up a new business for just that purpose. …mehr
We've been hearing a lot lately about services that let you pay for stuff simply by swiping or tapping your smartphone at checkout--no cash or plastic cards required. Sure, it sounds nifty--think of all the we'll save--but when will tap-and-pay go mainstream? According to executive chairman , within twelve months. …mehr