Für alle Freunde moderner Architektur gibt es jetzt mit dem kix berlin usbeton einen sytylischen USB-Stick aus Beton. …mehr
Am Samstag wurde der Apple Store am Hamburger Jungfernstieg eröffnet. Unsere Schwesterpublikation 'MacWelt' konnte sich vorab im größten Apple Store Deutschlands umschauen. …mehr
LG hat das Optimus Q2 vorgestellt und so die Gerüchte der vergangenen Tage bestätigt. …mehr
Mit 8,9 Prozent der Stimmen hat die Piratenpartei die Wahl zum Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus als klarer Sieger absolviert. Nun ziehen 15 Piraten in die Versammlung ein. …mehr
Das Labor AV-Test prüft konstant Antivirenlösungen. Im Ergebnis des 2. Quartals fielen sechs von 22 Anwärtern durch. …mehr
Google hat das Startup-Unternehmen DailyDeal übernommen, das in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Rabattgutschein-Portale betreibt. …mehr
Geldwäscher werden immer dreister - und suchen zunehmend Komplizen im Internet. Denn dort lassen sich die Spuren kaum verfolgen. Einen neuen Höchststand erreicht die Zahl der Geldwäsche-Verdachtsfälle. …mehr
Mit einschlägigen Tipps im Internet, in Börsenbriefen oder mit gezielten Anrufen: Auf vielfältige Weise wird versucht, Anleger für Pennystocks zu gewinnen. Fällt der Käufer auf Betrüger herein, hat er oft das Nachsehen. …mehr
Die ehemalige SAP-Personalchefin Angelika Dammann hat in einem Zeitungsinterview ihren überraschenden Rücktritt verteidigt. …mehr
Die Vorbehalte gegen den Verkauf des Mobilfunkanbieters T-Mobile USA an den größeren Rivalen AT&T nehmen zu. …mehr
Hacker-Angriffe gehören inzwischen in vielen Unternehmen zum Tagesgeschäft. …mehr
Hier erfahren Sie, wie man ein agiles Vorgehen nach Scrum mit den Methoden des V-Modell XT kombiniert. …mehr
WhatsUp Gold von Ipswitch zählt zu den bekanntesten Tools zur Systemüberwachung von Servern. Das Monitoring-Tool kommt nicht nur mit physischen, sondern auch mit virtuellen Systemen zurecht. Wir zeigen, wie Sie mit WhatsUp Gold Ihre virtuellen Serversysteme unter VMware vSphere überwachen. …mehr
IDC und Gartner erwarten ein Ende der Hochkonjunktur im Server-Markt. Während Gartner HP als Weltmarktführer einstuft, hat bei IDC inzwischen IBM die Nase vorn. …mehr
Eucalyptus ist eine Open-Source-Nachimplementierung des Infrastrukturdienstes von Amazon EC2 für Cloud Computing. Wie man eine eigene Cloud mit Eucalyptus unter dem aktuellen Ubuntu-Betriebssystem aufbaut, zeigt dieser Workshop. …mehr
Lesen Sie, welche Erkenntnisse die große Parallels-Mittelstands-Studie zum Thema Cloud Computing ans Licht gebracht hat. …mehr
Bisher waren Ricoh-Kameras aufgrund technischer Besonderheiten eher ein Nischenprodukt. Mit der Ricoh PX will der Hersteller nun den Massenmarkt erobern: Die Kamera ist staubdicht und begrenzt wasserfest. Mehr dazu im Test. …mehr
Die Versendung privater Kurzmitteilungen mit dem Firmenhandy und falsch abgerechnete Telefonkosten berechtigen zur fristlosen Kündigung. Details von Matthias Kroll* …mehr
Was macht eigentlich ein IT-Architekt den ganzen Tag? Wir haben Steffen Schäfer begleitet, der bei IBM Deutschland die strategische Geschäftsentwicklung für Mobilität und Umwelt im Bereich "Smarter Cities" verantwortet. …mehr
Laut einer Studie von PAC und Logica hapert es beim Reifegrad des IT-Managements. Standards und Best-Practices werden zu wenig genutzt. …mehr
Als CFO sind Sie auf höchster Ebene für die IT verantwortlich. Was läuft denn da gerade? …mehr
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has ranked Australia 14th - two spots behind neighbouring New Zealand - in a recent study of ICT competitiveness with a strong focus on broadband. …mehr
I'm not cheap, exactly, but I do love to find a bargain. So when I'm thinking about a vacation or a business trip, I search the Web for the best airfare. Since I'm going to Chicago next month, I thought I'd try out and see how it stacks up against Kayak, which is generally considered one of the best air fare finders on the Web. …mehr
For a security industry leader, Tim Williams is a pretty modest guy. As the former head of ASIS International and now as global security director for the $42.5 billion construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Williams has won , which he doesn't take lightly. …mehr
Sometimes, you'll encounter URLs in text that aren't active links. That is, you can see the URLs, but clicking on them won't open the requested page in your default browser. Instead, you're forced to copy and paste the URLs, or Control-click (right-click) and choose Open URL from the contextual menu. Hints reader discovered a Lion shortcut for opening URLs that you come across in Terminal. It could come in handy if, for example, you use Terminal to look at Read Me files or other text documents. …mehr
Companies can expect shareholders' social and environmental initiatives to keep rising as a percentage of overall proxy proposals in 2012, based on this year's experience. Another possible lesson to be learned this year: Perhaps management should consider settling with holders, rather than fighting it out at the annual meeting. …mehr
Starbreeze, the team behind The Darkness and The Chronicles of Riddick, has announced that it is developing a new IP in collaboration with the award-winning Swedish film director Josef Fares. …mehr
Google is preparing developers for the latest edition of its Android mobile operating platform that will work the same on both tablets and . …mehr
Reader David Simon can't locate a feature he was accustomed to using with his old Mac. He writes: …mehr
Organisations that ignore the IT department when approving Cloud projects will face more than just security challenges, according to a legal expert. …mehr
In late May, Google, MasterCard, Citi and a handful of U.S. retailers , which will allow consumer to use select Near Field Communications (NFC) enabled, Android smartphones to pay for goods and services. And it looks like Google Wallet may officially launch today--though only one smartphone, the , will reportedly support the service at first. …mehr
The much-anticipated Google Wallet app debuts today--for now, available only on the Sprint Nexus S 4G phone. The app is the latest to use Near Field Communications (NFC) technology to facilitate payments--customers pay for items in brick-and-mortar shops by tapping their phone to a vendor's PayPass reader, a small box for transmitting data that can be found in major retailers like Macy's, Whole Foods, and McDonald's. To get its app off the ground, Google partnered with MasterCard, which has been using NFC chips on some of its credit cards , and originally developed the PayPass reader. I took Google's out for a spin in San Francisco, and while it's extraordinarily cool when it works, the experience isn't seamless yet. The app itself stalled for a good 20 minutes once while registering a payment, but other than that it was really simple to use. More important, I found that the PayPass readers in merchants' stores were often broken or malfunctioning, something Google and MasterCard need to fix quickly if this app is to become the revolutionary new method of payment it promises to be. Setting It UpCurrently, the app works only on the Sprint Nexus S 4G phone, which is built with a special NFC antenna, and a chip that Google calls its "secure element," which strictly controls transmissions from the NFC antenna and stores your payment information separately from your phone's main OS. The Google Wallet app currently links only with Citibank MasterCards or Google Prepaid Cards (which you can use to load money from other debit accounts), although Google says it hopes to support all soon. Finally, you can use Google Wallet only at the select vendors that have PayPass readers at the cash register. When I received the phone, Google had already set up a PIN for me to access Google Wallet. Entering the PIN turns on the phone's "secure element" chip, allowing transmissions between the NFC antenna and the PayPass reader. When the PIN isn't entered, the chip is turned off, and when the phone's screen is off, the NFC antenna is off, so that you can't, say, have the phone in your pocket and "accidentally" purchase something, or have your money stolen via a malicious NFC reader while you're on the train, for instance. By default, the app forces you to reenter the PIN every 5 minutes, but I found it somewhat annoying to reenter this number every time I wanted to check something in the app. I settled on 15 minutes. Within the Google Wallet app, you can view the cards linked up to your phone and select a default payment card, but there are also options to add and use loyalty cards (if you frequent a vendor that offers these, you can manage your transactions through this), discounts from Google Offers (any coupons you might receive through Google Shopper will be pushed to this part of Google Wallet), and you can view your payment history. Payment history in Google Wallet can tell you only what card was used and what time the transaction occurred, and you can opt in to use the phone's GPS to attach a location to each purchase. However, the app's payment history folder , so you still have to keep your receipts. Once I selected the Google Prepaid card to be my default card, I went out to use it. …mehr
You might imagine that the best place to go for improving your Microsoft server-side experience is to the mothership itself. In many cases, you would be right. But the truth is there are a meaningful number of open source tools that go above and beyond what Microsoft has to offer in support of Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint. Many of these alternatives provide -- for free -- more powerful capabilities than what you'd get with third-party retail products. …mehr
IBM is claiming the number one spot in Southeast Asia when it comes to IT services. …mehr
The arrested 14 people suspected of stealing a total of HK$ 255,000 by digging up five victims' online and phone payment system account log-in details via P2P tools. …mehr
The U.S. government can't offer stock options, laundry service and catered lunches to prospective job candidates, but it can offer the satisfaction of public service, and now, a fancy title. …mehr
Google's share of the enterprise email market currently "hovers" at around 1%, but it will reach 10% within a few years, research firm Gartner predicts. …mehr
At long last, Google has launched its Google Wallet mobile payment application on Sprint Nexus S 4G . …mehr
It's been another busy week here at Macworld, and not just because of a steadily escalating prank war between editors Philip Michaels and Dan Miller. We've covered interesting iOS and Mac apps; Lion tricks and issues; accessories; Windows 8; and plenty more. In case you missed any of the good stuff this past week, here's a roundup of our biggest and best stories (in easily-digestible list format!) to bring you up to Thunderbolt speed. …mehr
Do Google's business practices serve consumers or ? That's the question before a Senate hearing Wednesday where Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will testify, hoping to halt potential antitrust actions against the company and fend off concerns that Google really is . …mehr
Internet service provider, iiNet, has unveiled its consumer plans for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). The ISP will offers three plans with different data quotas, ranging from the entry-level, $49.95 plan with 40GB per month (20GB on-peak, 20 GB off) to one terabyte. …mehr
More than a few worker bees figure top executives simply sail from one six-figure job to the next, whisked along by suave executive recruiters who coach them on and help them negotiate . Right. …mehr
Two stores in Queens, N.Y. have agreed to hand over all counterfeit products to Apple that bear the California company's name or logo, according to court documents. …mehr
The mobile operating system Android for phones and tablets offers a wide variety of apps and can be quite useful in your professional and personal life. But after you've added a bunch of apps and used it for a while, Android can also get bogged down or unstable, run slowly and/or eat battery juice too quickly. …mehr
If you've read this blog for a while, it's no secret that I believe that one aspect of cloud computing is a dramatic drop in the cost of computing. While many discuss cloud computing's cost advantage in terms of better utilization via resource pooling and rapid elasticity, we believe that there is a more fundamental shift going on as data centers are redesigned to focus on scale, efficiency, and a shift to commodity components. …mehr
Google officially launched its Google Wallet application late Monday for NFC-ready Sprint Nexus S 4G phone users. …mehr
The , the latest top-of-the-line Android phone from Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless ($300 with a two-year plan), is more of everything. The paradox -- which I discovered after working with the phone for a week -- is that all that more winds up being somewhat less. …mehr
This is a story of two federal government data center projects: One, undertaken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), met its schedule and budget. The other, a U.S. Air Force initiative, went over budget and was late. …mehr
After failing to figure out the crystal structure of an AIDS retrovirus enzyme responsible for how HIV multiplies, scientists crowd-sourced the effort to the gaming community, which was able to decipher the structure in a matter of days. …mehr
Facebook recently rolled out a variety of tweaks and updates to its social networking site, including adding a Subscribe option. I wrote about and abandoning my Facebook Page, but after further consideration I think there is a case to be made for maintaining both Facebook entities. …mehr
Microsoft re-released an update today for Windows XP to correct a snafu that left users vulnerable to potential "man-in-the-middle" attacks for most of last week. …mehr
A few years ago, the Pentagon launched a program to create a fully functional HAL 9000 -- the intelligent software robot depicted in the 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. …mehr
