Der Datenspeicherspezialist EMC hat Pivotal Labs übernommen, das Tools und Services für die agile Softwareentwicklung anbietet. …mehr
Vodafone bringt als erster Mobilfunk-Anbieter in Deutschland den Nachfolger der SMS an den Start. …mehr
Mehrere Google-Nutzer in den USA klagen gegen die neuen Datenschutzregeln des Internet-Konzerns. …mehr
Die IBM hat drei Service- und Softwarepakete vorgestellt, die Unternehmen bei der Auswertung ihrer Daten unterstützen sollen. Der Fokus liegt auf Finanzüberwachung, Verbraucherverhalten und Risiko-Management. …mehr
Der Redmonder Konzern hat angeblich einen internen Anschaffungsstopp für Apple-Produkte angeordnet. Für die Unternehmensbereiche Sales, Marketing, Services, IT und Operations dürfen ab sofort keine Geräte mehr gekauft werden. …mehr
Linus Torvalds hat die Version 3.3 des Linux-Kernels freigegeben. Laut dem Changelog wurden zahlreiche Android-Subsysteme integriert, die den Android-Kernel mit der Hauptversion wieder näher zusammenführen.. …mehr
Der Computerspielanbieter Zynga hat die Software-Firma OMGPOP übernommen, die mit einem Smartphone-Game für Zeichnungen Furore macht. …mehr
Deutsche Datenschützer und Facebook sind einem Dauerstreit - jetzt gibt es neuen Zoff: Das weltgrößte Online-Netzwerk plant Änderungen bei seinen Nutzungsregeln. …mehr
HP-Chefin Meg Whitman hat sich gestern mit Mitarbeitern getroffen, um die angekündigte Restrukturierung des Konzerns zu diskutieren. …mehr
Adobe geht ungewohnte neue Wege und hat die nächste Version CS6 seiner Flaggschiff-Software "Photoshop" als kostenlose Beta in seines Labs veröffentlicht. …mehr
Vom 22. März bis 4. April 2012 betreut Jürgen Artmann vom IT-Beratungs- und Softwarehaus Accso das Online-Karriereforum der COMPUTERWOCHE. …mehr
Mit Updates für die Karten- und Navigations-Apps für die "Lumia"-Windows-Phones von Nokia navigieren die Geräte jetzt komplett ohne Internet-Verbindung. …mehr
HP hat umfangreiche Veränderungen angekündigt. PC- und Drucker-Sparte werden zusammengeführt, Verkauf und Marketing neu aufgestellt. Kritiker rätseln über die Ankündigungen. …mehr
Trotz einer von Brüssel angedrohten Klage zeichnet sich im Koalitionsstreit um die Vorratsdatenspeicherung keine Annäherung zwischen Union und FDP ab. …mehr
Der Mobilfunkanbieter Drillisch und die Deutsche Telekom haben ihren Streit um Provisionen beigelegt. …mehr
Mit dem Lauch einer neuen Untersee-Kabel-Strecke, die die Golf-Region über Mumbai, Indien, mit dem Rest des Tata Global Network (TGN) verbindet, hat der indische Kommunikations-Dienstleister seine Vision eines eigenen Kabelrings rund um Welt realisiert. …mehr
Investitionen in Qualität und Zugänglichkeit von Daten werfen erkleckliche Renditen ab. Für große Firmen rechnen US-Wissenschaftler mit zusätzlichen Millionen. …mehr
Nicht nur die Werbung oder Magazine setzen auf QR-Codes, auch Kriminelle nutzen die Technik verstärkt, um Links zu bösartigen Seiten zu verbreiten. Norton will dieser Technik mit einer eigenen App einen Riegel vorschieben. …mehr
Mit Super-AMOLED-Display und einem günstigen Preis soll das Omnia W von Samsung aus der Menge an Windows Phone Geräten herausstechen. Die Kollegen vom TecChannel haben geprüft, ob das Omnia W mit High-End-Geräten mithalten kann. …mehr
Wie der Maschinenbauer Sandvik die Brücke zwischen dem Geschäft und der Informationstechnik schlägt. …mehr
Schon seit geraumer Zeit macht das iPad traditionellen Spielekonsolen erheblich Konkurrenz. Mit Dual-Screen-Games und HD-Darstellung des Spiels auf dem Fernseher greift das iPad 2 jetzt als Controller an …mehr
The story, "Chinese firm launches Android voice assistant for Mandarin speakers," which posted to the newswire Thursday, was missing a byline and was incorrectly sourced. The story was written by Michael Kan, of the IDG News Service Beijing bureau. The byline and source have been corrected in the story on the wire. …mehr
Studies suggest that --which is great news for the tech industry, but perhaps not so great for the user who has to pay that pesky wireless bill at the end of each month. …mehr
While Jeff Schmidt, the CEO of , was surfing the Web on his new Android smartphone (his first Android phone) earlier this year, what appeared to be an ad popped up on his screen. The "ad" looked like the prompt that appears when his phone rings. He clicked the button on the ad to pick up the putative call, and the ad began downloading a binary file--malware--onto his Android phone. Schmidt had been hit by a drive-by download, a program that automatically installs malicious software on end-users' computers--and increasingly, smartphones--without them knowing. …mehr
The location-based mobile services industry is already lucrative but has to do a better job easing consumers' fears about invasion of privacy, some executives said on Wednesday at the GPS-Wireless conference. …mehr
Google has beefed up the security of its cloud hosted services for developers by making several of them able to authenticate interactions with applications using certificate-based Service Accounts. …mehr
More data was stolen from corporate networks last year by hactivists than by cybercriminals, according to a new report from Verizon. …mehr
The is already an awesome phone, but starting today, it is going to be that much better with an update to Android 4.0 aka . AT&T is the first U.S. smartphone to get the update via a wireless carrier. …mehr
Business leaders see cloud computing as a way to circumvent IT in order to acquire cloud services on their own and this is creating tension between business and IT stakeholders. …mehr
Hactivists - not cybercriminals - were responsible for the majority of personal data stolen from corporate and government networks during 2011, according to a new report from Verizon. …mehr
A recent report that the government of Iceland is making progress in its efforts to adopt open-source software is the latest indication that public sector IT leaders are increasingly interested in moving away from proprietary products. …mehr
What do you get when you cross a retro Ford Mustang with the finest of new technology, such as Microsoft Kinect and a variety of other Windows services? A dream car that can't possibly exist. Fortunately, it is , thanks to . …mehr
Apple's new iPad is dominating the news with its Retina display that "." Microsoft wants everyone to know that Windows 8, said to be , will support many types of displays, including Retina-like quad-XGA displays. This is to enable Metro apps to look good on both tablets and big screens, yet be easy for developers to create. …mehr
Meg Whitman has spent her first six months at Hewlett-Packard talking to customers and employees and learning how the business works, but apparently she didn't get much of a history lesson. …mehr
U.S. Cellular joined the ranks of U.S. carriers with commercial LTE service on Thursday, launching the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 as its first LTE-capable device. …mehr
The question on everyone's mind the past few days seems to be: Is the new iPad hot or not? …mehr
In the halcyon days of the early to mid-2000s, there was hunger for bold decisions by top companies, whether it was gobbling up other businesses, expanding or transforming their businesses. …mehr
Nearly three decades after its initial introduction, the Amiga personal computer has been given a makeover with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies. …mehr
The Linux Foundation has received the most revenue amongst all of the free software and open source non-profits and directly pays its leader the most, but the highest compensation of any sort is still being received by Mozilla Foundation Chair , along with her CTO Colleague . …mehr
The hosting provider for the defunct file-sharing site Megaupload wants to delete the data now that investigators have collected most of what they need for the criminal case against the company's operators. …mehr
The second paragraph of the story "AWS deal improves Eucalyptus' chances at enterprises," which posted to the newswire Thursday, incorrectly described the AWS cloud. The correct phrasing should read "the AWS public cloud." There was also an unnecessary close-quotation mark at the end of that sentence. The second paragraph has been corrected on the wire and now reads: …mehr
"Crowdfunding" is, at its heart, a technical process; after all, these individuals or small firms are using the Internet to try to raise money. But many in the current, expanding universe of crowdfunding sites have focused on creative or nonprofit ventures. Examples include Fundly.com, , and . …mehr
When recently pondering the , I suggested that Apple has brought about nearly miraculous changes that we now take for granted. I experienced another such miracle last night. …mehr
U.S. Senate legislation that would require mobile apps to get permission to check the geolocation of a user is among the bills that make up trade group NetChoice's latest list of "awful" bills for e-commerce. …mehr
You know that AT&T commercial in which a couple is enjoying a romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant, but the guy keeps checking the game on his phone? Well, apparently such bad behavior is fairly common. …mehr
A T-Mobile call center consolidation will cost 1,900 people their jobs, as the company works through a restructuring following the failure of AT&T's proposed acquisition of the smaller operator. …mehr
In fact, it's so big, it should be called the "Remains of the Last Two Days." We've got Tim Cook calling in an air strike on AT&T, a stealth Siri feature in iOS 5.1, and Microsoft nuking Apple devices from orbit. The remainders for Wednesday, March 21, 2012 are flanking--watch your six! …mehr
Facebook now automatically displays shared photos at their highest possible resolution for users on a desktop and offers a full-screen viewing option, the company Thursday. …mehr
Today's large-scale data analysis may be a high-tech undertaking, but smart data scientists can improve their craft by observing how simple low-tech picture puzzles are solved, said an IBM scientist at the GigaOm conference. …mehr
The $130 (as of March 19, 2012) Canon Pixma MG4120 (print/copy/scan) is one of the cheaper MFPs on the market to feature paper-saving automatic duplexing. It also produces nice-looking output at a reasonable pace. Color-ink costs are lower than average for a low-price MFP, too, so photos and Web pages are relatively cheap to print. The black ink is pricey, however, so printing out everyday letters and term papers costs more than the norm. …mehr
The Australian Defence Force will seek to create its own Apple-like app store as a means to more quickly deliver applications and capabilities to service and support personnel. …mehr
From the hum of an old car's engine to the galunk! of a , sounds have an amazing ability to transport us back in time. Even just a two-second pop is often enough to bring back powerful memories of people, places, and objects from the past. …mehr
The corporate drive in the U.S. and Europe to move more IT and finance jobs to India and other offshore sites will continue, with another 750,000 such positions being shifter by 2016. But levels of additional offshoring will begin to decline by 2014. …mehr