Das neue IBM "PowerLinux"-System wird als Konkurrenz zu Servern mit Intels x86-Prozessoren in Stellung gebracht. "Big Blue" möchte mit dem "7R2"-Server mit POWER7-Prozessoren den Markt aufrollen. …mehr
Facebook will den umstrittenen Entwurf für seine neuen Nutzungsbedingungen überarbeiten. …mehr
Microsoft hat die fertige Version 1.0 von Skype im Windows Phone Marketplace veröffentlicht. Leider läuft sie nicht im Hintergrund. …mehr
Nach längeren Debatten um Sicherheitsbedenken hat Google seinen Panoramadienst Street View jetzt auch in Israel gestartet. …mehr
Um junge Menschen für Kunst zu begeistern, setzen immer mehr Museen auf soziale Netzwerke. Die Häuser treten in den direkten Dialog mit Besuchern - und dabei kann es auch mal Kritik geben. …mehr
Der Wechsel vom Chefposten bei Google ins Amt des Verwaltungsratsvorsitzenden hat sich für Eric Schmidt finanziell gelohnt. …mehr
Johannes Helbig, heute Chief Innovation Officer der Deutschen Post AG, noch Chief Information Officer war, legte er stets Wert auf den Zusatz "Demand-seitig". Wie bitte - das versteht sich doch wohl von selbst, oder? …mehr
Das TecChannel-Compact 02/2012 hat das Thema Netzwerk als Schwerpunkt. Es behandelt die Themen LAN, WLAN und DSL. Die 160 Seiten starke Ausgabe ist versandkostenfrei erhältlich oder als Kauf-eBook verfügbar. Premium-Leser erhalten das Farb-PDF kostenlos. …mehr
Für Adobe ist heute der wohl wichtigste Tag des Jahres - das Unternehmen kündigt seine neue "Creative Suite 6" (CS6) und das neue Lizenzmodell Creative Cloud an. …mehr
Der britische Carrier Vodafone bietet gut eine Milliarde Pfund (rund 1,27 Milliarden Euro) für den Netzbetreiber Cable & Wireless. …mehr
Diese Woche wurde eine Beta-Ausgabe von Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" veröffentlicht. Linus Torvalds ist mit der Entwicklung von Kernel 3.4 soweit zufrieden. …mehr
Auf der Hannover Messe (23. bis 27. April) steht das Thema Energieeffizienz unter dem Motto "greentelligence" im Mittelpunkt. Wir sprachen im Interview mit Bernd Hanstein, Hauptabteilungsleiter IT bei Rittal über energiesparende Rechenzentren und die Chancen von Cloud Computing. …mehr
Die Deutsche Telekom bietet ihren Kunden künftig eine Handy-App der kalifornischen Softwarefirma Lookout an, um die Sicherheit mobiler Geräte vor Angriffen und Datenverlust zu verbessern. …mehr
Der Bezahlsender Sky Deutschland sieht den hohen Kaufpreis von fast zwei Milliarden Euro für den Erwerb der Bundesliga-Live-TV-Rechte für 2013 bis 2017 als "strategische Investition". …mehr
Nach ihrem Punktsieg gegen das Internet-Portal YouTube vor dem Hamburger Landgericht will die Verwertungsgesellschaft Gema keine Sperrung weiterer Musiktitel erwirken. …mehr
Planen Sie den Umstieg auf die aktuelle Office-2010-Suite von Microsoft? Hier stellen wir Ihnen die Neuerungen von Microsoft Word 2010 vor. …mehr
Microsoft SharePoint ist in vielen Unternehmen vorhanden, wird aber meist nur rudimentär genutzt. Hier einige Tipps für nützliche Einsatzszenarien. …mehr
Zwischen Demand und Supply - Wo haben Sie sich mit Ihrer IT-Organisation angesiedelt? …mehr
Christina Butzlaff und Daniel Titze sind Informatiker, die nach dem Studium in der IT-Beratung angefangen haben. Ihre Jobs sind ähnlich und doch unterschiedlich: Sie arbeitet in einem global tätigen Konzern, er bei einem kleinen Mittelständler. …mehr
At the request of CIO, the story headlined "Top CIOs Predict Future of the CIO Role" and posted Monday has been removed from the wire. Online editors are asked to immediately remove the story from Web sites, which was under embargo until May 1 and posted inadvertently by CIO. Questions regarding the story should be directed to Christine Celli, Managing Editor, CIO magazine. …mehr
Bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, is a movement blurring the line between work and personal life. After all, BYOD is all about employees using personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes. So does this mean people check Facebook when they should be working or read job-related emails on weekends? …mehr
Chinese auto-maker took the wraps off its latest vehicle ahead of the , and although at first glance the new car may look fairly typical, the Qin (pronounced Chin) electric hybrid packs in one key differentiator: an on-board robot. …mehr
has set its sights on Dropbox with a new set of features for its cloud storage service SkyDrive that syncs files and folders between SkyDrive and the local machine. …mehr
Angolan telecom mobile operator Movicel has launched Africa's first commercial LTE network in the country's capital, Luanda. …mehr
ArcSoft's Perfect365 is a fun, if limited, program that allows you to add a variety of makeup styles to a digital face to improve the complexion, get rid of blemishes, and pump up the color of the eyes, lips, and cheeks. …mehr
on Monday unveiled the processor family, the third generation in the company's line of Core processors. …mehr
Apple may settle ebook price-fixing allegations, but only across the pond; Eddy Cue has some tough love for news publishers; and a boardwalk classic finds a new home. Step right up and see the amazing, death-defying, one-of-a-kind remainders for Monday, April 23, 2012. …mehr
With the introduction of Windows 7, many PC and notebook users may feel more secure than they did using older versions of the Microsoft operating system. Newer OSs have more security features, offer better out-of-the-box security settings and have closed many of the historical security holes. Windows 7, for example, has changed the default User Account Control level so that it's harder for rogue programs to run without first explicitly gaining the user's permission. …mehr
Make no mistake: The AMD Radeon HD 7750 is not a fast . It will not play the latest games at a smooth frame rate at full 1080p resolution with all the details turned up. You'll have to reduce the resolution and dial down the features in hot new 3D games to achieve good performance. Still, it's a nice improvement over integrated graphics, and you can it add it to almost any PC. …mehr
Few people will tell you frankly -- and many would struggle to even acknowledge - their regrets, weaknesses or strengths, especially those sitting on the executive boards of the UK's top companies. But then Jackie Hunt, chief financial officer of FTSE 100 insurer Standard Life, is an exception in many senses. …mehr
Windows 8 is just around the corner, and some applications are getting ready for the big shift to the Metro visual style. MetroTwit is one prime example: This slick, free Twitter client is all about Metro, emphasizing typography over icons and even doing away with the typical Windows chrome and borders for a flat, slate-like look. …mehr
Andy Rubin, the head of Google's Android development team, took the witness stand for the first time Monday in Oracle's lawsuit accusing Google of patent and copyright infringement in its Android OS. …mehr
We’ve previously covered some iPhone attachments that let you dock to take . But wants to take this a step further: It's working on a new iPhone case/attachment, called the , that lets you take pictures as seen through your microscope, telescope, binoculars, or any optic with an eyepiece. …mehr
You would be forgiven for thinking Wordpress was just a tool for bloggers. For many this is as far as their use of the open source platform would go, but Dan Milward has taken the highly popular CMS and built a gaming system on top of it. …mehr
An official finding of "adequacy" in respect of New Zealand's privacy legislation against European Union standards may be close. …mehr
Oracle on Monday rolled out what it called major upgrades to its JD Edwards line of ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications during the Collaborate user conference in Las Vegas. …mehr
About 100 peripherals based on the Thunderbolt connector technology will become available by the end of the year, a big jump from a fraction of the devices available today, if Intel meets its target, a company executive said on Monday. …mehr
Thirty-plus Internet pioneers, innovators and "global connectors" -- yes, even including Al Gore -- have been inducted into the first class of the . …mehr
If your iPhone pops up a message demanding you configure some security settings, don't panic. Apple confirmed Monday to that such prompts, requiring that you select and answer three security questions before grabbing apps (or even app updates) from the App Store, are indeed legitimate. The same security message appears in the desktop version of iTunes and seemingly applies to all purchases throughout the iTunes Store. …mehr
Any self-respecting modder will at some point need to hack something on a grand scale. A group at MIT took the grand scale term quite literally, though, by turning a building into their playground. …mehr
Monday marked the debut of Intel's third-generation processor family--code-named Ivy Bridge--but the was reserved for high-end desktops and laptops. These first-round chips will not go in mainstream computers or even trendy . …mehr
The number of all-male FTSE 100 boards has fallen to single figures for the first time in history, thanks to the drive to encourage more women on boards, the latest data showed on Monday. …mehr
Microsoft and Facebook, which have struck a variety of business, technology and advertising agreements in recent years, on Monday a deal related to patents AOL recently sold. …mehr
Google Drive is expected to launch any day now, and competing services such as Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive are preparing for battle with their own feature enhancements. …mehr
In theory, it's best to clear all your database transactions as soon as you can, keeping the tables up to date so that you don't have to worry about data integrity or time-smear problems. It's not always that simple. …mehr
