Die Politik fordert einen schnelleren Ausbau der Breitbandnetze, doch die zuständige Behörde bremst. Das beklagt der Verband der Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten (VATM). …mehr
Nun dürfen sich all jene bestätigt fühlen, die den Hype um den Börsengang von Facebook von Anfang an nicht verstanden haben: Die Aktie des sozialen Netzwerks bricht am zweiten Handelstag ein. Milliarden lösen sich in Luft auf. …mehr
Der Verdacht erhärtet sich: Google manipuliert nach Ansicht der EU-Kommission bei der Online-Suche Ergebnisse - und benachteiligt Konkurrenten. …mehr
Sie lauschten, diskutierten und programmierten gemeinsam zwei Wochen lang. Hinterher stand fest: Der internationale Erfahrungsaustausch ist für Junginformatiker fast noch wichtiger als das technische Know-how. …mehr
Es wird immer wahrscheinlicher, dass Apple sein nächstes iPhone mit der Ziffer 5 betitelt und mit einem 4 Zoll großen Display ausstattet. …mehr
Nachdem Greenpeace zuletzt mehrere Betreiber von Rechenzentren wegen der Verwendung von Atom- und Kohlestrom kritisiert hatte, weist nun der Branchenverband Bitkom darauf hin, dass die Server immer weniger Strom verbrauchen. …mehr
Wer sich schon mit Programmiersprachen auskennt und ein Fan von Forschung und Entwicklung ist, kann bis zum 31. Mai am Wettbewerb "Code of Duty" teilnehmen. …mehr
Samsung bringt das neue Flaggschiff Galaxy S3 mit einer Reihe von "exklusiven Zusatzfunktionen" auf den Markt. Doch viele davon sind im Forum XDA Developers bereits zum Download erhältlich. …mehr
Nachdem KW 19 ganz im Zeichen Ubuntus stand, ist diese Woche wieder bunter gemischt. Im Mittelpunkt stehen der Release-Kandidat von Linux Mint und das aktualisierte Cinnamon 1.4-UP1. …mehr
Trend Micro warnt vor einem neuen Facebook-Wurm, der sich über Nachrichten verbreitet. Der Schädling setzt Antivirensoftware außer Kraft und überwacht den Browser. …mehr
CSC, HP, EMC/RSA, McAfee und Sourcefire simulieren gemeinsam Cybergefahren - in einem Fraunhofer-Testcenter in Berlin. …mehr
Als letzte Instanz haben Chinas Wettbewerbshüter den Weg für die Übernahme von Motorola Mobility durch Google frei gemacht. …mehr
Die Telekom startet einem Bericht zufolge im Juni die schnelle Mobilfunktechnik LTE in Berlin. …mehr
Angesichts breiter Kritik von Künstlern und Kulturschaffenden kann sich Piraten-Chef Bernd Schlömer vorstellen, Programm-Aussagen seiner Partei zum Urheberrecht zu überarbeiten. …mehr
Wegen angeblich blasphemischer Inhalte hat die pakistanische Regierung am Sonntag den Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter auf unbestimmte Zeit gesperrt. …mehr
Hacker sind in das Computernetz der SPD-Parteizentrale in Berlin eingedrungen und haben Zugangsdaten samt Passwörtern von Nutzern erbeutet. …mehr
Schlecht organisierte Prozesse kommen den Bürger teuer zu stehen. IT kann da helfen. Alexander Schmid von Bearingpoint sagt im Interview mit unserer Schwesterpublikation CIO wie. …mehr
Vier IT-Chefs beschreiben, wie ihr idealer Bewerber aussehen sollte. Technik-Know-how ist nur eine Qualifikation von vielen. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Online-Händler hat sich zum Marktführer in der Public Cloud entwickelt und nimmt Kurs auf die Unternehmens-IT. …mehr
Dr. Christian Salzbrunn nimmt zur Anfechtung eines Arbeitsvertrages wegen arglistiger Täuschung Stellung. …mehr
Nicht in jedem Fall aufeinanderfolgender befristeter Arbeitsverträge liegt Missbrauch vor. …mehr
Nicht nur die Anbieter von Konsumgütern versprechen sich einen nachhaltigen Marketing-Effekt von ihrer Präsenz in sozialen Netzwerken. Auch ein Finanzdienstleister wie die Allianz nutzt diese Chance - allerdings auf seine eigene Weise. …mehr
After all the attention, clamor, and expectations Facebook is now a publicly traded . With shares trading at a hundred times earnings, Facebook is under a lot of pressure to increase the profit that it brings in. In other words, now the fun begins. …mehr
It's time to flush out the latest collection of too-short-for-a-full-entry Mac 911 questions and answers. We start with reader SuSu: …mehr
Meet . He's a swell guy, really. He's also a robot made largely out of parts cut on a laser cutter, and with your help on Kickstarter, you can own a piece of Roy, or even your own whole Roy robot. …mehr
It's been almost a year to the day since I adopted an Acer desktop replacement (i.e. a big honking laptop) as my primary PC. …mehr
If you missed here's some good news. Microsoft is repeating the offer. …mehr
The Kinect brought on a whole new kind of gesture controls, and the iPhone helped bring multitouch controls to the masses. Each is great at what they do, but there are drawbacks; with a touchscreen you have draw your finger across a relatively small surface, and most motion sensing technologies are still only accurate enough to detect your hand as a single entity. …mehr
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has hired Paul Ohm, a privacy advocate and critic of current online privacy practices, as a senior privacy adviser for consumer protection and competition issues affecting the Internet and mobile services. …mehr
International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run. …mehr
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider the petition of Joel Tenenbaum, a former doctoral student at Boston University who faces a fine of US$675,000 for illegally downloading 30 songs. …mehr
Summer is upon us, and that means we'll be spending a lot more time outdoors, capturing photos of stuff--kids, friends, cars, planes, dogs--in action. Perhaps you've applied some of the ideas in "," and discovered that some of your action photos lacked the excitement you saw in the viewfinder. That's the problem with freezing the action. Sometimes, it's just too frozen. The antidote? A classic photo technique known as panning. This week, let's review five things you need to know to pan the action to get some exciting, vibrant action photos. …mehr
The elegantly simple Samsung ML-2165W gives you laser-sharp text for only $150. It's also quite compact, measuring a mere 13 inches wide by 8.5 inches deep by 7 inches high, so it's suitable for small work areas. Extra features are scant, and toner is pricey at about 4 cents per page; but for low-volume, basic printing, it's worth a look. …mehr
Early Mac screens weren’t cluttered. But then, early Macs let you open only one application at a time—and sometimes only one window! …mehr
Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Sunday released a brand-new version of the , and it's packed with a range of goodies that promise to make life considerably better for users. …mehr
Schools in the U.S. will need broadband speeds of 100 Mbps per 1,000 students and staff members by the 2014-15 school year in order to meet a growing demand for Web-based instruction and a skyrocketing number of student-owned Web devices, according to a new report by a trade group representing state education agencies. …mehr
Think mobile app, and what do you see? …mehr
This one is for all those autonomous vehicle makers out there who need a cheap autopilot system to make it go. Among the bits of awesome seen at the , was the (APM2) from , a complete open source autopilot system. …mehr
Salesforce.com, which has placed ample emphasis on its Chatter social networking application, will actually begin providing real-time chat functionality as part of an imminent upgrade to its family of cloud-based software, according to a company document. …mehr
Yahoo has agreed to sell off about half of its stake in Alibaba Group back to the Chinese e-commerce giant as part of a US$7.1 billion deal, the two companies jointly announced on Monday. …mehr
U.S. wireless carrier AT&T today announced it has finished installation of Boston's first indoor, LTE-capable Distributed Antenna System (DAS), designed to improve cellular-network performance during Boston Celtics basketball and Bruins hockey games, concerts and other events held at the TD Garden. …mehr
How well do you write? Even if you are not a professional writer, this is an important question. Whether you write fiction, business plans, website copy or merely email--clear, concise writing makes a difference. Modern word processors and browsers all have built-in spell checkers, helping with some of the more common mistakes. But even a typo-free text can still be cumbersome, vague, and overladen with cliché. StyleWriter Professional ($190) is a program that promises to help you whip your text into shape, making it leaner and crisper. …mehr
The Japanese word Muda loosely translates as waste. The core element of is to eliminate waste--or, in more North American terms, to "cut the fat." While applying lean concepts to manufacturing may seem straightforward, there is little agreement on what that term even means for software, or if it applies. …mehr
Big changes are coming to data protection laws in the European Union. Are you ready? …mehr
Traditional mobile phone plans are now on the wane in the U.S., but the country's biggest carriers are still bringing in more money and leading the world in revenue, according to a report based on first-quarter results. …mehr
The elegantly simple Samsung ML-2165W gives you laser-sharp text for only $150. It's also quite compact, measuring a mere 13 inches wide by 8.5 inches deep by 7 inches high, so it's suitable for small work areas. Extra features are scant, and toner is pricey at about 4 cents per page; but for low-volume, basic printing, it's worth a look. …mehr
Pakistan late Sunday reversed a block on Twitter in the country over material it considered anti-Islam, the country's interior minister said. …mehr
The Nasdaq computer system that delayed trade notices of the Facebook IPO on Friday was plagued by race conditions, the stock exchange announced Monday. As a result of this technical glitch in its Nasdaq OMX system, the market expects to pay out US$13 million or even more to traders. …mehr
BOSTON -- As continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing pains, including a shakeup of executives and uncertainty around a potential initial public offering that's been rumored for months. …mehr
Voyager Mobile, the startup that had planned to launch last Tuesday but said it was on its website, went live on Sunday with an unlimited voice, text and data plan for US$39 per month. …mehr
Web developers, rejoice. On Monday, Panic announced that, come Thursday, and . …mehr
Business analytics company was at a crossroads common to many companies pondering a social business platform: Its intranet housed various repositories of information that were cumbersome to navigate. The business, too, understood that millennials were seeking more social business tools. …mehr
StatCounter has declared Google Chrome the king of all desktop browsers based on recent market share data, but observers should take this claim to the throne with a grain of salt. …mehr
Apple's started making trouble in the neighborhood, Foxconn's growing a new plant, and Samsung and Apple's CEOs prepare to get litigious. The remainders for Monday, May 21, 2012 have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. …mehr
Samsung is blocking a hack of its S Voice digital assistant software that allowed any Android phone running Ice Cream Sandwich to use the app. …mehr
In an e-mail Sunday, Twitter is alerting its members to changes to its policies on privacy and service usage, including support for Do Not Track, as well as informing them about a new weekly digest of interesting news and items from their feeds. …mehr
