Objective Development Software aus Österreich hat eine Preview der Version 3 seines populären Mac-Dienstprogramms "Little Snitch" veröffentlicht. …mehr
Apple bekommt mit einem weitreichenden Patent für die Anzeige von Inhalten auf Touchscreen-Bildschirmen frische Munition im Patentkrieg der Mobilfunk-Branche. …mehr
Apple wird anscheinend dem iPhone 3G S mehr neue Funktionen mit iOS 6 spendieren als ursprünglich angekündigt. Das geht aus ersten Berichten von Entwicklern hervor, die sich die Vorabversion iOS 6 Beta 3 auf den iPhone-Opa installiert haben. …mehr
Google startet in drei afrikanischen Ländern einen Gmail-SMS-Dienst gestartet. Nutzer können damit über die SMS-Funktion ihres Handys E-Mails versenden und empfangen. …mehr
Tweetdeck, der von Twitter übernommene Power-Client für Nutzer des 140-Zeichen-Dienstes, kommt nun auf allen Plattformen mit einheitlicher Bedienung daher. …mehr
Vor dem großen Patentprozess von Apple und Samsung in Kalifornien schiebt das Gericht der Geheimniskrämerei der beiden Rivalen einen Riegel vor. …mehr
Der eGovernment Monitor 2012 zeigt für Deutschland erste Fortschritte beim Ausbau der Akzeptanz von E-Government-Angeboten. …mehr
Der US-amerikanische Navigationsspezialist Garmin hat sein Produktportfolio um eine GPS-Uhr erweitert - fenix ist für Bergsteiger gedacht, die ihren Standort kennen müssen. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Mobilfunkausrüster Ericsson hat im zweiten Quartal die gebremste Investitionsfreude der Branche zu spüren bekommen und einen Gewinneinbruch erlitten. …mehr
Der südkoreanische Handy-Hersteller LG Electronics hat mittlerweile über vier Millionen LTE-Smartphones der Optimus-Reihe ausgeliefert. Das teilte LG laut einem Bericht mit. …mehr
Der Chefwechsel ist jetzt offiziell: Der Intel-Veteran und zuletzt COO EMC Information Infrastructure Products Pat Gelsinger wird neuer Chef des Virtualsierungs- und Cloud-Spezialisten VMware. …mehr
Mozilla hat die Version 14 (genauer gesagt gleich 14.0.1) des quelloffenen Webbrowsers Firefox veröffentlicht. …mehr
Behörden aus Deutschland und der Schweiz finanzieren mit insgesamt 140.000 Euro die Weiterentwicklung der OOXML-Integration in LibreOffice und OpenOffice.org (OOo). …mehr
Wenn Prozessoren-Primus Intel vorsichtig wird, bedeutet das nichts Gutes für die Computerbranche. Angesichts der unsicheren wirtschaftlichen Lage hat das Unternehmen seine Wachstumsprognose zurückgeschraubt. …mehr
Für die ehemalige Google-Managerin Marissa Mayer wird ihr neuer Spitzenjob bei Yahoo zu einer Herausforderung: Das Geschäft bei dem Internet-Urgestein stagniert. Das zeigen die aktuellen Zahlen für das zweite Quartal. …mehr
Bürgerschaftsfraktionen und Volksinitiative verständigten sich parteienübergreifend auf ein neues Transparenzgesetz. …mehr
Softwareentwickler, Berater und SAP-Experten gehören zu den gefragtesten Berufsprofilen. Das geht aus einer Arbeitsmarktstudie der Dekra hervor. …mehr
Wissen um mobile Systeme ist in vielen Unternehmen noch wenig verbreitet, der Bedarf an Apps ist hoch. Freie App-Entwickler können diese Lücken für sich nutzen. Outsourcing ist hier noch kein Thema. …mehr
Wenn beim Tippen plötzlich der Mauscursor wegspringt oder ein Klicken registriert, ist meist ein überempfindliches Touchpad schuld. Wir zeigen, wie Sie es kurzfristig abschalten. …mehr
Der Filterhersteller Brita hat seine unternehmensweite Desktop-Umgebung komplett neu gestaltet. Das IT-Team verrät, welche Erkenntnisse es aus dem Projekt gezogen hat. …mehr
Seine IT-Kosten hat BAT im Griff. Jetzt geht der durch Marken wie Lucky Strike und Pall Mall bekannte Tabakkonzern den nächsten Schritt: Er konzentriert sich auf wenige IT-Anbieter und packt seine SAP-Anwendungen in eine "hybride Cloud". …mehr
Außendienstler, Home-Office-Mitarbeiter und Führungskräfte, die Filialen betreuen, profitieren von gesetzlichen Neuerungen. …mehr
If you've been following along, you know that I'm and finding a new home for my contacts, calendars, tasks, and email. Before doing so, however, I made sure to . …mehr
Microsoft today announced that it will start selling Windows 8 on Friday, Oct. 26, a little more than three months from now. …mehr
When does a two-year-old game become relevant again? When an awesome mod is built for it. Just Cause 2 was released in March of 2010, but has been gaining the attention of the modding community just this past weekend when a multiplayer mod was re-introduced for beta testing. The team at created a way to play the insane, action-packed game with a friend. …mehr
The protects Google search queries from hackers, but not from advertisers. …mehr
Google today had a terse--yet hopeful--message for the residents of Kansas City, particularly those who hate their current broadband provider: "Google Fiber is almost here." …mehr
For its most recent financial quarter, IBM experienced a drop-off in revenue, though it was able to maintain profit growth. …mehr
Be honest, you salivate when you see those stories about mega rich people. You are a bit envious, definitely jealous but then say to yourself that you must have a better quality of life than that millionaire. Anything to rationalize the situation. …mehr
The . The Internet is addicted to Facebook. What happens when you combine the two? The Chrome extension, that's what. If you truly love cats, but at the same time want to keep your social life in check, the add-on is ideal for you. …mehr
If you're sitting in front of your brand-spankin' new MacBook Air or MacBook Pro (or , which seems to be the trend nowadays), you might want to take a break after reading this and run Software Update. Apple has released the . …mehr
Just days after a former employee blasted Mozilla for its frequent updates, the company on Tuesday shipped Firefox 14, patching 18 vulnerabilities and adding automatic encryption of searches passed to Google's search engine. …mehr
The U.S. Congress may need to pass legislation that limits the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology to identify people, a U.S. senator said Wednesday. …mehr
Windows 8 will be released on October 26, 2012. …mehr
Microsoft and Google are each taking steps to extend the social networking capabilities in their search services, with the goal of making it easier to find or share useful results. …mehr
YouTube can turn anyone with a camera into an eyewitness reporter, but that can be a problem when the subjects of the video need to stay anonymous. To address this issue, YouTube has added a face blurring option to the site's built-in photo editor. When users apply the option, YouTube tries to detect and blur all faces automatically. The option appears under Additional Features in YouTube's tool. …mehr
Like many of us, Eric Jacobs has parents and those parents are confounded by iPad photo management. He writes: …mehr
It will soon rain touchscreen laptops equipped with Windows 8, according to recent statements by Intel CEO Paul Otellini, who maintains that the PC market is not doomed. …mehr
Samsung announced the high-end EX2F premium point-and-shoot a few weeks ago, and at the time, the camera's bright F1.4 aperture at the wide-angle end of its 3.3X-optical-zoom lens (24mm to 79mm) was a unique feature for a fixed-lens camera. It still is, but now the EX2F has some competition: Panasonic's , which offers the same F1.4 aperture at its widest-angle focal length. They're the two fastest, brightest lenses in the compact class. …mehr
When Blizzard announced their latest World of Warcraft expansion pack Mists of Pandaria, they also announced a new system that would allow you to train and battle with the games assortment of non-combat pets. While fans were skeptical the system would feel a bit like a Pokemon clone Blizzard didnt give players much of a chance to see what the system was like in action until this week. A new beta patch for Mists of Pandaria brought pet battles online for the first time (an earlier patch mistakenly allowed you to use the system for a few days but it was generally too buggy to play) and now Ive spent some time exploring what the system is like and how it works. …mehr
Anthropics Portrait Professional's latest version includes a few nice changes to the interface and controls, but keeps the same basic structure and functionality. Version 10 ($90, free demo) continues to provide a good platform for making changes to improve photo subjects' attractiveness. …mehr
Last year's was a unique compact camera, thanks to a LCD viewfinder attached to a top-mounted hinge that flipped up a full 180 degrees to assist with self portraits. Today, Samsung announced its successor, the MV900, which is a bit bigger than the MV800 but offers the same kind of adjustable LCD. …mehr
Authorities in three countries have taken down a half-dozen command-and-control servers for the Grum botnet, crippling the world's third-largest spam-spewing network. …mehr
It was just a few days ago that I wrote about Dell's , but already more news about the exciting project has been announced. …mehr
Some of us in the Western hemisphere might already take Internet access and smartphones for granted, but this is not the case all over the world. Bearing that in mind, a cool new service called Gmail SMS, which allows Gmail users who own a simple feature phone to send and receive emails using only text messages. …mehr
The new version of Microsoft Office offers compelling enhancements to its capabilities and interface design, as well as improvements in cloud functionality that should make it a far better product than its predecessor. …mehr
North Shore District Court Judge David Harvey has stepped down from the Megaupload extradition case after his comments suggesting that "the US is the enemy" were widely reported. …mehr
Apple toys around with a new way to check the status of your online orders, a U.S. senator wants the DOJ to stop playing into Amazon's hands, and AT&T avoids tapping into the FaceTime-pricing game--for now. The remainders for Wednesday, July 18, 2012 are all fun and games. …mehr
Internet2 is refocusing on providing a high-capacity network for pushing the boundaries of science and technology, which could help to foster the next hot Internet application, an executive said at the organization's summer meeting. …mehr
Asia Pacific enterprise applications market is set to reach US$8.6 billion by 2016, according to the latest IDC Asia/Pacific Semiannual Enterprise Applications Tracker. …mehr
EPEAT has launched a review of ultra-thin and light laptops carrying its environmental ratings after Apple withdrew from and rejoined the organization last week. …mehr
PayPal has acquired Card.io, a developer of technology for using mobile phone cameras to scan credit cards and capture relevant information, the companies said. …mehr
