Die IT-Beauftragte der Bundesregierung hat in ihrer Eröffnungsrede der IT-Security-Messe it-sa die Privatwirtschaft erneut aufgefordert, sich ihrer Verantwortung bewusst zu werden. …mehr
Der weltgrößte Auftragsfertiger Foxconn hat bestätigt, dass in einem seiner Werke 14-jährige Praktikanten im Einsatz gewesen sind. …mehr
Telefonica Deutschland verspricht der größte deutsche Börsengang der vergangenen fünf Jahre zu werden. Damals hatte der Motorenhersteller Tognum 2,01 Milliarden Euro eingesammelt. …mehr
Logitechs neue Touch Mouse T620 bietet statt der üblichen Maustasten eine große Touch-Oberfläche. Zudem wartet die T620 mit speziellen Features für Windows 8 auf. …mehr
Die Juristin Christina Peters, bislang Senior Counsel für Security and Privacy, wird als neue Chief Private Officer oberste Herrscherin über Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit bei IBM. …mehr
Firmen sollen sich darauf konzentrieren, potenzielle Löcher zu stopfen und ihre Monitoring-Kapazitäten ausbauen, um schneller auf Angriffe reagieren zu können. …mehr
Apple hat für den 23. Oktober zu einer Konferenz eingeladen, auf der das Unternehmen neue Produkte vorstellt. Darunter könnte auch das iPad Mini sein, wie in der Einladung angedeutet wird. …mehr
Wer schnell Benutzerschnittstellen für iPhone-Apps skizzieren möchte, sollte einen Blick auf "iPhone Mockup" werfen. …mehr
Das Lumia 920 sei das beste Smartphone am Markt, betont Nokia-Vorstand Michael Halbherr. Damit sei der Konzern bestens für den Wettbewerb gerüstet. …mehr
Die Flaute im PC-Geschäft macht dem größten Chip-Lieferanten Intel schwer zu schaffen. Umsatz und Gewinn gingen zuletzt zurück. Die Hoffnung liegt auf den nächsten Microsoft-Betriebssystem Windows 8. …mehr
Auch "Big Blue" kann sich den wirtschaftlichen Problemen in Europa und andernorts nicht entziehen. Die Kunden halten sich besonders beim Kauf neuer Hardware zurück. …mehr
Die Gerüchte aus der Vergangenheit sind bestätigt: HTC hat tatsächlich an einem Smartphone mit einem 5 Zoll großen Full-HD-Display gearbeitet. Der Riese geht jetzt unter der Bezeichnung HTC J Butterfly in den Verkauf - doch leider vorerst nur in Japan. …mehr
Für drei Viertel ihrer IT-Projekte beauftragen Unternehmen Vermittlungsagenturen, um an die benötigten Freiberufler zu kommen. …mehr
Mit Windows Server 2012 ändert Microsoft einige Funktionen in Active Directory und verbessert die Verwaltung und Überwachung. Die Installation von Active Directory läuft in Windows Server 2012 komplett über den Server-Manager oder in der PowerShell. Der folgende Beitrag erläutert die Neuerungen. …mehr
Manche CIOs sind kontroll-orientiert, andere stellen die Nutzer-Zufriedenheit vornan: Laut Gartner bilden sich beim Management mobiler Geräte vier Stile heraus. …mehr
Oft verpassen vermeintlich innovative Unternehmen die Marktentwicklung. Lesen Sie hier die gefährlichsten Innovationsfallen, in die Firmen tappen. …mehr
Das Herzstück einer Enterprise Architecture ist das Metamodell, in dem sich der Informationsbedarf aller Stakeholder niederschlägt. Es sollte passgenau und Tool-unabhängig konstruiert sein, um zu den erhofften Synergievorteilen zu führen. …mehr
Eine einheitliche Einwilligungserklärung für mehrere Werbeformen, die nicht konkret auf die Art der Werbung Bezug nimmt, ist unwirksam. Details von Manfred Wagner und Jenny Hubertus. …mehr
Das Landesarbeitsgericht Hamm hat ein vorläufiges Ende des Streits um Urlaubsanspruch und Arbeitsunfähigkeit im EuGH-Fall gesetzt. …mehr
Imagine processing massive amounts of video data from surveillance cameras and rapidly churning out usable and reliable information on pick-pockets, drunken hooligans, criminals or even terrorists. …mehr
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken legal action in the Federal Court against Hewlett-Packard Australia Pty Ltd (HP) for alleged contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). …mehr
Microsoft today said it will ship a preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7 next month, but would not commit to a timetable for a final release. …mehr
The plea hearing for the man accused of breaking into the home of the late Steve Jobs has been delayed by a month on request of his lawyer. …mehr
General Electric (GE), founded 125 years ago, is one of the USA's iconic corporations. The firm has 300,000 employees working in areas ranging from aviation, healthcare, transportation, financials, and energy. The firm employs about 5,000 IT staff outside the USA." …mehr
SAN DIEGO - Continuing its commitment to the project and its newfound vision to support multiple types of cloud platforms, VMware announced support for its ESX hypervisor in OpenStack today. …mehr
Big data will drive US$28 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012 and US$34 billion in 2013, said Gartner Wednesday. …mehr
Like technologies deployed in a corporate environment, those used in healthcare are meant to improve services and productivity. On its new clinical management system (CMS 3), the aims to create new modules to meet patient needs and reduce risk in patient care. …mehr
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued a warning in three languages against cellphone jammers this week, and just in case that wasn't clear enough, it employed public shaming, too. …mehr
I have a paranoid security team. Which is good. I also have paranoid users who don't trust security people. Which is not so good. I discovered this a few years back when a co-worker came into my office, red in the face, eyes puffy and greatly upset. "What on earth is the problem?" I asked in my best official-yet-caring management voice. Between sobs, she explained that, a week earlier, she had gotten an e-mail about the then upcoming Olympics in Greece. …mehr
The Federal Communications Commission today voted unanimously to revise a set of rules governing wireless spectrum to open a portion of the airwaves for mobile broadband service. …mehr
Google is offering a look inside its data centers with a series of stunning photographs that would be more at home in an art gallery than a technology manual. …mehr
Those layoffs happening at might be to dress the company up for a sale. …mehr
What is the potential impact of cloud on propositions of platform business process outsourcing (BPO)? Will it develop and merge into business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS)? According to research firm Ovum, the answer is yes. …mehr
The Isis mobile wallet network will launch Monday in Salt Lake City and Austin, Texas, the Isis consortium announced Wednesday after an earlier delay in the launch. …mehr
By 2016, operators will have lost US$54 billion in SMS revenues due to the increasing popularity of social messaging services on smartphones, according to a forecast by Ovum, the global analyst company. This figure is more than double the US$23 billion they are expected to have lost by the end of 2012. …mehr
If there's a brush fire or earthquake in California's Ventura County, city officials could be getting critical information from Twitter and residents could be receiving warnings on their smartphones. …mehr
Personal computers have been around long enough to become a part of our history and shared social consciousness. As time marches on and older hardware dies, emulation is often the only way to experience these orphaned systems again. Amiga has been mourned more than most. Emulators are tricky business, however. Mastering and maintaining them can sap enough enthusiasm that you're left wondering why you bothered. Cloanto carefully sized up this common problem when putting together its Amiga Forever package, and the results are impressive. We looked at the $30 Plus edition ($10 Value and $50 Premium editions also available). …mehr
So you've decided you , so much so that you're ready to ditch Gmail and move your mail into Microsoft's camp. Easier said than done, right? …mehr
Mobile payment has been hailed as the next great frontier for smartphones, and Apple has bet a chunk of the iPhone's future on its new Passbook app-a precursor to the mobile wallet. …mehr
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve an agreement that will bring an end to a 15-year fight over interference concerns over mobile broadband service in the 2.3GHz band of spectrum. …mehr
The future workforce will look somewhat different than the current workforce, according to Alan Ross, senior principal engineer at Intel. …mehr
In the two and a half years since the release of the first-generation iPad, tablets of various shapes and sizes have sparked a revolution among consumers, who are now no longer afraid to take their touch-enabled tablets to work. …mehr
It seems that Apple hasn't finished creating products appropriate for the holiday season and beyond. How else can you explain next week's ? With press invitations issued earlier this week how do we respond? By speculating about what Apple might have up its corporate sleeve, of course. …mehr
Google is the world's most In Demand Employer brand, followed by Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Unilever, according to networking site LinkedIn. …mehr
The packs many of the high-end keyboard features gamers love, most notably a full and support for programmable macro keys, into a smaller, cheaper package. …mehr
Recently, researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave in a way that is not dissimilar from the way Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for data transfer. They're calling them the 'Anternet'. …mehr
As you'd expect, accessories for the iPhone 5 are trickling out, and this week there are couple of new products that will help your new iPhone's camera see farther and better. But there's also plenty of other gear for making art or listening to music on your iOS device. …mehr
Reader Steven Lange loves his new MacBook Air except for one little thing. He writes: …mehr
Here's a question: What is a technology that you can't see, but is essential to smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices -- and is estimated to generate (according to DisplaySearch)? The answer is multitouch touch screens -- which have sparked the explosive growth of the mobile device market. …mehr
The owner of 17 websites purporting to offer debt relief to consumers has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that prohibits him from making deceptive claims. …mehr
