Mitarbeiter der Finanz Informatik vermuten hinter den angekündigten Standortschließungen das Ziel Stellenabbau. Das Management dementiert, Verdi mobilisiert zum Streik. …mehr
Die Deutsche Telekom baut in der Magdeburger Börde ihr größtes Rechenzentrum. Es sei ein Projekt in noch nie da gewesener Größenordnung, sagte der Geschäftsführer von T-Systems, Ferri Abolhassan, bei der offiziellen Grundsteinlegung am Mittwoch in Biere, einem Ortsteil von Bördeland. …mehr
Schon mehrfach stand der US-Riese Microsoft unter dem Verdacht unfairer Geschäftspraktiken. Wegen gebrochener Versprechen bei Internet-Browsern geht die EU-Kommission geht nun erneut gegen den Konzern vor. Maximal droht eine Milliarden-Strafe. …mehr
Das deutsche Bewertungsportal Qype wird für rund 50 Millionen Dollar (38,5 Mio Euro) vom großen US-Rivalen Yelp übernommen. Die amerikanische Firma verstärkt damit auf einen Schlag die Position in Europa, denn Qype ist die Nummer eins in der Region. …mehr
Apple hat in seinem Patentkrieg mit Samsung einen Prozess in den Niederlanden verloren. …mehr
Die Anbieter von Smartphones und Handy-Apps müssen nach Ansicht von Verbraucherministerin Ilse Aigner (CSU) deutlich mehr für die Sicherheit tun. …mehr
Nach HTC wollen auch andere Hersteller wie Samsung, LG Electronics und Pantech Smartphones mit einem Full-HD-Display herausbringen. Diese Geräte werden jedoch frühestens in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2013 in den Läden stehen. …mehr
Microsoft eröffnete in diesem Sommer in Berlin für zwei Monate eine ungewöhnliche Ideenschmiede: das "Dark-Side-Bakery-Loft". Studenten, Jungunternehmer und Programmierer waren eingeladen, in einem kreativen Umfeld an ihren Apps zu arbeiten. …mehr
SAP hat seine Einnahmen im dritten Quartal 2012 unerwartet stark gesteigert, aufgrund guter Geschäfte in Amerika und Asien. …mehr
Das iPad Mini gibt es ab 329 Euro, im November kommt es in den Handel. Es unterscheidet sich kaum vom iPad 2. …mehr
Ein neues iPad mit einem kleineren Bruder und dünnere Macs - Apple ist bemüht, vor dem Windows-8-Start eigene Akzente zu setzen. …mehr
SAP will die Einnahmen im Cloud-Geschäft zügig ausbauen. In den ersten neun Monaten 2012 steuerten Cloud-Kunden noch 144 Millionen Euro zum SAP-Umsatz bei, 2015 sollen es zwei Milliarden Euro sein. …mehr
Star des Abends war der neue iPad Mini. Auf der Produktankündigung präsentierte Apple- Chef Tim Cook zudem überraschend das iPad 4 sowie einen schlanken iMac und ein überarbeitetes Notebook. …mehr
Was Händler unternehmen können, wenn sie Ware an einen Kunden geschickt haben und der Schadensfall eingetreten ist, sagt Martin Rätze von Shopbetreiber-Blog.de. …mehr
Weibliche Führungskräfte sind rar. Gründe dafür sehen Personalberater im Mangel an geeigneten Kandidatinnen und in männlich geprägten Hierarchien. …mehr
Selbst wenn es mittlerweile Apple-Geräte mit 64 GByte Speicher gibt, manchmal geht auch dieser zur Neige. Seit iOS 5 können iPhone, iPad und iPod Touch den Verbrauch direkt für jede App aufschlüsseln. …mehr
CIOs sollten zurzeit lieber bei ERP, CRM und Hardware geizen als bei BI und neuen Technologien. Deutsche IT-Chefs sollten es mit dem Sparen nicht übertreiben. …mehr
Statt umfassender Lösungen etablieren sich durch die Arbeit mit Smartphones und iPads viele kleine Apps in Firmen, so Forrester. Für CIOs eine Herausforderung. …mehr
Mit Windows 8 überarbeitet Microsoft auch sein komplettes Ökosystem. So ändern sich die Windows-Versionen und Lizenzmodelle. Ebenso werden die Mindestanforderungen und die unterstützten Hardwarekomponenten neu definiert. …mehr
A finding by the U.S. International Trade Commission that Samsung infringed Apple's patents would lead to less choice and higher prices for consumers, Samsung said Wednesday after an ITU judge issued a preliminary decision against the company. …mehr
The lower-priced could be in short supply when it starts shipping on November 2. Expected high demand for the tablet, coupled with shortages on the panel supply chain, might lead to not enough iPad Minis to satisfy market demand, according to a from Richard Shim, a senior analyst for NPD DisplaySearch, a market research firm specializing in displays. …mehr
For IT leaders and their tech teams, it's business as usual. IT departments are still looking for ways to reduce costs, still trying to increase employee productivity, and still cautious about , according to the latest survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). …mehr
The Network World story "Juniper Networks removes another top exec," which ran on the wire Tuesday, misstated the circumstances under which a Juniper executive left the company. The headline and third paragraph of the story have been corrected and now read as follows: …mehr
Zynga is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce, and is "sunsetting" 13 of its older games, the company's founder and CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday in a note to employees. …mehr
Facebook swung to a net loss of $US59 million in the third quarter compared to a net profit of $US227 million in the same period last year. Its revenues increased to about $US1.3 billion from about $US954 million. …mehr
Apple has finally lifted the lid on one of the most widely rumoured products of the year, the . The 7.9in screened tablet is the company's first foray into the smaller tablet market. …mehr
Facebook, under pressure to cheer up its disappointed investors, posted revenue growth of more than 30 percent on Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations, but it also recorded a loss. …mehr
Microsoft desperately needs a "thing"a thing that transcends the nerdy world of consumer electronics and achieves hero status among mobile-hardware wonks and civilians alike. The iPad is a thing. The Kindle Fire is a thing. Each tablet is a shared cultural experience that's practically effervescent in mainstream consumer appeal. …mehr
Just under a year ago, I wrote about how to . Back then, I explained that while you could create reminders and lists on your iPhone or iPad, the only way to create lists--which you and others could access together, making them perfect for collaborative items like grocery shopping lists--was via . Now there's a second way to do it: via the Reminders app on your Mac. (Sadly, there is still no option for creating shared Reminder lists from an iOS device.) …mehr
MIT kicked off this year's EmTech conference Wednesday with a presentation in which Rodney Brooks, the founder, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, welcomed attendees to an interactive hug from its safe manufacturing robot called Baxter. …mehr
The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced Wednesday that the Broadcom display hardware used in its flagship Raspberry Pi system board is now the first ARM-based system-on-a-chip to use open-source drivers provided entirely by the vendor. …mehr
Home entertainment today is often provided through a clutter of TVs, tablets, and computers, along with TV specialty boxes for yet more streaming video or music services. But some Hollywood studios are hoping to find better ways to deliver paid content to consumers directly to hard drives and flash storage, according to Cryptography Research, which is working on a futuristic project to do that. …mehr
Dell has jumped feet first into the Windows 8 era of computing with a redesigned portfolio of business and consumer PCs. …mehr
Sycamore Networks (NASDAQ--SCMR), whose optical switches and telecom software have powered carrier networks around the world since 1998, says it is shutting down. The company is selling off assets of its Intelligent Bandwidth Management business to a subsidiary of Marlin Equity Partners and may sell off or liquidate its other assets, including its IQStream mobile optimization technology. …mehr
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to brush off a slow start to compete against ARM and Intel in the Windows 8 tablet market through new customer announcements and future chips. …mehr
Businesses should be looking at 8 even if they are dead certain it won't be their operating system of choice for years to come, experts say. …mehr
An upcoming meeting of the U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union could have a huge impact on Internet businesses, and those businesses should help lobby to keep the organization from imposing new Internet regulations, a group of Internet advocates said Wednesday. …mehr
SAP is aware of widespread user discontent over the complexity involved with licensing rules and pricing for its software, and is working to remedy the situation, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said in an interview Wednesday. …mehr
Microsoft this week is focused on the launch of its converged Windows 8 operating system, which a number of pundits and industry watchers have declared a make-or-break release for the company, but in the meantime Microsoft is setting its sights on the nascent but much-hyped big data market by giving organizations the capability to deploy and manage Hadoop in a familiar Windows context. …mehr
ORLANDO -- Enterprises will not be moving quickly to adopt , and most will skip next year, according to market research firm Gartner. …mehr
Push-to-talk, once the killer app of Nextel's iDEN network and more recently a feature offered on certain Sprint Nextel phones, has finally made the transformation into a downloadable Android app called Sprint Direct Connect Now. …mehr
The 12th paragraph of the story "LG bounces back with solid smartphone sales in Q3," posted Wednesday, misidentified the company whose sales of iPad mini-related components represented 3 percent of its total revenue. The company is LG Innotek. The story has been corrected on the wire and the 12th paragraph now reads: …mehr
Westminster City Council is currently running a trial in the West End of London using sensor technology and data analytics that could transform parking congestion in busy areas. …mehr
Cornwall County Council has put its £300 million a year outsourcing plans on hold after councillors decided that the strategy to part-privatise key public services should not go ahead. …mehr
When 32-year-old Russian programmer Andrey N. Sabelnikov visited the U.S. for the first time in January, he had a surprise waiting for him. …mehr
Between Apples presentation at its Tuesday press event, the press releases and spec sheets that followed, and our all-too-brief hands-on session, weve been able to get a pretty good first impression of the new iPad mini and, to a lesser extent, the fourth-generation iPad. So while we wait for our review units to arrive, heres what we know so far. …mehr
The story "Apple unveils iPad Mini," posted Tuesday, misstated the manufacturer of the Google Nexus 7 tablet in the second headline, the third paragraph and the fifth paragraph. The Nexus 7 is sold by Google and manufactured by Asustek Computer (Asus). …mehr
