Ein Jahr nach den tagelangen Ausfällen von Blackberry-Diensten gibt es schon wieder Störungen. …mehr
Hacker haben eine Möglichkeit gefunden, Google Play auf dem Amazon-Tablet Kindle Fire HD zu installieren. Der Vorgang hat jedoch seine Tücken und ist nur mit einiger Erfahrung durchführbar. …mehr
Politik braucht Planungsgrundlagen. Das gilt auch und gerade im ländlichen Raum - und erst recht, wenn es um die medizinische Versorgung geht. Die dafür nötigen realitätsnahen und strukturübergreifenden Cluster der ärztlichen Versorgung will der Vogtlandkreis künftig für sich auswerten und so die Qualität der Planung verbessern. Ein Projektbeispiel, das Schule machen könnte, im Wettbewerb um den Big Data Award der COMPUTERWOCHE. …mehr
Das World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) will HTML 5.0 bis Ende 2014 als "Recommendation" verabschieden. …mehr
Schnellere und genauere Reports gelten als Hauptziel von Business Intelligence. Die meisten CIOs überprüfen laut BARC allerdings nicht, ob sie es erreichen. …mehr
Nach der massiven Kritik von Nutzern an seinem ersten eigenen Kartendienst für iPhone und iPad verspricht Apple Verbesserungen und bittet um Geduld. …mehr
Die App PassWallet liefert die Android-Unterstützung für Passbook-Dateien, eine Neuerung des aktuellen iOS 6. Auch wenn es aktuell noch wenige Nutzer gibt, so gibt die App eine gute Vorschau auf die Möglichkeiten. …mehr
Im vergangenen Jahr war Mark Zuckerberg noch der Senkrechtstarter unter Amerikas Superreichen. In diesem Jahr ist er der größte Verlierer. Auch andere Social-Media-Größen hatten Pech. …mehr
Das iPhone 5 ist da und die Fans drängen sich vor den Läden. …mehr
Gute Security-Software muss nicht immer viel kosten. Diese zehn Tools schützen Ihren Rechner vor Viren und Attacken. …mehr
Für 7,4 Milliarden Dollar hat Oracle den Hardware-Hersteller Sun geschluckt. Doch der Zukauf bringt wenig Glück: Die Rechner verkaufen sich immer schwerer. …mehr
Was bringt die beste Analyse, wenn sie im Moment der Entscheidung nicht zur Verfügung steht - etwa weil der Geschäftsführer unterwegs nur seinen Tablet PC dabei hat? Geht es nach den Machern von Roambi, gehört diese Frage bald der Vergangenheit an- zumindest für die Besitzer eines iPad. …mehr
Bei einigen Bordwerkzeugen von Windows 7 wäre mehr drin gewesen. Mit diesen kostenlosen Tools peppen Sie Ihr Windows auf. …mehr
COMPUTERWOCHE-Redakteur Jürgen Hill hatte Gelegenheit, sich in Ciscos Entwicklungslaboren in Oslo umzuschauen. Er bekam einen Eindruck, wie moderne Collaboration-Plattformen die Arbeitswelt prägen könnten. …mehr
Congratulations, you've braved the lines, delivery wait times, or in-store negotiations to snag yourself a brand-new iPhone 5. But before you get to playing with your new device, you'll probably want to get to know it and set it up. Thanks to iOS 6's step-by-step activation process, Apple's made it pretty simple to get started; but just in case you need some extra help, we've put together a comprehensive guide for activating your new iPhone, transferring data from your old phone, and some suggestions for exploring its new features. …mehr
Salesforce's chief scientist has rebuffed a UK customer's criticism of the company's lack of an EU data centre by saying that frustration largely comes from a legal standpoint, rather than practical concerns to do with latency and security. …mehr
The iPhone 5 smartphone has the A6 CPU, which industry experts say is the first in a line of many upcoming Apple custom processors that will better balance performance with battery life in iPhones and iPads. …mehr
Facebook plans to start charging businesses to run targeted ads in its Facebook Offers daily deals service. …mehr
Microsoft has published an out-of-band security bulletin----to address a vulnerability that is being actively exploited in attacks in the wild. In addition, Microsoft also released an update to resolve a in Internet Explorer 10--which is the default browser in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. …mehr
If you thought photo collages were a thing of the past, think again. In reality, they've merely gone the way of Polaroids and telephone handsets--they died for awhile, but are coming back to life with major digital mojo. Layout, a photo-editing app for iPad 2 or later, helps you create and share photo layouts for easy collage storytelling. …mehr
Another iPhone launch brought another onrush of customers to Apple Stores across the country and around the globe, as eager customers queued up to get their hands on the Friday. …mehr
As you might have noticed it's been a big year for the MMO, with high-profile launches like and . …mehr
Not sure if you're a match? Check your brain waves. …mehr
Reader Meg wants to know how she can save her Gmail folders to her Dropbox account. …mehr
With companies including Oracle, Tibco and Adobe issuing quarterly financial statements this week, earnings season is under way and despite mixed reports on the economy, confidence in tech appears to be stable. …mehr
Apple's stumble with its new mapping app is a debacle right up there with 2010's "Antennagate," analysts said today. …mehr
may have put asynchronous multiplayer games on the iOS map, but Outwitters, a turn-based strategy game by , drenches the familiar formula in an absurd level of bubbly effervescence. The charming factions that duke it out in each match are disarmingly cute, making the cutthroat tactical battles they engage in all the more amusing. …mehr
YouTube is the most popular video sharing website on the Internet. But during its entire existence, not much has changed in its design, apart from a few very minor cosmetic changes here and there. The actual video player still has the same basic controls, so browser extensions such as the free Embed Plus for YouTube step in to fill the void. Embed Plus, a free browser extension for Google Chrome, adds some extra features to the bottom of the standard YouTube video player, as well as offering some free perks to Wordpress blog owners who embed YouTube videos onto their sites. …mehr
If you're reading these words, there's an excellent chance that when you travel, you truck along not only clothes and very small containers filled with shampoo and toothpaste, but also a fair collection of gadgets (and the accessories necessary to power and connect them). This often leads to toting multiple carry-ons: one containing personal items that you place in the overhead bin, and another--the "gadget bag"--that gets shoved under the seat in front of you. Skooba Design makes a reasonable case for carrying it all in one bag with its $180 . …mehr
If you're thinking about picking up a sleek, thin Ultrabook or MacBook Air, you may want to check out FixYa's September 2012 Ultrabook Report, first. The new report reveals the biggest problems users experience with the MacBook Air and six popular Ultrabooks, including the Asus Zenbook Prime, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and Vizio Thin+Light. …mehr
After the announcement of Halo 4 at E3 2012, fans everywhere have been pining for more information and a deeper look at the upcoming sequel to the hugely popular Halo trilogy. Last week I was invited for some hands-on time with 343 Industries' first attempt at a true Halo game, and walked away more impressed than I had thought possible. …mehr
There seems to be no end in sight to the onslaught of iPhone 5 cases, which is great news for all those of us who are eagerly awaiting their new handset in the mail--or who are recovering from a very early morning in line at their closest Apple Store. Here are some of the latest announcements, lovingly collected by your faithful Macworld staff. …mehr
As the latest iPhone went on sale Friday, with T-Mobile USA once again left out of the party, the fourth-place U.S. carrier started turning on a network that is designed to offer high data rates on unlocked iPhones. …mehr
Mike Leach, who worked as Facebook's architect of CRM and platform applications up until August this year, warned his peers to wake up to the reality of the shrinking role of the IT department. …mehr
If youre reading this, theres a decent chance you got up early this morning for Apples version of Christmas Daythe launch of the iPhone 5. The phone is cool, of course, but apps are what make it useful and fun. This weeks roundup of new and updated apps includes apps for gaming, apps for grocery shoppingand a navigation app that takes advantage of changes to the phones native Maps app. …mehr
It's become de rigueur to describe Apple's white earbuds as "ubiquitous" and "iconic"--and justifiably so. Not only are they almost inextricably linked to the company's iPods and iPhones, but Apple revealed at its recent press event that it had shipped 600 million sets of the headphones, a number that almost certainly makes them the most-used piece of gear in the history of audio reproduction. …mehr
The Network World story "Sophos admits bad update slamming its anti-virus software customers", posted to the wire Thursday, contained the wrong author. The author is Ellen Messmer. The story has been changed on the wire to reflect this. …mehr
Available in Hong Kong today, iPhone 5 brings a crowd -- though much smaller compared to that for the previous iPhone version --gathering at its flagship store at the IFC mall. …mehr
Hot on the heels of , Major League Baseball became one of the highest profile companies to publicly embrace Passbook, unveiling mobile ticketing through iOS 6's digital passes and card management feature. …mehr
Apple will build its first Asia datacenter in Hong Kong near the Shenzhen border, according to a report by 9to5Mac Tuesday night. …mehr
Two Romanian hackers will serve time for targeting Subway in a $10 million point-of-sale conspiracy involving 150 restaurants in 2011. …mehr
Thieves broke into a number of mobile phone shops across central Japan and stole hundreds of iPhone 5 handsets hours before the device went on sale Friday morning, police said. …mehr
Available in Hong Kong today, iPhone 5 brings a crowd--though much smaller compared to that for the previous iPhone version --gathering at its flagship store at the IFC mall. …mehr
Managing customer relationships has become companies' top priority in the Asia Pacific region, according to Forrester's new report, 'The Changing Face of CRM in Asia Pacific'. …mehr
The iPhone 5s have landed in our offices. Before we go off for more extensive examinations, here are a few preliminary reactions after getting our hands on the thing. …mehr
Hackers using a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named Mirage have been engaged in a systematic cyber espionage campaign against a Canadian energy company, a large oil firm in the Philippines and several other entities since at least this April, Dell's SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit says. …mehr
The has honored a wide array of strange research and advancement over the years, from exploding pants to woodpecker headaches to , and Thursday nights ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., was no exception. …mehr
Online coupon broker Groupon on Wednesday meant to offer the "lowest rates in today's marketplace" to U.S. merchants who use its couponing service. …mehr
Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. …mehr
Canonical generated significant excitement earlier this year when it announced its plans, which included dockable smartphones that can launch the full desktop. …mehr
ioSafe--an established vendor of disaster-proof storage--is turning to crowdfunding to raise capital for its next project. Earlier this week, ioSafe kicked off a to finance a new disaster-proof private cloud. …mehr