The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a draft for standardization touch Web apps. So that the consortium apparently wants the development of web applications forward who get compared to native apps are often behind. The draft specification is also intended for graphic tablets, which have no screen. The focus is clearly on touch [...]

The Plasma desktop KDE 4.6 (picture: KDE.org). The KDE developers have released version 4.6 of its software compilation KDE (KDE SC) for Unix systems. She brings many new features of the plasma workspace, applications and development platform. They come for desktop PCs and netbooks available user of KDE 4.6 with a new SC-system activities, which [...]

Professor Kai Rannenberg, head of the project ABC4Trust (Image: Goethe-University). The European Union is funding over the next four years, a collaborative effort of partners from academia, industry and application, with almost nine million euros, with new encryption techniques to testing. The aim is that citizens can continue to protect their identity data and privacy [...]

The German mobile operator Vodafone have proposed on the initiative of a solution in order to protect users from subscription traps. It relates to services where the price will be deducted automatically on the mobile phone bill. Provider of games and ringtones are mandatory all the important information in addition to offering an overview display. [...]

The British police have arrested in connection with DDoS attacks of Wikileaks supporters, five young men (Photo: Metropolitan Police). The British police have arrested in the West Midlands, Northamptonshire, Hertfordshire, Surrey and London, five men aged between 15 and 26 years. It divides the Central Unit eCrime with the London Metropolitan Police. The men are [...]

“The black sheep” of the month of January comes to multi-stollberg.de shop (Photo: OpSec). The brand of protectors OpSec the negative award “The Black Sheep” of January have given. She goes to the dubious multi-shop-online shop stollberg.de . The brand protection experts point out that many customers have this shop for work clothes, camping equipment [...]

Vocalabs has submitted new figures to the satisfaction of computer users seeking help. Judging by the interviews that were conducted between July 2009 and December 2010, Apple is still in front of Dell and Hewlett-Packard, its rate of unsolved problems, however, declined significantly. 66 percent of Apple customers, in the second half of 2010 had [...]

Cable Germany will build a new fiber-optic backbone network that connects all the regional network nodes of the cable television network with each other. As the main purpose of using the company calls the proliferation of analog television programming. Terrestrial analogue channels already no longer be broadcast. Satellite operator SES Astra will be after 30 [...]

LinkedIn has launched its initial public offering in the way and filed an application (Form S-1) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents contain detailed information about the first time the financial situation of the business networking site. With a combination of advertising and business services at LinkedIn scored the first nine months of [...]

Acer has presented its preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2010. Thus, the Taiwanese computer manufacturer posted record highs in consolidated revenue and operating profit. The revenues, which include foreign sales of all companies in which Acer with over 50 percent stake, rose last year by 9.7 percent to 629.7 billion [...]

Larry Page (Image: Google) As the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has drawn an unflattering portrait of Google founders Larry Page in his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Between the lines, the authors criticize poor communication skills and assertiveness of the poor 38-year-old. They also note, among other things, referring to Yahoo’s founder Jerry Yang, [...]

Microsoft has its financial results for the second quarter of 2011 (December 31) announced. Accordingly, the software company last quarter of 60 milllion of Windows licenses sold a seventh Since the launch of the operating system in October 2009 he has sold 300 million licenses. In addition, Windows 7 is now installed on 20 percent [...]

Amazon has achieved in the fourth quarter of 2010 (December 31) for the first time sales of more than 10 billion dollars. The revenue climbed 36 percent to $ 12.95 billion (9.46 billion euros). Net income rose 8 percent to $ 416 million (304 million euros) or $ 0.91 per share. in the fourth quarter [...]

Windows Mobile 7 (Image: Microsoft) Microsoft Research is working on a software development kit (SDK) for Windows Mobile 7, which enables new functions such as scanning text or voice recognition software for Smartphones. A preview version to developers of “Project Hawaii” mentioned frameworks is now available for download. Project for Hawaii using the Microsoft researchers [...]

Image: Arbor Networks The Egyptian government has apparently held this Friday morning paralyzed in many parts of the country’s Internet access. SMS also could not be sent. The main server of the provider in Egypt were not available, according to CNN. The servers of the Egyptian government and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo are also [...]