SAP has released new preliminary results for the fourth quarter of 2010. The balance sheet under IFRS profit has declined from October to December by 36 percent to 437 million euros. The operating margin fell by more than half from 32 percent a year earlier to 13.4 percent. The reason is a provision in the [...]

HTTPS can be enabled in the account settings (Image: Facebook) Members of Facebook can now receive the ability to activate the option in their security settings to “Safe Browsing (HTTPS)”.. The function will be rolled out worldwide in the coming weeks. The social network responds to the step to comply with security experts. To date, [...]

The Next Generation Portable comes with two analog sticks and two cameras (Image: Sony). Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo has unveiled the successor to its PlayStation Portable handheld game console, the first bears the official name of “Next Generation Portable” (NGP). The NGP comes with a 5-inch OLED display, which dissolves with 960 times 544 [...]

Paypal has lost a leading manager. Osama Bedier is leaving after eight years Ebay daughter and goes to Google. The announcement was made in Paypal’s CTO Scott Guilfoyle corporate blog. He also provided the same against operating successor as head of the worldwide operating platform division, Matthew Mengerink. Bedier was also vice president at PayPal. [...]

The blog reported Boy Genius Report, considering that Research In Motion, the Blackberry Tablet Playbook for Android-compatible apps make. This would give users access to the Android Market with more than 100,000 apps and make the development of native apps Playbook unnecessary. According to the blog RIM could port the Dalvik Virtual Machine for its [...]

The PA246Q comes with a USB hub, scaling and picture-in-Picture (Picture: Asus). Asus has expanded its portfolio to monitor a professional model with 10-bit IPS panel. The 24-inch display PA246Q aimed mainly at photographers and graphic designers, who appreciate realistic color reproduction, ergonomics and connectivity. The 16:10 screen dissolves to 1920 by 1200 pixels. The [...]

Qualcomm has in the first quarter of fiscal 2011 (to 26 December 2010; PDF) both surpassed its own forecasts and the analysts – thanks to the thriving tablet and smartphone business. Its shares soared in after-hours trading, according to Reuters by 5.2 percent in the air. The company posted year over year revenue growth of [...]

The European Commission has approved the acquisition by Intel, McAfee. However, the competition authorities have enacted regulations to prevent the chip maker coupled to the merger own security products to its processors and chipsets. Intel has pledged that the competing security firms had access to all necessary information so that they could use features of [...]

Within just one week, Google received over 75,000 applications worldwide. This is a new company record, said spokesman Aaron Zamost told Bloomberg. The number surpasses the previous record from March 2007 to 15 percent. The group is looking for staff to develop mainly the areas of mobile, display advertising and web applications. Google announced last [...]

Logitech has released the balance for his third fiscal quarter of 2011 (December 31). Accordingly, improved operating profit over the previous year by 30 percent to 76 million dollars. Net income rose from 57 to 65 million dollars, the share of profit of 0.32 $ 0.36. The turnover of the Swiss peripherals maker increased 22 [...]

After Twitter has locked the Egyptian government is now apparently also provides access to Facebook and YouTube. According HerdictWeb previously received 33 reports that Facebook is blocked in Egypt, there are 13th on YouTube The blog Bikya Masr reports that can be restricted to Blogspot and Gmail only accessed. According to Global Voices on the [...]

Facebook has the attack on Mark Zuckerberg confirmed fan site and makes a bow to blame. An unidentified person had to leave a message, a spokesperson told ZDNet. But the posting was only a few minutes online, there were a lot of reactions (Screenshot: via Sophos). Two days ago, a mysterious status message showed up [...]

Microsoft has published some advice for the protection of privacy, based on a survey of 1,500 users in the U.S., Britain, Canada, Japan and Germany in December 2010. The investigation was made, among other things for the Data Privacy Day 2010. Central question of the site is how to use location-based services such as Four [...]

Intel Labs plans to invest over the next five years 100 million dollars (73 million euros) in research projects at U.S. universities. For this to occur at eight universities called Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC), which would bring together researchers on projects in areas such as visual computing, mobility, security and embedded solutions focus. [...]

The mouse gestures were slightly revised in Opera 11:01 (Image: Opera). Opera has released the first update for version 11 of its eponymous browser freeware, which includes among others five security vulnerabilities. Including one earlier this week, is reported critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to inject malicious code remotely and take control over [...]