Archive for ‘August, 2011’

Dell launches together with VMware is a public cloud

Dell launches together with VMware is a public cloud

Dell has made in cooperation with VMware a Cloud Service for data centers around the legs. That gave the company announced jointly on the VMworld conference in Las Vegas. It is Dell’s first service for public Clouds and targets companies that switch while there, but still want to retain the familiar, VMware-based user interface. So [...]

Microsoft sheds light on Windows-Explorer-8 Ribbon interface

Microsoft sheds light on Windows-Explorer-8 Ribbon interface

Microsoft will provide Windows Explorer to 8, as suggested by the controversial Ribbon interface, which is reflected in the current version of Office used. Alex Simons, Director of Program Management at Microsoft, announces the new surface of the file manager in a blog entry as well as in a video. He also addresses concerns about [...]

Apple stops rental of television programs via iTunes

Apple stops rental of television programs via iTunes

Apple has discontinued the rental of TV shows that have been reached in the United States for 99 cents on iTunes and Apple TV offered. The major networks were mostly not agree with this price and did not therefore make their programs available. Despite intensive efforts, Apple just as relevant partners Disney and ABC to [...]

40 000 in the first month prior inconsistencies Bing Streetside

40 000 in the first month prior inconsistencies Bing Streetside

Since 1 August are preliminary at Microsoft received 40 000 objections to the publication of pictures in Windows Live Street Side. The reports of the mirror. Germans have yet to rise until the end of September, the possibility of appeal by mail or online. First pictures of road trains in Germany in the autumn will [...]

Bitkom: Half of Germany is a member of social networks

Bitkom: Half of Germany is a member of social networks

Three out of four Internet users in Germany (76 percent) are members of at least one social network. This represents about half the total German population. In the under 30 year olds is as high as 96 percent, as a representative Forsa study on behalf of the Bitkom occupied. use of social networks in Germany [...]

E-Plus introduces a landline number for cell phones

E-Plus introduces a landline number for cell phones

customers of E-Plus can be from 1 September with an additional number can be hard to call on her cell phone. This makes them less expensive to achieve in future mobile, the caller pays only the fixed fee. The offer applies to customers of E-Plus Base daughters, Ay Yildiz and myMTVmobile. Anyone who has booked [...]

Samsung brings Office to Monitor Wireless hub function

Samsung brings Office to Monitor Wireless hub function

The SyncMaster C24A650X LED comes in September for 479 € in the trade (Image: Samsung). Samsung has expanded its portfolio to the Office monitor model SyncMaster C24A650X LED. The 24-inch display uses a MVA panel with LED backlight, which offers advantages over conventional TN panels have a higher color fidelity and color stability. As a [...]

Apple distributes third developer versions of Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion

Apple distributes third developer versions of Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion

icloud is scheduled to begin in the fall. Apple has a third developer release of Mac OS X 10.7.2 beta released and a ninth of the icloud client for Mac OS. A third beta version of iPhoto 9.2 is available since Friday. It replaces the current version of iPhoto, the return to a previous one, [...]

Google TV coming to Europe

Google TV coming to Europe

Google TV will launch in early 2012 in Europe. The Supervisory Board has announced Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt in Edinburgh, Scotland. In a keynote at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival, he led before leaders from the TV industry, as he imagines the future of television. Schmidt suggested that the TV makers to work [...]

Apple is supposedly appearing on TV in 2012

Apple is supposedly appearing on TV in 2012

The rumor that Apple was preparing a television, circulating in Silicon Valley again. Sources of Venture Beat said to have received new information. The analyst Gene Munster now expects a market launch in late 2012 or early 2013. Munster said, however, since 2009, Apple will get into the TV market. At that time he had [...]

Groupon loses half its traffic

Groupon loses half its traffic

Groupon lost after an all-time high in June of this year, between half of its traffic. At the same time put his rival LivingSocial by 27 percent. This means the statistics from Experian Hitwise, which, however, considers only the web traffic in the U.S. without a mobile device. Groupon stands before its IPO, which it [...]

Freedom not fear: Another large demonstration planned against surveillance

Freedom not fear: Another large demonstration planned against surveillance

A broad coalition of privacy organizations and associations under the auspices of the Working Group on Data Retention (AK stock) calls for a big demonstration in Berlin. They will be held on Saturday, the 10th September, as part of the international action day “Freedom not Fear” instead. Under the motto “Freedom not fear – Stop [...]

WSJ: Larry Page knew of illegal AdWords Advertising

WSJ: Larry Page knew of illegal AdWords Advertising

Investigators from the U.S. Justice Department are obviously convinced that Google’s CEO and co-founder Larry Page has for years been aware of the alleged illegal promotion of Canadian pharmacies. That’s according to a report in the Wall Street Journal out of the evaluated e-mails, but after a comparison between Google and the Justice Department not [...]

Facebook bargain service stops after only four months

Facebook bargain service stops after only four months

Facebook will adjust its service bargain “deals” in the near future. “After we have tested deal four months, we have decided that we phase out the product in the coming weeks,” the Reuters news agency quoted a notice from the company. “We believe there is a lot of potential in social approaches that bring together [...]

IBM is researching data storage with 120 petabytes

IBM is researching data storage with 120 petabytes

Researchers at IBM are working on a new data store, which is composed of 200,000 conventional hard drives that work together. The huge data storage capacity of 120 petabytes should be able to absorb approximately one trillion files and provide enough storage capacity for large-scale simulations of complex systems, such as are required for weather [...]