Microsoft has a workaround for a vulnerability discovered last week in version 1.0 of Transport Layer Security (TLS) provided. The encryption mechanism is the successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and secures Web sites being accessed via HTTPS. Microsoft’s fix-it tool so far is only for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. The problem is, [...]

Apple, Samsung has accused before a court in The Hague, the misuse of its patents. As reported Webwereld, Samsung will require for each of his rights, a royalty of 2.4 percent of the chip price, which Apple describes as “simply too high.” The company from Cupertino appeals to a force in the IT industry system [...]

Joe Tucci (Image: EMC) EMC CEO Joe Tucci announced his resignation. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal he said he would vacate the CEO chair in late 2012. Then he wants to go for two years as Executive Chairman of the Supervisory Board, in order to train his successor. According to the report [...]

At tomorrow’s press event in New York Amazon is expected to introduce its first tablet. According to TechCrunch, it bears the name “Kindle Fire” and comes in the second week of November for 249 dollars in trade. The device accordingly has a 7-inch LCD screen, and reminds of RIM’s Blackberry playbook. The operating system is [...]

Save with the Google products companies in Germany € billion annually – across all sectors and particularly the middle class. The findings of a study (PDF) of the Institute of German Economy (IW), the Google Germany on the occasion of his tenth anniversary in given order is. Representatives were interviewed for over 11,000 companies. Spend [...]

Apple lists “multi-touch” as one of his trademarks (Screenshot: ZDNet). Apple has failed in an attempt to protect themselves let the term “multi-touch” in the U.S. as a trademark. How MacRumours reported, citing a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an application was rejected in the past week. The authorities justified the step [...]

Hackers have compromised the MySQL.com website. As the security company tells Armorize, visitors were routed for several hours yesterday with iFrame malware infested sites. The problem was discovered during the afternoon and was corrected against 19 clock. Previously unknown had offered in the Russian underground forums root access rights to MySQL.com for sale, Trend Micro [...]

Intel intends to continue development of its operating system MeeGo after the departure of Nokia with new partners from Japan and South Korea. As the Financial Times Germany reports that the Linux-based OS should be merged with the competing LiMo platform. Stand behind LiMo including NEC, Panasonic and Samsung. There is no official confirmation of [...]

Google Chrome has added the ability to synchronize the settings of browser extensions to multiple devices. Who about the add-on for personalized Tweetdeck can change the future is automatically transferred to another computer. The feature is part of a software update in the source code of Chrome. It will take some time to update the [...]

Mozilla has planned as the final version of Firefox released 7th She is now in over 80 languages ​​on the FTP servers of the company for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux available for download. What are the changes to the final pre-release brings with it is still unclear. Mozilla has not updated the release [...]

CDU politician Siegfried Kauder (Image: German Bundestag / Oehmichen Arndt). Siegfried Kauder will submit not later than eight weeks a bill to punish copyright violations on the Internet. The CDU politician said yesterday against time online. The bill is leaning heavily on the rules applicable in France. There will be blocked after two warnings for [...]

The financing of providers of information and communications technology (ICT) has improved due to good market performance. The reports of high-tech association Bitkom based on an industry analysis of the KfW-company survey 2011th It reported only 15 percent of companies that for them the access to credit has become more difficult. In the previous year [...]

Canonical apparently wants to soon offer an App Store for the Linux distribution Ubuntu. With developer.ubuntu.com it has launched a website on which programmers can learn about the development and publication of applications for Ubuntu. There you will find an overview of some tools, documentation and have the opportunity to interact with like-minded people. The [...]

Facebook has corrected an error that led to that user could see which of their friends have them cancel the online friendship. This information was since the introduction of the timeline in the last week available. Appeared next to the names of these persons in the timeline the button “Add as friend”. Members participating in [...]

Facebook’s long awaited app for the iPad is apparently completed in May and is programmed in a drawer ever since. Verkoeyen developer Jeff is now changed in Google’s Mobile team. By his own account he was frustrated by Facebook’s inability to publish the iPad app. Verkoeyen worked from June 2010 to August 2011 in Toronto [...]