The Spanish competition authority, Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC) has opened an antitrust case against Microsoft. It is directed against the offices of the software group in Spain and Ireland. The charge: Microsoft has blocked the sale of licenses for computer software by third party. So far, few details are known about the procedure. [...]

The German branch of the used software dealer Used Soft has filed claims to bankruptcy. She informed the Munich district court will likely order a liquidator today. The GmbH is planning to renovate and continue to be so without the burden caused by the insolvency of the Swiss parent – have emerged – the purchasing [...]

Hewlett-Packard has issued in connection with the announced cessation of its WebOS the first hardware redundancies. According to sources from All Things Digital up to 525 employees are affected. The first should already during this week, losing their jobs. The company confirmed the job cuts, but made no indication of the extent of the layoffs. [...]

Just in time for the opening of the Google + Social Network for everyone Klout Work has included in its rankings. Klout measures the impact of social networks. His numbers are particularly important for advertisers in the U.S.. Klout rank-director Ash Rust writes: “As the fastest growing social network of all time, Google has + [...]

In September 2010, T-Systems in Munich has opened an innovation center. It is one of three laboratories of the Future Group. The other two are in, with a different orientation, in Berlin and Bonn. Covering an area of ​​approximately 450 square meters in Munich can business customers, most customers are mainly large, information and telecommunications [...]

Sony CEO Howard Stringer at IFA 2011 (Image: CNET.com). At a conference organized by IBM’s strategy for meeting managers Sony CEO Howard Stringer has spoken about the difficulties in bringing a previously successful company on a new course. “All big companies have a rowing boat ‘mentality,” he said at the conference in New York THINK. [...]

From now on, anyone can log in Google +. Until now, access to the social network from Google was limited. Only someone who was invited by a member, could create an account. Coinciding with the opening for everyone, there are also a number of new features. Particularly interesting is the possibility of video conferencing, the [...]

On 4 October Apple will introduce a new product – supposedly the fifth-generation iPhone, as is speculated for months. All Things Digital has experienced from unnamed sources. The news site had previously been named as the October launch date. The delivery of the product according to the informant, according to start a few weeks after [...]

The XAV5601 costs € 149 in a two-set (Image: Netgear). Netgear Powerline his portfolio with a compact power adapter with a theoretical data throughput of up to 500 Mbit / s extended. The XAV5601 has an integrated power socket that replaces the space occupied by him backsplash. According to the manufacturer, it is suitable for [...]

Oracle has released a security update out of order. It fills several holes in Fusion Middleware and Oracle Application Server, the plug into the built into the software open-source Web server Apache. The company is responding to one since August in the Internet-available tool called “Apache Killer”, which exploits the vulnerability. “Given the danger posed [...]

Léo Apotheker: not yet a year in office, but apparently shortly before the expulsion (Image: DASG). The first occurred in almost a year ago from Hewlett-Packard CEO, Léo Apotheker, seems immediately before his removal. The report unanimously, several American media. As a successor to former eBay boss Meg Whitman is talking. The usually well-informed technology [...]

Microsoft CFO Peter Klein (Image: Microsoft) Microsoft’s board has decided to increase the quarterly dividend by 25 percent. In the next dividend on 8 December, shareholders will receive the software group thus 20 cents per share. That’s four cents more than in the four preceding quarters, such as Microsoft tells. The Group also intends to [...]

Google has begun in a blog post, Android developers to instruct the upcoming version of Ice Cream Sandwich. Scott remembers the main programmer mainly because the Ice Cream Sandwich (also briefly known as ICS) on different screen sizes – from the smartphone to the Tablet – will run. Main is a senior technical editor for [...]

Group buying sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial have reached its peak in the first quarter of 2011. This emerges from a report by CB Insights. The market researchers estimate that the number will decrease by mergers and acquisitions continue to decline rapidly during the reviews. In the third quarter of the price paid was [...]

SAP has announced its intention to buy Crossgate, a German provider of integration and networking services. Details can be called only if the transaction is completed – conditions and purchase price but in any case remain under seal. If adopted by the relevant antitrust authorities, the merger could be the first Happen November, SAP hopes. [...]