Microsoft has updated its security applications, Security Essentials, Forefront and Defender. The programs classified according to a definition update delivered on Friday mistakenly Google Chrome as a variant of the Zeus Trojan banking. As a result, some users are no longer using the browser. “On 30 September an incorrect identification of PWS: Win32 & was [...]

Jack Ma, CEO of the Chinese Internet company Alibaba, has declared the end of last week at a conference at Stanford University, his company was interested in a takeover of Yahoo. As the New York Times reports, he has been approached by several investment firms and other parties on a possible purchase of Yahoo. Alibaba’s [...]

Oracle has introduced a version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for iPad. According to the Group is the first software package for enterprise resource planning, which runs on Apple Tablet. According to the presentation at the Open House OpenWorld iPad version contains the “application-specific gestures for intuitive and efficient interaction to make.” Customers using the EnterpriseOne [...]

Microsoft’s Hotmail e-mail service revised. In the coming weeks it will roll out a series of functions that allow, among other things an automated cleanup of your mailbox. For example, users can now keep only the latest message from a sender. Alternatively, e-mails from a certain sender to automatically delete after 3, 10, 30 or [...]

Verbatim has introduced an external hard drive with USB 3.0 interface. The 3.5-inch model “Store’n’Save USB 3.0 Hard Drive” is now available in capacities of 1, 2 and 3 TB. The prices are at 76, 96 and 176 €. The warranty period is two years. The drive can be operated both standing and lying on [...]

The new iPhone production facility in Zhengzhou in the inland of China has the labor rights organization Sacom from Hong Kong in a recent study found similar problems as with other Apple suppliers in China. This is indicated by the development organization Deutsch Watch out now. According to the study received lower wages than workers [...]

Hewlett-Packard seems to have been actually sold off its TouchPad Tablet in the U.S. temporarily available again. End of August, the 16-gigabyte model for $ 99 had been offered. Even in Germany there was such action at a price of 99 €. The 32-gigabyte model costing $ 149 or € 129. PreCentral now has in [...]

Windows 7 has reached worldwide in September for the first time a larger market share than Windows XP. According to the latest figures from StatCounter Windows 7 came last month to a share of 41 percent, while the share of Windows XP, declined to 40 percent. The growth of Windows 7 is also at the [...]

The Apple Event “Let’s talk iPhone,” begins today at 10 clock time (19 clock EST) on campus in Cupertino. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is expected to take over the presentation of new iPhones, after he took over the post recently by company founder Steve Jobs. A live video stream, it will probably not give [...]

Napster has once again changed hands: It is now part of the US-streaming service Rhapsody. This assumes also claims to Napster subscribers, while the parent company Best Buy will receive a minority stake in Rhapsody. The companies expect the transaction “on or about November 30,” complete. A purchase price not mentioned. As Fortune notes, the [...]

The Leibniz Computing Centre provides general IT services to more than 100,000 people at the two universities of Munich and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. With the Munich Research Network, it also operates its communications infrastructure. It also cares for name, email and web servers and proxies, special equipment and compute server for these facilities. [...]

Red Hat will likely buy glust, a provider of open-source storage solutions. Both have signed a merger agreement. The price is according to a press report about 136 million dollars in cash. The transaction is expected to close in October. Glust was previously in private hands. Its flagship GlusterFS is a purely software-based, scalable storage [...]

Microsoft’s messaging and VoIP client Lync 2011 published a little earlier than planned for Mac OS X. Currently, it can download corporate customers, with volume licenses for Office for Mac Standard 2011 or Communicator for Mac have 2011th The product was announced in early September. Microsoft said the new client supports both server 2010 and [...]

Microsoft has subsequently confirmed in a blog entry on the Windows Start menu 8 Notes. Chaitanya Sareen development manager calmed some users apparently nervous that Microsoft had bombarded with questions. In the blog “Building Windows 8,” he writes, act it’s just a natural progression. “In terms of user experience, especially the start menu, we see [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Image: Microsoft) The Board of Directors of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for the year ended 30 June-ending fiscal year, only half of the maximum possible bonus payment granted. Ballmer to receive his annual base salary of $ 682,500 bonus at the same level and thus comes to $ 1,365,000. Maximum he [...]