Archive for ‘December, 2011’

Match iTunes now available in Germany

Match iTunes now available in Germany

match iTunes Apple is now also available to users in Germany (Screenshot: ZDNet). About a month after the U.S. launch of Apple offers its iTunes music service match in Australia, Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe, including Britain and Germany. Other countries will follow, as Macstories.net writes. In this country, the service will cost € [...]

Apple unveils third pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 ready

Apple unveils third pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 ready

Apple has made selected testers in the night, a third pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 available. It stands as a delta and combo update for the desktop version of Lion available. Soon they would be distributed to registered developers. Tester Build 11D33 operating system updates, according to 9to5Mac, as in build 11D24 focus [...]

Blackberry 10 is delayed until the end of 2012

Blackberry 10 is delayed until the end of 2012

Research In Motion’s new Blackberry operating system 10 will be delayed significantly. The Canadian manufacturer expects the first devices with the OS until the end of 2012 will come on the market, has explained CEO Mike Lazaridis at the presentation of the quarterly results. For the proposed model was needed was “highly complex chips,” the [...]

First beta of LibreOffice 3.5 makes the operation

First beta of LibreOffice 3.5 makes the operation

The Document Foundation (TDF) has released a first beta of its Office software LibreOffice 3.5. It is now available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X for download. The developers advise her from going to use it for productive use and recommend a parallel installation to the latest stable release. LibreOffice 3.5 Beta 1 makes [...]

TweetDeck uses no more Adobe AIR

TweetDeck uses no more Adobe AIR

Twitter has released the first version of the purchased software TweetDeck under his direction. A new logo and a blue background, make the new situation clearly. The most important change, however, lies under the hood: the developer abandon TweetDeck on Adobe’s AIR runtime environment, which enabled them to work in parallel on multiple platforms. Instead, [...]

Salesforce.com acquires provider of HR software

Salesforce.com acquires provider of HR software

the Canadian start-up has Rypple Salesforce.com, a provider of human resource software acquired. It does so also in this field in competition with SAP, which recently agreed the acquisition of SuccessFactors for $ 3.4 billion, which develops software for Human Capital Management solutions. Salesforce showed how Rypple however, rejected the assumption that it was a [...]

Microsoft distributed from 2012 automatically upgrades for older versions of IE

Microsoft distributed from 2012 automatically upgrades for older versions of IE

Microsoft will distribute automatically from January 2012, the latest version of Internet Explorer users, which stands for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 are available. The announcement affects all users who have automatic updates enabled. According to an entry in the blog “Exploring IE” automatic upgrade is first introduced in Australia and Brazil. “The Internet [...]

Dell also gets out of the netbook market

Dell also gets out of the netbook market

Dell has lost another manufacturer after Samsung, the interest in netbooks. On his website he offers only the version of its Inspiron netbook for business customers. The model Dell Inspiron Mini for home users has already disappeared from the offer. In them are typical of this class Atom processor and 10-inch displays were installed. The [...]

Apple unveils third pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 ready

Apple unveils third pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 ready

Apple has made selected testers in the night, a third pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.7.3 available. It stands as a delta and combo update for the desktop version of Lion available. Soon they would be distributed to registered developers. Tester Build 11D33 operating system updates, according to 9to5Mac, as in build 11D24 focus [...]

Match iTunes now available in Germany

Match iTunes now available in Germany

match iTunes Apple is now also available to users in Germany (Screenshot: ZDNet). About a month after the U.S. launch of Apple offers its iTunes music service match in Australia, Canada, Mexico and parts of Europe, including Britain and Germany. Other countries will follow, as Macstories.net writes. In this country, the service will cost € [...]

Adobe closes fiscal 2011 with 11 percent more revenue

Adobe closes fiscal 2011 with 11 percent more revenue

Adobe has completed the 2011 fiscal year with revenues of $ 4.216 billion. This represents a growth of 11 percent over the $ 3.8 billion in 2010. Adobe itself had set itself the objective of increasing its 2011 revenue by 10 percent. The profit increased by 7 percent to $ 832.8 million or $ 1.65 [...]

AMD makes Freescale manager to head of Global Business Units

AMD makes Freescale manager to head of Global Business Units

The Board of AMD Lisa Su has appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Business Units. In this role, the 42-year-old from 3 January 2012 virtually all business areas to monitor the chip manufacturer. She reports directly to President and CEO Rory Read. Lisa Su (Image: AMD) Su will take over in September, [...]

Facebook praised Greenpeace greener data center

Facebook praised Greenpeace greener data center

Facebook has promised to Greenpeace, its data centers, preferably with clean, renewable energy to operate. In return, the environmental group on Facebook’s Open Compute Project actively support – and attract more business for it. She wants to stop the social network to use its technology and to their ability to increase efficiency are available. The [...]

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf also criticized SOPA

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf also criticized SOPA

Vint Cerf has joined the criticism of U.S. censorship law “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA). He expressed his concerns in an open letter to the author of the law, Lamar Smith of the Republicans. The former DARPA manager Cerf is because of his work on the protocol set TCP / IP as one of the [...]

IDC: Tablet market is growing more slowly than expected in third quarter

IDC: Tablet market is growing more slowly than expected in third quarter

The global tablet sales have lagged behind expectations in the third quarter, IDC. Altogether, the industry from 18.1 million units, 23.9 percent more than in the previous quarter. Compared to the same period the increase is 264.5 percent. The original forecast of market research firm for the period July through September was 19.2 million units. [...]