weighs 1.1 pounds With Toshiba’s 13-inch monitor about 200 grams less than the ultra-Book competition from Asus and Apple’s Macbook Air, the components can not compete, however. If it is so technical a lightweight? Besides Acer and Asus, Toshiba is now represented with an ultra-Book on the German market. Instead of the competitors who have [...]

Spotify has opened up to programmers. It expanded its streaming music service for HTML 5-based apps, which should be loud CEO Daniel Ek, “both visually and functionally integrated seamlessly.” “We open the platform in a way that Spotify makes it really personal.” For the launch are twelve partners on board, including Last.fm, billboard, TuneWiki and [...]

McAfee has completed the acquisition of NitroSecurity, a provider of SIEM solutions (Security Information and Event Management). The products of non-listed company focused on medium and large enterprises. According to McAfee, you can, thanks to a patented and scalable database engine to collect large amounts of security data and analyze faster than competing solutions. Through [...]

The leadership of Hewlett-Packard is still to decide this year on the future of the operating system, WebOS. CEO Meg Whitman has announced in an interview with the acclaimed French newspaper Le Figaro. “This is not an easy decision, because a team of 600 people dependent on it.” Whitman did not call a trend. But [...]

Microsoft has released a beta of the upcoming version 4.0 of its application security Security Essentials released. First, it seemed, the company initially only for a limited group of users want to make available, but now anyone interested can download the trial version.   The download is initiated through the website of Security Essentials. A [...]

Bitkom In advance of tomorrow’s event in Munich IT-summit of the Federal Government published a list of 50 companies that have the total of 10,000 vacancies for IT professionals and related qualifications. Qualifications defined as adjacent to the ICT industry association-related disciplines such as mathematics or electrical engineering. In addition, this includes non-specialist graduates, in-depth [...]

Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) is apparently planning to tighten the laws against illegal telemarketing and lottery services clearly dubious. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing a benchmark paper in its possession, the ministry should be about the Federal Network Agency for unsolicited commercial calls in the future impose fines of up to 300,000 [...]

Acer’s chairman J.T. Wang has highlighted at a conference in Taipei, the future role of so-called ultra Books. You will be in his opinion “the mainstream model for Tablet PCs and notebooks in the next five years”, as the Taipei Times reported. By the device class is expected to reestablish in his opinion “a solid [...]

Microsoft has released the second service pack for Exchange 2010. It is now available on the manufacturer’s website for downloading. The download is 535.2 MB in size and is suitable for a new installation and update an existing installation. Exchange Server 2010 SP2 provides functions that aim to facilitate customers to navigate and manage their [...]

Microsoft will release an update tomorrow, Tuesday for the Xbox 360. It expands the game console to a function that it starts every time you turn on the TV users. It also improves the speech recognition capabilities. The new firmware comes with a redesigned user interface design in the Metro. Users no longer need to [...]

The Syrian government has nationwide banned the use of iPhones. So will the regime deter protesters, take photos and videos of the violence in the country and to spread through social networks, such as the Syrian daily newspaper DayPress in its English edition reported. iPhones are now banned in Syria (photo: Apple). Has issued the [...]

The lower house of Indian parliament has granted its members with a budget of 50,000 rupees (722 euros) in order to create tablets. This according to The Times of India. The hope behind this: If the people’s representatives are working with an Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab, they come out with a lot less [...]