Archive for ‘January, 2012’

Berlin gets an Apple Store

Berlin gets an Apple Store

After seven other German cities, Berlin also gets an Apple Store. As the newspaper reports, was in the building Kurfürstendamm 26 started with the necessary construction work. Provide for the store in the capital, Apple has also posted on his website already. According to the current sheet is the listed building with scaffolding and thus [...]

Gartner: PC market shrinks 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter

Gartner: PC market shrinks 1.4 percent in the fourth quarter

Gartner has presented preliminary results for the global PC market in the fourth quarter. Accordingly, from October to December 92.2 million computers were sold. Or 1.4 percent less than in the comparable period last year. Especially the Christmas season had turned out weaker than expected. “While the economic uncertainty in Western Europe had an impact [...]

Controversial image upload in Amazon is again possible

Controversial image upload in Amazon is again possible

Amazon in November 2011, the switched-off function “Upload My Pictures” reactivated. This is indicated by the Association of Online Trading on his blog, referring back to the Cologne office Lampmann Behn Rosenbaum. According to the lawyer Arno Lampmann this mean for dealers an additional Abmahngefahr: You can be claimed as Mitstörer an injunction, even though [...]

Bitkom: Applications for the first time via the Internet more popular than on paper

Bitkom: Applications for the first time via the Internet more popular than on paper

first draws a narrow majority of German companies, an online application from a traditional paper map. The results of a survey by market research firm in 1500 Aris recruiters in all industries on behalf of Bitkom. Therefore require 41 percent of applications via the Internet, 40 percent prefer paper documentation, 17 percent have no preference. [...]

Microsoft is investigating reports of suicidal threats of Foxconn workers

Microsoft is investigating reports of suicidal threats of Foxconn workers

Microsoft tests reports that more than 300 employees of a factory should have threatened the contract manufacturer Foxconn in Wuhan, China in early January trying to jump off the roof of the building. The trigger was a report from Kotaku According to a rejected pay rise. Thus was the mayor of Wuhan workers convinced to [...]

Symantec sued for alleged customer fraud

Symantec sued for alleged customer fraud

A man from the U.S. state of Washington has filed with a district court in San Jose lawsuit against Symantec. As Reuters reported, he claims that the security company to use scareware like tactics to sell paid versions of its products. According to the lawsuit, which should be approved as a class action, report applications [...]

Report: Microsoft strikes hundreds of points in the marketing

Report: Microsoft strikes hundreds of points in the marketing

Microsoft will emphasize shortly hundreds of marketing sites, sources from both Bloomberg and USA reports ZDNet. An informant called even a quota, namely 40 percent to the Central Marketing Group (CMG) will be reduced. The CMG is responsible for all marketing campaigns and corporate communications worldwide – and for all divisions of Microsoft. You want [...]

Google cuts + “contributions from people outside your circle”

Google cuts + “contributions from people outside your circle”

Google + shows in the future any more contributions from those who follow a user, but he has not subscribed to. The function was called in English “Incoming” in German and a little awkward “contributions from people outside your circle.” She was so confusing as outdated and little used will, tells Google. But contradict some [...]

Symantec sued for alleged customer fraud

Symantec sued for alleged customer fraud

A man from the U.S. state of Washington has filed with a district court in San Jose lawsuit against Symantec. As Reuters reported, he claims that the security company to use scareware like tactics to sell paid versions of its products. According to the lawsuit, which should be approved as a class action, report applications [...]

Apple charges for 19 January to New York a

Apple charges for 19 January to New York a

Apple has sent out invitations for an event on 19 Sent in January in New York. At the Guggenheim Museum, it will be a “education announcement”, a notice in education. The phrase could refer to software for example, or students. Moreover, since as usual with Apple, no facts are known to circulate, the more rumors: [...]

CES: HP launches ultra Book with cover from Gorilla Glass

CES: HP launches ultra Book with cover from Gorilla Glass

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is a premium ultra-Book with 14 inch screen size: the HP Envy 14 Spectre measures 32.7 by 22 by 2 inches and weighs in the lightest configuration around 2 kilograms. Its display has 1600 x 900 pixels. Both the display cover and palm [...]

CES: Samsung shows Chromebook with dual-core Celeron CPU

CES: Samsung shows Chromebook with dual-core Celeron CPU

Samsung has at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas unveiled its second generation “Series 5 Chrome Book”. You will no longer be equipped with Intel Atom Processor N570, but with a dual-core CPU, the more powerful Celeron series. This is intended to increase performance by a factor three. The remaining equipment largely corresponds [...]

Report: Microsoft strikes hundreds of points in the marketing

Report: Microsoft strikes hundreds of points in the marketing

Microsoft will emphasize shortly hundreds of marketing sites, sources from both Bloomberg and USA reports ZDNet. An informant called even a quota, namely 40 percent to the Central Marketing Group (CMG) will be reduced. The CMG is responsible for all marketing campaigns and corporate communications worldwide – and for all divisions of Microsoft. You want [...]

Nokia Lumia is 710 for 319 € to Germany

Nokia Lumia is 710 for 319 € to Germany

Nokia has launched a second phone with Microsoft’s mobile operating system Windows Mobile 7.5 (mango) on the German market. It is available immediately for a suggested retail price of 319 € available – and network providers in the German Telekom, Telefonica O2, Vodafone and Debitel Mobilcom. The technical basis is a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor at [...]

Internet companies received venture capital in 2011 over 10 billion dollars

Internet companies received venture capital in 2011 over 10 billion dollars

financing through venture capital in 2011 has a ten-year high reached. Only in the final quarter of the cross-sector funders invested $ 7.6 billion worldwide in companies such as market researchers calculated by CB Insights. For the full year amounted to over 3000 individual contracts to 30.6 billion dollars. Venture capitalists in 2010 had only [...]