Archive for ‘2000’

D21 Future concept calls for the Information Society

D21 Future concept calls for the Information Society

The chairman of the D21 and simultaneous boss of IBM Germany (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM), Erwin Staudt, called a “web-development plan” for Germany. In view of the coming development of information technology to government and industry would have a division of labor, Staudt said in Berlin on Thursday. “When companies provide mainly high schools, for [...]

British Telecom Viag Interkom takes

British Telecom Viag Interkom takes

The Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor will give its ten percent stake in the Munich-based phone company Viag Interkom for nearly five billion dollars to British Telecom (BT). The British then hold the lion’s share with 55 percent, 45 percent remain at E. The utility has an option to sell its shares next year to also [...]

Upcoming notebook giant: China

Upcoming notebook giant: China

large Taiwanese notebook manufacturers are increasingly on the Chinese mainland and set up production facilities there, comparatively cheap. Currently, the laws of the island to change, because until the production was banned in the People’s Republic. Already last month, Quanta has received approval for a 26 million dollar investment in a motherboard factory in the [...]

Reader’s Digest: Linus Torvalds’s “European of the Year”

Reader’s Digest: Linus Torvalds’s “European of the Year”

The European editions of the entertainment magazine “Reader’s Digest” has named the father of Linux Linus Torvalds “European of the Year.” Its development has “fundamentally changed computing scene,” the. “Because of his brilliant imagination and his generosity has made the European editors of Reader’s Digest, the modest Finns now for European of the Year,” the [...]

Report: No more consoles by Sega

Report: No more consoles by Sega

According to a report in the “Wall Street Journal” Sega wants to set the development of new games consoles. The Dreamcast will be the last product of its kind. Yesterday advanced talks with Nintendo had been confirmed. The conversation was among other things, the production of games for the Game Boy Advanced. According to the [...]

Your own computer online right way to

Your own computer online right way to

ZDNet Germany has launched a new channel called “updates” in the user’s own PC can be put into shape. Updates used to quickly and easily replace outdated program version against the latest updates and drivers. For this purpose, “scans” the updates to the user’s PC installed software, and then displays a list of available newer [...]

Letsbuyit.com suspended from trading

Letsbuyit.com suspended from trading

The share of Letsbuyit.com (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: LBC) has been suspended from trading on the New Market after the company has filed an application for a moratorium. A moratorium is used to a company got into financial difficulties once more to give time, resources to make loose. The Netherlands-based holding company has announced it will [...]

IBM’s fastest Unix workstation

IBM’s fastest Unix workstation

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) has been participating in yesterday for the claim. to the maker of the fastest UNIX workstation in the world with only one processor. The group said that was RS/6000 44 P Model 170 Unix workstation with a fast 450 MHz Power3-II CPU and a graphics card GXT6000P from their own [...]

Indignation over expensive “last mile”

Indignation over expensive “last mile”

competitors of Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) have criticized the intent of the Bonn-based group, require higher future rental rates for the line to use the so-called “last mile” to the end customer. The proposed price of 34 marks (17.40 euros) per month and customer rather than the previous mark 25.40 (€ 12.98), Telekom [...]

New Pentium 4 bug

New Pentium 4 bug

The CRN Test Center has a new bug in the Pentium 4 from Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) revealed. Under certain circumstances, the PCI bus is the transport of large amounts of data are. The error occurred during testing of DVD decoder cards in combination with Intel motherboards. After a review of Intel’s engineers have [...]

Teles warning and builds to

Teles warning and builds to

The overthrow of mother-Strato Teles (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TLI) continues: The company announced in a mandatory disclosure, it will miss its targeted sales goal for this year of 500 million marks to 175 million marks. In addition, you must close the business ISDN and telecommunications equipment, which will impact full year earnings strong. Teles was [...]

New claims for “Cancer Cell”

New claims for “Cancer Cell”

get manufacturers of wireless phones, according to “The Times” soon with the U.S. lawyer Peter Angelos to do. It represents the interests of tumor-patents in the United States who trace their illness to the use of cell phones. Angelos had only recently fought for the same reason, $ 4.2 billion from the tobacco producers in [...]

The telecommunications trends 2001

The telecommunications trends 2001

The new year brings many changes for telephone customers. They range from better ways to control costs on new flat rates for unlimited surfing the Internet to the mobile phone ban in cars. The news agency AFP has compiled what consumers should be aware of the future. Surprisingly high phone bills are a thing of [...]

Critique: Amazon sells used books

Critique: Amazon sells used books

Amazon.com is to the category of “Harry Potter” the department “Antiquarian books and read” the current hit

Sega to provide software for the Game Boy

Sega to provide software for the Game Boy

yesterday the denials – today announced the initial results of the talks between Sega and Nintendo. A spokesman for Nintendo said, Sega will deliver “expected” game software for the Game Boy Advance Console rivals. The Japanese newspaper “Sankei Shimbun” reported had it first. Yesterday, negotiations had become known between the two groups, which were promptly [...]