Archive for ‘2000’

Rechtsanwaelte.de not be used by firm

Rechtsanwaelte.de not be used by firm

The district court Munich I has prohibited the lawyers of the firm Graefe & Partner, the domain www.rechtsanwaelte.de use. Other lawyers had sought an antitrust warning. The court was out of the disability and colleagues had Graefe & Partner prohibits the sole use. The firm has announced an appeal against the verdict. According to Graefe [...]

Pentium 4 with a difference

Pentium 4 with a difference

If the intention of the developers at Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) would be gone, the Pentium 4 would look very different today. According to the chip designer Darrell Boggs but management has prevailed over the engineering team and sent a much slimmed-P4 in the race. According to Boggs, who is quoted by several U.S. [...]

Red Hat still writing red numbers

Red Hat still writing red numbers

Red Hat (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: RHI) is still writing red numbers, but can exceed the expectations of analysts. The company has in the third quarter of fiscal retracted a loss of one cent per share

BT wants money for the use of hyperlinks

BT wants money for the use of hyperlinks

British Telecom has 17 U.S. ISPs with lawsuits covered. In a letter to the District Court in White Plains, New York, the largest telecommunications companies in the island boasts of its patent on hyperlinks. The ISPs would illegally use the basic technology for the Internet. Already half a year ago BT had the 17 ISPs, [...]

Stock market punishes Microsoft

Stock market punishes Microsoft

Nasdaq, Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) punished for its profit warning. The company’s stock lost in the first minutes of trading on Friday over eight per cent to under 51 dollars. Thus, the paper noted near its annual low of $ 48. The company warned yesterday after the market closed before lower profits and revenues [...]

Telecom submits offer to wholesale flat rate

Telecom submits offer to wholesale flat rate

offers earlier than expected, the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) on Friday to its competitors a wholesale flat rate for unlimited Internet browsing. Competitors of the incumbents have announced on Thursday, according to prices paid per month and connection with a transmission capacity of two Mbit / s Mark 4800 (well 2454 €) per [...]

IBM delivers new supercomputer

IBM delivers new supercomputer

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) has begun shipping its newest supercomputer. The z900, the “z” is the way makes no allusion to the first computers by Konrad Zuse, represents the seventh generation of IBM mainframe and has a target group companies with large Internet sites. The z900 will cost several million dollars depending on configuration. [...]

Siemens plans to increase profits strong

Siemens plans to increase profits strong

Siemens (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SIE) will increase in coming years, the EBIT margin (earnings before interest and taxes in relation to sales) in the operative business of the group in the order of 20 percent per year. That the group announced at yesterday’s press conference for the fiscal year 2000. To achieve the new targets, [...]

Denial of service attack on GMX

Denial of service attack on GMX

Who has sent in recent days GMX e-mails to addresses that received it back after a few hours. The error message for GMX mail server is always “Connection timed out”. This was due, according to data from GMX A denial of service (DoS) attack against the database server of the freemail provider from Munich. “Our [...]

Telekom intends to defend itself against Voicestream lawsuit “vigorously”

Telekom intends to defend itself against Voicestream lawsuit “vigorously”

against a class action from shareholders disappointed the United States wants the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) to defend “vigorously”. Because of the pending proceedings, his house would not comment on details, said Telekom spokesman Hans Ehnert to the news agency AFP. The law firm of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach had previously [...]

Before separation of Corel Linux division

Before separation of Corel Linux division

Corel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CLC) wants to separate from his supposedly definitive Linux division. As reported from industry sources, is the area of ​​the Venture Capitalist Linux Global Partners (LGP) are adopted. LGP is a New York holding company, which has in various Linux companies such as Helix Code and GNU Cash put money. Over [...]

Brazilian Kaspersky site defaced

Brazilian Kaspersky site defaced

The Brazilian site of the anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky has been defaced by a hacker. Instead of information about viruses and worms were seen on the country-specific site for several hours bare facts. Meanwhile emblazoned but again the Kaspersky company logo on kaspersky.com.br. The virus specialist is thus in good company. Earlier this month, the [...]

Hardcore Gamers hijack Server

Hardcore Gamers hijack Server

Previously unknown have the computing power of the server over a U.S. energy company and abused for their gaming sessions. This has the Infrastruction National Protection Center (NAPC) announced the United States. The attackers exploit a vulnerability of the archive services for the FTP connection to get onto the server. Then they took 95 percent [...]

EU regulation on cyber-crime under fire

EU regulation on cyber-crime under fire

Ahead of a meeting of the 41 member states of Europe in Strasbourg, France, has focused on cyber crime, a coalition of 22 human rights organizations and privacy advocates once again an open letter to the participants. Already in October, was a first letter of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) went to the conference [...]

Rambus attacks Nvidia

Rambus attacks Nvidia

notorious for his complaints memory specialist Rambus wants the leather to the graphics specialist Nvidia. In presenting the quarterly figures reported Nvidia: “We have brought in experience, that Rambus believes that we have violated several of its patents Now they want us to sign licensing agreements that provide for substantial royalty payments..” Rambus holds not [...]