contracts between suppliers and bidders in an Internet auction are quite effective. The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Hamm ruled in favor of a plaintiff who had demanded from a car dealer to issue a new car purchased at auction on the Internet inexpensive. In the court’s opinion stated that the plaintiff could rely on a [...]

The biggest Internet poll in the world has ended. Actually, the “Planet Project” last only four days because of the high demand, the initiators but to an extension. A total of 1.3 million people participating from all over the world, and gave answers 43 million. The official results are available at Planet Project. The evaluation [...]

competitors of Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) have responded with sharp criticism on the wholesale flat rate of incumbents. “This is a sham offer,” said Juergen Gruetzner of fallow VATM Association in Cologne. For the competitors it is virtually impossible to meet the technical requirements specified by the telecom. America Online (AOL) (Frankfurt Stock [...]

Due to a series of spectacular DDoS attacks on the websites of U.S. companies like Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) or Ebay (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EJ1) must be the 16-year-old hacker, “Mafiaboy” from 5 March 2001 a court in Montreal responsible. As Justice representative announced on Wednesday the trial of the Canadians at least one [...]

3dfx has lowered its suggested retail prices in Germany for graphics cards. Voodoo 5 5500 AGP one should now be made cheaper by 150 marks to the end customer. The official price was now at 749 marks, now at 599 marks. In November, the price of radar smart shoppers a retail price of 650 marks [...]

Profits from Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) will fail in the first quarter of 2001 by five to six percent lower than previously thought. The software company has announced that yesterday. The earnings per share to fall to 46 to 47 cents. Analysts had previously expected 49 cents. Shares of Microsoft closed before the announcement [...]

Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) claims to be the opening of a processor plant in Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland, moving from the second half of 2001 to late 2002. The plant would have Pentium 4 chips to be produced. The “Fab 24″ should be switched to 300-mm wafers. Intel expects production costs in the amount [...]

The northern Turkish city Inegol has banned cell phones from schools and public offices. The mobile phones interfered in government offices often the computer systems and led to loss of data, Governor Ismail Aka said on Wednesday the Anatolia news agency. In addition, the Aka, cell phones have a negative impact on students. They sent [...]

Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) will be forgotten in the new year, the poorly received 2000: In the first quarter of 2001, the Group intends to start with three new PC processors. The 1.3 GHz Pentium 4 will be offered for sale with an estimated $ 409 so cheap, that PC manufacturers can introduce systems [...]

Oracle (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ORC) has exceeded the second quarter of fiscal analysts’ expectations. In the three-month period the company earned a profit of 623 million dollars or eleven cents per share – in the same period of last year there were still six cents per share. Analysts had expected this time of ten cents. [...]

America Online (AOL; Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) and Time Warner have received from the U.S. green light for the merger. The two companies have just signed a contract with the U.S. regulator Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signed. The agreement is as expected before, the new media giant that its cable network in the U.S. and [...]

The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) has rejected the criticism of their rivals at wholesale flatrate. The assessment that reached the telecom technical hurdles for competitors would be “nonsense,” said company spokesman Ulrich Lissek. Competing firms in the industry association VATM he was accused of having “no commercial flexibility.” With a lower demand, they [...]

The electronics company Samsung Electronics on the PalmSource 2000 Conference in Santa Clara, California, which reported in licensing the Palm OS. The operating system is in wireless, “smart” terminals are used. Specifically, Samsung will develop a new line of smartphones that are fully compatible with Palm OS should be. The first product is expected in [...]

at an auction of new wireless spectrum in the U.S. has given the companies involved after two rounds of $ 501.2 million for the licenses. According to the Federal Communications Commission rejected the Virzon Wireless Group, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, with a $ 131.1 million bid farthest from the window. The second [...]

Epox brings these days, the mainboard for Socket A EP-8KTA3 processors from AMD (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AMD) on the market, with the front side bus (FSB) is operated by 133 MHz. Like its predecessor, the EP-8KTA3 aims for the home user such as gaming freaks. Supports the ATX board with the dimensions 305 millimeters to [...]