A day after rival Super24 has now lowered the rates again 01 051 for international calls. In the future, you pay 16 cent for Australia, Hong Kong and Indonesia 68 17 penny penny per minute. The other new tariffs: Lebanon 91 Pfennig, 71 Pfennig Belarus and Armenia, 94 cents. Is billed by the minute. Contact: [...]

The G8 have agreed at their summit meeting to establish a rapid reaction force, the so-called “DOT Force”. This institution has the task to take care of the spread of information technologies in developing countries. The members of the eight leading industrial nations to reduce by the division of the world into nations and countries [...]

The operators of the “free” flat rate, which is scheduled to begin in September, have admitted problems with its database. In an email to all users who are up to 19 July have logged in to ask you to register again. In the declaration, the provider shows flexibility: On the one hand it says that [...]

Bremerhaven computer science professor Edgar A man has with his employees theWAP uses state of the investigated and tested many WAP pages (WAP = Wireless Application Protocol). The resulting study bears the descriptive title: “WAP-flop. The quality of content on the WAP site has been analyzed in several respects. In the center was the question [...]

members of both parties have introduced in Congress a bill that will complicate the automatic e-mail monitoring of employees. “We would never allow that employers open letters to their employees to read and then forward,” said Senator Charles Schumer, who represents the District of New York. “The same is with the e-mails.” The law does [...]

The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) acquired for $ 50.7 billion, the American telecommunications company Voicestream. Agreed by the supervisory boards of both companies last Sunday, said the telecom. Voicestream, according to the Bonn-based company is the only U.S. mobile operator that has a nationwide GSM network. Measured by the number of majority shareholdings [...]

Four months after the first publication of a virtual history of the American author Stephen King has now completed the first part of a novel to paid download into the net. Users have the choice to pay before or after downloading a dollar for one chapter of “The Plant”. You can pay by credit card, [...]

Toshiba Europe has expanded its Satellite notebook series to two cheap versions. The silver-blue Mobile Satellite comes with a 600 MHz Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) Mobile Celeron processor with 128 KB Level 2 cache, a 12.1-inch TFT color display, a six-GB hard drive, a built-in floppy drive and a for integrated CD-ROM drive (24x), [...]

T-ISDN Active is now inactive: The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) will stop the end of July, the pilot project übertragunsschwachen a flat rate. About the D-channel maximum 9.6 were transferred per second, the extra-cost service to the users of ten marks per month. The participants of the pilot will receive a credit of [...]

AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) has recorded sales of 1.9 billion dollars and a profit of $ 334 million in the fourth quarter analysts’ expectations. These were assumed to earnings per share of 11 cents, now it has become 13 cents. The share of the online service it became apparent, however, unaffected: they traded unchanged [...]

The new market has been the Last Friday the 300th Companies. Since the beginning of the year were, according to the German Stock Exchange listed 99 new companies in the growth segment. Or about 50 percent more than in the corresponding period last year (63 listings) and more than twice as many newcomers as in [...]

Four weeks after the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) Datenübertragunstechnik GPRS in the T-D1 network has introduced presents, now Motorola is a mobile phone for the new standard. With the Timeport P7398i, the user can receive calls according to the company, even if he just surfing via WAP. Can GPRS, costs around 850 Mark: [...]

The newly founded cultural Be content portal has announced prizes worth a total of 120,000 marks. Developer of “smart sites” receive prize money 3000-50000 Mark, when their works are considered by a jury for its artistic value. Participants can either edit the content of Be suggested topics such as Venice, or Homer Stone Age, as [...]

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) wants to spend more than $ 200 million in Europe for the establishment of so-called Linux Center. In the short term for this, some 600 Linux consultants, hardware and software specialists and service experts will be set. These are corporate customers migrating to Linux to help. The Linux Center to [...]

Consumers Organization-injured-in-Internet (VOGI; eV in formation) will make Ebay legs. According to the organization had the Internet auctioneer, last Sunday, 16th July, a software changeover undertaken. As a consequence, worked for hours after presentation of VOGI many search lists, no more, forcing nearly 30,000 auctions do without bidding. The association estimates the damage at 500,000 [...]