There’s were only seven: The mobile operator E-Plus has passed from the group of bidders for UMTS licenses in Germany. The Dutch parent company KPN has already passed a corresponding notification to the regulatory authority for telecommunications and postal services. However, E-Plus will not be withdrawing completely from the award of UMTS licenses. Rather, they [...]

In full-page ads in the “New York Times”, the “Los Angeles Times”, “USA Today” and the “Wall Street Journal” and the “Washington Post” yesterday turned around 70 musicians from the MP3-sharing software Napster. The “Artists Against Piracy” (ABC) include, but Aimee Mann, Alanis Morissette, Barenaked Ladies, Christina Aguilera and Faith Hill. The advertising campaign was [...]

rose yesterday from the mobile operator E-Plus from the ranks of bidders for a German UMTS license. Today he is back in there: in the form of a bidding consortium, called E-Plus Hutchison, consisting of the E-Plus parent KPN Mobile, NTT DoCoMo (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) and Hutchison Whampoa. E-Plus Hutchison (“Auditorium Investments”) previously appeared [...]

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) Chief Technologist Bill Gates is personally supervised the development community on this week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Orlando, Florida, on the new corporate strategy einschwören ‘Net. “. Should this fail, the Group is a debacle. After the unveiling of C # (pronounced: they Scharp) as the programming of [...]

Under the name io24 Dynagroup Information Technologies has launched a German portal that offers its registered users of Office features for free offers. The users can access an e-mail service, calendar, address book and document management. For each user, eight MB of free disk space available. But beware: “Currently, only the opening version is available [...]

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) has its successor Windows 98 Windows Me (short for “Windows Millennium Edition”) yesterday officially launched in Munich. “3000 beta testers in Germany alone have tested the operating system through its paces,” said Microsoft product manager Alfonso Stärk. The consumer OS is exactly in Germany and the USA on 14 September [...]

The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is continuing its international shopping spree along the lines of “look a lot, buy a little” away. After last week for the third time within 18 months, rumors of a takeover of Cable & Wireless made the rounds, will now have awakened the U.S. mobile operator Voicestream the [...]

Oracle’s first mobile computer, the New Internet Computer (NICC), has at its auction on Amazon brought more than 550 dollars – more than double its retail price. Perhaps it lay on the autographs, had the Oracle boss Larry Ellison personally attached to the ten copies. However, that while Oracle is hoping for a successful sale, [...]

Bill Gates continues his fundraising. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched jointly with the Republic of Botswana, Merck & Co., a new HIV initiative. The Microsoft co-founder wants to support the project over the next five years totaling $ 50 million. The “Botswana Comprehensive HIV / AIDS Partnership” to help improve AIDS care [...]

Tele2 wants to attract more new customers with free phone calls: who is until next Friday 14 July, logs under a 0800 number for call-by-call comes on Sunday 16 July, enjoy free long distance calls. According to the company is the free action (code 01013) for intra-German talks outside the City area to fixed lines. [...]

Buch.de After Ricardo has now the information in the last letter Platow rejected. The stock exchange specialist, had assumed the online auctioneer lack of liquidity. “This statement is wrong,” Ricardo can now be announced. According to the report for the third quarter of the fiscal year, the company have a budget of 55 million marks. [...]

1 & 1 offers many surfers who have booked at the same time an Internet professional model, a new tariff called “minutes & more” on. And pay an additional monthly lump sum of 9.90 marks per minute for surfing 1.9 penny to have. Normally, the minute costs 2.9 cents. The new fare is worth it [...]

The security firm Counterpane California is the first company to offer its customers compensation of up to $ 100 million, it should create a hacker by the drawn Counterpane firewall. The offer is backed by the British insurance company Lloyd’s of London. “This is not an option for home users but for companies like Yahoo [...]

The EU Commission plans to consult later this week on measures, such as formerly monopolistic telecommunications companies like the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) will also lose their past privileges. More specifically, the so-called “last mile”, which accounts for about Telekom still has a monopoly and for whose use they demanded money from the [...]

The UN agency World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) based in Geneva will step up the fight against so-called cybersquatters. These domains are reserved for later sale to owners of expensive brand names. But the United States not only commercial enterprises has in mind: Individuals and whole regions should have a right to a domain with [...]