Manfred Fink Manfred Fink’s bugging expert and has specialized in defending against economic espionage. ZDNet questioned him about the conduct systematic wiretapping as Echelon, which the United States, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. This interview is part of an international news reports from ZDNet Germany, Great Britain, France and USA. ZDNet: Mr. Fink, since [...]

After the banks now want the savings to their customers to offer stock trading via the Internet. To this end, a central online service providers will be established to participate in the savings bank’s data center organizations. The city and county savings banks, which have their own websites now want to also establish a common [...]

Of this dream people with overflowing overheated hard drives and Jaz drives: 16 terabytes of disk space free for distribution to 1,500 GB of hard drive space on a server and a tape library with 14,500 gigabytes. So much has approved the Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft just the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. Cost point of [...]

Viag Interkom is now offering two new models preselection. 01 090 extra is aimed at power users, while 01 090 Basic offers the same rates as for a call-by-call, but with second billing. When extra connection fee model are not yet at a minimum turnover. However, a basic monthly fee is payable of 8.95 marks. [...]

30 U.S. senators have sent a letter to the U.S. telecommunications regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC) against the possible merger of Deutsche Telekom: Turning to the U.S. telecommunications provider Sprint (Frankfurt Stock Exchange DTE). The reason: The largest shareholder of Telekom is still the German Federal Government. The takeover of Sprint by Deutsche Telekom or [...]

Internet by Call of Otelo is now cheaper: the Mannesmann subsidiary has lowered the price for online minute to 3.3 cents. However, still a dial-up fee is equal to six cents. The dial-in number for the account is 01011 – 019 15 01, is the user name “o.tel.o” specify password must be entered under “online”. [...]

The Bavarian cabinet has decided yesterday in response to the so-called Green Card from the federal government for a Blue Card. Unlike the federal model, the Bavarian solution is not until August but immediately. In addition, persons from non-EU countries as long remain in Bavaria, as the term of their employment contracts with a Bavarian [...]

Erich Schmidt- Eenboom Erich Schmidt-Eenboom one of Germany’s leading experts on the intelligence and has published numerous books on the work of services. ZDNet spoke to him about the impact of the global Echelon interception system. This interview is the first part of an international news reports from ZDNet Germany, Great Britain, France and USA. [...]

The version 5.5 of Internet Explorer is shifting. In mid-April, Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) publishes the German beta version of the browser. The final version is on 14th according to information from Microsoft Germany September appear. Simultaneously with the 98-successor Windows ME to the German and English version 5.5 of the browser will be [...]

Every seventh listed on the Neuer Markt Internet companies will have to fight within the next 24 months with liquidity problems. This is the result of a study of the Consul Planters Pricewaterhouse Coopers. A study in the last weeks of 56 on the Neuer Markt-listed internet company revealed that Internet stocks are currently profitable [...]

The telecommunications company Mobilcom verge of starting their own financial institution. It reported the “Handelsblatt”. The Bank pursues primarily the goal of providing mobile customers with credit. Early 2001 to hold the bank as a public company work. According Mobilcom chief Gerhard Schmid you’re already at the Federal Supervisory Office for Banking made approaches. Schmid [...]

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is expected to perform in October, the first international cyber-election. The range includes five of the 19 chairmen of the central domain registry. The choice is not the last target, the influence of the Americans to curb the authority. Already at the first public meeting of ICANN [...]

From 1 August Addcom will offer a special “flat rate” at a price of 59 marks. However, surfing without a time limit is only on weekdays from 18 to nine clock and on weekends. In the remaining time to fall 3.88 cent per minute. The provider is taking applications from today, Tuesday, nine clock counter. [...]

Napster’s Advocate in the fight against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) changed his defense strategy. Now he tries to apply the same strategy as in the antitrust case against Microsoft. The RIAA is a monopolist who sets himself against the rival Napster by unfair means to defend: “It is obvious that the RIAA [...]

laser scientists at the Institute for Applied Physics in Jena have developed a method by which they want to make the traditional prepress superfluous. The process is called “computer to plate” and the way to allow the newspapers, magazines and advertising brochures from the layout-computer contact and high resolution directly on the Belichterplatte in the [...]