According to Forrester Research can expect the European retail industry for this year’s online holiday shopping sales of 2.6 billion euros. The 2000 holiday shopping season corresponds roughly to the total European online retail sales in 1999 and about 30 percent of total online sales in 2000. The sales forecasts for the U.S. market are [...]

The British government plans to tighten the laws regarding the export of weapons technology on the Internet. Parliament will soon be a relevant draft law be submitted to Prime Minister Tony Blair was known in his government declaration, which was read on Wednesday by Queen Elizabeth in her traditional speech from the throne. The legislative [...]

The auction of UMTS licenses in Switzerland has the state after four rounds of bidding on Wednesday, as expected produced only small returns. As the Federal Communications Commission (Com Com) announced that the four licenses for building Internet-and multimedia-enabled mobile phone networks for a total of 205 million Swiss francs (265.6 million dollars) were awarded. [...]

Two well-known Internet portals for women, Oxygen Media and women.com, are facing financial angle. Women.com As reported on Wednesday in San Francisco, have 85 employees and go to a quarter of the workforce. The only way to profitability in the coming year could be achieved. The cable television and Internet company Oxygen Media, which operates [...]

Lucent Technologies has announced that the outsourced Microelectronics Group, the company will henceforth operate under the name of Agere Systems. The Group consists of two main divisions integrated circuits and optoelectronic components. Lucent had announced its intention to split off the Microelectronics Group in the summer of this year. The group is planning an initial [...]

Ericsson and Nokia were already affected by the free-phone-hoax now, Siemens (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SIE) to it. Therefore, the Group was now obliged to publish an opinion and respond to the numerous messages that the company had received.

German companies are increasingly relying on electronic commerce, its potential use but still not long. The findings of a survey produced from 22,000 firms, which presented the President of German Industry and Commerce (DIHT), Hans Peter Stihl, on Wednesday in Berlin. For the German economy was the topic of e-business is no “terra incognita” more [...]

discounter Lidl offers from next Wednesday 13 December, again on a PC: The Compaq (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CPQ) Presario with a fast 1.1 GHz Athlon processor, equipped with a 256 MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive. Also featuring: A DVD drive with twelve times the speed, and a CD-RW drive from Philips, the [...]

A study by the Meta Group, has drawn an amazing picture of the work in the IT industry: How the pros do work daily for a very long span, but are not productive. For the study, 6,000 firms were surveyed in 28 nations. It also is enormous pressure on employees was clear: Although the projects [...]

is the largest interactive poll of its kind in the last round: Until Thursday, internet users as part of Planet Project opinions, views and wishes to exchange and compare directly with each other. Since the start of the survey on 15 November, some 1.3 million people used the opportunity of all the continents – the [...]

The Nasdaq Composite Index yesterday jumped by more than ten per cent upwards. He closed with a gain of more than 275 points at 2889 points. Besides the upcoming decision on the next U.S. president gave a speech at stockbrokers from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as the reason for the price jump. He [...]

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) has secretly tried, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to a rejection of the merger of AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) and Time Warner to move. It reported that “Wall Street Journal.” The FTC had ordered as a condition for approval of the merger, an opening of [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) in London has unveiled a project to facilitate the developing world via Internet access to the latest medical research. Where the five-year joint project of WHO, private foundations and Internet providers will participate initially Armenia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Mongolia, Uganda, Tanzania and Uzbekistan, as the organization announced on Tuesday in [...]

Aldi Nord continues his pre-Christmas PC Actions: Starting this Wednesday, 13 December, there are at discount stores including a TV tuner card for the PC, a CD burner and a HP PC graphics tablet. The only new offering is the TV card of Lifetec (= Medion) for 99 marks. It has an S-video input, RCA [...]

Altavista is on 10 December its free Internet access in the USA. This is justified by the fiscal responsibility of the ISP Partners 1st UP. Representatives of Altavista did not relate to the message status. 1st UP, said the market nervous and bad mood for the ad-funded deals have led to the step. At the [...]