Archive for ‘2000’

RTL launches internet by call

RTL launches internet by call

The television station RTL offers under the name RTL Net Internet-by-call. In the period from Monday to Friday 18 to 9 clock and on weekends and national holidays fall to 2.2 cent per minute, otherwise 3.3 cents. The clocking of the minute. The settlement is by Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) over which represents [...]

New copy protection for MP3s

New copy protection for MP3s

Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL), IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM), Matsushita Electric and Toshiba have teamed up in the “4C Group” to develop a common standard to prevent the copying of music files. The “Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM),” said technology should be integrated from coming into the summer or Zip drives and flash [...]

Symantec: We’re running’s great!

Symantec: We’re running’s great!

After the main rival Network Associates after the submission of devastating figures on the stock markets into a nosedive has stated, was forced Symantec CEO John Thompson to some clarifying words: “The problems of an individual company may not be meant for the whole industry” he said. “The safety aspect of the Internet has a [...]

Company pupils saved thanks to the Internet

Company pupils saved thanks to the Internet

As part of a two-week internship, a student has maintained a British printing company by changing its selling system to the Internet before the bankruptcy. The British media reported, citing the deputy chairman of Martin Mulligan. The 17-year-old Adam Hughes had replaced the previous marketing strategy via the telephone and direct mail through an attractive [...]

Reinforce the fight against tax fraud on the Internet

Reinforce the fight against tax fraud on the Internet

The German tax authorities will, according to the “Handelsblatt” step up the fight against tax fraud in online transactions. The newspaper reported that investigators are currently developing a digital investigation process, through which they want to get faster on the net tax evaders on the ropes. Given the ever-growing market for e-commerce, the investigators had [...]

Latest stock market victim: Network Associates

Latest stock market victim: Network Associates

Network Associates announced late last week that they would not in this quarter of the targeted profit can reach out and think this is why the management restructure. Immediately, the paper of virus experts went to the descent. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., will identify according to the latest projections for the [...]

Internet consultant runs amok: seven dead

Internet consultant runs amok: seven dead

not the general situation of the “new economy” but private tax debt have prompted an employee of the American shopping solution provider Edgewater Technology, based in Massachusetts on a killing spree. Armed with an assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol 42-year-old Michael McDermott walked into the office of his employer yesterday, killing seven of [...]

Gunman pleads “not guilty”

Gunman pleads “not guilty”

The software developer Michael McDermott, 42, who yesterday shot dead seven of his employees at Edgewater Technology, argued in court “not guilty”. McDermott had entered heavily armed after an argument with his supervisor about one approved by the accounting wage garnishment for tax debts of the building. He shot down the man at the desk [...]

Chips 2001: The strategies of Intel and AMD

Chips 2001: The strategies of Intel and AMD

The year 2000 had processors Technically in itself: At beginning of the year provided the market leader Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) and AMD (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AMD) is a head to head race for first-GHz chip, the end to break both counterparties by a disastrous fourth quarter with a weak PC market significantly one. [...]

Recharging of prepaid cards by SMS

Recharging of prepaid cards by SMS

The information provider Verivox Heidelberg has launched a bid to recharge Prepeid cards via SMS. At the service, all users who have previously registered online, access. After that the customer receives a SMS to the portal must PREPAID 0178 or 0178 7737243, send Verivox returned promptly return the cash code, with which the customer can [...]

Hacker convention in Berlin started

Hacker convention in Berlin started

Since Wednesday morning, the 17 runs Chaos Communication Congress in the House on Köllnischen Park in Berlin Mitte. The congress of the Chaos Computer Club, will also focus this year on a variety of topics related to information technology, computer security, internet, cryptography and the “critical-creative” discourse. Last year some 1,400 activists had traveled scene. [...]

Yahoo also satisfied with Christmas sales

Yahoo also satisfied with Christmas sales

Like Amazon (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AMZ) looks Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) conciliatory back on the holiday shopping season. Despite all predictions to have it fulfilled all expectations, over the past year has been the turnover doubled, Yahoo. Particularly striking was that the orders outside the U.S. have increased sixfold from 1999. Actual numbers of [...]

NCI has applied for insolvency

NCI has applied for insolvency

How “teltarif.de” reports lies with the district court of Hamburg received a request to open insolvency proceedings against NGI Next Generation Internet. On Friday the company had announced a new flat rate offer, the range should be initially restricted to Hamburg. The Internet provider had offered to early October, a nationwide flat rate, but they [...]

Layoffs in Silicon Valley

Layoffs in Silicon Valley

the U.S. Internet industry, the number of dismissals in the second half of 2000 has increased significantly. From July to December 36 177 positions were deleted, which was an increase of 600 percent compared to the first half of 2000, the recruitment agency Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Wednesday in New York. Alone in the [...]

Job sites on the Internet are much visited

Job sites on the Internet are much visited

A study of the news magazine “Stern” shows that online job boards have been used by 4.71 million people