Elsa (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ELS) and has increased in the first three quarters of fiscal year sales by 73 percent to 258 million euros. The net profit is 3.2 million euros – in the same period last year, the company posted a loss of even two million euros. The export share of sales has risen [...]

are two of the key topics at the next CeBIT (22 to 28 March 2001) “Banking and Savings Technology” and its storage media. After Internet banking has become the de facto standard, the credit institution shall now focus on mobile banking. Practical solutions for account management via WAP will be an issue. The organizers have [...]

Only minus strong, then strong plus: That’s the balance on the Neuer Markt for Thursday that will go down as one of the most volatile trading days in the history of the three-year-old course barometer. The first lost Nemax 50 points and was up to 3022 by almost five percent in the red. His older [...]

The head of the Bonn Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP), Klaus-Dieter Scheurle is his post for information on the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” at the end give up and go into business. This will give Scheurle expected on Friday announced that the newspaper reported on Thursday evening in advance without giving sources. The long-standing member [...]

The Debian Project will follow the Gnome Foundation. The Advisory Board is Debian alongside companies such as Compaq (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CPQ), the Free Software Foundation, Hewlett-Packard (HP; Frankfurt Stock Exchange: HWP): Hat, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems (Frankfurt Stock Exchange, IBM (IBM Frankfurt Stock Exchange): SSY), Turbolinux and VA Linux (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: VLX). The [...]

Intel’s upcoming 64-bit chip Itanium goes into the first phase of its market entry: about 20 buyers of the chips have first “pilot systems” with the former Merced mentioned processor manufactured and sold to several major customers such as the European nuclear research center CERN in Geneva, the company reported. According to the Intel manager [...]

Napster wants to return the measures announced by Emusic scan the file sharers with a side of his observation of the competitors. If Emusic ransacked the music holdings of Napster users, the company should be looked at closely to the finger, so Napster boss Hank Barry. The wrangling of the two music services goes up [...]

Yesterday, representatives from 17 European countries at the Diplomatic Conference to Revise the European Patent Convention (EPO) in Munich in the European Patent Office agreed to approve no patents on software. For protection programs have only Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland expressed. However, the EU Commission by 15 December consult an expert report, to knock off [...]

Hewlett-Packard (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: HWP) has reported how the Gema as representatives of the central office for private copying rights (ZPÜ) on a charge of twelve dollars per sold CD-burner agreed. In addition, Mark will be due retroactively 3.60 plus VAT for each of the devices were sold since February 1998. Now HP is increasing [...]

The Vice President and head of marketing at Apple (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: APC), Steve Wilhite, has left the company. An Apple spokesperson confirmed the departure but Wilhite, but said no further details of the process. Wilhite was from Apple once as “the person who is solely responsible for the protection and promotion of the brand [...]

According to Gartner, the consulting firm will have registered all of the world’s leading 2,000 companies by the end of 2001 at least 300 names in connection with the new versions, or one of the 150 existing top-level domains. “Until now believed the company when they” dotcom “had registered Advertisement das. But that’s not true,” [...]

Mediantis (formerly Buecher.de; (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: BDE) has in the first three quarters of fiscal revenue but can triple to 25.5 million mark, but still wrote red numbers: The result to 30 September 2000 is minus 11.8 million. The negative trend, the company tried to counter by reducing important asset. It pushes Mediantis distribution costs [...]

The Director of the International Research Centre for Electronic Commerce at the De Montfort University, Paul Foley, has presented the British government published a study entitled “The Use and Misuse of Internet statistics.” It says the majority of forecasts for the Internet and related e-commerce were largely exaggerated and therefore wrong. The reports of the [...]

Yesterday have approved the finance ministers of the 16 German federal states by the federal tax exemption request to use the Internet in the workplace. This applies retroactively to the first January this year. Internet use at work should be designed by the Federal Government from 1 January 2001 will be taxed. The project stems [...]

The Vodafone-Mannesmann Mobilfunk daughter leaves the infrastructure for its UMTS network in Germany by Siemens (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SIE) and Ericsson (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ERC1) construct. As the two network-equipment supplier announced on Wednesday, should be in production next year, first components will be supplied. The contracts run initially until the end of 2002 and [...]