online store Amazon.de (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AMZ) has been satisfied with this year’s Christmas sharpened. In the last 14 days before Christmas Eve was the spearhead of the “new economy” claims to be sent over a million books, CDs, DVDs and videos and software, video games and gift items. “This corresponds to a 2.5-fold improvement [...]

According to the “New York Times” negotiate the corporate elite of Nintendo and Sega (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SEG) for months about a takeover of the Dreamcast’s manufacturer. Sega spokesman denied the report now. According to the renowned chief of the newspaper Sega has long been looking for a buyer to be his ailing company. Among [...]

Shortly before Christmas the music file-sharing platform Napster has a new client software available. The version 2.0 beta 8 has as main novelty of an exclusion feature: Unwanted terms can be characterized by a decline and thus banished from the list. A user searches for some of the former British pop band “Fine Young Cannibals,” [...]

The British incumbent British Telecom (BT), after information of the newspaper “Times” is checked for alleged anti-competitive practices. A government commission was to determine whether the formerly state-owned enterprises to demand high fees for residential customers, the newspaper reported on Tuesday. In addition, the company’s services seem to have not opened up to outside competition. [...]

“Happy Festival” is easily said. But what if the new PC is not working correctly? If work because of an error not the gifts – and no one finds the error? Or do you just want to know which hardware component should be replaced to improve performance? Help is at complete crashes, failures of individual [...]

banking experts of the consulting firm Mercer Management Consulting have been studied in a three-month field test the service and the prices of 27 selected online banks. They opened accounts were made by bank transfers, setting up a standing order, requested traded equities and credit. The result: Overall, no bank was able to offer across [...]

After Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) has now the second industry giant announced drastic cost savings. Hewlett-Packard (HP; Frankfurt Stock Exchange: HWP) has encouraged its managers in a memo ZDNet present, wage increases and to refrain from the use of freelancers. In addition, employees should be encouraged to (unpaid) leave to take. Further cost reductions [...]

For the 27th And the 29th December will resume Aldi different CD-ROMs with their assortment. Aldi Nord is located on the first day after Christmas  the CD-ROM “image processing”, the CD-ROM “Music and Sound Studio” the CD-ROM “Homepage Studio” as well as the CD-ROM “trick Studio” 15.98 for each mark. Aldi offers at 29.12. the CD-ROM “Tax 2000″ [...]

Microsoft wants 2001 (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) prove that it can still set the standard: “NetDoc” the heist NET component to make Windows and Internet Explorer look old.. The project is so secret that no Microsoft employee should express themselves in public. So much has to get out ZDNet: When is Netdocs is a stand-alone [...]

Primus Online surpassed by its own account the expected annual turnover of 100 million €. End of November has been broken, according to managing director Karsten Niehus the limit of a million dollars daily turnover. Compared to the Christmas season of last year, the company’s sales have nearly quintupled. Among the best-selling products in the [...]

NGI Next Generation Internet is now offering a DSL flat rate for the price of 139 marks to 399 marks for residential customers and business customers. This is independent from this telephone connection, the customer will receive a separate telephone line connected and can relate his voice on any provider. The offer is initially limited [...]

Army will modernize its information systems and widespread change within the next few years on the basis of e-business platform mySAP.com. To this end, want the insurance company, and SAP (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SAP3) agree to work together to replace within the next few years, large parts of the current computerized system of the Army. [...]

Shares of Real Networks (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: RNW) has slumped yesterday as expected strong. The paper lost close of trading up 44 percent to 5.56 dollars. Meanwhile, even the stock just under four dollars was worth it. The company had lowered its profit expectations yesterday (told ZDNet). Due to declining advertising revenue, the surplus in [...]

The boss of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SSY), Scott McNealy, has prepared his employees in an internal memo to future savings. The current economic situation make tough measures needed, but remember to “weather the storm.” In the letter, McNealy leads to the “remarkable” sales of his company, and contrary to reports of bottlenecks [...]

3Com (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TCC), with its after market close on Thursday surpassed the revised figures published expectations of analysts. The loss for the second quarter of fiscal year $ 52.4 million, or 15 cents per share. Analysts had expected 20 cents. The turnover amounted to 789 million dollars. The company announced to spin off [...]