The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the media, government minister Michael Naumann (SPD), Germany has launched a special kind of portal. The cultural portal of Germany will be expanded into a comprehensive information and service platform. “The digital culture is not to save the visit to the museum site, but to show the best [...]

AVM, the new version 3.01 of their software “Fritz!” a free download. All users of the Fritz software can download the update for free. In the new version of the programs included have been thoroughly revised. The component “Fritz! Fax” now dominates the color faxing. Once installed in the system are two printers available. While [...]

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) has acquired the U.S. manufacturer of standard business software Great Plains for $ 1.1 billion. The acquisition is via shares. According to Microsoft, is planning its own future business applications for small and medium enterprises to develop. “Great Plains may have extensive experience with business applications that Microsoft simply does [...]

Bertelsmann launches the campaign “All the net!” in Germany. In January, local staff should at all order forms for three different PC packages from Compaq (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CPQ) will be shipped, including Internet connection. In March of this year, Bertelsmann spokesman Marcus ZDNet Payer against the action had been announced. In ten other countries, [...]

If Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) 64-bit Itanium chip hits the market, there will be several versions of Linux, but for this, but not by Windows. Microsoft spokespersons (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) presented an Itanium version of its operating system until the second half of 2001 in view. Intel’s high-end chip will come but in [...]

Lucent (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: LUC) was shocked by a profits warning and stock market investors: instead of one cent per share amount of the loss of 25-30 cents per share. The sales decrease compared to the prior year quarter by more than 20 percent. Originally a sales decline of seven percent had been expected. Shares [...]

The British Vodafone Group buys Irish mobile operator Eircell via a stock swap worth 4.5 billion euros (8.8 billion dollars). The purchase price of € 250 million are included in debt. Eircell going from the former parent company, Eircom cut off completely and continue to operate under the name Eircell 2000, Vodafone said. The Eircom [...]

to the Christmas holidays, some Internet providers back to special offers. What at first glance may sound very convenient, but can be costly in the long run. ZDNet has taken a close look at the offers. Free as it goes into the net with Comundo. The Internet provider that uses the Mediaways network offers free [...]

a “disclosure action” has been replaced in Düsseldorf, Mannesmann-Vodafone logo to the logo. The Mannesmann bank of North Rhine-Westphalian town is lit up so red. The exchange of the company’s lettering was about a year after the British group launched its hostile takeover. At New Year Mannesmann will have completed its name change to Vodafone. [...]

Sony has described the introduction of Bertelsmann in Napster in an interview with the news magazine “Spiegel” unsuitable. The President of the Japanese electronics and music group, Nobuyuki Idei, has also rejected the invitation Bertelsmann to sell the company’s music catalog through Napster.

As part of a workshop held in Mainboard Fujitsu-Siemens’ plant in Augsburg, told the German-Japanese computer company that wants to start in spring 2001 with the production of DDR motherboards. The development of AMD’s board is almost complete according to the manufacturer. The Athlon-based board, according to company information on the VIA Apollo KT266, DDR [...]

Christmas, the celebration of love, offers a good opportunity to sign up again with friends and family. ZDNet has compared the most interesting free-phone deals for the holidays. Free calls to landlines in Western Europe, USA and Canada can lead in this year only via the Internet. The Web.de freemail provider offers all customers in [...]

In yesterday’s trading, the share of Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) first time in more than two years slipped below the mark of 33 €. In order for the takeover of the American mobile phone company Voicestream is back in the balance. The contract has been established that Voicestream, the arrangements may be renegotiated [...]

Tiscali (formerly Nikoma) has announced the acquisition of the provider Addcom. With a 100-hundred percent of share exchange Addcom shares in Tiscali shares the Italian company becomes the sole shareholder. Addcom end of October had 271 000 registered customers, of which 182 000 active customers. Through the acquisition of Tiscali Addcom is a far-reaching strategic [...]

Webkatalog Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) has the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, applied for an award. The judge will decide whether a sentence has a Parisian Court on November validity. The French judiciary had arranged in an order that the Internet giant daily 100,000 francs (30,000 dollars) fine to pay, if his [...]