Germany AMD announced that it would be ready for the holiday shopping season well and sets a dig at rival Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) of the now struggling for months with supply shortages. From now on we offer together with its trading partners computer with 1 GHz Athlon processors in high volumes. The Athlons [...]

In France on Thursday for the first time a ruling to preserve the e-mail mystery was made. A Paris criminal court sentenced three university lecturers in fines 5000-10000 Francesco (1500 and 3000 dollars), because it is the e-mails of Kuwaiti students had read at his workplace. The student had sued the three lecturers from the [...]

Palm has announced an advertising campaign worth $ 100 million. This software is intended exclusively for the Palm handheld spotlight. In the future, would you make more money by selling programs for the Palm OS as the sales of handhelds themselves, the palm manager Satjiv Chahil in an announcement. “We are repositioning ourselves as a [...]

The weak euro starts on the sale of PCs in Germany and Europe auszuwirken. Market researcher Dataquest issued for the Germany-wide sales of PCs, servers and notebooks in the third quarter of this year sales growth compared with the same period of just 0.7 percent. This equates to approximately 1.6 million units sold. The lion’s [...]

Network Associates has confirmed that the latest version of McAfee Virus Scan Windows computers can bring to freeze during the boot process. The problem lies in an incompatibility of the latest virus definition of the enterprise with the version number 4.0.4102 and the two-year-old scanner software. From the error affected only the more chance the [...]

The director of the Linux Documentation Project, Paul Jones, the result of a study called “A Quantitative Profile of a Community of Open Source Developers’ informed about the most common open-source development. One result of the way: In Germany, most at developments around Linux, GNU and Co. The study is based on the demographics of [...]

Russian anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned of an alleged flaw in the Windows operating system. Programs in PIF format may prove to be a portal for virus attack. “After obtaining numerous reports of virus infections this type of program,” the Kaspersky Lab consider the transmission of malicious code on PIF files is possible. [...]

Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) expects to meet analysts’ expectations for the fourth quarter of fiscal year to be able to. The share of the processor manufacturer then rose by over four percent to 46.69 dollars. In the past six weeks, the paper had fallen after disappointing figures by more than 45 percent. Surprised investors [...]

Investments by venture capitalists in Internet companies have declined in the third quarter. According to a study by Venture One, the total deposits fell by six per cent, while in the new economy gave way to twelve percent. While risk-conscious investors put in the first quarter was $ 16.1 billion in Internet companies, there were [...]

How the Federal Statistical Office announced on Thursday in Wiesbaden, were imported from early 1996 until the middle of this year, 43 million mobile phones in the Federal Republic. It has been shown from year to year, a steady increase in the import figures. In 1996, only 1.8 million mobile phones imported to Germany, there [...]

The stock of U.S. telephone company Worldcom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: WWC) has lost half an hour on Wednesday in a fifth of their value after the company had withdrawn its earnings expectations for the last quarter of the current year and the year 2001. The share certificate issued and slid $ 4.75 to $ 19 [...]

A large part of Internet users in Germany will not pay, according to a Forsa poll for information or entertainment from the Internet – 31 percent would be willing, however. According to the poll published on Wednesday in part, rejecting 69 percent of respondents, however, fee-based information or entertainment. This poll is confirmed by the [...]

The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is planning to sell the South of England Cable provider Telewest € Bell to the British company. How the Telecom announced on Thursday in Bonn, but Telewest pays £ 200 million (661 million dollars or 338 million euros). EUR Bell provides telephone, Internet and data services to residential [...]

Lycos Europe plans to buy the largest French Internet community Multimania. € 222 million in stocks is the Web catalog, the deal value. Management Board and Supervisory Board of Multimania have already agreed, now must convince even the Lycos shareholders. Lycos reportedly agreed the portal with the Multi-Mania and Sofinnova Paribas shareholders and founders and [...]

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) has distanced itself from plans for notebooks with Transmeta chips. Originally, the Thinkpad 240 laptops will be equipped with the mentioned Crusoe processors. IBM in June had presented a prototype. The cancellation caught the new player in the processor market at an extremely inopportune moment: On 6 This month, the [...]