A coalition of 28 international Internet-rights organizations have spoken out against a draft treaty, the European and U.S. police forces give more rights on the Internet would. Security tools in the network would be taboo here and companies would be forced to comprehensive log files to archive. The Global Internet Liberty Campaign, a coalition of [...]

For auction beginning of the five UMTS licenses for multimedia-enabled mobile operators in Italy, the wind and the Andala Consortium on Thursday, first submitted the highest bids. The auction was initially only modest progress: the four other bidders, namely the operator TIM, Omnitel and TV as well as the consortium Ipse 2000, contented themselves in [...]

An advertisement for the federal government for the Internet, which states, “children, kitchen and church are no longer the one and all for women”, has triggered outrage in the CSU. The church spokesman of the CSU in the Bundestag, Klaus Holetschek demanded that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) to withdraw the ad. Place to ensure that [...]

At an event the consulting firm Gartner Group in Lake Buena Vista, Forida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said. NET strategy of his company and the associated costs. Significant parts of speech, however, were for archrival Sun (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SSY) is reserved

After the Aimster already napster similar exchange of data with the buddies from AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) Instant Messenger allows, company spokesman Johnny Deep has announced a new version of the tool that allows the platform-independent communication via Messenger. The integration of MSN and Yahoo Messenger Tools are next on the to-do list. This [...]

After announcing the figures for the financial year 2000 in the U.S., Apple (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: APC) Germany hastened to give his strategy for the coming year is known. In Munich, the company presented the quarterly figures from his perspective dar. The European vice-president Pascal Cagni said he was “completely frustrated” that the noticeable growth [...]

more than three hours sat the head of Mobilcom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MOB), Gerhard Schmid, on Wednesday evening in a Hamburg hotel is surrounded by renowned legal experts and listened patiently for the verdict to the UMTS auction process. In the end, Schmid was “very encouraged”. He would support the action against the UMTS charges [...]

The largest German Softwarunternehmen, the SAP Walldorf (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SAP3) gave, for the third quarter of fiscal 2000 announced an increase in profit before tax compared to the same period of around 100 percent. He has now amounted to 208 million euros against 104 million euros a year ago. Thus, doubling the earnings per [...]

The German Linux developer Alexander Brickwedde Capircvd has written a Linux program for the Common ISDN API, Version 2. The software allows the operation of several controllers with different configurations, as well as the multi-device and system access. The extension length of the connector is also configured as the service provided, depending on the called [...]

Apple (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: APC) has not fulfilled the expectations of analysts screwed back. For 2001, the company warned against exaggerated expectations. After yesterday’s market close, Apple announced in the fourth quarter of fiscal year earnings of $ 108 million, or 30 cents per share to have retracted. Analysts had expected 31 cents on. Shares [...]

Stiftung Warentest has taken in the October issue of the services providers under the microscope. Evaluated price, technology and service were a total of 30 providers. Landed at number one services to Compuserve Office with the total score of 1.8. The parent company AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) reached the second rank with the predicate [...]

Italian UMTS license auction will be held on Thursday, likely with but after six in the meantime as fears start with only five participants. Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) as a minority shareholder in the consortium Blu operators to British Telecom, Autostrada, Mediaset and the Edizione Holding assured on Wednesday in Rome, they go from [...]

Strong nerves needed yesterday, the shareholders of AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL): The share of the online service broke into the first minutes of trading to close to 30 percent. Once so lost within minutes of several billion dollars in market value went to the paper recovered from its low of $ 37 and closed [...]

Dell has unveiled a new notebook for the German market. The Inspiron 4000 has a mobile Pentium III chip with 850 MHz in the case, as well as ATI’s Rage Mobility M3 with eight Mbytes of RAM. An optional built-in V.90 modem and a 10/100 Ethernet chip are available from 3Com. Striking at the Inspiron [...]

Currently there Kracht between Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) and the Düsseldorf call-by-call providers 01051st Last Friday urged the telecom rivals the much smaller because of the low-range “Teledump” off. The service is contrary to common contracts signed. 01 051 but refused to sign the cease and desist. Deutsche Telekom has now asked the [...]