For the new version of its Aibo robotic puppy received 40,000 orders. Four weeks after the launch on 16 November means a smooth start for the new product. The 40,000 limit he was on 11 December has been exceeded, a Sony spokeswoman. Aibo / Photo: Sony The ERS-210, the second generation of the robot dog [...]

Microsoft has confirmed that the Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 has gone into mass production. The company’s firewall and caching software for transactions to be delivered in the first quarter of 2001. The product is an integral part of the. NET strategy of the Group. The expected price for the Standard Edition at [...]

Consumer Central North Rhine-Westphalia is now the buyer of the operating system of Microsoft Windows Me (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) cautioned that they may have faulty software was passed. So shall have been delivered without a backup with OEM versions of the included recovery CD. The Consumer advocates explain the faux pas like this: The [...]

Shares of Cisco (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CIS) has slumped in trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange by more than twelve percent to 36.50 dollars. Thus the paper marked a new two-year low. The Nasdaq 100 announced yesterday by seven percent to 2210 points. Shares of Cisco were recently in November into a tailspin, [...]

the award were New Top Level Domains (TLDs) by ICANN in November, not all of the participating companies successful with their proposals. Now the companies are trying behind eight of the 37 rejected proposals to bring their ideas back into play. One of the TLDs was rejected. “Biz”, which was proposed by Abacus. Although ICANN [...]

Consumer Central North Rhine-Westphalia had pointed buyer of computers with Windows operating systems in the OEM version that they can later claim back money, because the package came with no complete recovery CD with the OS (ZDNet) reported. This allegation is contrary to Microsoft decided now. “The buyers have clearly not entitled to a full [...]

by tender awarded by the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post 161 more frequencies for wireless local loop (WLL = Wireless Local Loop). 14 companies had submitted a total of 503 applicants for the advertised rates. It was mainly to supply areas in rural regions, but also to frequency assignments in major cities such as [...]

The software company Update.com (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: UP2) can not comply with its own sales targets. For the full year growth is therefore only ten percent, the core business of software licenses around 25 percent. Originally the company wanted to increase sales by 22 percent. Cause of the smaller increase in full-year loss was by [...]

Announcing the Beta 2 for Office 10 in Germany, the product manager at Microsoft |: shown (ticker “MSF”>) and Wolfgang Rychlak spokesman Thomas Bear of the package the news from their perspective. Special emphasis should be placed in this release on the convenience for the user, for working in teams and to the security of [...]

Hardly MP3.com to reject the complaints of the music industry, already threatens new hardship: Emusic has shown its competitors for infringement of various copyrights and made true for earlier forecasts of his boss: Emusic CEO Bob Kohn was in September during the proceedings instituted by the music industry proceedings against MP3.com explains. “It looks as [...]

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) claims to have delivered the first 100 beta versions of Whistler Embedded operating system. Whistler Embedded is a stripped down version of the Windows 2000 successor for network components like routers and set-top boxes or even Windows-based terminals. So far the software giant two embedded systems on sale: Windows NT [...]

The shares of Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) and Amazon (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AMZ) are in yesterday’s trading on the Nasdaq plummeted further. The paper gave the online retailer by over eight percent according to a new annual low of $ 18.25. Yahoo prices were down by 12.5 percent to $ 28. The Nasdaq 100 [...]

should write the mobile phone division of Ericsson in the second half of 2001, yet the red, the Swedish company may want to disconnect from this area. The report, published in Vienna, the “Business Journal”. CEO Kurt Hellström, but first wants to massively reduce costs for mobile phones. Thus, planned among other production sites in [...]

The British mobile phone giant Vodafone acquires 15 percent of the Japanese phone provider Japan Telecom. He’ll pay for 249 billion yen (4.8 billion dollars), the company announced on Wednesday in Tokyo. This would be the second largest investment by a foreign company in Japan after the agreement between Nissan and Renault. By buying Vodafone [...]

The manufacturer of anti-virus software, Trend Micro has now taken stock of the virus in 2000: As before, macro viruses spread most widely, but the tendency is more to the threat of mobile devices like cell phones and palmtops. Now the company is currently warns against “Christmas Virus” that plague disguised as a nice application, [...]