Tomorrow Internet (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TOQ) plans, according to the “Financial Times Germany” a rigid austerity and layoffs “in a big way.” Allegedly would go up to 80 of 180 employees. However, the number was commented by an employee of the company used to be too high. There are partial dissolution agreements, but planned no [...]

For the New Year occur naturally many changes in power: It will be customers of the telephone companies now possible to limit their phone bill up. The Section 18 regulates the telecommunications Customer Protection Ordinance (TKV). The Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP) has today published its definitive interpretation of the said paragraph. Accordingly, [...]

The Serial ATA Working Group has introduced Serial ATA 1.0. The new specification will be the bandwidth of the current ATA 100-almost double standards. Drives can now use the main memory of 150 Mbytes / s communication. “Serial ATA helps the performance of today’s chips

music platform Napster has developed after assessment of the Lower Saxony state secret to a platform for the exchange of right-wing music on the Internet. A spokesman said the constitutional protection of the NDR, Napster would now all indexed and exchanged forbidden under penalty of title. Napster and its strategic partners, the Bertelsmann eCommerce Group [...]

Atom Films and Shockwave.com today announced its decision to close together. The companies intend to form the first global entertainment company, which provides entertainment content throughout the world in new ways of on-and off-line consumers and businesses. In the framework of all Supervisory Board members unanimously approved merger agreement Shockwave.com will acquire Atom Films through [...]

Creative Video Blaster Webcam has brought the increase to the market. It has a focusable lens with a new glass lens to ensure a resolution of up to 640 x 480 pixels. The camera costs 129 marks. The webcam has a USB port and can load different image formats on websites or sent via e-mail. [...]

The old year ends as it began: With a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. And there is evidence that the new year will start the same way. Like the Danish newspaper “Ingeniøren” reported last week in Denmark were activated 50 zombie servers to run an attack against the country’s networks. But the national Computer [...]

American schools are twice as likely as German schools are a software solutions, blocked by the specific pages. But in the U.S. very popular child protection fuses for the Internet called Cyber ​​Patrol, Surf Watch, CyberSitter, X-Stop, Puresight and Cyber ​​Snoop is now waste has become: The company Peacefire a program has published that the [...]

Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft Management: invited to “significantly reduce” the costs of operating (Frankfurt Stock Exchange MSF). That the “Wall Street Journal” reported in its electronic edition. In a seven-page memo, which was held last week to employees, Ballmer is quoted as saying: “We are all very keen to revive the cost-conscious culture, again for [...]

With special emphasis on handhelds, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) Basic released. XHTML is based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and will replace HTML as the lingua franca of the Internet. The Basic version is designed primarily for poor small memory devices such as PDAs. XHTML Basic is [...]

The AOL Instant Messenger attachment Aimster in the coming weeks, similar tools for communication tools from Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF): Publishing and Yahoo (YHO Frankfurt Stock Exchange). The first versions were announced in October, almost done. After the Aimster already Napster-like exchange of data with the buddies from AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) permits, [...]

The administrative court in Cologne has been the common practice of customer data is also collected on the sale of prepaid cell phones, declared unlawful. So far, the Telecommunications Act provides that hold that the network providers an electronically searchable customer list for intelligence and security agencies need. These can be interrogated without the knowledge [...]

spray out of money. The company is currently not in a position to the first tranche of shares in Lycos Europe: pay (Frankfurt Stock Exchange LCY). To this end, the company had engaged in the acquisition by Bertelsmann’s subsidiary in late October. At that time the two companies had agreed that Spray Ventures approximately eight [...]

The American Internet companies, Yahoo Take To Auction.com (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) on Friday accused of having pushed through a false report the price of the company by 75 percent. On 8 December, the shares of Take To Auction.com fallen from $ 3.25 to 87 cents. Previously had been to read Yahoo’s financial sector, that [...]

The stock of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SSY) yesterday declined by over six percent to a new annual low of $ 28.65. Both the analyst firm Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities, the paper had been “accumulate” to be downgraded. The financial experts expect that Sun will not meet in the coming two quarters [...]