The designated successor of the CEOs of IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) Lou Gerstner and Sam Palmisano is one of the most outspoken proponents of Linux-alignment of the group. In an interview with ZDNet, he expressed now for the future of the company. Palmisano / Photo: IBM ZDNet: you are very convinced by Linux. How [...]

From next year, Microsoft sweeps (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF), the amount of discount for Windows ME, 95 and 98 The previously under the name “Select”, “open” and “Enterprise Agreement” overflowed programs can be set. Analysts evaluate the restrictions for large customers such as companies or distributors as a direct result of the profit warning, which [...]

Nearly two months after the launch of the new AMD chipset with Double Data Rate Support (DDR) are now close to Christmas, the first boards to market. ZDNet Techexpert Channel has the appropriate products and Gigabyte Iwill closer look. In manufacturing, the two producers of different ways: Gigabyte uses the GA7DX on the AMD chipset [...]

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) is currently building a supercomputer that will support the work after completion of the Human Genome Project, the decoding of the human gene structure. While the exact amino base structure has been determined, it is an enormous computational effort, the importance of individual base pairs to be determined. For example, [...]

The UK company Energis (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EGYS) is 75 percent of the Hamburg Activision Internet provider: accept (Frankfurt Stock Exchange IOI). The North German company announced that Energis plans to buy the majority stake from existing shareholders Distefora. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of 2001. Energis is the deal [...]

The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is still faced with problems, and increasingly in the establishment of T-DSL lines. The residue in the T-DSL-orders have now passed the quarter million mark clearly, a company spokesman said in Bonn on Monday. According to the information provided so far only succeeded Telekom to process a third [...]

late last week by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) presented multi-play music specification meets with widespread skepticism. “The new specification is expected to decrease quite a bit of headache for clients. However, I’m not sure if there ever was a headache,” said Gartner analyst PJ ZDNet McNealy compared. The logo will adorn multi-play CD [...]

A quarter of all Germans do not feel like the Internet. At the same time declared that part of the population, he did not know what the Web should be good. This is the result of a recent survey of emnid @ Emind, the online subsidiary of the market research institute TNS Emnid. The company [...]

After the break the Franco-German alliance in telecoms result of the attempted takeover of Telecom Italia by the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE), the France Télécom its stake in the German ex-monopolist sells billions of profit. Customer is the state-owned Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). Such as France Telecom announced on Tuesday in Paris, she [...]

Compaq (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CPQ) claims for itself the right to development, Ericsson (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ERC1) and Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) have assisted: Next spring, the plug-and-play USB port is intended for notebooks are “multi-port” on the market. It is mounted behind the monitor and future wireless standards are adapted, the three groups. [...]

QSC (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: QSC) has a partnership with Cable & Wireless Germany (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ‘CWS) is closed. The British company will determine, first in Hamburg and Munich offer products from QSC. Target customers are in addition to about 4,500 business customers, resellers and Internet Service Provider. Next year, wants to extend its offer [...]

The shares of AOL (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: AOL) have collapsed in yesterday’s trading at about 14 percent. The main reason for the slump in prices was a profit warning from Time Warner (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TWX). The net profit is expected to grow only at eleven instead of twelve to 13 percent previously expected. AOL [...]

Sweden has awarded its UMTS license at the weekend. For the development of infrastructure has set itself ambitious targets. Within three years, the residents of Sweden may use UMTS services. Surprisingly, the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS), a bid rejected by the incumbent Telia. The Swedish market leader went so empty-handed. Then the company’s [...]

fourth largest UK Internet service provider (ISP), Breathe.com is broke. According to British newspaper reports on Sunday, the company went into debt in the amount of 50 million pounds (about 160 million dollars) in bankruptcy. According to the newspapers is the largest internet bust in Britain. For PricewaterhouseCoopers was appointed liquidator. Is now looking for [...]

Mobilcom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MOB), offers in its ASP package now also the content management tool “CM 4 all” for use on the Web. It allows customers to their Web sites to manage cross-platform using the browser. They have to pay 46.30 dollars per month on Mobilcom. Rewarding business model is only for companies that [...]