e-commerce will create in the opinion of analysts in the coming years, thousands of new jobs. To bring this sales model in momentum, the German economic policy actively and quickly to support Internet commerce. This is the result of a study of the German Institute for Economic Affairs. Was commissioned by the Center for Technology [...]

The head of the MIT Media Lab and controversial best-selling author Nicholas Negroponte has reported on the European IT Forum in Monte Carlo to speak again. His message this time: UMTS will not make it to market, companies that have recently been discovered in the previous auction in Germany and other EU states with licenses [...]

Oracle has surpassed its published figures yesterday after the market close the expectations of analysts The profit in the first quarter of the financial year ended 31 August ended, amounted to 17 cents per share. The market analysts had expected 13 cents on. In the same period the previous year’s profit had amounted to eight [...]

As yesterday was given known, has the memory patent company Rambus in August both in court in Mannheim as well as in Eastern U.S. District Court in Virginia filed suit against Infineon Technologies, Siemens shoot. The semiconductor companies have violated Rambus patents for SDRAM and DDR memory modules, both in Europe and the USA. The [...]

MP3.com has a song whose text from the code of the Linux DVD tools DeCSS exists, taken from the server. The artist Joseph Wecker had recorded the song in singer-songwriter-style music and it spread throughout the site. MP3.com relying on the precedent against the hacker magazine “2600.com” from last month. A court had banned 2600.org [...]

Aldi Medion suppliers and has increased again in fiscal year 1999/2000 revenues and profit: Revenues increased compared to the year 1998/99 by 55 percent of 1.6 billion marks on 2.473 billion marks. The earnings per share for the same period by over 60 percent, from 0.89 to 1.43 euros per share. Foreign sales were according [...]

Lucent and Packet Video have agreed to cooperate in the field of multimedia solutions for mobile phones of third generation. The two companies will develop software solutions for wireless media, bringing video to mobile phones so the next generation. At the same time increase the performance of the devices and the power consumption can be [...]

U.S. advertising agency of Apple (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: APC), TBWA / Chiat / Day has a number of specialist magazines in the United States faced a choice: Either the journals do not publish rumors and speculation about the company or the ad budget for them is deleted. Back in August, Apple had to have filed [...]

Rising oil prices have can shoot at the traffic Heizölbörse.de up. What began as a hobby, is now available in ten European countries. Time waits for a demand of around six million gallons of heating oil at a cheap supplier. “The site I programmed about a year ago and put online. By the middle of [...]

Compaq (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CPQ) and Nokia have announced their cooperation in the field of mobile Internet and Intranet solutions for corporate clients. The companies want the Nokia WAP Server software and bring together the range of Compaq Proliant servers based on Windows NT. The Global Engineering and Sales work will be done together. Corporate [...]

short messages to young people put the phone on for months and like a lot. But the German economy, this new communications form a closer look: According to calculations by the German telecommunications company Bluetel firms with the use of SMS messages can save up to 2.3 billion marks. Communication with field staff by text [...]

The chairman of Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF), Bill Gates has his confidence on a visit to the Indian capital, Delhi, said about the era that follows the PC. In his opinion, his company is through. “NET” strategy well prepared for the period in which the access is done primarily on the Internet from devices [...]

Speyernet The German company offers on their site about the games and athletes of the Olympic Games 2000, which are prepared specifically for the blind. The messages come from DPA and is updated every minute. Through the conscious abandonment of the site’s graphics load quickly and can optimally be read using speech output and Braille [...]

Large parts of the global open source community have to boycott the “Secure Digital Music Initiative Hacking Challenge” is called. In the competition should hackers crack the digital watermark on SDMI-encoded songs. Those who manage to get $ 10,000. The aim of the campaign is to make absolutely sure the copy protection method. The Linux [...]

The English version of MS Office 2001 for Macintosh is either on 11 or on 13 October come on the market. The product manager Irving Kwong announced by the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) at. He disagreed with the announcement of the Apple boss Steve Jobs on Apple’s mid-week (Frankfurt Stock [...]