Archive for ‘2000’

Ericsson and Tivoli cooperate

Ericsson and Tivoli cooperate

Ericsson and Tivoli Systems signed a strategic partnership. The aim is to jointly develop management solutions for mobile devices. Ericsson will thereby integrate the management technology of IBM’s subsidiary in its next-generation mobile devices. Planned to distribute, for example via the device-management services and new services in stock trading or medical care on mobile devices [...]

Nvidia takes 3dfx

Nvidia takes 3dfx

The board of 3dfx graphics card manufacturer (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TDX) decided to dissolve the company and own the most business sectors of the competitor Nvidia (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: NVD) to sell. This can be the deal $ 70 million in cash and cost a million Nvidia shares, the acquisition comes after the closing prices [...]

Rage Against The Machine apologize

Rage Against The Machine apologize

The anti-corporate punk band “Rage Against the Machine” is worried about their reputation. The record company of the group was handed over last week a list of Napster users to the operators of the exchange services, which are accused of copyright infringement on the group titles. The fans were locked in response. Since “Rage” at [...]

Webshop: functionality more important than speed

Webshop: functionality more important than speed

only online store with user-friendly, intuitive navigation are attractive office space in the web. This is the result of a new study has presented the German-American market research institute Modalis Research Technologies. For the present study, the first comprehensive knowledge of the user experience on the Web, Modalis has examined 130 of the most trafficked [...]

Sales of Etoys collapses

Sales of Etoys collapses

Etoys (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: ETS) has announced on Friday after the market closed that sales will turn out in the third quarter of fiscal year is not as high as originally expected. Instead of 210 to 240 million dollars, the company now expects only 120 to 130 million dollars. The company also slipped deeper into [...]

Report: Deutsche Telekom wants to buy Tele Danmark

Report: Deutsche Telekom wants to buy Tele Danmark

The German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is a Danish newspaper report that before buying the competitor to Tele Danmark and Scandinavian before entering the market. Analysts saw the Bonn-based company best positioned for a takeover of the company’s Copenhagen, the conservative newspaper “Berlingske Tidende” reported on Monday. The U.S. phone company SBC, with 42 [...]

Siemens launches mobile Teddies

Siemens launches mobile Teddies

The electronics company Siemens (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SIE) has defended its plan to bring in the next year working teddy bear with built-in mobile unit for small children on the market. Under the “Project Leonie” developed equipment should be rented to parents who wanted to allow their children to radio contact, or teachers, the mobile [...]

Be brings MP3 hi-fi system

Be brings MP3 hi-fi system

Be software company, known for the same operating system ventures into new territory: ZDNet UK has been by industry insiders been informed that the company wants to bring in the coming year, a home stereo system for MP3 files on the market. The system is to hear the name and aura to play songs from [...]

Netscape 6 for Mac and Linux

Netscape 6 for Mac and Linux

Netscape has asked the Macintosh and Linux versions of the Netscape 6 browser German for download into the net. As already announced the release of the Windows version, are among the major innovations the ability to manage multiple mail accounts and use instant messaging directly from the program. Also new is a sidebar in the [...]

Scour is a charge

Scour is a charge

The new owner of the file-exchange services Scour, Span Communications Center wants to make the service from its relaunch in March payable. It said a company spokesman. “The world is changing and there are now no longer the same opportunities for the free download of content as before,” said Keith Halasy. “The rights holders do [...]

Bugtraq kicks after Microsoft and @ stake

Bugtraq kicks after Microsoft and @ stake

popular mailing list Bugtraq service is currently struggling with the practices of companies involved. After the Moderator of the list had been recently refused to take hints from Microsoft in his newsletter, he denied involvement now @ stake. Background of the dispute is the alleged declining benefit for the user. While Microsoft fürher both the [...]

Viag: Easy Money for the time being suspended

Viag: Easy Money for the time being suspended

offered by Viag Interkom a few weeks ago-service “Easy Money” is put on hold. According to the Munich-based company T-Mobile at the Regional Court of Hamburg has obtained an injunction against the prepaid model. At the rate customers will receive credit for each call three pennies per minute. Viag Interkom has appealed the preliminary injunction [...]

Setback in the fight against DeCSS

Setback in the fight against DeCSS

The efforts of the U.S. film industry, computer code, keep in order to circumvent the DVD encryption mechanism, from the Internet, have received a severe setback. The industry association in California had a lawsuit brought against 21 people who had published this piece of code. Now the Supreme Court ruled in California that the lower [...]

IT companies among the most successful companies in 2000

IT companies among the most successful companies in 2000

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF), and Cisco are among the most successful company analysts in 2000. The “Financial Times” as well as the accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers surveyed 720 directors and CEOs around the world and create parallel to 120, a ranking of the best fund managers and company CEOs leave. Although both groups of [...]

Cruel Notebooks

Cruel Notebooks

three manufacturers of laptops are using the mobile Savage / IX graphics accelerator (savage “cruel, savage”) informed of S3 Graphics in their notebooks. Sony plans to use the accelerator in the new XR-Series as well as in the known SR-series of Vaio family. In Europe only the PCG-SR11K will be available. NEC plans to use [...]