Archive for ‘2000’

Telekom wants to increase influence on policy

Telekom wants to increase influence on policy

The former state-owned companies, Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is trying, according to the magazine “Stern”, increase the influence of the group at all political levels. Allegedly, directors and department heads were invited, among the more than 170,000 employees the company do to identify those who have “seats in parliaments or other political functions.” [...]

Pentium 4: First Demonstration in Europe

Pentium 4: First Demonstration in Europe

Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) has its upcoming high-level Pentium 4 processor first shown publicly in Europe. On the game show ECTS in London gave the new race car to both the strategy game “Black and White” as well as the flight simulator “Incoming” scale. According to the Intel manager Joachim Ærtebjerg could be best [...]

Sega Net Germany under construction

Sega Net Germany under construction

dial While console gamers in the U.S., starting Thursday in the Sega Net can order online to compete against each other, the German game fans have to wait a little. According to Sega, Germany is the power in Germany “under construction”. Parts are already available, but the infrastructure is not yet complete. In the U.S., [...]

Sun stops flat rate – only a duck

Sun stops flat rate – only a duck

announced this morning a Berlin news station that the Internet provider Versatel will cease its sun-flat. “This message is a hoax. We are now considering legal action against the perpetrators,” said the general manager of marketing and sales at Versatel, Anya Elis towards ZDNet. At a setting of the service would not have thought at [...]

AMD wants to better protect its patents

AMD wants to better protect its patents

AMD has recruited a manager from Motorola, which will in future take care of the protection of intellectual property of the processor manufacturer. Harry Wolin is the first “vice president of Intellectual Property” of the Corporation and shall take care primarily about the patents on flash memory and microprocessors. AMD rival Intel goes a long [...]

Callisa: Internet for 2.5 cent

Callisa: Internet for 2.5 cent

Callisa now offers access to the Internet by Call: Around the Clock, the Online-minute beats with a 2.5 cent impact. Fall according to the company neither reason nor dial-up fee. The dial-in via the number “01075 0192 666 370″, the username is “user”, password “access”. The Internet rate is offered with the support of Callino. [...]

Microsoft X-Box comes with a Pentium III with 733 MHz

Microsoft X-Box comes with a Pentium III with 733 MHz

Contrary to earlier announcements is Microsoft’s game console X-Box but not now with a 600 MHz Pentium III processor from Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) equip. A company spokesperson said on London’s ECTS exhibition games against ZDNet, we’ve struggled through the use of a 733 MHz Pentium III. With a 600-MHz version had been a [...]

01 051: Free calls to Ireland

01 051: Free calls to Ireland

The Düsseldorf phone company today has 01 051-minute rate for calls to Ireland lowered to 0 cents. The next cheapest provider for calls to the country code is 003 353 Super 24 (01 024) per cent to 11.1 minutes. Every day unlock the Düsseldorf a new country for 24 hours. The countries of Luxembourg, Sweden [...]

Instant Messenger are dangerous for companies

Instant Messenger are dangerous for companies

Giga Information Group warns against the use of instant messengers in companies. The main drawback from the perspective of the Giga analyst: The exchange of information about Messenger is not documented and thus are not archived. While e-mails are often screened out by critical concepts, Instant Messenger can not be controlled. Company secrets can freely [...]

NEFkom starts part-time “flat rate” for 29 Mark

NEFkom starts part-time “flat rate” for 29 Mark

From mid-September, the city carriers NEFkom one of the companies so-called “flat rate” for 29 marks per month. The flat rate applies on weekdays from 16 to six clock and on weekends or holidays. Incidentally, in the time the services cost 1.9 cent per minute, and B-channel. Prerequisite for the use of the offer is [...]

Endemann, “There will be no takeover”

Endemann, “There will be no takeover”

“There will be no transfer” – this sentence will end all speculation about man stop Internet company’s future. Recently, rumors about a takeover of the based in Neuss Endemann Internet AG. “Until now, the board of Internet company deliberately made no opinion on this point,” says a company release. After the message has been rumored [...]

Dangerous new virus generation

Dangerous new virus generation

Russian anti-virus experts from Kaspersky Lab are warning of a new generation of computer viruses that embed themselves via a “Stream Companion” method mentioned in the NTFS file system of Windows 2000. First representative of this new genre: the W2K.Stream virus. According to information from Kapersky W2K.Stream has been written in August of two Czech [...]

Bluetooth protocol with error

Bluetooth protocol with error

employees of Lucent have discovered a bug in the Bluetooth protocol. The technicians had managed to intercept the key of two Bluetooth devices during data transmission. The reason for this is an error in the log. In addition, the two units are clearly identified. This should be possible in extreme cases, to uncover the identity [...]

Microsoft employee fired because of stock options

Microsoft employee fired because of stock options

In a simple e-mail has been the Australian Microsoft employee Michael Canizales announced his dismissal. The reason: He wanted his company’s own shares to exercise (“Stock Options”). These are also expire with immediate effect, it said in the letter. The judge sentenced Russell Peterson now Microsoft for the compensation payment of nine million dollars in [...]

Samsung presents 24-inch TFT

Samsung presents 24-inch TFT

Samsung has a 21 – and 24-inch model presents two new LCD monitors. The larger screen can display in 16:10 format A3-format pages in full. The resolution is 1920 dpi to 1200, the screen displays 16.7 million colors dar.Der 21-inch model with a picture display in 4:3 format has a resolution of 1600 dpi to [...]