New year, new economy: after 2001 was a tough time for all workers in the information and telecommunications industry, remains the hope for a recovery in the economy in 2002. At least, most market research firms make us courage in the coming year is to first recover the chip market, followed by the telecommunications industry [...]

The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) held its just attached to the end of previous annual Chaos Communication Congress, a light installation on the teacher’s house at Alexander Platz in Berlin. This will bring the capital city tonight for the annual “New Year’s Eve countdown greatest of all time”. In addition, a selection of “Flashing Lights-movies” [...]

The German Railways and the Vodafone fixed line subsidiary Arcor have settled their dispute over the telecommunications network of the train for good. As the state company announced on Friday in Berlin, with Arcor was initialed an agreement for the establishment of a joint subsidiary. Arcor DB Telematik to look after the telecom equipment, which [...]

To get the expected boom in SMS New Year’s Eve under control, increased the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-D1 on their capacity at short notice. Thus, the network can handle 100,000 per second of text messages sent by mobile phone, a company spokesman told the news magazine “Focus”. Especially “in hotspots such as the Brandenburg Gate,” [...]

The online auctioneer Ebay (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EBY) is waived on Thursday on the listing fees. Exempted from this rule, however, are listing an item in the “Ebay” gallery, special emphasis and inclusion in the Top Offers. Ebay is aimed at unhappy with the action from donee who want to get rid of the gifts [...]

Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) is taking over the online job portal Hotjobs came a step closer: The rival Wordlwide TMP, the parent company of Monster.com, has announced to make no further offers for Hotjobs. TMP had to respond since Monday 72 hours on the Yahoo offer. This amounted to 436 million dollars in shares [...]

Vobis offers to introduce the new currency, a notebook for under 1000 €. However, the product is not suitable for power users: The High Screen 13-C800 is currently available worldwide at a price 999 € in all Vobis stores and is powered by an Intel Celeron with 800 MHz. The display is a 13.3-inch TFT [...]

The U.S. company Liberty Media aims for its planned entry into the German cable television make no concessions to the Federal Cartel Office. An approval of the cable business, between Liberty and Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is not expected to stand at present, reports the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, referring to a new opinion of [...]

Who needs New Year’s Eve a train ticket, must have at least temporarily give up the Internet service of Deutsche Bahn AG: How is the group on Thursday in Frankfurt, announced the online booking falls through because of the conversion Bahn.de to the euro on New Year’s Eve all day flat. It will not work [...]

The search engine Google has released the search terms most frequently mentioned of the year. Accordingly, the surfers at the beginning of the third millennium, the most common concepts of “Nostradamus”, “CNN” and “World Trade Center” have entered. In the rankings followed the Sorcerer’s Apprentice “Harry Potter”, “Anthrax” and “windowx XP.” Among the top ten [...]

ZDNet wishes all readers a happy and relaxed Christmas. Who knows now that he wants to exchange the gifts under the Christmas tree, find numerous products in the Christmas special of ZDNet. From 27 December we will again provide you with the latest news.

Hewlett-Packard (HP; Frankfurt Stock Exchange: HWP) has requested the EU Competition Commission is a formally approved the merger with Compaq (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CPQ) respectively. “We expect a decision by the EU in four to six weeks,” said the U.S. group. “Then we also know whether further investigation waiting to happen.” There have reportedly already [...]

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) in the U.S. Court for the Western District of Washington filed suit against Lindows Linux start-up. The Redmond company considers the name of the open-source company only. The company, based in San Diego was only this year by former MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson has been launched. Lindows is working on [...]

“Four out of five dietary goals are.” This is the result of the first substantive analysis of the German Internet search engine hit lists, the students of the Faculty of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne conducted. From May to July 2001, the German search engines Abacho, Acoon, Fireball, Lycos and [...]

The ailing telecommunications giant Munich Telegate separates himself from further participation. Now the company has made its majority stake of 50.7 percent at the Munich Phonecom communication services to the former co-owner. On the purchase price was not preserved. With the withdrawal from the telemarketing company will continue its path of directory services provider focusing [...]