Shortly before year-end drives a virus on the Internet to mischief, which was initially viewed as a minor threat. The center reported by McAfee Avert e-mail worm “W32/Yaha.k” since 21 is already December. Due to increasing presence McAfee has now, however, classified the worm as “medium” threat. The 34.304 bytes large file clears itself as [...]

Not only state father raised taxes in January, but the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) uses powerful deep into the pockets of the customer. Customers who decide in January for the broadband T-DSL connection must therefore pay a premium of 25 € “one-off price for provision”. Thus, instead of paying 99.95 euros to 74.95 [...]

The good news: After two years of stagnation, analysts are forecasting for 2003 of the world again by a few percentage points increase in IT spending, reports the “Financial Times Germany”. The bad news: The recovery in all areas depends more than in previous years of world politics. Only when the economy stabilizes and there [...]

DVD players are all the rage this year. They are used in various audio and video products built to make this product even more attractive. “DVD players are everywhere,” concluded the high-tech market research firm In-Stat/MDR is in his expensive $ 2995 market report. This year, the players in TVs, set-top boxes, video recorders and [...]

Wireless LAN fans got a powerful opponent: The Pentagon wants to keep the frequency spectrum for small wireless networks because wireless networks can be according to the U.S. Department of Defense as a threat to military radar, reported the news magazine “Der Spiegel”. Wi-Fi access points currently sprouting up everywhere. McDonald’s to Marriott Hotelette who [...]

the network specialist D-Link for January 2003 announced new wireless products. The devices should be able to transmit both the conventional 2.4 GHz frequency band and in the five GHz range. For notebook users to the appropriate wireless card with the 209-euro Airpro DWL-AB650 come on the market. Also for D-Link delivers desktop claims to [...]

The Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP) wanted a permit application fee of Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE), 31 October followed only partially. The Telecom may, according to the decision today, the monthly fees for analog phone lines from 1 February increase, but only by 33 cents. The Telekom had applied for an [...]

User get the MDA from T-Mobile in these days of post-Bonn-based group: In the envelope, but do not put a Christmas card, but a vile male shoe. The company traded from all owners of the T-Mobile MDA for safety reasons this shoe for the charger. In the particular case was “not ruled out that under [...]

Sharp will sell notebook computers and flat screens from 2003, which should be capable of displaying three-dimensional images. Steps should users see high-resolution 3D images or 3D

An error in the cross-site scripting (XSS) brings the Cisco Web site (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: CIS) and the user at risk, it says on the Oline Securiteam.com Security Center. Experts had the bug in the XSS-element of the site discovered. “The bug could allow an attacker to provide the visitor a Cisco website feign that [...]

Paid content is becoming more accepted – the proposal is now also reflected in the Geschäftszahlren of e-payment specialist Telecash. Compared to last year there had been a “significant boost”, the Stuttgart-based company. Only the transactions through the payment system “Click & Pay easy”, that three out of four Internet-payments of Telecash claims to be, [...]

Who has made this year the words “Casino”, “Shakira” and “Lord of the Rings” on its Web site that was the trend: According to Altavista include these terms to the top search words of the German branch . Since August, would terms like “online casino”, “Mickey” or “Club Casino” are the very front, so the [...]

In the fight against terrorism, U.S. intelligence put the infrastructure software of Autonomy. The Automatic technology will automatically receive information from numerous data sources, such as collect text, images and sound recordings and analyze them. These data are categorized according to the manufacturer and classified employees, and proactive attention to relevant information, says Autonomy way [...]

The security package Norton Internet Security Professional Edition 2003 is available immediately verfügbart. Symantec (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SYM) is required for the tool commercially € 99.95, the upgrade can be had for 59.95 euros. The software is aimed at the SOHO segment. New features are, according to the manufacturer an automatic spam filter and virus [...]

Microsoft will launch its CRM software (Customer Relationship Management), contrary to earlier announcements this year but no longer on the market. Version 1.0 will now see the light in early 2003 the hard business world, said Holly Holt, Microsoft’s manager for MSCRM. As recently as September, the international version should be released. Originally, in June [...]