Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) will miss the Windows XP users more entertainment with feeling and has announced “Plus Digital Media Edition for Windows XP,” a software pack containing the new tools for music, movies and photos intended. $ 19.94 for the Redmond company wants the “Plus Digital Media Edition” from 7 Release in January [...]

“Web services” were the theme of the year 2002 and will also specify in the coming months, the tone in information technology. All parties reaffirm that this is entirely justified, since Web services have the potential to dominate in the coming years the information technology revolution of business systems. Basically, to Web services for various [...]

At to 50,000 members of the Liverpool Football Club have been issued contactless smart cards to replace traditional paper tickets and season ticket booklets and facilitate and accelerate access to the stage and. The French semiconductor company Inside Contactless has developed the fully integrated smart card solution. The Smart Cards are football clubs to have [...]

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) and Nokia (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: NOA3) will jointly develop security solutions for mobile data networks. The start of such cooperation, the two companies announced today. IBM Global Services integrates it as part of the agreement, the mobile VPN (Virtual Private Network) security solution from Nokia in their own services. The [...]

Hama has introduced the “Drive CF Mouse” is a USB mouse with an integrated CF card reader. The optical 2-button mouse with scroll function runs only under Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP and supports USB 1.1. The device will cost around 60 € and operate without external power source. For more details call not the manufacturer. In May, [...]

is now the German Railways also jumped on the train and offers a wireless network for its customers. The timetable change on 15 December’s offering is “rail & mail” started. For now, the wireless surfing is only possible in the DB Lounges in Cologne’s main station in Frankfurt airport and main railway station in Frankfurt. [...]

The virtual Santa Claus is too lazy to write – to the results of a sample of Mummert Consulting. Therefore answer the most Santas electronic shopping list of pre-series of e-mails. 14 of 20 Christmas on the Internet sent representatives impersonal standard replies back with pre-Christmas clichés. Only a minority of the bearded on the [...]

Filemaker has released an update for FileMaker Pro 6.0v4 available. The English version is available for download. According to the manufacturer’s general changes were made, such as improved XML support in http requests and access to XML and XLS files from UFS partitions. On Mac OS X should have been eliminated problems that could occur [...]

The crisis-stricken computer and technology industry draws back and looks courage cautiously optimistic for the coming year. Good 54 percent of companies expect rising sales in 2003, approximately 28 percent are at least of a stable business, as stated in the current industry barometer of the industry association Bitkom. More than 17 percent of the [...]

The German branch of Texas Instruments (TI; Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TII) has revised its sales forecasts for the current year significantly downwards. In a mandatory release said the group, only to be expected with revenues of € 8.2 million – that’s 1.4 million less than expected. In the previous year was even a turnover of [...]

IBM (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: IBM) has clarified that it will sell continue to support the operating system OS / 2 and. Particular group was so contrary to recent rumors about a withdrawal of support. Basis for the supposition that the much-praised but little-used system, will maneuver sidelined delivered, a house note. These reports on the [...]

digicam manufacturers Jaytech In advance of the CeBIT 2003, two new digital cameras with models i405 and i630 Jay Cam presented. While the i405 will come with Jaycam December he reportedly with four megapixels on the market, the model will offer six-megapixel i630 in March. It can be assumed however that the values ​​of the

Yahoo (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: YHO) are still in time for Christmas, a study on shopping behavior of its users for the best. Up to 200 € the Yahoo users want to spend, according to a user analysis of the site for Christmas shopping on the Internet. The bad news: The main onslaught was already in [...]

Scout24 group claims to have done in the current quarter to break even. As the company announced today stand in the fourth quarter, the cash break-even into the house. Since its inception three years ago we have been able to increase sales up to around 65 million euros in 2002.The unlisted company will in future [...]

COMMENT – credit where credit is due. Web services are a real innovation, the first one from Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF). Usually the creativity of the Gates Company to other companies for ideas to rebuild itself and its own marketing. Thus MS-DOS (known initially as quick and dirty operating system QDOS) in the core, [...]