Archive for ‘2002’

Telecom: Trouble Again executive pay

Telecom: Trouble Again executive pay

New trouble for the salaries of the telecom-tip: How the “Handelsblatt” in its Thursday edition reported that criticize balance experts that the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE), the expected cost of the 2001 Stock Option Plan worth over a billion € not in its balance sheet. Possible, be it through a loophole in the [...]

Travel24.com: Daughter insolvent

Travel24.com: Daughter insolvent

The daughter has no money, the mother is unaffected – reads like a mandatory notification sent by the travel portal Travel24.com (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TVD) has now been published: The wholly owned subsidiary Aero World was due to illiquidity in the District Court of Duesseldorf an application placed on insolvency. “The Travel24.com AG and the [...]

Europeans get more telco-satellite into space

Europeans get more telco-satellite into space

The European launcher Ariane-4 has launched on Wednesday a further telecommunications satellite Intelsat 905 into orbit. As the operating company announced in Evry near Paris, the rocket launched on schedule in the morning from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. By the U.S. company Space Systems / Loral-built, 4.7-tonne satellite will provide altitude of 36,000 [...]

Sony: Wireless Notebook for 3000 €

Sony: Wireless Notebook for 3000 €

costs € 3000 the latest product from Sony (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SON1) Notebook Forge: The Vaio PCG-VX71P weighs two kilograms, is wireless-enabled and will allow you to work more than four hours per Acre. This is made possible by the mobile Pentium III chip from Intel, which lowers energy costs. The computer equipped with a [...]

XP Service Pack 1 is on 14 Come August

XP Service Pack 1 is on 14 Come August

few days ago, the first beta of Service Pack 1 was delivered to selected testers. From these sources said now that the official version on 14 Should go: August to the users of the new operating system from Microsoft (MSF Frankfurt Stock Exchange). The company from Redmond was called until recently, its beta testers to [...]

Telecom: for spirits bill calls to unknown ports

Telecom: for spirits bill calls to unknown ports

The negative news series breaks for the German Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) does not: According to a report by “Business Week” is based on a survey of the buying group Communitel out that call-by-call telephone calls at Rosa giants were billed incorrectly . This applies to at least 23 percent of call-by-call sales, which [...]

Minister moves away from Ron Sommer

Minister moves away from Ron Sommer

“only too understandable” – with these words, says the nonpartisan Federal Minister of Economics of the wrath of shareholders over the course of T-collapse of the former stock market darling. For the first time any Member of the Federal Government publicly detachment of Deutsche Telekom CEO Ron Sommer is no longer made. In an interview [...]

Network game for mobile phones unveiled

Network game for mobile phones unveiled

S.E.S.A. presented at the Internet World with “mChess” the first time a network-enabled chess game for mobile phones. The gamer can, according to the manufacturer for both players and mobile compete with opponents on the Internet. Platform serves as the chess server that connects the members of the largest internet chess community Chessclub.com. Regardless of [...]

Regulator sets out penalties for telecom

Regulator sets out penalties for telecom

The wind blows Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) stronger in the face: The Regulatory Authority has published new guidelines, which the incumbent is to provide leased lines to its competitors in the consumer more quickly available and threatened with hefty fines if those deadlines should not be kept. Pay per calendar day of delay, the [...]

Study: Online shoppers are bargain hunters

Study: Online shoppers are bargain hunters

In business there after a new study, more than anyplace purchase when shopping online. Meanwhile, used in Germany almost 60 percent of the population aged between 14 and 69 years of the Internet. According to the study funded by the Federal Economics Ministry, 30 percent of online shoppers before you buy in a store closer [...]

Robocup: Germany is vice World Champion

Robocup: Germany is vice World Champion

robot soccer team one of the computer science chair at the University of Dortmund has won the World Championship of the Federation of International Robot-Soccer Assosiation (FIRA) in Seoul, Korea, a surprising second place. For scarce victories in the main draw against Turkey, Australia and the Austrian team in Dortmund were stopped until the endgame [...]

KPNQwest customers wrap themselves in silence

KPNQwest customers wrap themselves in silence

After KPNQwest went bankrupt parent company, already, the step from the German subsidiary in the coming days is expected. KPNQwest has taken in recent years, some 25,000 miles of fiber optic cable through Europe and it is apparently taken. If this ring off because lack of money, would at Dell (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DLC) go, [...]

Of the computing machine for high-tech PC

Of the computing machine for high-tech PC

Even in ancient times, people dreamed of “living” machines. According to Homer, Hephaestus hovered, the god of the forge, an automatic servant before. Reported is an automatic water meter, the beginning of Gotenherrscher Theodoric gave 500 after Christ the King of Burgundy – presumably to impress him. Since then, more and more sophisticated machines ever [...]

Eco sharply criticized new surveillance law

Eco sharply criticized new surveillance law

as “economically unsustainable” for the IT and telecommunications sector, the eco-forum has called an amendment that has been brought by the Federal Council on Friday on the road. The regulation makes changes in telecommunications law; The primary goal of the politicians was to protect minors from sexual abuse. Eco (Electronic Commerce Forum) is the association [...]

Napster wants to apply for bankruptcy protection

Napster wants to apply for bankruptcy protection

The online music file-sharing platform Napster is expected to request later in the day for bankruptcy protection. Now confirmed the industry circles. According to the “Financial Times Germany”, standing before the bankruptcy Internet company wants to prevent complaints of record companies: BMG, EMI, Sony, Universal Music and Warner Music. The free-music exchange was closed in [...]