Archive for ‘2002’

34 000 I-mode users in Europe

34 000 I-mode users in Europe

E-Plus parent KPN has won in Germany and the Netherlands in the first two months of 34 000 I-mode customers. “This move user numbers in line with our expectations,” said E-Plus Manager Uwe Bergheim numbers. His company was satisfied with what had been achieved in the first few weeks. Initial market research had confirmed that [...]

Toshiba PC builds factory in China

Toshiba PC builds factory in China

The Japanese electronics and computer giant Toshiba plans to build China into one of the largest factories in the computer world. The new plant in Hangzhou in southeastern China from April 2003 to pocket computers are manufactured, as the company announced. Toshiba invests in the construction of seven billion yen (60 million €). Initially be [...]

Dell Germany: “crisis passed by unnoticed”

Dell Germany: “crisis passed by unnoticed”

“The crisis has gone almost unnoticed at Dell over” – with these words, said the head of Dell Germany (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DLC), Mathias skull, the quarterly figures for the PC manufacturer. The worldwide sales could be increased by a few million to 8.06 billion dollars and earnings per share remained unchanged compared to the [...]

Hoax calls to delete file on Windows

Hoax calls to delete file on Windows

Sophos has warned of a hoax, which warns of an alleged virus attack. Meanwhile, were “already received thousands of requests of concerned users,” the anti-virus specialist. According to the company calls the wrong message to users to search for a file named “JDBGMGR.EXE” on the hard disk and delete the file. This is so the [...]

In the privacy of separating the wheat from the chaff

In the privacy of separating the wheat from the chaff

COMMENTARY – The penetration of Internet in the privacy of their own one for each Internet user to experience everyday. Who is not annoyed about the increasing proportion of spam e-mails in the mailbox? The concerns that your own computer when you visit Web sites confidential information such as details about credit cards and finances [...]

Union: Telekom plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs

Union: Telekom plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs

The match concert at Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) is in the second round: As the company of Ron Sommer shrouded still in silence, let unions announced that the company plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs. According to a report in the “Financial Times Germany”, you can expect from the employees’ associations that [...]

UMTS award in France before the final

UMTS award in France before the final

After more than a year in France is the award procedure for the UMTS mobile phone licenses to an end. Before the deadline was yesterday at noon with the French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom network only one interested party for the two are still reported to be issued licenses. The market leader France Telecom with [...]

Verdi wants to take action against the downsizing of the telecom

Verdi wants to take action against the downsizing of the telecom

The unions have strong resistance against a massive job cuts at Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DTE) announced. The planned elimination of 30,000 jobs was “totally unacceptable” and get a “clear-cutting employment” at the same company, it said in a joint statement by Verdi and the Works Council Deutsche Telekom, which was published on Thursday [...]

Dell 2.5 GHz PC for € 2666

Dell 2.5 GHz PC for € 2666

Dell (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DLC) has presented with the Precision Workstation 340 has a new computer for graphics-and compute-intensive applications. Equipped PC with Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) is a Pentium 4 with a clock speed of 2.53 GHz. It increases the system bus of 400 MHz to 533 MHz. Dell Precision 340 offers now [...]

Critical security holes in Explorer appeared

Critical security holes in Explorer appeared

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) has released a new patch for six security holes of its own Web browser, Internet Explorer versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0. Three of programming errors called the Redmond software company as a “critical”. However, only a cross-site scripting flaw affects the latest Internet Explorer 6.0. This bug could allow hackers [...]

External USB 2.0 announced 24-fold-burner

External USB 2.0 announced 24-fold-burner

Benq has for late May with the CRW 2410EU announced an external CD burner. The device should be connected using the fast USB 2.0 interface on the PC. The maximum burn speed for CD-R media with the manufacturer gives 24-fold in speed. With rewritable blanks the highest speed is ten times the speed. Data CDs [...]

Q-DSL is more expensive

Q-DSL is more expensive

Half a year after T-Online (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: TOI) is now asking QSC (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: QSC) is clearly new customers to checkout: Who after the first July, a DSL access at alternative providers ordered to pay € 159 in the establishment – until now were only 59 € demanded. For students, the price rises [...]

Traxdata: 48X burner for 149 €

Traxdata: 48X burner for 149 €

Traxdata has introduced the “CDRW 481 248 tx”, the first burner, CD-R media discs at up to 48x speed. In CD-RW mode, the hardware will work with twelve times the spin. The digital reading audio CDs is a 40-fold speed vonstatten, a data CD, the read performance of the 48-fold. The internal IDE drive has [...]

Which sends data to Microsoft Windows XP?

Which sends data to Microsoft Windows XP?

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) has been in the framework of the “Windows XP Day” in Munich journalists to answer questions regarding the joy of sending user data from Windows XP. If an incompatible device driver used in XP, there may be a system crash

Study: EMS could flop

Study: EMS could flop

could flop EMS and MMS – to come to this result, the market researcher Forrester. According to their studies might be declining sales of its popular text messages via cell phone first time in 2004. The user would take with traditional e-mail and text messaging preferences. The analysts expect that prices fall in the messaging [...]