The team wishes all of ZDNet readers a happy new year 2004. Who wants to stop another pass in review, found in our annual review of the most important IT news from recent months. In another special, the top downloads in 2003 are summarized. From the 2nd January 2004, we provide you as usual with [...]

Intel has licensed the Wi-Fi technology of PC-Tel. The Californian company pays $ 14.5 million. In return, the right PC to use some of Intel’s patented technologies. The company based in Chicago that specializes in software-modems and software for Wi-Fi handsets. With the solutions of PCtel there should be for the user a simplified usage [...]

Berlin businessman Jan Holtermann builds his company KCC Europe GmbH for North Korea access to the Internet. As the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”, writes to North Korea to get three years of negotiations with the Exbankier Holtermann now have Internet access from January. Holtermann believes that the Internet connection will have serious consequences North Korea: North Korea’s [...]

AOL quietly shifts part of his software company in India: In Bangalore, the premier online service is looking for programmers. The plan is through an embarrassing mishap reaches the light of day: Just in the week, as the dismissal of hundreds of IT workers was announced, the company was looking at your site for a [...]

the first company in Germany, the phone company Mobilcom has returned its UMTS license to the regulatory authority for telecommunications and postal services. This would have the Executive Board and Supervisory Board decided to Mobilcom said on Tuesday in Büdelsdorf. Mobilcom was so free, as well as service providers without their own network to offer [...]

Although the Germans have at last Saturday in Advent bought gifts vigorously, they could not save this year’s holiday shopping season. “During the Christmas season we are slightly below the previous year,” said the spokesman of the retail association HDE, Hubertus Pellengahr. In 2002, the retail sector had sold in the traditional selling season for [...]

The U.S. giant Microsoft has suffered a setback in trying to be on the market for multimedia mobile phones a major software provider. The head of the world’s largest mobile phone operator Vodafone, Arun Sarin, announced in the “Financial Times” (Monday edition) that his company will not yet adopt the new Microsoft operating system. This [...]

employees of the IT industry, according to a 2004 study again expect higher salary increases than in the past two years. 62 percent of respondents expect an increase of between one and five percent. 42 said they have also received this year, a salary increase of between one and five percent. 43 percent had, according [...]

Compuware and BEA have expanded their partnership in the areas of product development and integration. The companies plan to model-driven J2EE development environment, Compuware OptimalJ and the visual development environment, BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 to integrate. This joint development will include enhancements of Compuware OptimalJ, the business components as Java controls for BEA WebLogic Server [...]

Yakumo turns a few days before Christmas at the price spiral: The three models of the mega-digicam image series of up to 70 € cheaper and are available immediately. Thus, the suggested retail price of the Yakumo Mega-Image VI now 99 € instead of 149 €. The camera is equipped with three megapixels, a four [...]

To trademark trouble to go out of the way, has the processor manufacturer Intel changed the code name for its expected 2005 Itanium successor. The chip would henceforth bear the name instead of Tanglewood Tukwila. Tanglewood mountains a likelihood of confusion with the Tanglewood Music Center in Massechusetts. Many of the Itanium project staff involved [...]

Yesterday the German National Committee of the RoboCup Federation in Frankfurt, has chosen the candidate for the world championships of soccer robots in 2006. In its decision, the committee was advised by an expert group, which had to be measured at the end of three applications from Berlin, Bremen and Paderborn. The winner is the [...]

Cisco routing portfolio for its core and edge networks to new routers and line cards Cisco 12000 Series and expanded 7600 series. Specifically, the 12000 Series has been expanded by three routers:  Cisco routers from 12 800 $ 178,500: A system with a throughput of 40 Gbit / s per slot with matching OC-192/STM-64- and [...]

Linux distributor Red Hat for the year ended 30 Fiscal third quarter ended November presented very good results. So the gain is increased compared to the same quarter of $ 214,000 to 4.1 million dollars. In terms of sales, the company could grow by 36 percent to 33.1 million dollars. In addition to the positive [...]

Microsoft yesterday a joint press conference with the prosecutor Eliot Spitzer from the U.S. state of New York announced. The company has now confirmed that it will go into the press conference to combat spam. In the fight against unwanted commercial e-mail Microsoft adopts a dual approach. On the one hand, the company anti-spam filters [...]