The U.S. Internet company AOL, Earthlink, Yahoo and Microsoft have launched a new wave of lawsuits against spammers. As the “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) reported complaints against most specifically (yet) known spammers in four U.S. states were introduced. “This time we’re out on the ground,” said Les Seagraves of Earthlink. The complaints have been in [...]

anti-virus experts such as H + BEDV, Sophos and Trend Micro have issued an urgent warning against new computer virus “Worm / Bagle.at”. The potential damage and spread of the pest is regarded by experts as the virus’ very great danger “. ZDNet offers free virus scanner using the AntiVir remedy – the newest version [...]

Just days before the U.S. presidential elections, the website of incumbent George W. Bush only be reached from the U.S. and Canada. Netcraft reports that the blocking of inquiries from other countries have already started on Monday. Attempts to access the site will be with the error message “Access Denied: You do not have permission [...]

The number of movie downloads is increasing despite increasingly sophisticated technical equipment not essential. This result is part of the Brenner study of the German Federal Film Board (FFA). This speaks for the action of the film industry against piracy. Because the burn movies had continued to rise year on year but relatively moderate. An [...]

In the U.S., many search engines of Yahoo in the future also be used from mobile phones. A similar service was released yesterday. To the mobile services offered include local search and maps. Competitor Google has launched a mobile offering several weeks ago, but only provides search results in text format via SMS. That the [...]

scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles have built the first laser from silicon, like “Nature” reported. This is an important step in the attempt to build computers that process information using light, not, as before, with electricity. Although already a lot of data to be transported by light over optical fibers. But [...]

SAP plans today to give his strategy in the “software on demand” known. Much like Salesforce.com want the Walldorf rent their applications for a monthly subscription fee to customers. So far, the company was such distribution models are skeptical. The offer will be promoted along with longtime partner Hewlett-Packard and could have for $ 325 [...]

Sun Microsystems and Vodafone signed a global framework agreement governing the use of the entire Sun product portfolio including hardware, software and services. The agreement includes specific additions for both the middleware suite Sun Java Enterprise System and the Sun Java Desktop System and will allow Vodafone, Sun Software to provide services and support for [...]

The SD Card Association (SDA) can be pleased with two new heavyweights Nokia and Sony Ericsson have joined the association. Nokia is also a member of the Board of Directors. The two newcomers are joining Motorola, Samsung, Palm One, Sharp, Panasonic, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu, Kyocera and other marketers of SD and miniSD-enabled mobile phones. The [...]

the problems with the Pentium 4 design maxed Intel seems to have initially found a way out with the move to dual-core architectures. To improve performance in the coming years, ranging from improvements to the architecture but not more. What measures at the chip-making must be taken, Intel engineers said at a meeting in the [...]

total 11 companies have passed the latest round of the Liberty Alliance certification successfully. The organization announced in Tokyo. For the first time products were tested for minimum requirements in the Identity Web Services. The tests are designed to ensure that products work together better for the management of identities on the Internet with products [...]

resident in Finland, the world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia is taking further steps to take to the mobile content market. As a result of declining profits for the last three years the phone company tries its revenue sources in addition to the main shop mobile phones and accessories to expand through new areas. As [...]

Compuware in the second quarter of fiscal 2005 (ended September 30) achieved sales of $ 295.5 million, compared to $ 302.8 million in the second quarter of the previous fiscal year. The net profit is 7.4 million compared to a loss of $ 8.5 million in the comparable quarter last year. The earnings per share [...]

football clubs in the British Premier League and the English daily newspapers compete for the online publication of photos. The managers in the top leagues want more control over the publication reports from sports photos on the Internet, “New York Times.” In the UK, yesterday ran a license agreement between the Newspapers Publishers Association and [...]

Dell will introduce on Monday two new entry-level servers. The Power Edge SC420 will be available in the U.S. with prices starting at $ 500, the model SC1420 is to have from $ 799. The cheaper version comes with a single Pentium 4 processor, the memory is expandable up to four gigabytes. At SC1420 two [...]