Sony has a DVD burner that can be connected directly to a camcorder or digital video recorder and record without additional equipment up to twelve hours of MPEG-2 video. The device should be available in the U.S. in November for $ 300. The signals are fed into the burner must not exist in MPEG 2 [...]

Sun Microsystems and NVIDIA have entered into a collaboration to optimize the OpenGL implementation for Solaris on x86-based. Even with the recently announced Opteron Workstations W1100z and W2100z Sun sets on Nvidia. The Java inventor offers a suite of applications for its workstation graphics chips with the “Quadro FX 4000″ and the FX 3000 for [...]

Russian provider of IT security products, Kasperksy Lab has announced a new version of its enterprise solution, “Business Optimal”. The new suite is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses and to protect heterogeneous IT infrastructures against malware of all kinds. Version 5.0 includes anti-virus, anti-hacker and anti-spam solutions for different platforms and protects workstations, servers, [...]

Four years after the bursting of the dotcom bubble is now apparently coming to an end of the page, which feasted on the downfall of many companies in the New Economy: Dotcomtod.com, the rumors around portal bankruptcies, bad luck and breakdowns in the IT world, provides its visitors with only a blank page two. “gif” [...]

The Dutch electronics giant Philips has in the past third quarter of 2004 its net profit to 1.17 billion euros to almost tenfold. In the year-ago quarter included a gain of 124 million euros was incurred. Responsible for the huge jump in profits, especially recurring items recorded in the amount of EUR 743 million from [...]

Lidl launches the “Targa Visionary PCX 3200″ an additional PC for 1099 € discount on the market. The computer, however, is not to have in Germany. It is offered only in the eastern German federal states and in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and parts of Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. The centerpiece is the 3.2 GHz [...]

tourists lost their way in unfamiliar cities could continue to rely on their mobile phones as a lifeline. Students of the University of Bonn have developed a software for detection of buildings that can be used as a future site for telecom service provision. Currently, the software has been used only in the vicinity of [...]

The German security specialist H + BEDV Datentechnik has launched claims to have the world’s first virus guard for Sun Sparc Solaris version 9. The real-time scanner “Mail Gate” is integrated in Antivir workstation and server package and will be presented at Linux World Conference & Expo (26th to 28th October) in Frankfurt for the [...]

The Taiwanese notebook manufacturer , from their factories at least 70 percent of laptops sold worldwide come sit at the cost of the event. The companies have in the past sometimes massively cut costs to increase profits and margins. The opposite has occurred, however, reported the Asian service “Digitimes.” Profits fell and stock prices are [...]

Apple fan site “Think Secret” is currently speculating on the appearance of a photo iPods that can display on a high resolution display and digital images. Over the corresponding outputs, these can be displayed on a television. The $ 499 device purports to be expensive similar size as the current iPod and a 60-gigabyte hard [...]

competition and price situation in the IT industry in the past four years, similar to that in the construction industry in the nineties. To this end, the market researchers now have come from Deloitte. “The construction industry was the direction and the IT moves to present,” said the analyst. Fifteen years ago, when the construction [...]

Red Hat moved its European headquarters from Surrey to Munich. With the move would be the increasing involvement of Red Hat to meet the growing customer base in emerging markets in Central Europe and adjacent regions. The European headquarters of the departments of Sales, Services and Marketing Management for Red Hat Europe, as well as [...]

security specialist Secunia has discovered a serious vulnerability in Word 2000. Maybe the XP version is affected. Specially prepared documents can cause a buffer overflow, which will allow hackers to gain control of the system. A patch is not yet available. Secunia rates the problem as “very critical”. The error is caused by a component [...]

Check Point Software Technologies wants to introduce to the system (18 to 22 October 2004) a new safety index for small and medium enterprises. Online, he can be reached from the start of the computer fair at Sicherheitsindex.de, 702 at the Munich exhibition grounds, inter alia, Hall B2, Booth Using a two-part online questionnaire, a [...]

Hewlett-Packard has announced at the “Tech XnY” in New York new products as part of its SME initiative “Smart Office”. Company representatives made it clear that this is for HP customers of particular interest. Among the newly introduced products include printers in the price range of 200 to $ 3,600, including a color laser for [...]