Archive for ‘December, 2004’

G-Flash at number one at Amazon.de

G-Flash at number one at Amazon.de

Of these, Franjo Pooth a year ago would not even dare to dream: Over a week the MP3 music player, “G-Flash” topped the sales charts at online retailer Amazon.de. Thus, the small startup Düsseldorf Maxfield creates in just one year sales jump from zero to over ten million euros – and the pace will continue [...]

Rumors about cheap Mac

Rumors about cheap Mac

Prior to the annual Macintosh show in San Francisco it’s bubbling under the so-called Maccise quite daunting: to relevant sites such as “Think Secret” is reported about the release of new Macs to be delivered without a screen. His bid: $ 500. There are also rumors about mini-iPods in various versions, iTunes music software for [...]

Time Warner wants to get into the mobile phone business

Time Warner wants to get into the mobile phone business

The U.S. media giant Time Warner is considering a report on the “Wall Street Journal” on the network of the Deutsche Telekom Group Sprint Corp. to build its own mobile business. The test phase should begin in early 2005, the newspaper reported, citing circles familiar with the plans in its Wednesday edition. If the deal [...]

Commodore goes to Yeahronimo

Commodore goes to Yeahronimo

Tulip Computers is all the rights to Commodore amrikanisches a start-up called Yeahronimo cede Media Ventures. The Dutch company said the already largely unnoticed for two days. Yeahronimo makes its revenue from the distribution of digital music files. Via Commodore wants one now also sell consumer electronics. To complete the deal must still before the [...]

UM Servonic presented with routing and resilience

UM Servonic presented with routing and resilience

At the CeBIT 2005 show in Servonic Hall 13, Booth B37, the new ideas regarding communication solutions IXI-UMS Unified Messaging Server and IXI-Call CTI computer telephony integration. There is a new in Unified Messaging with Routing: The routing of inbound and outbound messages UM can now be implemented across distributed locations and the Internet. In [...]

IT and telecoms: That changes in 2005

IT and telecoms: That changes in 2005

In the new year, consumers and companies must again adjust to a series of legislative changes. The Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) has put together an overview of the ICT industry with the most important changes:  Green Card: The new immigration law takes over from January from the old system. [...]

World’s Largest IPv6 network launched in China

World’s Largest IPv6 network launched in China

last Saturday in China is a new IPv6 network was put into operation. It connects 25 universities in 20 cities. Reported this to the China Education and Research Information Center (Cernice), which has dubbed the network CERNET2. According Cernice is the world’s largest IPv6 network. Cernice China sees it on the way to a leadership [...]

Arcor increased upstream speed of DSL

Arcor increased upstream speed of DSL

From the 5th January 2005 increased desire to Arcor, the upstream speed for its DSL connections to ¬. For the 2-megabit connection can easily double the shipping rate for up to 384 kbit / s. On the 3-megabit connection is an increase up to 512 kbit / s possible. This higher upstream speed costs an [...]

Oracle now has control of PeopleSoft

Oracle now has control of PeopleSoft

The U.S. software maker Oracle is in the wake of the takeover bid for rival PeopleSoft nearly 75 percent of its share capital being offered. In so doing, Oracle took control of PeopleSoft, the company announced on Tuesday evening in Redwood Shores. Oracle now filled the boardroom of Peoplesoft and owns four representatives, after the [...]

MACH launches new portal solutions

MACH launches new portal solutions

MACH AG, a provider of software and consulting for administrative management, presented at the CeBIT 2005, new portal solutions. They include a manager and employee portal for personnel management and a citizen portal for e-government projects. Another focus is on Web Information Manager (WIM) – a Web-based software for document management, workflow and archiving. In [...]

Spam undisputed number one country: the USA

Spam undisputed number one country: the USA

Sophos has published a list of the countries out of which the most spam messages are sent. At the same time accusing the security company, the U.S. is that adopted by George W. Bush legislation against spamare useless. Their inability to reduce the volume of unsolicited commercial e-mail in the mailboxes had failed manifestly. List [...]

AOL is testing Web-based freemail

AOL is testing Web-based freemail

The online service, America Online has unveiled the beta version of a web-free mailer, the appropriate offerings to compete with Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. The test can currently take only AOL members. As the “AOL Mail on the Web” called to service for AOL members are officially early next year, available to Internet users a [...]

Former Worldcom management in agreement with investors

Former Worldcom management in agreement with investors

ex-manager of the bankrupt U.S. telecommunications company WorldCom are apparently close to an out of court settlement with affected investors. This was confirmed by a lawyer familiar with the negotiations the “Handelsblatt”. “Most members of the former CEO approved the agreement, which could still be released this week,” said the lawyer. WorldCom’s collapse in 2002 [...]

New hybrid Trojan targets Symbian phones

New hybrid Trojan targets Symbian phones

The family of Symbian trojan is once again become richer by one member. Shall report the anti-virus vendors Simworks the existence of MetalGear.A, the anti-virus software turned off, damaging other applications, and installed a version of the popular mobile phone trojan Cabir, spreads via Bluetooth. His name was given to the Trojans, as he masquerades [...]

Security for VPNs

Security for VPNs

Safenet the information security specialist, its safe Appliance Enterprise SSL VPN Igate presented 4.0. It is an appliance, a fast remote access to ensure. Igate can be integrated with SafeNet’s two-factor authentication token Ikey. This supports current identity management systems and also has a safety check of the client applications. . “Password Hackers can crack [...]