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 [...]

development in the global DRAM chip market is this year on a high point, 2005 will be at slowing but strong. As is evident from a survey of the Californian market research firm iSuppli, will be sold in 2004 around the world DRAM chips worth a total of 26.7 billion dollars – an increase of [...]

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 [...]

telecom companies are increasingly divided from its wholesale division – to external service providers for the company in a big way airtime sale and the global telephone network. The Belgian telecom operator Belgacom is making a start: negotiations with possible partners are well advanced: “We are in the phase in which the books are checked,” [...]

While discounters are doing in this country with hard bargain laptops without Windows, America is already one step further: If Walmart is there a Linux laptop for $ 498 (currently about € 373.50) to have. The computer comes with the Linspire operating system and office suite Openoffice.org. Featuring the low-cost computer with a VIA C3 [...]

Hollywood film campaign against illegal file sharing has been a prominent victim. Behind the closure of Suprnova.org to legal action are. The site was one of the most popular according to the BBC as part of the BitTorrent Newtzwerks. A study has shown that was settled in June this year, now half of all P2P [...]

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 [...]

Google has closed a security hole in its tool for searching files on the desktop. The vulnerability allows hackers to view local search results to any site. The Google tool is still in beta stage. The problem was discovered in late November by the computer scientist Dan Wallach and his students, Seth Fogarty and Seth [...]

QNX Software Systems is at Embedded World in February 2005 (Hall 11, Stand 322), a new Platform Core Source Kit ago that allows the developer full access to the programming code. Code-related problems are so easily identified and corrected errors. The kit contains all the source code components of the platform core runtime module, except [...]

MSN Hotmail has changed the supplier of its anti-virus solution: Starting today, e-mails are not scanned with the software from Mc Afee, but with the competitor Trend Micro. The exact reasons for the change are unclear. Martin Hoffman, CEO of ninemsn, Australia (the Australian company responsible for Hotmail, which is owned 50 percent Microsoft), said [...]

The Canadian expert in hard disk encryption systems Winmagic has presented a new security solution. By a two-factor authentication at pre-boot level to “SecureDoc Disc Encryption” allowing a secure encryption of mobile data storage. The system encrypts entire hard disks including all removable drives, temporary files and system files. By encrypting the entire operating system [...]

storage vendors, Network Appliance has received from the International Organization for Standardization, the ISO certificate 14,001th The ISO 14001 standard is a system by which environmental protection is anchored in the systematic management and supports the company in developing and implementing environmentally friendly practices. NetApp must fulfill therefore the European Directive 2002/95/EC, under which all [...]

The directory provides telecommunications Dasoertliche.de now offering a free reverse search for phone numbers. Using the “reverse-search”, it is possible to identify the names and addresses of Internet users, of which only the phone number is known. The prerequisite is that the participant has not objected to this feature. The new search capability is possible [...]

BEA has announced new versions of BEA Tuxedo Mainframe Adapter free. They offer a revised infrastructure required to migrate legacy appliactions to open systems and to develop new, business-critical applications, the mainframe connectivity. Tuxedos BEA Mainframe Adapters enable transaction support between BEA Tuxedo and mainframe applications, and now support applications built on IMS 8.1 and [...]

Linksys has unveiled a revamped operating system LCOS. New features that will allow the Linksys VPN routers now to specify up to eight separate, redundant VPN gateways for a single VPN tunnels. This is a uniform load distribution permit by random selection of the VPN end point in larger installations, VPN, or the selection of [...]