Archive for ‘2004’

Samsung wants to sell 100 million phones

Samsung wants to sell 100 million phones

The South Korean handset makers Samsung is targeting the sale of mobile phones in the coming year at the magical 100 million mark. In an interview with “Korea Economic Daily” said Samsung CEO Lee Ki-tae, that his company would have until the end of this year sold 86 million units worldwide, reports the “Financial Times”. [...]

Updates for vulnerabilities in PHP scripting language

Updates for vulnerabilities in PHP scripting language

The PHP Group, responsible for developing the same server-side scripting language, has released two updates for critical security vulnerabilities. This can in extreme cases, lead to attacker can take control over a PHP web server. Affected are PHP 4 versions up to 4.3.9 to 5.0.2 and PHP 5. Now in the 4.3.10 and 5.0.3 released [...]

Microsoft releases patch for XP SP2 configuration

Microsoft releases patch for XP SP2 configuration

Microsoft has issued a patch configuration for the Windows XP SP2 available. PCs with enabled file and printer sharing are due to incorrect settings in the Windows Firewall from attacks from the unprotected network. According to the article 886185 in Microsoft’s Knowledge Base, only users who go over a dial-up connection to the Internet are [...]

HP withdraws from Itanium development

HP withdraws from Itanium development

with the development of 64-bit Itanium CPU design team in charge of the computer maker Hewlett-Packard is moving to Intel. In the platform, but HP will invest in the next three years, three billion dollars. The chip was over a decade, a joint project between the two companies. “Several hundred engineers from HP’s site in [...]

Sharp rise in phishing sites in November

Sharp rise in phishing sites in November

According to a report of the Anti-Phishing Working Group is the number of phishing Web sites in November compared with the previous month to about one-third increase in 1518th Compared with September, the number had tripled. A total of 51 brands of criminals for phishing attacks have been abused. About 75 percent of them are [...]

Chinese conquer the Silicon Valley

Chinese conquer the Silicon Valley

It is 1984th The fear comes to Silicon Valley. The high-tech valley lies because of overcapacity in the semiconductor industry in a recession, the Japanese shopping spree in the U.S. has only just begun. Soon, the fear that they will dominate the computer industry flooded with low-cost PCs, monitors, printers and the world market. In [...]

Germany’s fastest computer is installed in Munich

Germany’s fastest computer is installed in Munich

Today, the signatures were fastest in the contract for Germany set computer: If the previous high-performance computer Hitachi SR8000 at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences is turned off in the spring of 2006, a new, up to thirty times more powerful system are available. The Leibniz Computing Centre has, after a [...]

T-Online: New low-cost brand called Congster

T-Online: New low-cost brand called Congster

announced by chief executive Rainer Beaujean cheap brand of T-Online will be hot and Congster start in three months at CeBIT. The learned the “Business Week” from business circles. Congster to prevent the migration of T-Online customers to discounters and is currently offered in a test phase in several northern German cities 15-60 percent lower [...]

Hoax e-mail leads to mass notification for Do Not Call List

Hoax e-mail leads to mass notification for Do Not Call List

Due to a hoax e-mail may be registered in the last week 9.5 million Americans when the “Do Not Call” list of the Federal Trade Commission to be in the future on their mobile phones are no longer harassed by marketing companies. The mobile subscriber registered on this list may not be invoked under the [...]

Fujitsu-Siemens Introduces New Server Blades

Fujitsu-Siemens Introduces New Server Blades

Fujitsu-Siemens has announced the Primergy BX620 S2 with Extended Memory 64 Technology, the next generation of its Xeon dual-processor server blades. The model is designed for the BX600 blade server and is available in Germany from 2900 € to have. The BX600 blade server chassis can accommodate up to ten new S2 dual server blades [...]

Action: Google Scholar is violating trademark rights

Action: Google Scholar is violating trademark rights

Google Scholar search service for science and research allegedly infringed the trademark rights of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The nonprofit organization has on 9 December before the District Court of Columbia filed a corresponding action. The ACS has registered the brand in May 2003 for its Web-based SciFinder Scholar academic search service. Unlike Google [...]

Lucent Germany is confident for 2005

Lucent Germany is confident for 2005

The German subsidiary of U.S. telecom technology provider Lucent expects after some difficult years in 2005 with a slight increase in sales. Here, the company wants to concentrate on the development of Internet telephony, UMTS networks and so-called optical networks. You go from a growth “in the mid-single digit percentage range” from, Germany boss Rainer [...]

ICANN is thinking about new domains to

ICANN is thinking about new domains to

The Internet should enrich shortly by two new top-level domains are: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has on Monday entered into negotiations with companies for URLs with the extension and “” jobs. “. mobi had ‘successful bid. When the extensions are available but has not yet been determined. A similar step was [...]

Researchers found Univa Grid Computing Specialist

Researchers found Univa Grid Computing Specialist

Univa The newly formed company headquartered in the United States will continue to offer services related to Grid computing. Lack the know-how, it should not, because the startup was launched by researchers who have brought the issue of grid computing in the first place. Univa want to run his business based on the open source [...]

Web.de mail service expands to unlimited storage

Web.de mail service expands to unlimited storage

Web.de promises every new club member unlimited storage for e-mails, photos and documents. In addition to the new customers to expand all existing club members their accounts as part of a free upgrade can automatically upgrade to unlimited storage. Prerequisite for membership is the premium service Web.de club. It costs five euros per month. The [...]