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 [...]

A new version of strained silicon to make transistors from IBM and AMD CPUs to 24 percent faster. This will give the two companies officially announced today. The yield in the production should not thereby be adversely affected. Chips as “dual stress liner” (DSL) technology can be identified already sold. So the more the 130-nanometer-process-made [...]

Since Sunday it Sony’s portable game console PlayStation Portable (PSP) in Japan to buy. For the first time the electronics giant ventures, ten years after the entry into the business with games consoles on the market of portable consoles, is now in the hands of a company: Nintendo – the maker of the “Game Boy”. [...]

The British security specialist Sophos has presented a list of viruses that have been done worldwide in 2004 most of the damage. According to Sophos in 2004 was clearly the year of Netsky. In total, the worm caused nearly a quarter of all virus incidents. In spite of the duel with the mass-mailing worm Zafi-B [...]

Yahoo launches in early January 2005 with its own desktop search. The free software is based on a technology of the California-based X1 Technologies. This closes on the Yahoo rival Google, has unveiled its desktop search back in October. The search for data on hard drives with increasingly larger storage is one of the challenges [...]

The PC market in the coming year remain on track for growth. According to a recent survey by U.S. market research institute IDC 2005 will be sold worldwide by ten percent more PCs than this year. This will go around the globe over 195 million computers on the counters. The value is here, according to [...]

in the U.S. have joined together key Internet and financial services and law enforcement authorities in an anti-phishing alliance. The group, which operates under the name Digital Phishnet, online predators will come on the ropes and bring them to justice as quickly as possible. The members of the Association include AOL, Earthlink, Lycos, Microsoft, VeriSign [...]

The 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP and Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 available as Release Candidate 1 available. This Microsoft has now officially announced. The launch of the products should be made in the first half of 2005, but first, a second release candidate should be published. Planned for [...]

The German chip maker Infineon Technologies Expands in Asia and in Malaysia wants to build a new front-end work. As the company announced today, for the project investment is planned by a billion dollars. The new chip factory will power and logic semiconductors for use in automotive and industrial applications, are manufactured. The construction will [...]

The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CSS), which holds all rights to the copy protection used on DVD CSS (Content Scramble System), has sued the company Kaleidescape. The manufacturer of consumer electronics has a system in the offer that copies DVDs allegedly illegally on a home server. The Kaleidescape technology can load the entire contents [...]

In Hungary, the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile Hungary and Pannon GSM, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, licenses for third generation UMTS mobile receive. The 15-year valid licenses were awarded to two companies that gave the state regulatory authority NHH said on Wednesday. Would have held talks with Vodafone over the allocation of an additional [...]

The Attorney General of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania has charged two suspected spammers. The two men are said to have offered in their e-mails diplomas within 72 hours. The defendants are conducting a “massive illegal spam campaign” accused of using misleading subject lines and false e-mail addresses. In addition, randomly generated texts were used [...]

The Californian company Pretec Electronics Corp.. Today is the first company worldwide USB Flash Drive that I Disk II 8GB, with a capacity of eight gigabytes before. For data transmission, the device supports a two-channel data transmission, thus achieving write speeds of 16 megabytes per second and read times of 14 MB per second. I [...]

The Japanese electronics maker Sharp is planning to increase its stake in the ailing manufacturer Loewe TV sets, according to banking circles as part of a capital increase to 28 from just nine percent. “This is intended to accrue Loewe be around 15 million €, that is, the Japanese pay for the new securities more [...]

The manufacturer of antivirus software H + BEDV warns of new Internet worm Maslan.B. The worm exploits the well-known LSASS vulnerability in unpatched Windows systems and spreads via e-mail and over the network. In the estimation of H + BEDV there is a high risk of infection. The worm sends itself Maslan.B with a size [...]