Archive for ‘2004’

Brocade and EMC with a common storage networking solution

Brocade and EMC with a common storage networking solution

Brocade SAN expert has developed together with specialists in information storage and management systems, one EMC storage area network solution for beginners. It is preconfigured to meet the growing demands of data management for small and medium enterprises, institutions and departments of larger corporations correspond. The Storage Area Network solution based on the new EMC [...]

NEC’s subsidiary: $ 20.6 million for fraud

NEC’s subsidiary: $ 20.6 million for fraud

The U.S. division Business Network Solutions, the Japanese electronics group NEC, the payment of a total of $ 20.6 million approved for fraud. Thus, the NEC subsidiary, for excessive calls and false documents in connection with the U.S. Internet Initiative E-rate has been punished, so the “Wall Street Journal.” The lawyer of NEC’s American representative, [...]

Flat screens are becoming scarce towards the end

Flat screens are becoming scarce towards the end

According to calculations of the California market research institute iSuppli occur towards the end a shortage of flat panel displays. The demand will outstrip the supply by 4.3 percent, said iSuppli. Up to this point, but would more TFT (thin film transistor) LCDs produced than sold. In the first quarter, the producer according to the [...]

Singapore in the spam dilemma

Singapore in the spam dilemma

Singapore wants has submitted a legislative proposal to combat spam, reducing the one hand the number of junk mails that take into account the interests of the other marketing companies specifically. The largest of the Infocomm Development Authority together with the three Internet service providers looks submitted draft including an opt-out clause in mass mailings. [...]

Laptops increasingly popular in the countryside

Laptops increasingly popular in the countryside

The availability of IT products from farmers on the rise. After one day, Thursday, the Federal Statistical Office survey published http://www.destatis.de have three out of four German farmers a PC. Nearly two-thirds of farmers have an Internet connection. When the PC equipment, according to surveys of statisticians are the farmers above the national average for [...]

Yahoo Toolbar with future spyware and virus protection

Yahoo Toolbar with future spyware and virus protection

The Yahoo Toolbar will in future also have a virus scanner and a spyware blocker. The company plans to offer on Thursday released a beta of the new software on his website for download. The respective components were provided by the security company Pest Patrol is available. Yahoo spokeswoman Stephanie Iwamasa According to these functions [...]

BMG Germany passes a fifth of the points

BMG Germany passes a fifth of the points

music label BMG, the Bertelsmann Group subsidiary sweeps in Germany nearly a fifth of the points. As the “Financial Times Germany,” reported, citing industry-related circles, losing to June 59 of about 300 employees their jobs. Maarten Steinkamp, ​​the new head of BMG Germany, have announced staff reductions as part of restructuring in March at a [...]

U.S. Attorney wants file-sharers on the collar

U.S. Attorney wants file-sharers on the collar

A new bill over the next week could already be matched in the U.S. Senate will exert additional pressure on file-sharers. The so called “Pirate Act” is intended to allow state prosecutors filed civil lawsuits that might entail fines of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to themselves. Even in recent months, the RIAA [...]

Hole in Mac OS: patch apparently ineffective

Hole in Mac OS: patch apparently ineffective

The patch, which Apple a few days ago for the recently discovered to Mac OS gap (ZDNet reported) has provided, is apparently ineffective. According to experts, the disposer of the patch that is not the underlying problem is that the use of the weak points in the first place. Visited a Mac user a specially [...]

AMD Announces Support for IBM and Oracle

AMD Announces Support for IBM and Oracle

The AMD64 platform is to continue to be supported by enterprise software from IBM and Oracle. This has now announced the company from Sunnyvale. By porting business applications to the platform to corporate customers access to 64-bit software, which supports the x86 architecture and optimized for performance improvements. Big Blue wants to provide a development [...]

Ballmer unveils new tools for developers

Ballmer unveils new tools for developers

In his keynote Teched-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced new tools for developers. This should also come with the Visual Studio 2005 in the first half of 2005 on the market. The lately so hyped Windows XP successor Longhorn Ballmer mentioned only briefly. Visual Studio 2005 Team System is vereifachen complex applications development team. Microsoft [...]

“Spam Shredder” to promotional e-mails

“Spam Shredder” to promotional e-mails

U.S. security specialist Webroot has presented a new tool for the suppression of unwanted e-mail messages. The “Spam Shredder” for 19,95 € works with any POP3 client, examines e-mail accounts in Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora and configure it for an improved anti-spam. Then there would be the Hächsler to remember the selection criteria of [...]

Security solution, to quarantine area

Security solution, to quarantine area

“Pure Message”, the British anti-virus specialist Sophos presents a new solution to protect Microsoft networks from spam and viruses. For the new “protective umbrella” Sophos has completed its corporate anti-virus an anti-spam software. PureMessage for Windows / Exchange is designed for companies with more than 100 computer workstations. The security software will scan principle all [...]

Tele Atlas reduces losses

Tele Atlas reduces losses

The manufacturer cartographic databases, Tele Atlas, in the first quarter of 2004 may further reduce its net loss and reported a net loss of 6.2 million €. In the comparable prior-year period losses of € 7.9 million had been retracted. As the company announced today that sales were up compared to the previous quarter by [...]

Computer Associates’ Linux or death “

Computer Associates’ Linux or death “

its World Conference in Las Vegas Computer Associates (CA) announced a surprise several contributions to the open source community. So you will continue the in-house database Ingres make public, as well as the Kernel Generalized Event Management. In addition, going to build alliances with JBoss and Zope. In an interview with ZDNet outlined CA Software [...]