The online service America Online, in partnership with Kayak, the U.S., a travel website on the market. Kayak controls to a search technology with can keep up with the customer for the best deals from over 60 online travel agencies on the lookout. AOL also plans to acquire a minority interest in kayaking. The development [...]

Google has doubled its number of pages scanned. As announced by the company, now eight billion pages will be crawled – until Wednesday, there were only four billion pages. The expansion of Google’s index comes just a week in which Microsoft with its new beta search competition makes the market leader. MSN had yesterday made [...]

For the next version of Mac OS X “Tiger” Apple promises a simplified search for files on the desktop. Back in July, the company has deminstriert the function called Spotlight. Meanwhile, Apple has announced on his website for further details. To date, files are typically stored in a more or less hierarchical folder system. To [...]

Increased investment wants to prepare the software giant SAP to compete with Microsoft and IBM. Therefore is not for the first time CEO Henning Kagermann to return back towards further growth. “When product sales, we believe that we drauflegen another,” Kagermann said on Wednesday in London in an interview with Reuters. SAP Peile next year, [...]

The German Telekom plans to divest its 25.1-percent stake in the leading Russian mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). Go with the sale of shares in the German telecommunications group finally retired from the Russian market and will concentrate in future on Europe and North America, told the “Handelsblatt”, referring to industry-related circles. The value of [...]

New Midrange Library 2800 from Tandberg Data has space for up to eight LTO tape drives. If you choose the full assembly, she offers a total of 57 terabytes of space for data (compressed). The transfer rate is Tandberg with up to 2 terabytes per hour. While the advantage of a library in the combination [...]

Utimaco Safeguard PDA 3.0 has brought to market. The product is designed to protect mobile devices through authentication and encryption mechanisms against unauthorized operation and data theft. The software is available both as a staff and an enterprise edition. Both versions offer smartphone owners the opportunity to lead active outbound calls without having to login [...]

The U.S. music industry lost through online platforms and downloading a fifth of all album sales, reports the “BBC”. This is a finding of a study by the University of Pennsylvania on behalf of the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, which studied the habits of 412 U.S. students. The report contradicts previous one from [...]

The North German developer of on-and offline communications solutions, has launched a search engine page design with voice output. This is “Fastbot.de” be loud Page design is the first Internet search engine that can render content from Web sites through computer voice heard. The text of the search results pages when Fastbot TTS (Text to [...]

The U.S. network equipment manufacturer Cisco Systems has in its first fiscal quarter of 2004/05 increased thanks to growing demand for its products, its profit by 29 percent. The company justified the increase with the increasing demand for Internet phones. The result was in line with analysts’ expectations. In the past, but Cisco had surpassed [...]

The legal battle for file sharing continues. After a court ruling that the corresponding software developers are not responsible for copyright violations of users, has also been confirmed on appeal, the plaintiffs now want to move before the Supreme Court of the United States. More than 30 stakeholders, 20 artists, several music and movie download [...]

The Route 66 software manufacturers announced in early December for an on-board navigation system for smartphones as a European version. Route 66 Mobile Europe 2005 is designed for use on mobile phones, based on the Symbian platform 60th The package includes a memory card, Bluetooth GPS receiver including car charger, navigation software and maps for [...]

Hessian capital Wiesbaden relocated their IT department immediately in a joint venture with Siemens – the Wivertis Company Ltd. for information and communication services. The newly formed company Siemens Business Services, holding 50.1 percent and 49.9 percent of the shares Wiesbaden. The 64 employees of the city’s IT department move into the new society. Wivertis [...]

Several competitors of Deutsche Telekom again before throwing competition disabilities. The market supervisors will now consider whether the former monopolist may sell phones that automatically prevent the caller from using cheaper suppliers. “We consider that,” said a spokesman for the regulatory authority for telecommunications and postal services (regulatory authority) in Bonn on Monday. Against the [...]

The “Solutions Sharing Network,” Microsoft offers its customers in the public sector with a new service designed to simplify the exchange of know-how. Based on the Sharepoint software can free up city government portals in which IT managers can publish their knowledge or even proprietary software. “In what is being hosted by Microsoft, there are [...]