Micro World Virus experts have issued a warning about the recently published Bropia worm-S. The new culprit is spreading via the MSN Messenger. Once executed, it creates and starts the file “bot.exe” (contains W32/Borpia-S) and “botz.exe” (contains W32/Forbot-EK) in each folder. Then, the worm can display a message in Dutch. Upon acceptance of this message [...]

Over the years Mark has become Eggensperger careful. He would not bet, and with predictions he holds back. Too often start dates for the European Internet domain were. “Eu” already moved. Yes, he was optimistic that it goes off the end of the year, but: “A probability forecast would not give me,” he says smugly. [...]

Because of a weak global economic growth of South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics is a pessimistic outlook on the future development of its core business. “The global economy is this year facing a slowdown and domestic demand remains weak,” said Samsung vice-chair man Yun Jong Yong on Monday at the AGM of the Company, [...]

Novell has announced results for the first quarter of 2005, the year ended 31 Ended in January 2005. In this financial quarter, Novell reported revenue of EUR 290 million compared with sales of 267 million dollars in the first quarter of 2004. Net income for the first quarter of 2005 392 million, or $ 0.90 [...]

Under the auspices of the Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Multimedia Service Providers (FSM) German search engine vendors have launched their own control and thus joined forces in a first multi-vendor, nationwide organ-German search engine. The aim of the FSM is to improve consumer protection as well as child and youth protection on the Internet. Together with [...]

Organic light – known as OLEDs – could soon replace incandescent and fluorescent lighting in the room. The company Merck, Osram, Philips and Samsung to invest in a joint research initiative over the next five years, more than 500 million € in Germany to promote the production of these devices – which have the company [...]

Russian music download site Allofmp3.com has come under the scrutiny of local investigative authorities. The service offers the downloading of songs for two cents per MB, so a song will cost between four and ten cents. Moreover, artists like the Beatles Allofmp3.com also on offer, their works have not been released for download services. The [...]

The German Telekom according to research by ZDNet, a data protection leak on their site: Who knows Phone and account number of telecom customers can, with this data, not only without any problems the customer number determined including the address, but also order additional tariffs on behalf of clients. It is also possible to view [...]

Corel offers again a combined offer for small and medium-sized companies: For the price of Corel Draw Graphics Suite 12 full version, there is now also the Office suite, Word Perfect 12 and the color inkjet printer from Lexmark Z615. The action package costs € 599. If you need only upgrade to the latest Corel [...]

The Internet portal Lycos Europe will write in the first quarter of 2005, significant losses. On target to achieve breakeven in 2006, holds a company director Christoph Mohn fixed yet. Poppy said in Frankfurt on Tuesday, for the current quarter, it expects a net loss of 9.9 million euros to 11.9 million euros a year [...]

BT Wholesale CEO Paul Reynolds took on the “21st Century Communications World Forum” worked hard to build new IP-based networks based on open standards and submit to the hitherto prevailing culture in the telecommunications sector proprietary systems on board. The BT Group is currently working on building “21CN”, an IP-based network to replace the prevailing [...]

In the U.S., the 18-year-old Anthony G. was arrested because he is suspected of having sent instant messaging spam on a large scale. The man was lured from New York to Los Angeles and then taken directly at the airport by police in reception. All told, the 18-year-old sent 1.5 million messages to the members [...]

in most personal computers on the planet and even space junk on Mars stuck processors from Intel. Attempts to weaken the market power of the chip giants in Silicon Valley, there have been many. Intel permanently to the teeth, which has so far only managed AMD. IBM also is a supplier of used Apple Power [...]

Telekom could from the group bidding for the IT project, “Hercules” get out of the Bundeswehr. This was reported by the news magazine “Der Spiegel” on Saturday in advance. The Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems will therefore give no offer on Monday for the project. Instead, considering the head of T-Systems, Konrad Reiss, the bidding group, [...]

Linux distributor Red Hat on Friday acknowledged problems with his in recent years pursued a strategy. A new initiative this error but should now be corrected. The company has invested substantial resources in its Enterprise Linux operating system, and made as interesting to a wider audience. Michael Tiemann, vice president of Open Source Affairs, said [...]