Klicktel wants to offer his informative CD-ROMs in the future not only as individual releases, but also by subscription. However, nothing changes on the release cycle: Every six months each in January and in July, subscribers will receive the new Klicktel CDs with the updated state data. The subscription versions are cheaper but not, for [...]

A growing number of Internet users use the VoIP application Skype in conjunction with HotRecorder to each other to transmit radio streams that are generated from their own music collections. Although a growing community of Skype Caster, as they call themselves, on and on, through the necessary technological expertise that possibility, according to a user [...]

Swisscom Mobile has taken the first nationwide EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) mobile network in operation in Switzerland. EDGE complements UMTS and WLAN from the existing mix of technologies and highlights the wide-band mobile available from 30 up to 200 kbit / second. Through the EDGE “data turbo” to live TV, video streaming [...]

Later this year, wants the Google Internet search engine provider in Germany to offer an additional local search. The Google chief Holger Meyer, Germany announced in an interview with the “Handelsblatt” (Thursday edition) on. “Google Local starts first in Great Britain, then in Germany,” he said. In local search, Internet surfers enter except the lump-sum [...]

Dell has cut prices for its PowerEdge servers by up to 22 percent. The PowerEdge 2850 rack server now costs 1681 €. There is a system with a 64-bit Intel Xeon processor at 2.8 GHz and 1 MB L2 cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, a 24x EIDE CD-ROM drive, a 73 GB SCSI hard drive [...]

Microsoft earlier this week postponed the release date for its development environment Visual Studio 2005 to the second half and if the pricing is known. Some customers now believe that prices for smaller companies and independent programmers are too high. The criticism mainly refers to the Visual Studio Team System, which Microsoft plans to enter [...]

Singulus CEO Roland Lacher is in the race for the future dominant standard for the next generation of DVD to Sony by the partner promoted Blu-ray technology. “I think that Blu-Ray will be the winners,” Lacher said on Thursday at the edge of the press conference of the manufacturer of DVD-manufacturing machines in Frankfurt. “We [...]

Despite high interest in VoIP is still a clear lack of information about the possibilities of Internet telephony. The number of users is relatively low to boot. This is the result of a study conducted by the Research Institute field team. Only a quarter of Internet users (27.6 percent) can not imagine a future use [...]

A new Firefox extension divides the Internet community: While users show excited about the new possibilities warn security experts from serious security threats. They fear that the software open the door to phishing attacks could. Stumbling block is the program Greasemonkey, which changes through the execution of scripts in the browser charged sites on the [...]

Novell wants – as reported yesterday – from 31 March, a Linux Small Business Suite offering 9th The company confirmed on its BrainShare 2005 conference in Salt Lake City. It is a complete Linux solution from server to desktop, in addition to Linux software for servers and desktop also includes collaboration, security and systems management [...]

a study by Symantec that 54 percent of the top 50 were the most harmful codes between July and December 2004, the aim of collecting personal data. In the same period, there were still 36 percent. These figures are a sign that the attacks are increasingly motivated financially. Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager at Symantec Security [...]

Apple Computer has closed a security hole in iTunes, which has allowed the purchase of DRM-free songs. The necessary tool “Mymusique” was developed with the assistance of the Norwegian Jon Johansen, the end of the nineties has cracked the DVD copy protection. “The vulnerability occurred recently in the iTunes Music Store was closed. Therefore, the [...]

Apple has released a dozen patches for its operating system Mac OS X as well as for our own Safari browser. Also addresses the problem was able to take advantage of the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), the hacker for phishing attacks. For the address www.apple.com for example, could be used instead of the Latin “a” [...]

Academici is a purely academic network to the launch went. Its founders want to overcome one of the main problems of the home pages of universities, scientific societies and companies and create an international, online social network for academics and researchers, which promotes communication between disciplines and across borders. One of them, Professor Dr. Mark [...]

Last month, Microsoft announced a surprise that a new version of Internet Explorer before Longhorn will come on the market. About the planned features, the software giant, however, far from silent. It is clear only that the improvement of safety is paramount. Now, Microsoft insider confirmed a report by the web magazine “Microsoft Watch”, which [...]