Archive for ‘April, 2005’

BEA presents standards-based platform for network access

BEA presents standards-based platform for network access

BEA Weblogic Network has its gatekeeper made available. This is to address the needs of carriers matched product based on open standards that will regulate access to telecommunications networks. Service providers can manage content from third-party and get more control over partners who develop new services for the network. With Network Gatekeeper to the service [...]

Smartphone users are aware of risk of viruses

Smartphone users are aware of risk of viruses

smartphone users are aware of the danger of a virus infection is apparently their phones. In a study conducted by Symantec, 73 percent of respondents indicate that they are about viruses and other attacks in the picture, threatening smartphones. More than 70 percent said that about a possible theft or loss of data are concerned, [...]

Stricter U.S. law passed against file sharers

Stricter U.S. law passed against file sharers

U.S. President George W. Bush has signed a House of Representatives approved a bill on tougher punishment of pirates. With the “Family Entertainment and Copyright Act” only the presence of an illegal copy goes in a folder on the disk of the PC, to be punished. Crime is now also the use of video cameras [...]

Nokia MP3 phone with a 4-gigabyte hard drive

Nokia MP3 phone with a 4-gigabyte hard drive

in Amsterdam today, Nokia has to be introduced N91 multimedia phone, smartphone, digital camera and portable music players to be at the same time. The device has according to the company over a 4-gigabyte hard drive that stores up to 3000 songs can be saved. “What the Nokia N91 also stands above all others is [...]

Citrix, Microsoft and HP offer joint Server Consolidation

Citrix, Microsoft and HP offer joint Server Consolidation

Citrix, Microsoft and HP have launched under the slogan “One Consolidated Solution” initiative for IT consolidation under one roof. The offer is sold in Germany through selected joint partner of Citrix, Microsoft and HP. In detail, the initiative includes the following components: For the area of ​​application deployment, security and information access brings its Citrix [...]

Nokia 5140 mobile phone sets to be outdoors on new

Nokia 5140 mobile phone sets to be outdoors on new

Nokia brings in the second quarter of 2005 outdoor mobile edition on the market in 5140. In the 5140 there is again a tri-band phone with digital camera, dust and splash protection, compass and fitness trainer. The display now represents 65,536 colors, instead of the previous 4096th Push to Talk is like many other applications, [...]

First Apple’s Trojan sighted

First Apple’s Trojan sighted

The British security expert, Sophos has detected by its own account the first Trojan for Mac OS X. “Mac / Cowhand-A” is automatically installed in the Startup folder and opens a back door. This should facilitate requests over the network, according to Sophos. An infected computer can also act as a proxy then “misused” to [...]

Destructive worm deletes MP3 collections

Destructive worm deletes MP3 collections

antivirus specialist Sophos warns of new Windows-destructive worm that spreads since Friday on P2P file-sharing networks. W32/Nopir.B disguised as a so-called “crack” of a known DVD-copying software, but as soon as the user running the program, the worm starts all drives for MP3 and COM files to search and delete them. In order to protect [...]

Handhelds from HP will be cheaper

Handhelds from HP will be cheaper

HP cuts prices for some Pocket PC models of the iPAQ series: The HP iPAQ rx3715 Mobile Media Companion, which features an integrated digital camera, Bluetooth and wireless LAN costs, now instead of 499 € (indicative price for the market launch of the device ) or € 399. The facilities still include a 400 MHz [...]

Yahoo needs to parents of soldiers killed mail access grant

Yahoo needs to parents of soldiers killed mail access grant

In the dispute over access to e-mails of a soldier killed there a legal solution now. A court in the U.S. state of Michigan has ruled that Yahoo must allow the parents of Justin Ellsworth died in Iraq to access its electronic messages. Yahoo had rejected this in reference to their own privacy policies that [...]

Video: Salesforce CEO Benioff interview

Video: Salesforce CEO Benioff interview

Marc Benioff has with his company Salesforce.com hosted CRM applications made popular. With ZDNet Benioff has to talk about the chances of his company to compete in the on-demand sector with the heavyweights of the industry. The video is available for both Windows Media and Real-users in two versions (for fast and slow Internet connections) [...]

52 new Symbian Trojan found

52 new Symbian Trojan found

The New Zealand Simworks virus specialist warns of 52 previously unknown Trojan horses that target mobile phones using the Symbian operating system. The Trojans are spreading more popular, especially on cracked versions of Symbian applications such as “Bitttorm”, “bugme”, “Cosmic Fighter,” 3D engine Acer “and” Splashld. “In addition to the installation file containing the Trojan [...]

Microsoft: Beta stable enough for corporate use

Microsoft: Beta stable enough for corporate use

On Monday, Microsoft released new versions of its pre-database SQL Server 2005 and the development environment Visual Studio 2005. The applications should be stable enough for corporate use. The delivery of the two products at the same time scheduled for the end of the year. Subscribers to the “Microsoft Developer Network”, the software already downloaded. [...]

Strato also reduces flat-rate price

Strato also reduces flat-rate price

Strato offers with the “flat rate City” available now in 24 cities a DSL flatrate for € 4.99 per month. In the rest of the country then as the “flat rate Germany,” called for a monthly wage is € 8.99 to have. The offers can be used in conjunction with 1 – to be used [...]

Intel provides wireless chip for 134 Mb / s from

Intel provides wireless chip for 134 Mb / s from

The first claims to manufacturer Intel provides one-on-chip WiMAX solution. Due to the highly integrated device manufacturers, according to the accelerated process of development of terminals and kept costs low. The Intel Pro 5116 Wiresless has a programmable architecture that will enable device manufacturers to integrate innovative applications, for example, to facilitate the installation of [...]