visitors to the 2005 National Garden Festival in Munich, the organizers offer an electronic companion: It is a handheld GPS, which leads through the 330-acre BUGA, continuous information on the monitor screen and by voice priority (German or English) offers and all attractions by presenting text and audio. The project was realized in cooperation with [...]

The Texan software specialist BMC Software has lagged in the past quarter of fiscal year 2004/05 after its own forecasts and has announced substantial savings. As the company announced, the restructuring measures should, inter alia, 825-875 points to the victim. This is primarily impacted the sales sector. Thus shortens BMC approximately twelve percent of the [...]

Thanks to the boom in low-cost segment of the mobile phone has increased sales in the Asia-Pacific region in the past year strongly. Altogether in the region with 164 million handsets sold, up 24 percent more than last year (2003: 133 million), it follows from the calculations of market researcher Gartner. The Finnish mobile phone [...]

The U.S. has confirmed in the first quarter of their sad role as a global top spam producer number one impressive. As is apparent from an analysis of U.S. security provider Sophos came, from January to March by 35.7 percent of spam analyzed from the United States. On the podium following the Asian countries South [...]

The U.S. software company Computer Associates (CA) which will take over at the network management software company specializing in Concord. As both companies announced on the night today, CA will pay for the purchase of a total of $ 330 million in cash and assume an additional 20 million dollars in debt. The purchase price [...]

Library Inffeld Graz University of Technology is equipped as the first university library in Austria with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). The “smart” labels to enable contactless identification of all books by radio transmission. With RFID, data can be without physical or visual contact with each read and stored. The data is stored on an RFID [...]

The Spanish security specialist Panda Software warns of new variants of the Mytob worm. All migrations (S, U and W) have backdoor Trojan characteristics and open a backdoor on the computer on the server “and 19.xxor.biz” irc.blackcarder.net. “In this way they allow their programmers to control every infected computer to take over. According to Panda, [...]

The 21-year-old Charles Stergios eBay fraudster has been sentenced by a court in the U.S. state of Maine is a six-year prison sentence, because he does not compensate, according to the prosecutor’s victim could. Stergios is sitting in jail since May 2004 and has already confessed to having cheated at least 50 people and $ [...]

antivirus specialist F-Secure warned of a new worm that infects phones using the Symbian OS series 60. Dubbed the pest Fontal.A not spread to other Symbian-Virus via Bluetooth or MMS, but via Internet Relay Chat. So far it is not known whether any infections have occurred. The virus tries to install the file “Kill Saddam [...]

Duke University has announced that in future no longer automatically hand over all the new students an Ipod. The program should instead be limited to programs in which the meantime became a cult object player can be used as part of the lesson. The initiative at Duke University has initially caused quite a stir, because [...]

GMX has announced a new DSL flatrate. Unlike the recently become customary time and volume rates, which were mistakenly sold as a “flat rate”, it should here be no limit on time or volume. Port throttling or speed reductions will not give it too. However, the new offer may not keep pace with the competition [...]

Although Linux is interesting because of the advantageous licensing costs for many banks and insurance companies, but they fear often leads to additional financial burdens and unexpected problems in implementation. Therefore trust most of them remain on the existing and mostly running under Sun Solaris application servers. HP, Novell and Red Hat have now, however, [...]

T-Com CEO Walter Raizner wants to bring local authorities and communities to help finance the billion dollar expansion of the DSL network for fast Internet connections. In return he promises to accelerate the development in structurally weak regions. This emerges from an internal standard contract, which is present the “Business Week” and the T-Com, the [...]

Microsoft Windows version for supercomputers is later than originally planned. The launch of the interim as “Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition” designated product should take place now until the first half of 2006, yet the software giant a launch at the Supercomputing Conference in November presented the prospect. A company representative said that this [...]

AOL Germany has launched its new Voice over IP offering “Phone Log”. Can now take advantage of all Internet users who have a DSL connection, Internet telephony. According to AOL at any time calls are made with the solution, the computer does not need to be turned on. The company had announced in the previous [...]