In the United States has been destroyed according to the authorities of the world’s largest spam ring so far. Tom Reilly, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts has levied charges against seven individuals and two companies. This should have been operating from Boston and Russia. The spammer ring has reached a substantial size and [...]
BenQ has introduced the “Joybook S72″ and “Joybook A82″ two new notebooks based on Intel’s Sonoma platform. The S72 was designed for corporate use and will be available in mid-May, the A82 now available for domestic use. Both laptops cost € 1599. The units are equipped with a Pentium M 750, which has 2 MB [...]
Microsoft has been an investment in Laplink Software manufacturer and the licensing of some technologies of the Company. About the size of the investment figures were not released. Laplink develops software and services that allow mobile workers to access their e-mails and other data stored on the company network. Known as the “Laplink” designated service [...]
The online portal Yahoo will introduce on Wednesday to “Yahoo Music Unlimited” in the U.S., a music download service and thus compete with Apple’s successful iTunes Music Store. Unlike Apple should offer at Yahoo, but the subscription-based sales in the spotlight. Napster and Real Networks are already using a similar model are, with prices ranging [...]
As part of the monthly patch Days of the software manufacturer Microsoft has a security vulnerability in the Windows operating system has addressed. This affects the version of Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, Millennium Edition, 2000 SP3 and 2000 SP4. Newer versions such as Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the gap does not show. [...]
dual-mode phones that allow users both in conventional telephone networks and in wireless networks, is predicted a bright future. The U.S. market research firm ABI Research estimates the sales potential of such phones by the end of the decade up to 100 million units. The optimistic forecast comes despite these mobile phones are hardly present [...]
Scott McNealy announced it: with the acquisitions he wants to force the thrust reversers in terms of revenue. Now he has at least made the acquisitions true: The Solaris companies intensifies with the Netforce team including the Procom NAS product line in the “Sun 5000″ operating system used. The team will be integrated in de [...]
Just two weeks after the launch of Mac OS X Tiger could prove to be one of the most important innovations of entry for malware. According to reports, the placeable on the Dashboard “Widgets” – mini-programs for narrowly defined areas of responsibility – take control over the system functions. Thus, the developer, “Stephan” multiple widgets [...]
The Finnish security expert can F-Secure has launched a new anti-spyware solution that detect sniffing programs in real time and warn against them. “Anti-spyware” is based on the Ad-Aware by Lavasoft and technology to identify, according to F-Secure any kind of malicious spyware. After starting the anti-spyware engine scans your computer for spyware, scumware, adware, [...]
Asian business is becoming the growth engine of the mobile phone supplier Net Mobile from Dusseldorf. Sales in this region are expected to rise in the coming fiscal year to more than 20 million € and will amount to about one-third of total sales, said Theodor Niehues, CEO of Mobile Net the “Handelsblatt”. Currently, the [...]
The new Xbox 360 game console in November in the U.S. comes on the market. Microsoft is working hard to anticipate with its new console, the current market leader in console games, Sony’s PS2. It spares no effort Microsoft has reported that “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) today. The console war is going on back then. [...]
confusion has caused a brief outage on Google last Saturday. The page of popular search engine was unavailable for a while. Some surfers reported to have been taken to another site further. For this reason, quickly made the rumors circulating that Google.com was the victim of a hacker attack. The page was 16 bis 15:45 [...]
In August 2005, is to receive the strongest ever “computation monster” his work. As part of the D-Grid project, the national grid infrastructure, computers for very large calculations are interconnected. The aim of this technology is to allow many thousands of computers working together on a single task. With the Grid technology can be enormous [...]
begrudge his Iriver H10 portable MP3 player now more memory. So it is with a color screen equipped device from immediately to have with a 6-gigabyte hard drive. The other features remain unchanged, the price is 299 €. The H10 has an aluminum housing and is controlled by an integrated touchpad. On the integrated display [...]
customers of wireless providers, call centers provide a clear rejection of customer care and prefer to use self-service. This follows an investigation by the U.S. and French e-commerce specialists Netonomy. Thus, it favors the large majority of users to manage their accounts via mobile phone or the Internet via the mobile phone itself. Care by [...]