Sun Microsystems moves back his efforts to sell a Linux operating system for desktop PCs and in doing so, changes in policy. The so-called Java Desktop System (JDS) will indeed continue to exist as a product based on Sun’s Solaris, but in the future, said John Loiacono Manager software. The focus will lie on a [...]

The Association of German Internet Economy (Eco) has elected a new board. At the Annual General Meeting 2005 Michael Rotert was confirmed as chairman. As were other board members, Bernd Becker, Klaus Landefeld, and Oliver SümeThomas von Bulow re-elected. Excreted from the body is Olaf Jüptner. Eco-CEO Harald A. Summa was confirmed at the 2005 [...]

70 percent of industry experts see in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, an engine for the mobile internet via UMTS. This is the result of a recent survey of experts who presented the consulting firm Detecon International as part of the “Mobile Media Talk” in Cologne. When the services are taking, especially information and [...]

Some versions of the Celeron D are now shipping with Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) and are thus like the Pentium 4 and Xeon 64-bit capable. With this announcement, Intel has confirmed previous speculation. EM64T dominate the newly launched Celeron D 351 3.2 GHz, and the less powerful variants 346, 341, 336, 331 and 326 [...]

U.S. provider Earthlink wants to better protect its customers against phishing and spyware. Already offered anti-phishing toolbar to be upgraded in a few months to provide a tool of Aluria Software for effective anti-spyware technologies with Cyota. Earthlink since 2003, offers protection against spyware, an Internet Explorer toolbar against phishing was published in 2004. Scott [...]

The telecommunications provider Colt Telecom wants this year to increase its sales in Germany by more than 15 percent. “We primarily earn money with the additional applications,” said Wolfgang Essig, Chairman of the company specialized on business customers, the “Börsen-Zeitung” (Saturday edition). “The business allows for very fine margins.” The pure carrier business, thus providing [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that developers of peer to peer software can be held liable for copyright infringement on their networks. For providers could therefore perilous times, because that is the legal basis for large-scale wave of lawsuits from the music and film industry down. The judges had to evaluate a series [...]

The market for multi-regional wide-area networking services (WAN) will grow in coming years, on average, by 4.5 percent to 6.5 percent. The analysts forecast the market research and consulting firm Forrester Research. They base this prediction with the fact that many large, multinational companies are replacing obsolete in this period, wide area networks, which focus [...]

The Spanish security specialist Panda Software warns of a new variant of the Mytob worm. “Mytob.GV” opens a backdoor on infected systems and spreads via e-mail and shared resources with weak passwords. After infection, the worm terminates several processes in the computer, mainly from anti-virus solutions. In addition, it will block web access to the [...]

supplier of Siemens’ mobile phone production could be the losers in the takeover by the Taiwanese group BenQ. It reports the “Financial Times Germany” (FTD) today, citing analysts. Accordingly, undertakings such as Infineon, the German housing manufacturer Balda, AT & S, and Flextronics their supply contracts in the wake of the tightening of losing mobile [...]

the dream of a career as a professional tennis player Mark Hurd has given up a long time. A strategic principle of the white sport but has internalized the 48-year-old business world: “If you win, please,” said Hurd, the new man at the helm of Hewlett-Packard (HP), who used to be his business studies with [...]

Real Networks has reported a total of four vulnerabilities in RealPlayer that allow a hacker to take control of a computer. The company has provided interim patches. The vulnerabilities are found in current and older versions of Real Player for the Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The software Rhapsody 3 of our own music download [...]

Sony has reduced the originally planned production for the year of mobile console PlayStation Portable (PSP) for a third. Suppliers, according to Gamespot.com for the PSP was originally called a production of around 18 million units for the current fiscal year. Now, Sony plans but only the production of twelve million consoles. The scaling back [...]

fact that most computer problems sit in front of the screen is well known. A new study by Deloitte has now clarified this phenomenon: the man is the world’s biggest IT security risk. Attacks within a company are, at least for banks even before the threat of viruses, worms and Trojans. “The frequency of successful [...]

O2 and German broadband services (DBD) want to do with the product “Smart Duo” the landline completely useless. The telephony will be handled by the already known O2 ion, the Internet access via WiMax-based network of DBD. The monthly fee is 26.98 € Smart Duo. These consisted of € 16.99 for the “DSL on air” [...]