Ericsson has unveiled a GSM base station for aircraft, enabling passengers to use their mobile phones during the flight on board commercial aircraft. The company has developed on the basis of RBS 2708, which comes with terrestrial mobile networks are used, a special airplane version which will only differ in some respects. According to Ericsson, [...]

LG Electronics introduced its first mobile phone without its own logo. This leaves the possibility of network providers, the telephone with its own brand name offering. The clamshell phone LG F2300 has a VGA camera with photo light, a color display with 65,000 colors and 128 by 160 pixels resolution, 40-polyphonic ringtones and MMS. For [...]

Yahoo Germany has now expanded its online offerings in the field of music. The new “Yahoo Music” offers a free Internet Radio service. Users have the opportunity to put together a personalized music program. The offer is supplemented by the now also customizable video streaming service. At the start of Internet radio has the Yahoo [...]

Five weeks after Lenovo acquired the PC division of IBM’s, the Chinese computer builder now also in Germany on the offensive. “Previously we were caught in the IBM-corset and have mainly focused on large business customers. Now we will expand our customer base significantly,” said Marc Fisher, CEO of Lenovo Germany, the “Handelsblatt”. For this [...]

The Australian telecoms giant Telstra has lifted the U.S. manager Solomon Trujillo to the top post. The 53-year-old Trujillo, previously served among others as head of French mobile phone giant Orange is to perform his duties as CEO and senior managers to first Begin July 2005, Telstra announced with today. He succeeds the outgoing Telstra [...]

Like yesterday it was announced Mobilcom takes legal action against the Simyo as described before by offering low-E-Plus. The company sees a violation of the contractually fixed anti-discrimination legislation and will obtain an immediate cessation of sales, to get all providers the same conditions. E-Plus has now commented on the accusations: “The allegations of Mobilcom [...]

The manufacturer of antivirus software Norman ASA has recognized claims to have more new variants of the Mytob worm. The worm also opens backdoors and thus gives the attacker the ability to access to infected computers. Only 30 percent of last month identified by Norman Malware Mytob variants should have been. Thus belong to one [...]

Fujitsu Siemens and Bild.T-Online have a new “people’s notebook” launched, as from the coming Saturday, 11th June 2005, will be sold. An AMD Turion 64 drives to the device. The chip is clocked at 1.6 GHz and has 512 KB of L2 cache. On board one Sis are shared graphics with up to 128 MB [...]

With the new plug ACUCOBOL-GT Eclipse users to the free, open source development environment using Eclipse and business-critical COBOL applications on Windows, UNIX, Linux and wait, develop and modernize can. However, to use the plugin the ACUCOBOL-GT development system and the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime environment installed. With the Acucorp plugin developers and software testers can within [...]

Microsoft has unveiled its Open House on Teched in Orlando, Florida, the successor to “Windows Update”. The tool operates under the name “Microsoft Update” and updates in addition to Windows and Office, Exchange and SQL Server. Later, further applications from Redmond to the roof hatch of Microsoft Update. With the new tool is the patching [...]

Mobilcom CEO Thorsten border has requested the District Court of Düsseldorf to issue a temporary injunction against the operator E-Plus. He wants “to get all the vendors the same terms” a “immediately stop marketing” of the E-Plus discounter Simyo to enforce the day. He also turned on the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts. Bone [...]

Microsoft plans required by the EU Media Player-free Windows to computer manufacturers on 15 Made available in June, and from 1 July and the retailers. This was announced by the software company announced today. Firstly, the operating system must be in English, German, French and Spanish, other language versions are to PC manufacturers on 1 [...]

Hush Technologies has with the M-Series fanless MCE Mobile media center PCs introduced based on Pentium or Celeron M processors from Intel. In the colors black and silver cost devices available in the base configuration of € 1623. For this price, the computer contains a Celeron M chip at 1.4 GHz, which runs on a [...]

What has been speculated for years over again, is now official: Apple will abandon the PowerPC platform and use in future x86 CPUs from Intel. This CEO Steve Jobs announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. First products should appear in a year, the complete range will be converted then 2007th Apple is [...]

the Austrian advertising spending in the second half of 2005, the Professional Association of Advertising predicts only modest growth. The association presented today, Tuesday, at a press conference the advertising Barometer 2005, which anticipates for the current year growth of only 1.5 percent. The surveyed advertising agencies see the situation not quite so black and [...]