had just yesterday given the largest Swiss cable network operator Cablecom announced that the IPO would be brought forward. Today Friday now the surprise: Cablecom is for 2.825 billion francs (1.88 billion euros) sold to U.S. group Liberty Global. The planned IPO was stopped immediately. The acquisition is expected to close in October. According Cablecom [...]

Once a pure Internet search engine, spreads to more and more business from Google. Now occupies the billionaire even a research group of the U.S. space agency Nasa. The neighbors in Silicon Valley only speak of the “Borg”. The cooperation will include, among other things, the areas of nanotechnology, large decentralized computer systems (distributed computing) [...]

Research in Motion (RIM) want future communications technology from Intel in BlackBerry devices for EDGE networks (Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution) equipment. Want to use the XScale architecture and PXA9xx processor, codenamed “Hermon” come. “By collaborating with Intel, we were able to change the architecture of our devices and fundamentally the benefits of EDGE-based [...]

DivX celebrates its fifth birthday and wants to reward the visitors of his site: it is only on Thursday, the software package for free download DivX Create. Normally it costs $ 20. Who wants to download the software, must be left on the site of the provider’s mail address. The package includes the DivX Converter [...]

Microsoft has released the Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 for free download. The file is large, depending on the selection of the components of 55-109 MB. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates, however. Included is also the Service Pack 1 for Office 2003, which was published [...]

JBoss and Microsoft have today announced plans to jointly improve the interoperability of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) with the Windows Server products. JBoss also plans to support the Windows Server operating system energetic. The cooperative provides technical support and guidance regarding system architecture for the Active Directory functions, web services, management, and SQL [...]

CFO of Deutsche Telekom, Karl-Gerhard Eick, denied on Monday reports that Deutsche Telekom continues to plan a takeover of UK mobile operator O2. “We have no interest,” Eick told reporters. “The issue is closed for us.” In mid-August, Telekom had told the UK Financial Services, they have performed together with the Dutch telecom provider KPN [...]

With music phone Nokia 3250 offer now on the Finns a phone that’s also MP3 players. The Nokia 3250 also has a keypad that can be rotated 180 degrees: this special keys for playing music come to light. With a rotation of 90 degrees, the integrated 2-megapixel camera is activated. The tri-band device can store [...]

Logitech has be with the “Office Cordless Desktop” for company-designed range of products. The wireless keyboard is now available in five-pack of special retailer. Logitech did not mention a price on request. Theoretically, 50 users can use their desktop units on an area of ​​10 meters by 10 meters, without causing mutual interference. The connection [...]

Microsoft is about to present a separate keyword-based technology for online advertising. As the “New York Times’ (NYT) reported, Microsoft plans to entice advertisers with” sophisticated information “about the user. Therefore improves the MSN Keyword advertising opportunities, view by criteria such as age, gender and location to place. Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch sees [...]

Hurricane Katrina has triggered debate in American political agreement on whether the regulatory framework for Voice over IP must be changed. The storm caused the loss of millions of telephone lines in some places but he could still make phone calls via VoIP. At a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, therefore, some participants criticized [...]

antivirus software specialist Sophos has criticized his competitor’s claims Trend Micro, the company had discovered the world’s first “serious” mobile phone virus. According to Sophos, one can not speak of a spreading of the virus. In connection with its advisory issued on Wednesday for Symbian-Virus Trend Micro Cardtrp.A had before a “fully functioning” mobile threat [...]

from the online auction site eBay offered Paypal payment system may soon put all other Internet payment systems in the shade. To this end researchers at the University of Cologne arrive after a survey of 450 online retailers, the “Handelsblatt” is present. No other accounting system so rapidly is gaining new customers. Expressed to use [...]

The British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an interactive poster advertising the movie Sin City strip. The film was called up advertising on the grounds that the violent content of video clips were presented to the extremely unsuitable for children and spreads have caused a stir. The ASA responded for the first time on [...]

Apple’s online service. Mac even more features. These include. Mac Groups, a new version. Mac Backup, four times more storage space and additional language versions of German and French. In the future, are individuals and subscribers. Mac Family Pack 2 GB of memory available. Shape it. Mac Groups, users can continue your private online communities, [...]