Yahoo has now its own war correspondent. Kevin Sites, a TV journalist and former correspondent for U.S. channel NBC, and CNN will report on a website called “Kevin Sites in the hot zone” for Yahoo from crisis locations around the globe. This site wants to use all the formats offered by the Internet, thus creating [...]

A newly discovered vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox could allow attackers to run malicious code on a user’s system, said Tom Ferris, a security researcher and manager of the blog “Security Protocols”. Affected are all versions of competing with the Internet Explorer browser. The problem lies in the way, such as Firefox handle URLs that have [...]

Macromedia announced today at the IBC broadcasting trade show in Amsterdam presented the Flash Media Server 2. The next generation of Flash Communication Server streaming media capabilities combined with a development environment for the implementation and delivery of interactive video applications. The software will come on the market in October. For a two-processor system, the [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has allowed a mobile phone mast tax under certain conditions. Actually, it was the Belgian communities and Fléron Schaerbeek, who had raised three years ago on local taxes transmission towers, masts and antennas for mobile communication. Such taxes are problematic but, “if operators which have special or exclusive rights [...]

Microsoft plans to soon provide APIs for MSN and other proprietary online services. Developers should have such an opportunity to use certain functions for their projects. According to this model, companies like Yahoo and Google are working successfully. In the next few weeks, Microsoft plans to introduce at the Professional Developers Conference its strategy. For [...]

Terratec Aureon 7.1 PCI has presented a sound card that converts any audio signal in real time in a Dolby Digital signal. The map should be available in October for € 59.99. To a maximum of eight channels in audio signals can play with up to 48 kHz, with either two, four, six or eight [...]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will buy Scitex Vision by Scitex Corporation for a total of $ 230 million order to expand its portfolio of large format printers. The company is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, reached the last fiscal year sales von142 million dollars. Other branches are located in the United States, Belgium, China, Mexico and South Africa. [...]

Texas Instruments (TI) operates under the name Davinci on a new chip that will come in set-top boxes, portable music players, digital cameras and similar devices are used. This let to shorten the development time of such solutions. By the end of the year, including the associated software components are available. DaVinci chips have several [...]

Apple Ipod Nano presents the successor to the popular iPod Mini. The switch to flash memory does allow the new form factor, but analysts say the increased production costs. As cost 1 GB flash memory, according to Semico and iSuppli on the market around $ 45. In the 2-gigabyte Nano, which is sold for 199 [...]

Access Software Palm Source was acquired for 324 million dollars. The price is about 83 percent higher than the yesterday’s closing price of PalmSource’s share of 10.09 dollars, shared by both companies today. The acquisition is expected to be completed later this year. Still, the approval of competition authorities as well as the source of [...]

IIR Germany, founder of the EAI-Forum wants to give his child a new name: The meeting point for integration professionals is now called “Business Integration Forum”. IIR will allow the current trend in development – reflect – away from pure application subject to the integration across company boundaries. At the start of the forum was [...]

AVM is now offering an ISDN-Controller for the Express Card standard. The Fritz Express Card costs € 248 and will continue to be available next to the PCMCIA version. The delivery includes driver for Windows XP and x64, the latest version of Fritz software and a four-meter-long ISDN cable. The hot plug capability enables the [...]

Reporters Without Borders raised serious allegations against Yahoo. The company should have provided Chinese law enforcement authorities with information that led to the imprisonment of a journalist. The organization is committed to issues of press freedom. The 37-year-old Shi Tao was in the newspaper “Dangdai Shang Bao” and was active on 10 April to ten [...]

Yakumo is the IFA for two new bundles for mobile navigation and GPS with a PDA. Both packages, the alpha and alpha X X Navigator Navigator Europe based on the model Yakumo PDA Alpha X GPS. This handheld is equipped with a Samsung S3C2410A processor with 266 MHz and permits in connection with the preinstalled [...]

After the TV debate between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel, the German parties seem set to e-mail advertising. The Internet portal Lycos Europe reported after the televised debate on Sunday a “substantial increase” of unsolicited commercial e-mail with political messages. The company has analyzed three weeks ago and one hour after the TV debate [...]