According to a study by market researcher IDC, in 2009 sold a total of 124 million Flash-based MP3 player. In comparison to the 26.4 million units sold in 2004, this represents an increase of 370 percent. Of portable DVD players, music phones and portable game consoles are in the year 2009 700 million units shipped. [...]

Nokia has announced a collaboration with Chinese telecom equipment provider China Putian. The two companies plan to jointly develop and manufacture products for the upcoming 3G data services, and sell. The main focus lies on TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) and W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access). The first products in 2006 [...]

In a recent study provides security specialist Sophos list before the countries from which are sent between April and September 2005, most spam mails have been. The ranking is based on studies of their own Sophos Labs, in which researchers analyze globally all spam received in dedicated fast spam-traps. As in previous surveys, the U.S. [...]

Polycom yesterday, the first fully equipped SIP-based sound-Point IP phone console for call centers, telephone operators and secretaries announced, in which coordinates several connections simultaneously and must be monitored. The special feature of the product are not yet available functions that can be made available through the new Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It is a [...]

expert opinions about the opportunities and risks associated with the automated voice services vary widely. In the current issue of the service “Competence Report” of the Krefeld contact center service provider Sitel is Gunter Dueck, chief technologist and strategist, expressed in the Scientific Center of IBM Germany, skeptical about the benefits of speech recognition. Dueck [...]

Apple wants to introduce yet another new iPods this year. The said Executive Vice President Tim Cook. Whether the show will be already on the press conference scheduled for today, but he has left open. “Over a year ago, we have prepared to make revolutionary update to our core Ipod range,” said Cook. The past [...]

Notebook Intel Dual-Core CPU Yonah will be a roadmap, according to the market with higher clock speeds than expected. However, the power consumption over that of his predecessor apparently Pentium M. The chip will hit the market in early 2006. The CNET / ZDNet known Intel roadmaps show that Yonah will come with 2.16 GHz [...]

According to a study by Forrester Research, IT spending in the U.S. in 2007 only grow by two percent. An increase in the double digits to give again until the end of the decade. For 2005 and 2006, Forrester by seven percent. The forecasts are based on the findings that IT investments depends on overall [...]

F-Secure presented at the Systems in Hall B2, Booth 102 new security solutions for mobile devices. The antivirus software “F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus” is now available for mobile phones with the Windows Mobile operating system. The customer receives an “F-Secure Mobile Security,” a new anti-virus solution that includes firewall. It will be available for the Nokia [...]

Microsoft has introduced with Service Pack 1 for Navision 4, an update that should be tailored to the needs of large enterprises. For SMEs, the software manufacturer now offers a new package of Windows Server and Office, and consulting services. The Service Pack 1 for Navision 4 allows the integration of data from various business [...]

Sun Microsystems wants on 8 November high-end Unix servers with new dual-core processors put the UltraSPARC-IV + range on the market. The aim is to be boosted sales in this segment, which analysts say are failed in the last quarter of weak. The server manufacturer wants the 36-processor system, Sun Fire E20K and E25K 72-CPU [...]

Microsoft does not feel schadenfreude over the security gaps that have occurred in recent months in the competing Firefox browser. That said, the Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft Australia, Peter Watson. Firefox has competed as a safer alternative to Internet Explorer, had to contend with the spread but with some weaknesses. Neither you nor anyone [...]

Leading Wi-Fi ​​developers will show off a new industry forum. Intel, Broadcom, Marvel and Atheros want to develop a new Wi-Fi speed standard. So far the efforts have split to a new standard in the industry into two camps. Critics now fear that the new forum could further exacerbate the fronts. The new standard will [...]

To present the new graphics chips Radeon X1800, X1600 and X1300 are Ibiza ATI had something very special idea. At the invitation of the Canadian graphic chip manufacturer should the Finnish overclockers Sampsa Kurri and Sami Makkin up the newly introduced Radeon X1800 XT with a GPU and memory clock 625 MHz and 750 MHz [...]

Sharp with the production of the new front-end tuner for digital satellite reception BS2S7HZ6306 begun. It is a digital receiver for the new DVB-S2 standard – a key component for receiving HDTV via satellite. The tuner covers a frequency range of 950 to 2150 MHz for satellite TV transmission and is suitable for receiving both [...]