Archive for ‘2005’

Phone call forwarding: T-Com 2.59 cents per minute to write well

Phone call forwarding: T-Com 2.59 cents per minute to write well

T-Com offers its customers under the program “Switch & Profit” is now the opportunity to redirect their phone calls are free to forward a maximum of two fixed lines. Per minute, then writes the T-Com 2.59 cents on the telephone bill well. This only works when a call from a landline telecom is going on. [...]

“Small” Trojans, big impact

“Small” Trojans, big impact

The British e-mail security provider Black Spider warns of a new Trojan that is spreading since yesterday more than 2.6 million e-mails to European companies. The e-mails containing the Trojan “Downloader.Win32.Small.arf” pose as spam warning of an IT team, whose system was infected and then allegedly sent spam messages. In the appendix of the e-mail [...]

Music streaming via Bluetooth to car stereo

Music streaming via Bluetooth to car stereo

Samsung and Audi have introduced a solution for playing music files via Bluetooth in the car. Here comes the “Advanced Audio Distribution Profile” (A2DP) is used, which was re-recorded in the Bluetooth standard. On the A2DP compatible Samsung SGH-D600 stored music is streamed via Bluetooth in stereo-quality hi-fi system for an Audi A6. The music [...]

Toshiba Announces LED projector for the IFA

Toshiba Announces LED projector for the IFA

Toshiba at IFA preview in Munich showed a projector that works instead of a lamp using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). According to Toshiba, they produce less heat and are energy efficient. For the IFA to the first devices will be presented. The LED projector can be operated with rechargeable batteries for two hours and have [...]

USB Camera as a remote monitoring system

USB Camera as a remote monitoring system

The U.S. security specialist Digi International has introduced a new high-performance USB camera for mission critical applications. The “Watchport/V2″ includes new features for easy integration into commercial applications and can be used with Digi’s motion detection software as a remote monitoring system. The “V2″ includes new features such as a DirectShow WDM driver that enables [...]

Toshiba plans to present at the IFA SE displays

Toshiba plans to present at the IFA SE displays

As part of the IFA-Preview Toshiba has given a preview of its technology developed in conjunction with Canon “Surface Conduction Electron emitter display” (SED), which is intended for the manufacture of screens in many sizes and resolutions to be good. Toshiba has explicitly mentioned the HDTV resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. The official unveiling [...]

Microsoft: Patches for Windows and Office on the march

Microsoft: Patches for Windows and Office on the march

Microsoft plans as part of its monthly patch day next Tuesday include a total of critical vulnerabilities in the Windows and Office products. Two of the vulnerabilities affect Windows, one of which is classified with the highest severity “critical”, as the Office chess site. Microsoft has given no details on the impact of known vulnerabilities, [...]

Broadband in the U.S. grew strongly in 2004

Broadband in the U.S. grew strongly in 2004

In the U.S. the number of high-speed access to the Internet last year has grown by 34 percent to 37.9 million accesses. This was announced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a report. The agency counts all Internet access points that have a transfer rate of more than 200 kilobits per second, for high-speed [...]

Chip industry is not in motion

Chip industry is not in motion

In the semiconductor industry is no end to the slump in sight. Many producers currently sell far fewer chips than last year. This meant that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) in June sales decreases of more than ten percent over 2004, the company said yesterday. Even worse, it looks at United Microelectronics (UMC) from. The [...]

Exploit for old Firefox vulnerability circulating on the Web

Exploit for old Firefox vulnerability circulating on the Web

Anyone who has run an older version of Firefox on his computer should be on guard: A now been submerged exploit that open everywhere on the web, threatens all users of Firefox 1.0.1 and previous versions. Then the French “Security Incident Response Team” has pointed out. The bug concerns the so-called image-parsing problem of older [...]

ATI All-In-Wonder does DVB-T

ATI All-In-Wonder does DVB-T

The new all-in-Wonder (AIW) is equipped with the high-end graphics chip Radeon X800 XL. The chip operates at a clock frequency of 400 MHz. The 256 MByte memory is operated with 490 MHz. In addition, the European version in addition to analog TV and DVB-T transmitter and received radio. For 399 € later in the [...]

CRM: Microsoft skips a release

CRM: Microsoft skips a release

Microsoft wants to its Worldwide Partner Conference, held from 7 to 10 July in Minneapolis held to introduce version 3.0 of its CRM application. Normally would be 2.0 at the first row, because were included in the product features but that should be introduced only in the third version, have you taken this into account [...]

AMD: small success in the first lawsuit against Intel

AMD: small success in the first lawsuit against Intel

AMD can claim in the legal battle with rival Intel a small success. The competent court in the U.S. state of Delaware has ruled that a total of 30 companies mentioned in the application may need to keep documentary evidence. AMD Versus Intel allegedly has in the past week filed a complaint competition, which concluded [...]

KPN is losing fixed-line monopoly

KPN is losing fixed-line monopoly

The Dutch telephone company KPN will lose its monopoly on fixed lines. The Hague regulator Opta said on Friday that she wanted to open this area for more competitors. KPN’s stock then lost in the meantime four percent of their value, closing at € 6.70 – a drop of almost three percent from the previous [...]

Windows XP Starter Edition with acceptance problems

Windows XP Starter Edition with acceptance problems

Microsoft expands sales of its Windows XP Starter Edition out in more countries. Nevertheless, analysts doubt the fact that the software meets the expectations of the Redmond company. The operating system is still not flexible enough to meet the needs of emerging countries and their inhabitants’ needs. With Windows XP Starter Edition is a functionally [...]