Archive for ‘2005’

Apple’s Tiger Dashboard as an entry point for malware

Apple’s Tiger Dashboard as an entry point for malware

Just two weeks after the launch of Mac OS X Tiger could prove to be one of the most important innovations of entry for malware. According to reports, the placeable on the Dashboard “Widgets” – mini-programs for narrowly defined areas of responsibility – take control over the system functions. Thus, the developer, “Stephan” multiple widgets [...]

80 percent of all PCs infected with spyware

80 percent of all PCs infected with spyware

The Finnish security expert can F-Secure has launched a new anti-spyware solution that detect sniffing programs in real time and warn against them. “Anti-spyware” is based on the Ad-Aware by Lavasoft and technology to identify, according to F-Secure any kind of malicious spyware. After starting the anti-spyware engine scans your computer for spyware, scumware, adware, [...]

Mobile phone suppliers are attracted to Asia

Mobile phone suppliers are attracted to Asia

Asian business is becoming the growth engine of the mobile phone supplier Net Mobile from Dusseldorf. Sales in this region are expected to rise in the coming fiscal year to more than 20 million € and will amount to about one-third of total sales, said Theodor Niehues, CEO of Mobile Net the “Handelsblatt”. Currently, the [...]

Xbox 360 comes in November

Xbox 360 comes in November

The new Xbox 360 game console in November in the U.S. comes on the market. Microsoft is working hard to anticipate with its new console, the current market leader in console games, Sony’s PS2. It spares no effort Microsoft has reported that “Wall Street Journal” (WSJ) today. The console war is going on back then. [...]

Google.com down briefly

Google.com down briefly

confusion has caused a brief outage on Google last Saturday. The page of popular search engine was unavailable for a while. Some surfers reported to have been taken to another site further. For this reason, quickly made the rumors circulating that Google.com was the victim of a hacker attack. The page was 16 bis 15:45 [...]

Climate calculations with grid computing

Climate calculations with grid computing

In August 2005, is to receive the strongest ever “computation monster” his work. As part of the D-Grid project, the national grid infrastructure, computers for very large calculations are interconnected. The aim of this technology is to allow many thousands of computers working together on a single task. With the Grid technology can be enormous [...]

Iriver H10 Now with 6-GB hard disk

Iriver H10 Now with 6-GB hard disk

begrudge his Iriver H10 portable MP3 player now more memory. So it is with a color screen equipped device from immediately to have with a 6-gigabyte hard drive. The other features remain unchanged, the price is 299 €. The H10 has an aluminum housing and is controlled by an integrated touchpad. On the integrated display [...]

Mobile phone users do not want a call center

Mobile phone users do not want a call center

customers of wireless providers, call centers provide a clear rejection of customer care and prefer to use self-service. This follows an investigation by the U.S. and French e-commerce specialists Netonomy. Thus, it favors the large majority of users to manage their accounts via mobile phone or the Internet via the mobile phone itself. Care by [...]

Data services will be at the lucrative mobile phone

Data services will be at the lucrative mobile phone

to data services on mobile phones sales achieved in the coming years to bring the much-anticipated revenues from wireless providers. According to a study by U.S. market research institute IDC data services currently 5.8 percent of average revenue per user (ARPU) can be achieved. This percentage is expected to triple over the next few years, [...]

Intel and Sprint to test mobile WiMax

Intel and Sprint to test mobile WiMax

U.S. chip giant Intel has with Sprint, the number three on the U.S. mobile market, adopted a far-reaching cooperation in the development of WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). Its priorities are to test WiMax equipment are to be checked for performance and interoperability. To apply to the 802.11e mobile WiMax standard will, shared with [...]

E-Plus seeks to cooperate with new partners

E-Plus seeks to cooperate with new partners

The mobile phone company E-Plus will in future concentrate more on three sources of growth: The company wants to accelerate cooperation with other companies that buy mobile minutes at E-Plus and sell under its own name. It was on track until the end of at least two such partnerships have signed and sealed, said E-Plus [...]

Asus White Netbook with built-in camera

Asus White Netbook with built-in camera

The “W5600A” Asus has launched a white subnotebook with a built-in camera. The device is based on Intel’s latest Centrino Sonoma generation and is now available at a price of € 1999. The W5600A is equipped with a 1.73 GHz Pentium M Centrino processor and GMA900 graphics solution. On board are a total of 512 [...]

Atempo shows security solution for Mac OS X 10.4

Atempo shows security solution for Mac OS X 10.4

The California specialist in recovery and backup software, Atempo has a scalable data protection solution for Apple’s new operating system OS X “Tiger” presents. By Atempo’s support for the “Tiger” provides the “Time Navigator,” Apple’s customers an integrated data security at all tiers of storage. Here, the enterprise backup and restore system is easy to [...]

Onspeed faster Internet access from Pocket PCs

Onspeed faster Internet access from Pocket PCs

Onspeed has a service for wireless device like Pocket PCs introduced, which should speed up data transfer for € 39.99 per year. This is made possible by a server-side compression of the transmitted content. To use the service to install special software on the Pocket PC is a need to redirect incoming and outgoing traffic [...]

CPU Software House assumes FINSYS

CPU Software House assumes FINSYS

CPU Software House has acquired the Swiss company FINSYS of St. Gallen. The company wants to expand its product and services portfolio for financial service further. The acquisition was financed through a capital increase against contributions in kind. Board Manfred Köhler, W.: “Despite the continued strong reluctance to investing in the financial services sector, the [...]