Topic: COMPUTER - on June 10, 2004 at 1:03:00 AM CEST
Musikkassettendeck für den PC
Ein "Plusdeck" für den 5,25-Zoll-Einschub am Computer erlaubt die einfache Digitalisierung alter Bänder. Mit Auto-Reverse-Funktion wird das gerät um 150 USD zu erwerben sein.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 9, 2004 at 7:02:00 PM CEST
Verbatim nennt Preis für Double-Layer Rohlinge
Ende Juni sollen die ersten Double-Layer Medien von Verbatim auf den Markt kommen. Jetzt nannte der Hersteller den Preis für das Produkt: 15 Euro pro Rohling. Grund für den hohen Preis ist das aufwändige Herstellungsverfahren und die anfangs geringe Nachfrage nach den Medien.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 9, 2004 at 2:21:00 PM CEST
Microsoft confirms EC appeal
Microsoft has confirmed that it is taking the EC back to court to appeal against the €497m fine imposed on the company. It also wants to overturn the EC competition ruling that it must offer a version of Windows without its Media Player and supplies competitors with more information about the internal workings of Windows.
Horacio Gutierrez, associate general counsel for Microsoft Europe, said the interests of European businesses and consumers "should be at the heart of this case".
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 9, 2004 at 2:20:00 PM CEST
Sony - BMG wedding hit by EC spoiler
Sony and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) have denied that they work together to fix CD prices and that a merger of the two record companies would reduce competition.
Last month the EC sent the companies a "statement of objections" detailing its concerns about the proposed merger. Competition Commissioner Mario Monti believes the deal would further reduce consumer choice. He is also concerned that savings in overheads made by the companies would not be passed onto customers in the form of lower prices.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 9, 2004 at 12:49:00 PM CEST
Police to monitor net chat rooms
Police around the world are planning to monitor conversations on internet chat rooms so they can stop paedophiles from grooming their victims over the web.
The idea emerged at a meeting in London of the Virtual Global Task Force, which was set up six months ago to make the internet safer for young people.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 8, 2004 at 9:58:00 AM CEST
16x DVD+R writing tests
We have just seen the first 12x DVD-writers appearing in stores, and here we have it; the first 16X DVD-Writer! Big thanks to BenQ for sending out an early pre-release drive of their upcoming DW1600A DVD-Writer. This is not a finished product yet and the full specifications are just released. So in this short preview we will only take a look at how fast 16x speed is and look at how the writing quality is at 16x. And we will of course answer the question everyone has: Will any 8x DVD+R media work at 16x?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 7, 2004 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
'Father of the computer' honoured
The father of the modern computer is being honoured, 50 years after he died in tragic circumstances.
Alan Turing was one of the pioneers of computer science, and his work helped make the modern PC a reality.
He was also one of the secret code breakers working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
He killed himself on 7 June 1954, by eating an apple he laced with cyanide. On Monday, a blue plaque will be erected outside his home in Cheshire.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 7, 2004 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
Microsoft geht optimistisch in die Berufung
Die Brüsseler Exekutive hatte im vergangenen März befunden, Microsoft habe seinen Windows Media Player illegal mit dem Betriebssystem gekoppelt und außerdem sein Desktop-Betriebssystemmonopol missbraucht, um sich den Weg in den Markt für Workgroup-Server zu ebnen. Die Kommission hatte Microsoft zu einer Geldstrafe von 497,2 Millionen Euro verurteilt und Maßnahmen verhängt, die den Wettbewerbsvorteil des Herstellers im Bereich Media Player und Server-Software reduzieren sollen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 7, 2004 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Microsoft appeals record-breaking fine
Microsoft will this week appeal the anti-trust decision, and record breaking fine, imposed on the company by Mario Monti and his Competition Commission G-men. Microsoft will file in the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg this week. It says the ruling would hamper its ability to innovate.
Back in March the Competition Commission hit the software giant with a €497m fine and ordered it to offer a version of Windows without Media Player.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 7, 2004 at 8:04:00 AM CEST
New Default Theme Coming to Firefox 0.9
The crusade to make the world a more beautiful place inches forward. The Mozilla Visual Identity Team is happy to see the preview of a new default theme for Firefox, which will be included in the next release (0.9 - in the next couple of weeks).
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 5, 2004 at 9:10:00 PM CEST
First quantum cryptography network unveiled
The first computer network in which communication is secured with quantum cryptography is up and running in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Chip Elliott, leader of the quantum engineering team at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, sent the first packets of data across the Quantum Net (Qnet) on Thursday. The project is funded by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 5, 2004 at 4:17:00 PM CEST
Iraq seeks '.IQ' domain to make its mark on Net
Mensa members not amused
Iraq's media commission and the U.S.-led administration in Iraq want to set up Web addresses using the domain code ".IQ" as the final tag. That would mean addresses for Web pages would be distinctively identified on the Internet with Iraq's own country code.
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