In the last few days have some interesting messages we are remained again, we however do not want to deprive you and therefore are summarised in a summary news. Today’s offer reports Microsoft, Philips, time located in Warner, DivX, and GameSpy.

Bill Gates: increase productivity like never before Bill Gates is a frequent interview partner for some time. After his keynote at the recent Comdex, the interest in him has not subsided even though the Chief show no further large visions software architect of Microsoft it had. Rather it seems the seamless computing clarification to provide the guiding theme of his keynote. According to the news service CNET asked now eWeek gates.more on heise.de

Philips forms joint venture for semiconductor in China With a Chinese company, the Dutch electronics company of Philips has formed a joint venture for the development, production and marketing of semiconductors. Partner of the Dutch is Jilin Sino-microelectronics C. Ltd (JSMC) in Jilin, as Philips reported on Tuesday. The new company to establish by middle of next year on bipolar power semiconductors for installation in televisions, refrigerators, microwaves and computers.more on heise.de

Microsoft checks errors in Exchange 2003 For messages on the security mailing list Bugtraq there is a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: about Outlook Web access you can log allegedly in foreign mail accounts. Matthew Johnson, administrator of the U.S. company, already reported by the error a few days ago: “this seems to be a great lack of security and therefore until further notice, we had to turn off Outlook Web access,” he wrote.more on heise.de

Pirates-Stube, near Stuttgart with over 1,600 CDs In the Stuttgart area, two pirates in the network have gone to investigators of the music industry. In a yoga school, which had laced pair packages with music CDs and sold these nationally for several hundred euro each.more on chip.de

Time Warner sold music Division for $ 2.6 billion
The US media group Time Warner has on Monday as expected the sale of its music Division Warner Music to a group of investors to the businessman Edgar Bronfman announced.more on reuters.de

Microsoft shows off internal security principles
Microsoft wants to help its customers in the development of security measures and it developed a technical white paper. Especially it is that the Redmond company use not any case study, but their own business with 65,000 employees worldwide, 300,000 computers and 4200 servers. With the IT Pro security zone, Microsoft offers a new section on his site, which deals exclusively with security issues.more on heise.de

Industry hopes to effect of anti-spam laws After the recent legislative initiatives against unsolicited commercial E-mail (spam) in the United States, many industry experts on a positive impact in Germany hope.

Patricia Rohde said “We can imagine good, that the new legal situation many deterrent could affect”, from the Internet portal Yahoo on Monday of the dpa. German users could benefit from.more on tecchannel.de

DivX 5.1.1: twice as fast The DivX video codec is now available in a reviewed version to download. DivXNetworks promises a boost of acceleration up to 112 percent in standard mode when compared to the version 5.1. The quality should be has been greatly improved in the fastest mode.more on chip.de

Hard disk video recorder conquer the mass-market With the Christmas season, digital video recorder in Germany come to their success. While the devices in the United States have already increasingly found entry into the living room, especially security companies use the recorder to record surveillance videos. An analysis of the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan according to more than 1.5 million hard disk video recorder were sold in the last year alone. Each second device is used for entertainment, the other 50 percent established a guard and security firms.more on chip.de

Microsoft – multiplayer cooperation with GameSpy GameSpy has been for years of the most common browser for game server. Now, Microsoft and GameSpy are skipped in the crib. Because Microsoft has now brought a partnership under roof and subject with GameSpy, which in future games with multiplayer part of Microsoft always the GameSpy server browser will be the same in the game here.more on gamigo.de

China relies on DVD-alternative