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Amazon surprised friend and enemy through in the voorbije quarter less loss to suffer then expect. With last year there is compared even talk by a giantic progress, helped through an impressive volume of trade increase. The pioneering e-store appears to become now after a lot of years a profitable enterprise.

In the first three months of this year, Amazon made 23 million dollars (25.8 million Euro) loss. That is surprising little, find analysts. End last year made the e-store for the first time in its history profit, helped through a strong end years sale. Anyhow there is talk of a progress; in the first quarter of 2001, Amazon sat with a pit of 234 million dollars (262.47 million Euro).

Despite the small loss is the mood optimistic. The sale ascended strengthen to write is with 21 per cent to 847.42 million dollars (950.57 million Euro), what on bill of the international establishments of Amazon, among many in Germany, Japan and the VK. They jotted down a volume of trade increase of 71 per cent and approximately a quarter of the total volume of trade furnished.

Was the Marketplace-division a strong groeier in the U.S. The service let harmed to sell closed second-hand products on the site of Amazon and was responsibly for 23 per cent of the American orders. Just that Marketplace-division stood beginning April yet under fire through the Authors Guild, a writers association with members as Michael Crichton and Stephen King. The screamed finds that the new service harm does at the earnings of writers, through customers at too courageously their books by selling.

Amazon has not to thank its good figures ankle at a strong increase of the volume of trade. In the voorbije year, CEO Jeff Bezos a drastic restructuring sailed on. Besides became the marketing budget strengthen shrunk, dismissed supplies afgebouwd and personnel.

Round the sale in the coming quarter at too courageously goes the webstore discounts offer on post of 15 dollars or more. The decrease is recent were carried out the third that. In January, it scraped the verse thing expense on orders of 99 dollars and higher.

Shuttle appears to bring source each week a new bar bean out, but with the ST62K 'Zen', they play in on a town more prominent question of users that are on missing to a living room solution. With the nickname 'Zen' will Shuttle indicate that this new XPS especially a very quiet machine is.

The ST62K takes advantage of the Radeon 9100-chipset, a Pentium 4 , 3 GHz and a large number built in edge devices below which USB 2.0, FireWire, 6.1-geluid (with S/PDIF) and a Tv-exit. The ST62K is no speeds devil be, and the device has then also only a single PCI-end for expansions card.

That is no good news, for wants put in is as you this Shuttle as a PVR-station the necessarily as source a better sounds card than a capture-card to install. Happy there are for both branches good USB 2.0-oplossingen available.

The most important sources of noise inconvenience are fans and are to cool that necessarily round the processor, chip sets and feeding. The XPS ST62K catches that first parts on with its classic ICE HeatPipe-system, that all heat toquiet more coldly leads.

The feeding wanted to replace adapt alleviate is through a giantic, external without more coldly, that thus also 100 per cent - a simple, but sore efficinte solution.

For its fast performances do not gets may appeared you the ST62K in house, that from our benchmarkvergelijking with the Paradigit Enforcer 3000.

Shuttle XPS ST62K 'Zen'

A new online tool reveals try that businesses and public figures continual their street on Wikipedia clean to wipe. The student that the WikiScanner built, hopes on “so much possible small publicities catastrophes” for organizations at which he a hackle has.

The WikiScanner sees to for a lot lift through by controversile articles after going which changes have been put in and on which IP-address the author self finds. The maker, a student of the California Institute or Technology, says that technically spoken little falls off to lead from that information. He joins that source at closed that when a change about a business is done under an IP-address that refers to the business network, can be accepted “that that person for that business works or as guest entry has till the network”.

The American periodical Wired has been started at the same time a blog to hold the opvallendste changes by. As removed the personal assistant of a bishop from the American state Pennsylvania imputations of childermisbruik and fraud, become on a computer of the Democratic party typed that the Republican politician Rush Limbaugh an “idiot” and “racist” was and tried a co-worker of Microsoft a passage to wipe about badly working Xbox 360-consoles.

The changes are temporarily alone worked out for the Engelstalige Wikipedia-data boss, but maker Jake Applebaum says that it no single problem is its WikiScanner also on other scores closed to fit. He finds that the online encyclopedia now all excellent work performs and hopes with its discovery controversile subject at the most most more trustworthy to make.

Wikipedia-founder Jimmy Bank has the International Herald Bleachers let know that he the “a tremendous idea” finds and it totally behind state. of

The race round as first a graphic card with 512 MB ready to steam, has been won by ATI. The manufacturer obetains with that a (small) victory on its aartsrivaal nVidia. Already falls to expect that that not far stays behind.

Through the X800 XL from to rest with a half gigabyte graphic memory, offers ATI a card that quite large textures aankan. Already there are little spell can make on this moment very that real use of so much memory. Actual Doom only 3, paradoxically a game that count can on the sponsoring of nVidia. On term falls however to expect that the most new games the extra memory space utilize.

Presumably the X800 XL 512 MB will self as for price above the existing X800-aanbod positioneren. The memory realms cards will at the customary partners as Abit, Gigabyte, MSI and Sapphire appeared, says ATI.

If it goes about ATI, sit to wait the most gamers probably before on an answer on nVidia SLI-system. That ATI is expected will do shortly - possible on the Computex-purse in Taiwan - a presentation to use by its platform round two graphic cards in tandem.

An of the suspected that end previous December in frame of an international operation against softwarepiracy became arrested, has been condemned till almost three year imprisonment. Barry Erickson, a 35-birthday employee of Symantec, pleaded offender causing of 2.5 until 5 million dollars (2.75 until 5.5 million Euros) damage. He is the first member of the pirates group DrinkOrDie that punished becomes for the spreading of illegal copies of programs. Different other members must yet appeared for the right.

During the trial said the accuser that Erickson technology of Symantec passed at DrinkOrDie-members.,. These with that could get around the protection on software and offer gepirateerde versions online. That happened via secret websites and closed chatkanalen on IRC-servers.

Erickson was one of the software pirates that during operation 'Buccaneer' became arrested. The international police action under leadership of the American customs had an extension in six countries, below which Norway and the United Kingdom. Around the same time found also enter places by the Dutch university of Twente by which different students became arrested for the spreading of illegal software and media.

At the time of operation 'Buccaneer' said the American customs that DrinkOrDie responsibly was for ninety per cent of all illegal software on the Internet.,. In the rear said a spokesman that the group only one of ten such pirates groups was and that further action not so stay away.

Over the condemnation of Erickson said federal Attorney General Paul McNulty that “the long imprisonment that he got, demonstrates that the ministry of Justice it on stands that copyrightwetten also count in the cyberwereld”.,

Ever was Comdex the most important IT-purse in the world, about that from the viewpoint of the Americas. Falling visitors numbers and little interest by exposanten mean however that there this year in November no IT-celebration in Weld Vegas takes place.

The number of visitors at the Comdex-purse was the last years walked back strongly. In 2001, the attacks of 11 September and a disappointing economy brought the aboutripe on a low point as for visitors: the purse got only 125,000 visitors about the floor. There were then 1,400 exposanten. In heyday day of the Comdex, on average 200,000 visitors came show up

The cry of largest IT-purse in the world sounded then actual already false, for the CeBIT-purse in the German Hannover got easy five turn so much people about the floor. Besides must be observed that the German aboutripe much more broadly goes then 'pure' computer technologies and also a spot gives at businesses that services and telecomproducten offer.

On own bottom, Comdex got Consume Show (CES) always more competition of the Electronics, that takes place in the spring also in Weld Vegas. Moreover CeBIT made remained the visitors numbers grant single years ago the crossing to New York - already temporarily free.

With exhibitors, there was to be taken then also little zest yet part at the Comdex-purse. Many of them gave the preference at CES or on specialized, regional purses, as Computex in Taiwan. Large names as an IBM, Intel and Dell dropped out in the voorbije years already.

The absolute low point was last year, when the aboutripe only 40,000 visitors and 550 exposanten attracted. Also Comdex 2004 appeared the same fate allocated to be. And that is too little, judge the organizers MediaLive International. They speak temporarily normally of “a delay until 2005″.

The expocompany will reflect now on a new direction for Comdex; it is helped near it by an advice council with members of AMD, EMC, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Samsung. Otherwise are not the regional versions of Comdex in Brazil, Greece, Saudi-Arabi, Scandinavi and South-Korea transported.

It appears to go happen then really: also in the United States, gsm the new mobile telephone standard will become. That is to be thanked at the data protocol gprs, according to market investigation desk ABI Research.

In America, the CDMA-network leads now yet the dominant tone; this network becomes uses with name through providers Verizon and SprintPCS. Within two until three year will gsm/gprs-networks however a larger cover offer then CDMA, maintains ABI Research.

Present are there in the United States 73 million mobile telephones that gebruikmaken of the CDMA-network, opposite 58 million gsm-telephones. That difference will turned around can be within single years. Only already in 2002, the number gsm/gprs-telephones ascended change ATE with 11 per cent, among many through the of&T Wireless.

The world-wide sale of mobile telephones is risen in 2002 with 6 per cent to 423.4 million unities. That appeared from figures of market researcher Gartner Dataquest, that further for 2003 a robust growth of at least ten per cent plays.

From the report appeared further that the fourth quarters of 2002 the largest contribution have furnished at the growth figures. In that last period of the past year became 122.6 million unities sold, is what 14 per cent more then in the same period of 2001.

Gartner indicates a flaw at mobile data services, but according to the marketvolger, this is not been of influence on the upgrade-need of users. The new hardwares, many apparatuses have been rested with extra as a camera and/or color screen, was impressively enough consumers till the purchase from new apparatuses to move.

Specific growth figures had not to predict walk Gartner Dataquest for 2003, but according to the market investigation desk these certainly in the double figures. That can come this year down to a total sale of 465 million unities.

Mobiles with 3G-possibilities will not have puts many influence on the figures, as the report, through the delays by the rolling out of the networks.

Nokia remained comes also this year convincing market leader with a growing share of 35.8 per cent, what down to 151.4 million sold apparatuses. Numbers two is Motorola, with a market share of 15.3 per cent, the equivalent of 64.6 million sold unities.

Two large services will dominate according to Nokia the gsm-landscape: mobile music listen to and look on the way Tv-. Especially for that last one plays the manufacturer a very rosy future - as all parties want to work together. A first starting shot is given with the N92, a new handset that the middle holds between a gsm and a portable mediacenter. Now yet the services.

“We believe that it next year all commercile mobile Tv-services will be”, says director or rich media services Markus Lindqvist of Nokia. “Roughen geschat put the rams that there against 2010 approximately 100 million users will be of Mobile TV.” That have been attracted there a lot, not only to look by the possibility everywhere television, but also by interactive elements. “We believe that mobility and television a strong combination is that in the taste of the consumer will fall.”

Mobile TV is typical a child of solution of which Nokia holds. Not only the service must see to furnishes for a tree in the handsetverkoop and network equipment, the technology friendly opera tower a new earnings source and Tv-stations get a new advertising channel in hands and do at customers bond.

Everybody wins appears by Mobile TV, as it. Only the platform asks acted a combined action between quite various, what no obviousness is. “You traditionally have the broadcast- And the mobile industry - each with their own vertical affairs model - and that two do not award each other”, gives Lindqvist. Especially in Belgi appears that a problem. As fell the on that all neighboring countries Mobile TV-trials hold, our country appeared the large absent. At our north neighbors for instance takes place there a test with the digital Tv-platform Digitenne.

Technological relative on DVB-T, digital television is Mobile TV via the ether. In Belgi sends the public station on this manner from - already becomes that once in a while forget and goes all attention at the digital offer of Belgacom and Telenet.,. The base of Mobile TV am called DVB-H (H for hand hero) and was designed with mobile apparatuses in the back of the head.

As must the standard a low powerverbruik possible make and are 'robust', read: settled bars remain even by bad reception. Especially that last one sees to for it that a DVB-H-network it quite otherwise looks forward: instead of single central zendmasten, must there superiors smaller stations be. On self awful, for that cannot by on existing GSM-mast.

A postgraduaat student at the American university MEASURES claims the first large break by the verschalken of the Xbox-protection. With a little skilful soldeerwerk and a zelfgebouwde printplaat to value of 60 dollars, he has found the key till the operating system of the console. The dream of many hackers round own applications as Linux to turn on the Xbox can now perhaps reality become.

Andrew Huang, in the daily life a researcher at the supercomputerafdeling of MEASURES, taken by its hackpogingen a something other path then many of its colleague-burglars. Off to lead of the many sites that act about Xbox-hacks, becomes there mostly tried softwarematig a break to force. Especially the encryption, that the operating system of the console protects, lies in the sight.

Huang discovered that the nVidia-media chip (MCPX) of the Xbox a secret bootblock contain. With that saw he through a wrong track of Microsoft, that the console protected against such hackpogingen. The Xbox has also a flashrom, as it were the spot which the codede boat instructions have a home. The code in this chip is however false, stilt Huang, and becomes by the reboot transferred through the instructions that in MCPX hidden are.

A zelfgebouwd apparatus, that the data communication intercepts between the media chip and the rest of the Xbox, gave Huang entry till the code. On its webpage describes he how everything in its work went.

Along these away the researcher got the binaries, The code of the lagging behind operating system, in hands. That truces are however not back to find or are to download on its website. For that reason is the opposition of Microsoft too large. For although the business - true Huang regular contact with has - not really against its project is, want it not that the gecopyrighte code online appeared. 12 hour after Huang its break reported, got he a telephone of the software business on that the emphasis on to lay. The conversation here is to be listenned to (in MP3-formaat).

Thanks to the information in the binaries, Huang understanding has gotten used in the encryption and the joining keys. According to him is the possible for instance Linux to turn on the console - is there already yet work at the store.

During its hackpogingen discovered the researcher in passing that the unique series numbers of the console possible legibly will be via the Live-broad tie service. That would mean that each Xbox in principle online identificeerbaar is, what considered can become as a violation of the privacy.