P2net went offline…

… but it was nothing to do with the libel lawsuit Sharman Networks (which is the big daddy behind the Kazaa P2P software) and it’s CEO Nikki Hemming launched against it. This time it was only a server problem. But the case could still ultimately mean huge trouble for any Canadian site which publishes anonymous, or otherwise, comments. Weiter »

Autor: Horst Thieme | Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 | 0:02
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The 10th RoboCup World Championships in Bremen/Germany

RoboCup World ChampionshipsWhile everybody is watching high priced FIFA Soccer World Cup (c)/(tm) matches some really amazing people organize their own world cup: At the RoboCup world championships being held at Messe Bremen from the 14th through 18th of June 2006. And today it’s already the day of the finalists! 440 teams from 36 countries will fight for 33 world championship titles. Yout think this isn’t sooooo amazing like a real soccer match with real human players? Then it might be that you haven’t seen this… Weiter »

Autor: Horst Thieme | Sonntag, 18. Juni 2006 | 5:31
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Java Masters: Der Voting Process ist gestartet – und Ihr könnt mitmachen und gewinnen!

Java MastersJetzt liegt es an Euch! Wer wird der Java Master 2006? Wer gewinnt den Wettbewerb um die coolste Handy-Applikation? Zwischen dem 16. Juni und 16. Juli kann jeder mitabstimmen – und es dauert nur wenige Sekunden sich selber als Jury zu betätigen… Mit ein bisschen Glück kann man sogar Preise wie Handys und andere Preise gewinnen. Das Engagement lohnt sich also…
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Autor: Horst Thieme | Samstag, 17. Juni 2006 | 8:36
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A real Java Master!

This year, BenQ Mobile and Sun Microsystems are holding the 4th international Java Masters competition for the development of new mobile Java applications. Participants in the Java Masters 2006 face the challenge of designing innovative applications for BenQ-Siemens mobile phones. Weiter »

Autor: Horst Thieme | Freitag, 16. Juni 2006 | 23:24
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History of Video Games: ATARI 1972

La Petite Claudine, a spanish blog, has found a Discovery documentary about the history of video games from Atari to Nintendo.

Autor: Horst Thieme | Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 | 21:11
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Meine mobile WebCam!

My Mobile PictureBlogDas Foto, das man hier sieht ist von meiner mobilen Webkamera. Mobile Webkamera? Jupp, denn mein Handy kann als Fotowebkamera arbeiten – dank russischen Programmierern und mobilem Java!
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Autor: Horst Thieme | Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 | 9:35
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Update to Telecommunication Conference in Bonn (1)

In following you can find some notes I took during the conference today. Sorry – some speakers I don’t mention, but they have mostly presented company strategies which can be found already at their webpages and have no really brand new informations for us telco-insiders… Weiter »

Autor: Horst Thieme | Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2006 | 8:25
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Update to Telecommunication Conference in Bonn (2)

Matthias KurtThe last part on thursday is all about regulation. Matthias Kurt, president of the Bundesnetzagentur, the german regulation agency, spoke about consequences of high dynamics of competition in Germany and how this affects his daily work. “Neither we face the doomsday in this industry nor that everything would be very easy and happy”, so Kurth. The Bundesnetzagentur is supporting the plurality of access technologies and is very interested in all new services like HDTV, IPTV, DVB-H and DMB and sees no problem in the plurality of the standards in this area as well as a value for the customer. Weiter »

Autor: Horst Thieme | Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2006 | 8:09
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Conference: Handelsblatt Telco Market Europe

Numbers about the telco market in Europe? You can get them in one conference – and the newest update about strategies of leading companies in this great industry! Yesterday Telekommarkt Europa (Telco Market Europe), a telco focussed conference organized by the newspaper Handelsblatt started. Sun is a long time sponsor of this annual conference and we have again a speaking slot as well (in the last years we had our CTO EMEA Hellmuth Broda, VP Telco Darrell Jordan-Smith and many more – this time it’s up to me). Weiter »

Autor: Horst Thieme | Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2006 | 8:08
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