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According to Harris Interactive 95 percent or more of all doctors in Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and the UK use computers in their practice. This is also true of two-thirds or more of the general practitioners in all the other fifteen countries of the European Union, except for Greece (52 percent) and Portugal (37 percent). The average for all fifteen EU countries is 80 percent. The survey was based on interviews with 3,504 general practitioners in the fifteen countries of the European Union with the sample sizes varying from 400 in France to 150 in Finland and 80 in Luxembourg. The full report can be found at the Harris Interactive Web site.
Fujitsu Siemens claims it has increased market share and achieved growth in all product areas in Ireland with mobile sales up by 26 percent, server sales up by 41 percent and desktop sales up by 22 percent. These claims are based on the most recent market data from IDC. In Ireland, the company out-performed the market by showing growth of over 23 percent in a market that declined by 10.1 percent on the corresponding quarter for last year.
Adobe Premiere 6.5 is now out. The latest version of the firm's digital video editing software has advances such as real-time preview, the Adobe Title Designer and support for MPEG-2 export and DVD authoring.
Two security bugs have surfaced. Researchers at the University of Maryland say they found a way to fool someone using Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most popular program for encrypting messages, into helping the attacker decode an intercepted message. The researchers claim to have found a means of altering a PGP message without unscrambling it. The attacker would just forward the altered communication to the original addressee who wouldn't be able to read the e-mail but would in the attempt create a message full of what would appear to be garbage. If the recipient replied with the garbage in the body of the mail, this could be used to reconstruct the original message.
Another programmer claims a bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer allows Web-site owners to pretend to be the owner of other sites. This tactic can make it possible to grab consumer information or electronic payments. These findings are based on a system by which the identity of Web sites is established by means of certificate authorities, which issue the equivalent of digital signatures to Web site operators whose identity has been verified.
The assets of the bankrupt file-swapping service Napster went up for auction Friday. Napster's creditors are asking USD25 million for the now defunct service in an auction set for 27 August. The bid deadline is 21 August. The German media group Bertelsmann did agree to purchase Napster for USD8 million, after pouring nearly USD100 million worth of financing into the company. However, creditors hope to get more by going to auction for the company's assets.
China has given the green light to Sony Ericsson allowing it to set up shop with a research and development centre in the world's largest mobile telecoms market. The division is to be headquartered in Beijing with Roger Eriksson heading up the new operation.
According to the Challenger Job Market Index, one out of nine former managers started their own businesses in the first six months of 2002. Some of the decisions may have been influenced by a corporate America plagued by a growing list of bankruptcies, corporate scandals and redundancies. It was the most active period for start-ups since 1996, the report said.
While broadband is still a dream for most in Ireland, the number of Internet users in the UK with home broadband Internet access has risen by 60 percent over the past six months, according to new research from NOP. The survey also said that 75 percent of broadband users feel that the amount of time they spend on the Web has risen steadily since switching from a narrowband link.
US human rights groups have alleged that Yahoo is taking the side of Chinese government censors. They claim Yahoo exceeded its legal obligations in agreeing to limit access to on-line content currently off-limits in China following the company's signature of the Internet Society of China's Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry.
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