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That reports the British PC Gameplay. The add-on the fancommunity of Reason Alert 2 new life must blow into, among many through a large number of new missions, vigorously more multiplayer-possibilities and hold a hour at movies. Also comes there an entire new encamp for which you can choose.

That Westwood Studios serious work makes of the missiedisk appeared especially from the fact that the original two sides, the Allies and the Soviets, Company get of an entire new third. With the add-on you can fight just now namely also at the side from Yuri, Through which your control gets about be on telepathy built encamp.

In total, the missiedisk will contain only gladly fourteen new singleplayer-missions, aaneengeregen through a hour at movies. Furthermore find you ten campaigns, in which your assistants-on with others can play, and is the multiplayer-part expanded so that your all freedom have as Allies, Soviets or YuriOf the army to fight. PC Gameplay set also a few new units on a row, foresee of the design sketch from Westwood-Artists. As we can have the Virus Sniper tegemoet see, will, that about long distance poisonous arrows fire can that adversaries explode does in a cloud of poisonous gas, and the Brute Its entrance do - an enormous infanterist that its body uses vehicles to destroy.

Further the missiedisk forms the premire for the action of the Boomer, an onderzeer, that harass can from deep water of ground range at the coast with heavy rockets, and we make knowledge with the Slave Littleer. This last one seeks a Ear-Field on and uses to get slaves with kicks the raw material in, that processes can become then on board till hard currency.

Insofar as known state the missiedisk for Reason Alert 2 planned for the coming fall, but or that streefdatum gotten will become falls - considering the reputation from Westwood - Yet but to look on. As soon as it a more specific date known is, also for the Dutch market, then read you that naturally here.

Until for subscribers of KPN adsl-service became shorten confronted Direct ADSL yet with data limits. By Go (800 Kbps download and 256 Kbps upload) was that 1500 MB in the month. He who that went about, had to pay extra. By the package Lite (1600 Kbps down and 512 plain fizzy drink) was that 8000 MB.

Other providers declared already before that data limits no longer of this time are. Also subscribers of Direct ADSL can according to KPN now 'really unrestricted and supersnel surfen'.

Tomb Raider - Eidos comes shortly with a special budget version of Tomb Raider II. The Counted contain Mask the original game plus five new levels, in which Lara goes seek on to old gold treasure. She gets to make among many with wild animals, competitive treasure hunters and gigantic snow men. Have your Tomb Raider II already, then get you the new levels of Eidos gift. From 19 April, you can download the first free of their website, follow the remaining levels fast after that. By Gamespot can you otherwise everything screenshots of The Counted Mask look at.,.

Team Fortress - Yet a free add-on. Team Fortress Classic for Half-Life is from now to download on the Team Fortress Classic-site. The makers were before responsible for the razendpopular Quake-mod Team Fortress and might of Valve Software their art repeat for Half-Life. Thanks to the add-on teams can play via a LOANS against each other. That teams consist an own specialty of individual players with all. As its there soldiers, physicians and technical experts that the dispositions have about different weapons and items. The intentions is natural that you through a good cooperation competitive teams the pan take up. The add-on is a part of the Half Life-update to version 1.0.0.9, that further among many sees to for better 3D- and network performances.

Files to the Core - Happyface Games is not yet once ready with Zero-G, a Sci-chotic Adventure or the next title again has been announced. Halfway this year the software-developer expects Rot to bring to the Core out, a 2D-adventure that plays in the gloomy and dark New York of the future. The makers self say call up to want the atmosphere of the movie Leaf Runner with the game.

Duke Nukem - The project walks already so long that we it actual already a little bit from went that it it well never more from would come, but view: Duke Nukem Forever of 3D Realms comes to it. When? `When it's don', we read in the extensive preview of Gameprix. That can last thus yet well just. What it further also yet changes, Duke Nukem Forever becomes in every case a 3D-shooter that use makes of the Unreal-engine.

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Adore, the newest Linux-worm strong agreements shows with two predecessors: Rams and Lion. These two worms before this year surfaced. As an Adore a time the system penetrated into is, replaces it the applicatie with the name PS. This program becomes through the administrator uses a survey to get of all programs that on that moment on the system turn. Once genfecteerd through the worm, shows the program all turning applicaties with exception of the worm self. Then sends the worm celebrate e-mailmessages to two servers in the United States and two servers in China. In the e-mailmessages stands information about how the infected computer penetrated into can become.,.

Linux-systemen, on which vulnerable software as a rpc-statd, wu-ftpd, LPRng and Berkely Internet Name Domain (BIND) installed stands, courses danger, a spokesman says of WITHOUT Institute, a protections organization. LPRng is standard installed on servers that turns on Reason Was named 7.0. De place where the worms can strike be known and the holes can poem become with the right patches. only the problem is that this child of worms are away fast finds. Many systeemadministrators let to lead after the right updates from, Eric Hemmendinger, analyst says by Aberdeen Group.

Even the heaviest protected sites its vulnerable for cyberattacklen, as discovered Yahoo on Monday till her fright. A day later on came also the administrators of large sites as an eBay, Amazon, CNN and Buy. com till one and the same discovery. Their servers succumbed under the attacks.

Gebruikmakend of tens powerful computers in various American cities bombarded cybervandalen the sites with large quantities data. This tactics the so-called Denial or Service became before this week also Yahoo single hours fatally.

The first victim was Buy. com. The online go shopping that this week a very successful purse course polite was only time inaccessible as consequence of the attack. Buy. com got to process 800 Mbit per second, approximately eight turn the maximum capacity. The customary traffic amounts to 30 Mbit per second.

According to Buy. com is the source of the attacks till powerful computers in Boston, New York and Chicago to reduce. The FBI will become informed, with the hope that the attackers are abouttaken.

Below it was the turn at auction house eBay. The servers in San Jose managed not the many traffic, with as a consequence onbereikbaarheid for customers. This means strip a large financile, has eBay approximately ten million customers. According to a spokesman, eBay works to get together with other struck sites, with authorities and providers the identity of the terrorists above table.

Two hour later on Amazon victim became of the sudden swollen Denial or Service-craze. The most popular online go shopping was more than a hour inaccessibly. Approximately at the same time took place the attack on CNN. After two hour could these be turned away.

The spokesmen of all internet business emphasize that the hackers no entry till data on the servers got.

Yahoo together with FBI on missing

The first victim Yahoo is in the meantime together with the FBI started with a missing action to the computers where from here the attacks have been exported. This will no sinecure be, Yahoo has therefore the help called upon of different providers via which the attacks have been walked.

The estimated damage of Yahoo amounts to a half million dollar. The not-extent groove damage is at least just large. If even Yahoo invulnerable furrow such attacks is not, who is it then well, as ask experts self off. And or it all not yet very enough is, got flatten Yahoo to make after the beat off of the attack with a bug in her e-mailservice. Some messages were furnished incompleet.

According to Yahoo, this problem had to make to repair with her almost of the crash. It is will be repaired not yet clear when the bug. Earlier relevant messages: Yahoo hit through large-scale cyberattack (08 February 2000)

- Optimally can take advantage of the new Pentium III processor of Intel, has Adobe its popular beeldbewerkingsprogramma's Photoshop and PhotoDeluxe adapted. Through the improvements must the possible its plates faster can work. Adobe has a plug-ing for Photoshop 5.0 made that various improvements in self carries as a considerable improvement in speed by the use of filters. Also is a faster version of the Ligtning Effects plug-in taken up. Approximately the same counts for Photo Deluxe. From halfway March is a CD with the Pentium III-adaptations available for 15 dollars. The adapted versions for Photo Deluxe Home Edition 3.1 and Business Edition 1.1 exchange for respectively 49 and 79 dollars of owner.

- In England know internet-providers of gekkigheid no longer how they the customer must bind. Under aanvoering of Dixons, one decide to offer after the other ISP already internet free of charge on. The temporary last in these line up was Virgin Just (see news of 17 February). In the United States, they have considered something else to distinguish self. ISP Empire Just has the following considered: the subscription is indeed not free, wl the computer with which the customer the web opkan. If you bind you for three year at Empire Just against 30 dollars per month, you get a brand-new PC in house. The provider organizes the action in cooperation with the telecommunicatiecompany Connect Plus, that already experience had in the distributing of telephones.

- There again a leak in the browser of net cape is discovers. It is again the Bulgarian bug-hunter Guninski that a beauctionslek discovers has in the browsers of net cape or Microsoft. This turn concerned it the `Window spoofing' -bug. Theoretically an internal pus can be mislead with help of a very complicated JavaScript by a evilwillende. There here something lifted is filled similar as by the earlier discovered `frame spoofing' -bug, only now the whole screen with an alternative content. After the clicking on a link, the surfer gets on the first face the page on its screen of which indeed the intention was that these appeared will. But it is not the original safe page, but an imitated, please note including the original address in the address beam. Below protected information can be diddled as passwords. Net cape works at a patch that next month available must be. Communicator 5.0 will have there totally no burden from. And the Bulgaar can pocket again a reward of net cape.

- All large portals dance as fly each other off. @Home want Excite, Lycos want Wired, USA Networks want Lycos, etcetera. Yahoo only appears independent to want to remain. The last year aangekondige take-over purchase of Wired through Lycos (see news of 7 October) is however yet long of definitive. This news comes shortly after known became that also the take-over purchase of Lycos through USA Networks yet the necessary problems gives. The definitive take-over purchase of Wired, including its missing machine HotBot, is all two turn postponed. The problem lies in the fact that some investors of Wired self rated lower feel by others and now threaten the businesses the sabotage. Running ahead on the deal has taken up Lycos all well HotBot in its portal. What this everything for consequences has for the acquisitie of Lycos through USA Networks is yet unclear. The shares of Lycos go down currently in quick tempo, although inaugurated of Lycos emphasize that the deal normally through goes.

The 32-birthday Abraham Abdallah becomes suspected of it, to have stolen reports Mail gebruikmakend of internet, million dollars of a long list (rich) fames, as the New York. Abdallah denies all imputations.

Until the fames belong next to Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg among many flat bump David Geffen, movie producer George Lucas, topbelegger George Soros, mediamagnaat Ted Gymnast and the Texaanse businessman and old-presidents candidate Tear along Perot.

The man chose its victims from at the hand of the list of the 400 realm men in the United States that Forbes published past fall. More than 200 become of the persons on the list its victim. Clenched Hole, the realm of all, is outside shot remained.

In first authority diddled the man by different banks detailed rekeningdata of its targets. The provided data used he then their identity to falsify and so entry to get till the credit cards and the bills that the fames had by prestigious banks as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

Through the use of weapon-telephones and virtual voicemail, with which he from arbitrarily which spots errands wanted to accept, knew he self six months long hide to hold. End of December came the police him really on the track, via an e-mailmessage at Merrill Lynch in which became requested ten million dollars of the bill of businessman Thomas Siebel (of Siebel Systems) about to make to a new bill in Australi.

The affairs bank found that operation suspected, because Siebel through it in the red would come to stand. Siebel denied desgevraagd the task to have given. After investigation ups and downs out that the two Yahoo e-mailadressen of which the request originating was, also by operations of five other rich clinten prevented. of.

Merrill Lynch lifted other banks in and the e-mailadressen appeared to come by the data of talloze clinten for. Finally it has to trace the police yet almost three months gekost the man.

That affirms the lawyer of Jan the W. The virus writer became in September last year condemned until 150 hour service. To now pace appeared is Jan the W. against this pronunciation in call gone. The W. fears among many that the punishment leaf in the future an impediment can form for its carrire.

“My clint is not it once with the condemnation. He disputes that he from it on is been damage at to direct”, according to the lawyer. “You can best say that this lad quite innocent busy is been, but it has not been demonstrated that he with that large damage has causes.”

No layman

The court judged last year that De W. well thoroughly on the height must be been of the possible harmful consequences of the releasing of a virus.

“He had been fixed no layman on the territory of computer viruses. He works in a computer store and was collector of computer viruses; notwithstanding that own say had he it approximately 7200. Suspect therefore must be considered self very well conscious to be been by the possible consequences of be sell”, wrote the court the judgment.

When the higher occupation will Server is yet unclear. “There is yet no date pricked. The affair will lifted be expected probably about the summer vacation away”, the lawyer.

Worm Generator

The Kournikova-virus was one of the most scattered viruses in 2001. Virus opponent Sophos set the worm on place 8 in the survey of mostly occurring viruses of the year.

The W. made the virus with help of the VBS Worm Generator, a program with which each layman its own virus make can. With a few mouse click can the 'virus maker' self indicate how the virus must be named and what it must do.,.

The W. chose for the slightest 'dangerous' option: the Kournikova-virus so has been programmed that genfecteerde computers in January contact lay with the website of DynaByte. Someone else possibility would be been to let the pc crashen.

After he firstly on a homepage by Tripodnet had opgebiecht that he responsibly was for the spread of the Kournikova-virus, decided De W. itself at to give at the police of Sneek. The W. was the first Dutchman that were condemned for the making of a virus.

The business Centerspan, that in December 2000 Scour bought, paid Sony for the licentie approximately two million dollars and 2.3 million dollars in shares, writes Reuters. Through the licentie, Centerspan the music of Sony Music Entertainment may offer via its network.

In March last year made Scour a doorstart with a legal concretes version of its uitwisselservice. Meanwhile still not out its concretes phase is the service and do not rules there still obscurity about or users now well or must go pay for the new Scour.

Although Centerspan to have said 250,000 registered Scour concretes-users, will the pear-to-pear service the with difficulty get in the busy market. As Ruse. com made bought to have this week known a licentie of the Warner Music Group. Ruses had already agreements with BMG, EMI and Sony Music Entertainment.

Remaining competitors its among many: Fullaudio (with licenties of EMI and BMG), MusicNet (of EMI, BMG and Warner Music Group) and Pressplay (of Universal and Sony). Next to this exist naturally also yet the semi-legal services on the Fasttrack network, as KaZaA and Morpheus.

Sponsoring is not longer necessary for the development of Vim, writes Moolenaar. From end of March, the poured goes count to a good target in Africa. Moolenaar asks about that still money. the children there have it more fast necessarily then I.

Vim is an open-sourceprogramma with which texts become works can and mainly has been directed on the working of Unix-code. Moolenaar developed this in 1991. Vim is an acronym for 'Vi improved', referring to the editor Vi.

Nearly at the same time with the aankodiging of Moolenaar its departure also version 7.0 bta of Vim has been released. A survey of the new functionaliteiten below which the so-called omni completion to find is and undo branches, on the Vim-maillijst.

Explanations of chip makers that only the electricities is fallen out and it no damage has been dealt at the product line become through South-Koreaanse analysts as untrue considers.

“The precise damage is yet unclear but production line for chips are very sensitive. I think that this again an increase of chip price will cause,” according to Grant Chong-hwa of Salomon Smith Barney opposite press desk Reuters.

According to the analyst, the price of 64 MB will want to can come to lie above the 15 dollars, the most level this year.

Taiwan became asked startled tuesday morning by an earthquake with a power by 7.6 on the scale of Richter.

Shares in Koreaanse chip manufacturers, as a Samsung, shots Tuesday by opening of the purses up. Also on the European purses, makers of halfgeleiders became more landlord. The courses of the German Siemens and the French STMicroelectronics ascended.

The share Philips, an of of the worldly largest chip makers, went down because the business an interest of 27.6 per cent has in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing.

Assistants Is fed up, purse analyst by Stiff in Amsterdam, expects however that the effect of the earthquake limits remains. “There is Is fed up according to me no structural damage, only what electricities problems,” according to against Reuters. “There will but a few summon delay are in the production.”

According to Frank Rvekamp - marketing manager of Vodafone - are the services 'on no single manner' with each other to compare. Who however to both services looks, can till no other conclusion come that they well thoroughly awful many on each other appear. he. Vodafone has looked at well i-fashion, as many is clear. Only there are also enough differences.

Sites

Both services work via the gprs-network, that uses becomes meanwhile through four of the five Dutch telecomcompanies. Hereby is not paid for the time that one online is, but for the quantity receive data.,. The telephone conversations lapse otherwise normally via the slower gsm-network. One of the possibilities with i-fashion and Live is the claiming of websites. This are no usual html-page' s. By i-fashion becomes use made of an own standard, Vodafone sees more in an open size: weapon.

Both services make further use of a number officile content partners that taken up become in the menu of the apparatuses. For many services becomes count asked. The partners pay hereby approximately 15 per cent at KPN and Vodafone. Of the 1 Euro subscriptions expense on for instance the peoples paper goes thus 15 penny to the operator.

For the subscriber of i-fashion its present 104 officile sites available, of which are there 35 free of charge accessible. Vodafone comes not yet further now then fifty. At the end of the year, that will be it to expectation eighty. Also here approximately eenderde is free of charge accessible. Next to the officile sites, both services know a large number not-officile sites.

E-mail

Someone else popular application is e-mail. In this do not differ the services particularly many. As well the subscriber of i-fashion as of Vodafone Live a special mailadres gets for its apparatus. Furthermore they can want to raise by their own internetprovider.

An important difference is how the providers with spam go around. KPN is with this a to pieces further. Since last month offers i-fashion are customers namely the possibility self to fix whose she want to want receive. It is with these so-called 'white ruse' possible a specific mailadres on to give, but commit also round mailadressen of groups or on to take. From the introduction, users got all the disposition about a 'black ruse' by which indicated becomes whose gn receive e-mail may become.

Vodafone considers is not yet so far such measures also, but. The some what the telecomprovider now yet does, is the stopping e-mail of of known spammers.

Apparatuses

That i-fashion already longer on the market is, will not yet say that before more apparatuses available are. On the contrary. Still the customer has here only n choice: the NEC n21i. It is wait yet always on the all long announced Toshiba TS21i. Vodafone has stand immediately by introduction all three apparatuses ready: the Sharp GX 10, Nokia 7650 and Panasonic GD87. These all are foresee a built in camera.

KPN can offer in exchange hereby alone a proper price advantage. The NEC-apparatus costs currently only 49 Euros in combination with a subscription. The cheapest Vodafone-apparatus (the Sharp) is with 299 Euros a to pieces more precious. Advantage is however the built in camera and the something more compact size.

MMS

Ht sharpen on which Vodafone self of its competitor distinguishes is the possibility for mms (Multimedia Messaging Services). The with the three apparatuses taken snapshots can immediately to someone else apparatus be sent or - as that apparatus it not for arranged is - to someone else site. Various opera torsos expect many of this expansion on sms.

KPN is not yet so far and comes just on be early the second quarter of 2003 with mms for the i-fashion. The group want firstly certain knowledge that the exchange between the different opera torso immaculately lapses. Now is that indeed not yet the case. A subscriber of Vodafone can send Am for instance no mms' you to a subscriber from.

Games, ring barrel

With both services, various games can be played. The downloading of yet more games costs by Vodafone vigorously much extra per game: until 5 Euros. The same counts for the polyfone ring barrel, that in all cases 1.50 per to pieces expenses. By KPN is not extra necessary to become per game or belmelodie settled. The customer must take here a subscription on a ring tone-site for 2 Euros per month.

Prices

A not unimportant consideration in the comparison is naturally the prices that both opera torso ask for their services. First requirement is an usual subscription on KPN or Vodafone. By i-fashion, beside it must be paid in all cases 3 Euros per month extra. Vodafone offers to take on the other hand the possibility no extra subscription. The customer is in that case 0,0244 Euros per KB rid. A mms costs 49 euro penny.

On top the bundles ask both groups supplementary amounts for the downloading of ring barrel, games and the selling a subscription on sites. This last one is expensiver by Vodafone in some cases. KPN handles namely a bovengrens of 2 Euros per month. Vodafone puts border no on its content partners, through which a month subscription on for instance PSV only gladly 4 Euros expense.

For the rest, KPN has five different bundles: 200 KB for in totally 5 Euros, 1 MB for 13 Euros, 5 MB for 18 Euros, 10 MB for 28 Euros and 25 MB for 48 Euros. By Vodafone, this is 250 KB for 5 Euros, 1 MB for 10 Euros, 5 MB for 15 Euros, 20 MB for 45 Euros and 50 MB for 100 Euros. The price per KB is by Vodafone thus about the entire line something layer. See this table for a detailed survey.

With 1 MB, the customer can claim approximately hundred pages, read hundred mails of thousand signs, claim five ring barrel and download five games.

Experience

As well KPN as a Vodafone addresses with their mobile internet services in first authority on the consumers market. For younger persons with name, affairs as a sms/mms, messaging will and ring barrel the largest attraction have, interesting want to be while for the older early probable a subscription on for instance traffic information or the ANP.

Of the surfen, one must not have otherwise all too high expectations. Gprs is a whole improvement with respect to gsm, but is for the with broad tie spoiled surfer yet always very slow. Especially by it away and again connect within the online menus much has been tolerated necessary, because here every turn made becomes again again a connection.

By Vodafone falls on that not yet everything optimally works, but that will run-up problems be. As give different affairs - as the downloading of PacMan for only gladly 5 Euros - for days the report that there 'on this moment technical problems' are.

Also by Vodafone Live, a number of services as the Financile Telegraph, the telephone Directory and the ANP is not yet available.

Conclusion

The services do not differ particularly many of each other. Vodafone has as an extraatje the possibility for the taking of photographs and mms. KPN offers on the other hand more weapons against spam. Further is the apparatus for i-fashion considerably more cheaply than the three apparatuses that Vodafone now available has. Also is the downloading of games and ring barrel by Vodafone expensivelyer because here per to pieces is settled. The subscriptions its by Vodafone however again something more advantageously.

officile sites:

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Vodafone website

The meldpunt is live gone reports under the name Ecops, as the Flemish Radio and Television. The team behind Ecops examines the complaints and collects more information. When necessarily becomes the affair transferred at the police or economic control services. Possible abuses anonymous can be reported.

Ecops has been set up by the Federal Computer Crime Unit (FCCU) of the Federal Judicial Police and the Federal government Service Economy, KMO, middle Class and Energy.

UPC has drawn made a principle-agreement about the restructuring with UnitedGlobalCom, as the business Friday known. UnitedGlobalCom (UGC), before 72 per cent property of Liberty Media, a majorities interest in UPC has.

UGC has agreed with the converting of a debt of 2.6 billion euro and 300 million Euros at preferente shares into new, usual shares UPC. The cable business declared yet in conversation to be with a group of investors by which UPC a debt of 1.7 billion euro has stand.

After afronding of the complete restructuring, will 6 billion euro at debt and 1.5 billion euro at preferente shares omgezet its in new, usual shares UPC.

UPC let further knowledge that the business a today finished to discharge interest term will not satisfy. It goes around a sum of 113 million Euros. UPC has until 3 March a solution to find for the interest term and is opposite in conversation with the concerned banks.

The results about 2001 were according to UPC better then expected, with a volume of trade by UPC Distribution of 1.2 billion euro and a loss for loads, interest, redemptions and single unique burdens by 185 until 195 million Euros. The cable group presents on 27 March the definitive figures about 2001.

The converting of the debt into shares leads according to UPC till a considerable verwatering for existing shareholders. The course of UPC sank further after the notification Friday. Around 12.00 hour down the share a small 8 per cent lower on 36 euro penny jotted.