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C't - magazine for computer engineering, based 1983, belongs to the present-strongest and most influential German computer journals. C't in more German and as c't - magazines voor computertechniek in Netherlands language one gives change.

Publisher is the Heise magazines publishing house in Hanover, editors-in-chief is Christian Persson and Detlef sharp.

c't originally stood for computing today, which designated a 16-seitigen part at that time likewise of the electronics magazine appearing in the Heise publishing house elrad and in December 1983 as own, independent magazine from this was separated.

Particularly into the 1980er years in c't many complex hard and software projects published, which covered the entire range of the then available computer hardware. With the triumphant advance of IBM PC architecture and the different Microsoft operating systems, in particular, these took Windows an increasingly broader area in the reporting. However c't still as platform and operating system-independently and brings today for example also article over Linux or Mac the OS, according to of them understands itself since 2000 of increasing meaning.

Beside such practical articles to computer topics and test reports directs c't its focus also toward the political and social effects of technical devices and innovations. Into the 1980er years were this for example critical reports over pornografische mailbox contents or the effects of at that time still existing postal monopoly on modems and other telecommunications devices.

Today are central topics for example data security, censorship and the right problem of software patents. Reports critically c't also on the TCPA and the efforts of the industry to implement digital Rights management systems. Likewise important IT-large-scale projects in Germany are accompanied critical like the Autobahnmautsystem or the software for the computation of the 2005 in the course of the Hartz IV reform of imported "unemployment pay II "and examined on weak points.

c't contacts advanced and ambitionierte computer users, particularly within the private sector. However also professionals and specialists are partly addressed. The readers of c't are "highly-qualified computer professionals and function unusually often as councellors and Entscheider in things technology from the Allensbacher market and advertising medium analysis for the readership of the computer magazine c't from 1998. "

Admittingness

The far beyond usual public c't 1995 admits, when first a short test of the program was printed "soft RAM "of the American company Syncronys with the result "ineffectively "and the estimate "placebo software ". The German Distributor did not obtain a provisional order, to that-according to the test report in this form any more not to be spread might. C't editorship and Heise publishing house countered an expenditure later with the article "placebo forte ", in which "soft RAM "was apart-picked in detail and partly disassembliert. In this article it was stated that the alleged program function, which too "", more only one bluffs and the program doubles actually existing main storage under Windows indeed was completely ineffective. The following press echo swept the product not only from the German, but also from the domestic US market.

C't Hommingberger Gepardenforelle made headlines also with the search machine optimization competition.

Edition and spreading

The German-language appears c't to 12/1983 since expenditure monthly and since expenditure 11/1997 every 14 days. The magazine has a sold edition of approximately 367,000 pieces (printed edition about 482,000), of it approx. 239,000 subscribers (conditions: 3. Quarter 2005, in accordance with IVW). In Germany and in Switzerland is c't the usually-subscribed computer journal. The magazine is manufactured in the gravure technique. The Netherlands appears c't monthly under license with F&L, which publishes also the Netherlands chip.

After the edition compete c't in Germany primarily with computer the picture (approx. 859,000 sales editions), PC world (approx. 466,000) and chip (approx. 401.000; Numbers in each case for 4. Quarter 2004, source: IVW).

The computer magazine with the highest subscriber number is c't in Europe. In the first nine months of the yearly 2005 c't euro and occupies thereby place 2 under the German computer journals obtained an advertising conversion of 22.5 million (behind computer picture with 32.4 million euro).

c't magazine TV

Becomes weekly in the 3. Television program hessian broadcast (HR) a TV-magazine radiated, which takes up topics of the printed expenditure for magazine and by George Schnurer, which place-represented c't editor-in-chief, and the HR television moderator Mathias is moderated.