Heinz Heise
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Heinz Heise is a German publishing house. It was created in Hanover in 1949 as an address and telephone directory publisher, then later expanded to include magazines and loose leaf collections. In 2001, the company was divided into separate enterprises, all of which came under the umbrella of their parent company, the Heise Media Group.
Heise publishes the magazines c't (the computer magazine with the highest circulation in Europe), iX (focusing on UNIX/Linux-related issues), the German edition of Technology Review and the online magazine Telepolis. These publications feed into the Heise News Ticker, which ranks among the most successful German language news portals which includes a frequented user forum.
In July 2006 heise Security was launched in the UK – mostly featuring translated news from the German site, but also locally relevant stories, the UK version of heise online came in February 2008. Since June 2007 there also is a Polish heise online
Links from the Heise site can cause a massive increase in web traffic to the referenced sites and can cause some to become temporarily unavailable. While in the English speaking world this is known as the Slashdot effect, among German speakers this is referred to as the Heise effect, or arguably inappropriately, Heise-DDoS.
