John Blau

Hamburg, one of Germany's largest cities, is showing consumers how they can check into soccer games, museum exhibitions, musicals and more with their mobile phones as part of a two-day mobile phone ticketing initiative beginning Friday.

An unprecedented legal event began Tuesday in Frankfurt with about 15,000 shareholders suing Deutsche Telekom AG for allegedly inflating the value of assets in three separate share placements.

Spain is the latest country to embrace the emerging high-end broadband wireless technology, following recent deployments in France, Ireland and the U.K.

Preparations are in full swing for the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) later next year.

Multinational companies have seen them come and go

To lure companies to the new offering, Novell has bundled several products, including its own version of OpenOffice, an open-source based office application that is compatible with Microsoft Corp.'s Office files.

One of every two Germans who plan to buy a smart phone within the next six months is indifferent to the choice of operating system (OS) but of those with a preference, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile is the top pick, according to a study published Thursday by TNS Infratest GmbH & Co. KG.

Twenty suppliers have begun shipping their products on pallets marked with radio frequency identification (RFID ) chips to more than 270 stores operated by Germany's Metro AG, the company said Tuesday.