John Blau

Two of Germany's biggest banks became the latest victims of phishing attacks last week as internationally organized criminal groups roam the globe seeking new targets, according to a spokesman at Postbank AG. Postbank suffered its second phishing attack on Thursday, less than four weeks after the bank's first-ever assault, and was linked to a separate strike on Deutsche Bank AG.

European incumbent telephone companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG said Thursday they broke off merger talks.

European incumbent telephone companies Swisscom AG and Telekom Austria AG said Thursday they broke off merger talks.

Continuing its assault on the European IT outsourcing market, IBM Corp. has signed agreements to buy two Danish IT services companies and another to provide IT services to one of the country's largest banks.

Pattern recognition technology developed by a renowned German research institute could help piece together what must be the world's largest jigsaw puzzle: 600 million pieces of confidential documents hastily destroyed by East Germany's infamous Stasi secret police in the dying days of the communist regime between late 1989 and early 1990.

Six big telephone companies from around the world have joined forces to promote combined fixed-line and mobile services to consumers and businesses.

Six big telephone companies from around the world, including one Canadian firm, have joined forces to promote combined fixed-line and mobile services to consumers and businesses.

The more, the merrier. That's the motto of a new roaming service that T-Systems International GmbH, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, is targeting at providers of wireless Internet services worldwide.