John Blau

A long-running feud in Germany over imposing a levy on computers and printers has returned to the headlines after a high-ranking government official suggested extending the fee to all devices capable of duplicating copyright-protected material.

Tempers flared briefly during a recent meeting designed to define the structure of next year's follow-up global Net summit in Tunis, Tunisia, and what the assembly should deliver in the way of action.

The idea sounds so simple

IBM Corp. may still need to defend itself in a Swiss court against allegations that the company's punch-card machines helped World War II Nazis commit genocide more effectively.

Local government officials in Munich approved Wednesday a plan for rolling out the Linux operating system and other open source applications in more than 14,000 city administration computers.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a group that has had its fair share of problems, has yet another: The Net coordination body wants more money

Even if it was only a test in an ideal setting, NTT DoCoMo Inc. beat its own projected maximum transmission speed for new fourth generation (4G) mobile broadband phones.

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