For all its disadvantages, the former Soviet Union had one hugely overlooked advantage: it kept hackers, crackers and virus writers confined inside the country by restricting their access to the Internet.
German parliamentarians and government employees experienced long delays with their e-mail delivery earlier this week, following a flood of spam that clogged the government's e-mail system, a spokesman at the Federal Ministry of the Interior said Friday.
To help retailers increase the efficiency of their IT systems and improve the customer experience, IBM Corp. and German business software vendor SAP AG have agreed to form a global, nonexclusive technology alliance.
German business software vendor SAP AG plans to increase the number of software engineers in its Indian operations to 1,500 from 1,000 by the end of this year.
Money will be a major theme at next week's Sapphire conference in New Orleans where customers of German business software vendor SAP AG will come from around the world to meet with company executives for their annual global powwow.
More than 75 per cent of Germany's 85 million-plus inhabitants own a mobile phone. Many of them are taxi and bus drivers, delivery people and others who professionally spend a lot of time on the ground. More so, in fact, than the country's police force. That's why Germany's cash-strapped government has turned to its mobilized citizens for help in tracking down suspected criminals, fugitives and even missing persons.