John Blau

Microsoft Corp. is calling its new applied research and development (R&D) centre in Aachen, Germany, the first of a kind in its portfolio of R&D activities worldwide.

Shipments of handheld mobile devices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia soared 62 per cent in the first quarter of 2004 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to a market research report released Tuesday by Canalys.com Ltd.

Microsoft Corp. has been moving quietly but diligently in recent months to bolster its sales efforts in Germany's huge public sector market where open source software, particularly the Linux operating system, is becoming increasingly popular.

Spring cleaning is well underway at the head offices of some of Europe's largest technology companies, with several high-profile executives announcing their departure within a week.

A tiny German software company has thrown some sand in the gears of The SCO Group Inc.'s roaring legal machine.

Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has become the first of several shareholders in Symbian Ltd. to announce plans to stop rival Nokia Corp. from gaining control of the mobile phone operating system developer.

T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG, the wireless arm of German telephone giant Deutsche Telekom AG, will launch new voice and data services based on third-generation (3G) technology in Germany, the U.K. and Austria beginning in May, company Chairman Ren

Businesses, consumers and network operators in Germany are buying more