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German has opened the doors wide open to open source software, with the federal government leading the charge. But users here could face some serious legal issues, according to Gerald Spindler, a professor of law at the Georg-August University in G

Shipments of Tablet PCs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have been everything but encouraging and Microsoft Corp., which provides the operating system software for the devices, is partly to blame, according to a market research report released this week.

French researchers say they have pinpointed a problem in wireless LAN technology that could severely impair the performance of newer high-speed networks.

Customers of Sun Microsystems Inc. who are interested in the Linux operating system will soon be able to choose between two leading suppliers of the open source software.

French researchers say they have pinpointed a problem in wireless LAN (WLAN) technology that could severely impair the performance of newer high-speed networks.

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Chip designer Arm Ltd. and mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. have teamed with semiconductor manufacturers STMicroelectronics NV and Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) to form an alliance that could help vendors bring new types of mobile devices to market more quickly.

German enterprise software vendor SAP AG has realigned its global research and development activities in a move to meet customers' needs for industry-specific systems more quickly and cost-efficiently, the company said Monday in a statement.