John Blau

Enterprises seeking to build their own wide area Ethernet networks across Europe will find support in a new offering from Colt Telecom Group PLC.

A biochip system designed to accelerate the development of new drugs is available now from German chip-maker Infineon Technologies AG, the company announced Wednesday.

For many users of early mobile data systems in Europe, the technology has been long on hype, short on help. Now a leading cell phone operator has delivered some subscriber numbers for a new mobile data service that is proving to be both useful and fun.

Two of Europe's largest mobile phone operators have quietly invested in a U.S. software startup developing a new operating system based on Java technology.

If Europeans have been slow to sign up for the I-mode service exported to the continent by Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc., then it's not for lack of content or because the technology is tricky to use. The main reason is the limited number of handset suppliers. That's the view of Kei-ichi Enoki, who helped pioneer the mobile Internet service.

Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) reduced its net loss in the fourth quarter as restructuring measures took hold but posted a full-year record loss.

Internet customers of Hong Kong telecommunications group PCCW Ltd. will be able to fetch their e-mail in aircraft operated by Cathay Pacific Airlines Inc. under a new service announced Monday by airborne Internet service provider Tenzing Communications Inc.

Inspired Broadcast Networks (IBN), a joint venture between wireless service provider Inspired Technology Ltd. and game machine supplier Leisure Link Holdings Ltd., announced on Thursday plans to build a nationwide high-speed wireless Internet network connecting 3,000 U.K. pubs by the end of 2003.