John Blau

France T

Plenty of anxious eyes are following a feud escalating in Germany over attempts to impose a copyright levy on computers.

A small German institute has become one of the Interior Ministry's first agencies to implement Linux on the desktop, as the government pushes ahead with its ambitious plans to introduce open-source software in the public sector.

Four of Europe's biggest mobile phone operators are welcoming other cell phone companies from around the world to join a new association aimed at establishing global standards for payments made with wireless devices.

IBM Corp. is broadening its developerWorks Toolbox subscription service to give developers in small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) competitively priced access to its large suite of software products and technologies for building and testing new Web applications, it said Wednesday.

Sweden's Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and the German subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Inc. are teaming to deliver music to wireless devices in the German-speaking regions of Europe.

Despite Europe's slow take-up of I-mode, Spanish mobile operator Telef

Bandwidth supplier Interoute is rolling out one of Europe's first high-speed wireless Internet services based on the 802.11g standard.