John Blau

Researchers at the Computing and Communication Center of the Technical University of Aachen in Germany hope to reduce the level of error in surgical operations with a prototype virtual operating room

A Munich court has opened insolvency proceedings against BenQ Mobile GmbH & Co. OHG after the mobile phone maker failed to meet an end-of-the-year deadline to find a buyer.

A politically inspired partnership between the German and French governments to develop advanced multimedia search technologies, Quaero, appears to be falling apart over strategic and cultural differences.

The question put to a panel of high-level executives at the Telecom World conference in Hong Kong seemed harmless: What, an industry expert from the audience asked, do you think of decentralized networks and the emergence of peer-to-peer (P-to-P) networks on the Internet? Ki-Tae Lee, president of telecommunications business at Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., took stab at answering the question.

Enterprises will benefit from BT's latest all-IP network through greater flexibility in service provision and greater security.

More than 100 consumers in the U.K. village of Wick are among the first customers to be connected to BT Group PLC's latest telecommunications network, which went live Tuesday.

Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya.

Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufacturers of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya.