John Blau

Hasso Plattner, SAP co-chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), spoke Thursday at the company

SAP AG has won a landmark portal deal with Siemens AG, the German software company announced Wednesday at its Sapphire customer conference and trade show in Lisbon, Portugal.

SAP AG plans to develop a new collaborative master data management product that will integrate data from multiple systems, locations and vendors, and then use this data to support e-business processes in heterogeneous IT systems, the company said in a statement released Thursday at its Sapphire customer conference and trade show in Lisbon, Portugal.

SAP AG has won a global contract to deliver its mySAP.com e-business software to German-U.S. car maker DaimlerChrysler AG, the software company said Thursday at its Sapphire customers conference and trade show in Lisbon, Portugal.

Infineon Technologies AG has developed a new technology to connect and package stacked integrated circuit chips, promising to speed up chip performance while reducing costs, the company said Monday.

Silicon chip-based fingerprint systems will experience strong growth levels beginning in 2003, said a spokesman for Frost & Sullivan Inc. Tuesday, citing a new study by the market research group.

A new wave of delays in rolling out the new mobile broadband service threatens to create still more uncertainty in the European market; a market that is everything but certain.

German government IT consultants expect a surge in demand for open-source office application software from parliamentarians after national elections in September, said Fredo Sartori, an IT consultant working for the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.