Matthew Broersma

The European Union (E.U.) is hoping to give the European open source software industry a competitive boost through a

The City of Munich has put its Linux plans on hold in response to fears over software patents. The city has cancelled a call for bids on the Linux migration project, called the LiMux Project, planned for July, according to the city's CIO, Wihelm Hoegner.

The French Ministry of Equipment is to migrate 1,500 aging Windows NT servers to a specially developed version of MandrakeSoft SA's Mandrake Linux Corporate Server, amid growing evidence that large European organizations are treating open-source software as a serious alternative to proprietary offerings.

The French Ministry of Equipment is to migrate 1,500 aging Windows NT servers to a specially developed version of MandrakeSoft SA's Mandrake Linux Corporate Server, amid growing evidence that large European organizations are treating open-source software as a serious alternative to proprietary offerings.

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is to build a security platform from U.K. chip designer ARM Holdings plc into its next-generation mobile processors, in the latest move to head off the threat of worms and hackers on smartphones and PDAs.

Internet Explorer isn't the only browser companies are being urged to drop due to ongoing security problems. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is now also recommending users erase America Online Inc.'s (AOL) Netscape browser from their hard drives due to a hair-raising list of "potential" vulnerabilities allowing denials of service, information leaks, unauthorized access and remote malicious code execution.

The U.K. government has appointed the U.K. managing director of Accenture Ltd. as its first Head of e-Government as the government faces mounting disillusionment with how it has handled online government services and public sector ICT projects.