Peter Sayer

A steady stream of taxis grinds up the hill to the headquarters of the Athens Olympic Committee headquarters, on the northern edge of the city. In the lobby it's all bustle as visitors mill around the accreditation desk and pass through security controls. But on the second floor the glass-walled technology operations centre sits idle

Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday reported a 10 per cent increase in revenue for its fiscal year 2004, and said losses after exceptional items were down by eight per cent.

Domain names in the .eu top-level domain will be available to the public on a first-come, first-served basis from next April, according to the consortium responsible for the .eu registry. Eurid asbl/vzw, a legal entity registered in Belgium, has revised its timetable for setting up the registry, following publication by the European Commission on April 30 of operating rules for the domain.

The French Association of Linux Users (AFUL) wants the government to crack down on piracy of software products from companies such as Microsoft Corp., it announced Tuesday. It also wants stores to display separately the price of software packages such as Microsoft Office when they are bundled with new computers, so that consumers are aware of their true cost.

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New software and services from IBM Corp. will help customers reuse parts of their IT systems and combine them in new ways in what the company calls a service-oriented architecture (SOA), it announced Wednesday.

SAP AG intends to give businesses a real-time view of what's happening to their inventory with an upgrade to its supply chain management (SCM) tools, it announced Monday.

The French Senate began its second reading of a piece of legislation entitled a Bill to Promote Confidence in the Digital Economy on April 8.