Peter Sayer

Development of the Internet in France will be endangered if a piece of legislation entitled a Bill to Promote Confidence in the Digital Economy becomes law, the Association of French Internet Access and Service Providers (AFA) said Tuesday.

Net users and Internet service providers in France are mounting a last-ditch protest against a piece of legislation entitled A Bill to Promote Confidence in the Digital Economy, which entered its final reading in the French national assembly Thursday.

When IT workers and employers in the U.S. and the U.K. talk about offshore outsourcing, they might as well be speaking different languages.The employers say they're cutting costs, but their employees hear that as cutting jobs.

Version 2.6.0 of the Linux kernel is ready for business. Readers of the linux-kernel mailing list learned that testing of the open-source operating system's new core ended late Wednesday, when Linus Torvalds sent an e-mail beginning with the cryptic phrase "The beaver is out of detox."

IBM Corp. plans to move up to 4,730 programming jobs from the U.S. to India, China and other countries, according to a recent report published in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal.

SAP AG will continue to support older versions of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software beyond the official four- or five-year maintenance period, but at a price, Chief Executive Officer Henning Kagermann said Tuesday.

Economic recovery in the IT sector is in the eye of the beholder and, depending on what you're looking for, it may already be here -- or still a long way off, according to speakers at the 13th annual IDC European IT Forum in Paris.

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