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Battle of wireless titans makes business history
News Vodafone AirTouch (VOD: quote ), the world's largest mobile phone carrier, is seeking to secure its future in Europe with an historic E124bn (£78bn) hostile takeover offer for Germany's Mannesmann. If it goes through, this will be the largest...
[November 25, 1999, 14:28]
Vote-selling site to come to UK
News A Web site in the US is allowing voters to auction votes online, in a scheme that, according to reports, is likely to cross over to the UK and Germany. The chief executive of Voteauction's parent company Hans Bernard confirmed that the site was...
[October 17, 2000, 15:49]
Huge demand for Windows 7 pre-orders in Europe
News In addition to an apparent sell-out on some Amazon sites and at spots in Germany, Microsoft's European online store was apparently overwhelmed by demand, meaning that those who turned up to buy the software were instead greeted with a multilingual...
[July 16, 2009, 9:52]
Seybold DTP expo coming to Europe
News Seybold Seminars has been a regular fixture for DTP and graphics specialists in the US since the 1970's but when the three-day show lands in Frankfurt, Germany on November 19-21, it will be the first time it has appeared on the continent from the...
[August 1, 1996, 17:08]
And Skype call this customer Service part 5.
Blog Comment Hi I publish my supposed Incoming Internet calls ,which Skype charged to my credit card .though it is unable to provide the service offered because the local Governmnet (Germany) did nt allow it! THIS IS AN AUTOMATED MESSAGE, DO NOT REPLY...
[December 29, 2008, 10:49]
UK slow to take up broadband, says report
News The US and Germany also enjoy higher levels of broadband -- six percent of homes in the US are wired and 3.2 percent in Germany. Only one percent of UK homes have a broadband connection, six times lower than France's one in fifteen homes, according...
[October 18, 2000, 15:01]
SAP takes aim at small businesses
News The programme, which will launch first in Germany, calls for HP to help SAP identify, qualify, pre-select and manage local resellers. The programme involves Germany-based SAP's Business One package of tools for accounting, logistics and sales force...
[September 4, 2002, 14:44]
News Burst: High-tech shares take spotlight in techMARK
News The market is an attempt to lure high-tech startups from Britain and the rest of Europe to list their shares in the UK rather than in the US, with its Nasdaq, or Germany's Neuer Markt (see European Tech Bourses ).
[November 4, 1999, 10:32]
German retailer opens RFID test centre
News The Dusseldorf-based company, which operates a range of retail outlets across Germany, said it began operating its RFID Innovation Centre in the town of Neuss, where its sales divisions, technology partners and suppliers will test radio tag systems.
[July 8, 2004, 9:25]
T-Online dumps Overture for Google
News T-Online, which operates in Germany, Spain, Austria, France and Switzerland, exercised a right to terminate its deal with Overture and its subsidiary, Fast Search & Transfer, in the event of a buyout by a competitor.
[August 13, 2003, 10:05]
Microsoft launches anti-spam suit
News The complaint has been lodged against an unnamed company in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany and its managing director. Microsoft has sued the man under Germany's competition laws, as the country has no laws prohibiting spamming.
[June 21, 2005, 15:35]
Yahoo! hopes to score with World Cup site
News In the 2002 World Cup, 32 countries will play before an estimated 1.5 billion viewers for bragging rights as the best football nation on the planet -- an honour that will last until the next match in Germany in 2006.
[June 1, 2002, 7:32]
Startup Spotlight: ebookers.com
News Appearing on Wednesdays, Spotlight will show you the faces behind the news.ebookers.com made headlines a few weeks back when it shunned UK markets in favour of raising capital on the high-tech markets of Germany and the US, a decision the company...
[November 24, 1999, 16:03]
Operators want fewer new mobile masts
News Speaking on Thursday at a Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) meeting at the CeBIT technology fair in Germany, senior executives said flat-rate mobile-data tariffs meant usage was set to increase at a far greater rate than operator revenues.
[March 6, 2008, 14:38]
CompuServe ex-boss being tried by `naive' Bavarians
News Felix Somm, formerly managing director of CompuServe Germany, was charged last year with allowing child pornography and other illegal images to be distributed over the online service he controlled during 1995 - 1996.
[May 13, 1998, 14:12]
HelpDesk: With Touchpaper, the Post Gets Delivered!
White Papers At Einbeck, located in the Lower Saxony region of Germany, the organisation runs a 270-strong call centre with a hotline available to staff in all Post Offices throughout Germany. As the subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG (German Post Office), Deutsche...
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
Tight security, the Chancellor, and a mechanical man
News At the opening ceremony of CeBIT on Wednesday evening, the German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, said that general economic conditions in his country were better than a year ago -- and that it is his government's duty to strengthen Germany as...
[March 17, 2004, 20:05]
Nordic Netizens shame British Web community
News Arnbjerg said the fastest Net growth was in Germany with 12 percent up from just 7 percent in 1997. Arnbjerg pointed out that with a population of around 80 million in Germany and 50 million in the UK the British are Europe's biggest Net spenders.
[June 8, 1999, 10:45]
One-stop shop for open-source support launched
News Launched in the UK on Tuesday after running successfully in Germany for the past two years, the OSSC enables users to access a wide variety of skills in different open-source distributions. With around 30-plus specialist support engineers in the UK...
[November 13, 2007, 5:00]
UK could gamble its way to top online spot
News Germany has the DSL highest penetration by far, with around 3 percent of its lines converted. The take-up in Germany has been particularly high because of the previous roll-out of ISDN and the fact that Deutsche Telekom was able to effectively...
[December 6, 2001, 13:56]
