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German Government Opposes Software Patents
News The German Ministry of Economics and Technology has spoken out against the broadening of software patent laws within Europe, on the basis that it would stifle innovation and the open-source movement. The German ministry voiced its support for the...
[November 20, 2001, 13:23]
German 3G Licence Auction: How The Bidding Works
News In an early hiccup, a spokesman for the German UMTS bid process stated that the post and telecommunications regulations Web site was made unavailable due to too many people trying to access it. Earlier today MobilCom, a German telco owned by France...
[August 1, 2000, 17:07]
German Association Discovers A New Level Of Efficiency And Flexibility With Business
White Papers Employees at the German Alpine Association found it difficult to manage and consolidate all of the operations effectively. Ultimately, the German Alpine Association required one integrated, standardized system.
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Napster: German Sites Under Pressure
News The national committee of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) tried to urge several German IT sites to take their Napster download sites down. He bases his opinion on several German surveys.
[July 28, 2000, 16:49]
German State Warns ISPs Over Nazi Sites
News The federal state government of Nordrhein-Westfalen has urged ISPs in the German state to dump all sites with Nazi content or pay a 500 deutschmark fine (about £157). Or read the story in German at the ZDNet Germany site.
[September 1, 2000, 10:01]
German 3G Auction: And The Winners Are...
News BT is one of six companies to emerge with a German 3G licence Friday in what is now officially the world's most expensive spectrum auction. In the auction £28bn was raised with each firm paying around £4.5bn each for their slice of the German 3G...
[August 18, 2000, 11:04]
German Railway On Track With Linux Migration
News The company responsible for managing the German railway system is partway through migrating its servers to Linux, and expects to have more than 300 Linux servers in operation by the end of 2004, as part of a cost-saving initiative.
[November 25, 2004, 13:15]
German ISPs Want To Keep Data About Their Surfers
News The privacy watchdogs of all 16 federal German states, except Thueringen, have warned the secretaries of the interior of the states and the federal minister of interior that their new proposal of a bill for collecting data about German surfers did...
[December 4, 2000, 8:34]
German Parties Unite Against Software Patents
News The German Parliament will on Thursday discuss a proposal put forward by the main opposition party that demands changes to the EU Council's proposal on software patents. The German political parties objections follow a vote in May by the EU council...
[October 21, 2004, 15:20]
News Burst: German Auction Beats UK Record
News Six companies, including BT, emerged with German 3G licences Friday in what is now officially the world's most expensive spectrum auction. In the auction £28bn was raised with each firm paying around £4.5bn each for their slice of the German 3G...
[August 18, 2000, 9:37]
German Linux Migration Not A Taxing Decision
News The quality of German language support was also decisive; SuSE has strong German support and the development of KDE was part funded by the German government. The German public sector has embraced open source enthusiastically.
[June 9, 2006, 11:50]
German Universities Embrace Linux
News Forty percent of all German students are now supported by Linux systems, after a major contract was awarded to Novell. The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure, which will support 33...
[August 29, 2007, 16:25]
German Firefox Fans Start Fundraising Campaign
News Firefox supporters on Tuesday set up a Web site in Germany to raise funds for an ad in one of three German newspapers. He said he didn't want to copy the original campaign, so decided to add a twist -- for every euro that people donate, they get...
[November 4, 2004, 17:23]
German Surfers To Down Mice For Internet Strike
News Several hundred German online users and Web sites (including popular magazines "Der Spiegel" and "Stern") plan to replace their regular sites with black strike pages or to go off-line for the November 1 stike.
[October 30, 1998, 9:30]
Plasmon Case Study: German Public Authorities
White Papers Landkreis Unterallgau, Landkreis Landshut and Landratsamt Miesbach are only three of many German administrative districts that have implemented UDO in their evolution from a paper-based to an electronic archiving system.
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
German City Reveals Linux Migration Tactics
News Schwäbisch Hall was the first German city to abandon Windows in favour of open source. It was soon followed by Munich, and yesterday the German Federal Finance Office signed up with Linux -- a deal thought to be one the largest Linux-based...
[February 11, 2004, 12:00]
German Red Cross Banks On IBM EServer PSeries As Its Life-Saver
White Papers Part of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK, the German Red Cross), the DRK Blutspendedienst Baden-Wuerttemberg - Hessen is a charitable organisation providing medical support. With different applications running on various platforms in each of its main...
[October 8, 2004, 0:00]
German Government Heads For Grid
News The German government on Wednesday is expected to launch a multiyear effort with IBM to use grid computing for advanced research. The German minister of science, Edelgard Bulmahn, is expected to announce the D-Grid plan in Berlin at a meeting of...
[March 10, 2004, 13:35]
News Burst: German 3G Auction Tops £22bn
News Auctions in Germany for 3G spectrum licences top £22bn Tuesday forcing the German telecoms regulator to lower the increase on new bids from ten percent to five percent. Excessive bids for licences in the UK earlier this year led experts to question...
[August 15, 2000, 9:22]
German Media Giant Moves Publishing Beyond The Page
White Papers The German holding company Hubert Burda Media Group (HBM) began as a printing business more than a century ago. An early Internet user and among the first buyers of SAP software, forward-looking HBM established a wholly owned subsidiary, Offenburg...
[July 5, 2006, 0:00]
