Google Chrome's sandbox, plus automatic updates of its components and the Flash plugin, earned a recommendation from the German Federal Office for Information Security. More...

German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on Thursday. Skype allows users to make... More...

The proposed $3.1bn merger of search giant Google and online advertising company DoubleClick would lead to "a massive violation of data privacy rights", a German privacy watchdog has warned. The Data Protection Commissioner of the... More...

Germany's Federal Crime Office has arrested a Russian-Ukrainian-German group of 10 suspects accused of running a Trojan horse phishing attack that has been targeting users' bank accounts. An 18-month police investigation culminated in arrests on... More...

As hysterical as American media and politicians can get over 'violent' videogames, the folks making games in Germany have it a whole lot worse. Tim Partlett (a developer at Crytek) shared his experience with the... More...

Sorry to say but the German censorship police have nuked another one. Indeed, Gears of War will not be coming out in Germany now. Microsoft had considered recutting the game, but found it would make... More...

The head of Microsoft's German subsidiary has quit over differences with the US headquarters. Jürgen Gallmann, CEO of Microsoft Deutschland - one of the software giant's largest subsidiaries - resigned on Friday. In an email... More...

European Commission regulators have taken over a German antitrust investigation into allegations that Intel put pressure on a major electronics retailer to forgo using processors from competitor AMD. Germany's antitrust agency, Bundeskartellamt, received a complaint... More...

Electronic Arts last week purchased German game developer Phenomic, the developers of SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars. Now it seems that EA has it's eyes on Crytek, another German developer and makers of FarCry, the FPS... More...

Microsoft has launched a case against a German man believed to be the linchpin of a spam gang. The software maker's legal complaint was lodged against an unnamed company in the North... More...

New patches for the demo of D-Day has been released by Digital Reality. The patch is also available for the Germal version of the game. This patch updates the variants of their 3D real-time tactical... More...

A hardware manufacturer Sitecom loses round one of the court battle after the German court ruled the GPL (General Public License) license as valid. The German court issued a preliminary injunction against Sitecom's... More...

If it's simply unbearable to be unable to hear music, here's something you should slip on: a jacket with a built-in MP3 player. A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co., a... More...

A German man was jailed for five and a half years Thursday for repackaging cheap versions of Microsoft Corp. software and selling them on at a higher price. Ralph Blasek, a software... More...

The second single-player demo (german version) of Codename Panzers is now available for download, featuring the Utah Beach mission from the Allied campaign - the english version will be released tomorrow. This 3D tactical combat... More...

A German playable demo of Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor is now available to renew the opportunity for trying out the imminent third-person stealthy action adventure by Metropolis. This demo supersedes the earlier Polish version to... More...

Deep Silver has released an updated german demo of Trackmania the racing/track building game developed by Nadeo which will finally hit german stores not before long. News source: Gamer's Hell ... More...

German police have carried out their biggest ever crackdown on internet piracy in probe against 126 members of an online hackers' forum. The Germans are thought to be part of a wider network of 476... More...

IBM Corp. will deliver 20 high-performance mainframe computers to a German financial IT service company in a deal worth over €100 million ($127 million), IBM spokesman Hans-Jürgen Rehm said Friday. Sparkassen Informatik GmbH... More...

A German playable demo of Castle Strike is now available, offering the first opportunity to try out this medieval 3D real-time strategy game by Related Designs and Data Becker. This single-player demo includes Tutorial 2... More...

Koch Media has released a playable demo for RTL Ski Jump 2004 (aka Skispringen Saison 2003/2004), allowing you to try out this recent ski jumping simulation developed by VCC Entertainment. The demo offers a tutorial... More...

DÃœSSELDORF, Germany -- Even though interest in open source software is high in Germany's public sector, Microsoft Corp. continues to grab contracts with local authorities. This month the U.S. software giant began... More...

German police have broken up one of the world's biggest child porn networks which linked around 26,500 suspected users of child abuse material in 166 countries across the world. Investigators said members of... More...

Zuxxez Entertainment has released a playable demo of KnightShift (aka Once Upon a Knight in North America), allowing you to try out this imminent RTS/RPG by Reality Pump Studios. The demo offers a good portion... More...

Germany's most populous state is requiring Internet providers to block two US-based neo-Nazi websites after a court ruled the measure did not violate the providers' rights, officials said Thursday. The verdict followed... More...

Microsoft has released the mission editor for MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, the recent 3D stomping action game by Cyberlore and FASA Studios. Details on the editor are scarce, but it allows you to create both single-... More...

Bad news today for the gaming community. The german government institution BPjS which tasks are to:Prohibit, punishment-reinforced, youth-endangering media on request by youth ministers and their offices so that these are only accessible by adults,... More...

A destructive new mass-mailing Internet worm has been launched into the wild in the form of a Trojan horse targeting the security-conscious. The worm, which has been named "Yarner" by virus researchers,... More...

Germany's federal government is introducing electronic signatures for its employees, a step it hopes will help make the security procedure generally accepted in the country. More than 200,000 employees of ministries and agencies will be... More...

American illusionist David Copperfield said Sunday he was bombarded by requests for tips on the winning numbers in Germany's national lottery Saturday night -- numbers he said he had predicted seven months ago. ... More...