After revealing details of its UK launch, Microsoft has announced availability and pricing info for the Surface Pro in a number of European countries, with most of them going for a May 31st date. More...

Germany's federal court has decided the Google auto-complete function can violate user privacy and former President Christian Wulff's wife is being used as the key example of this problem. More...

Google subsidiary Motorola has lost an appeal on the injunction that was placed on the company by a court in Germany in 2012 over a patent owned by Microsoft concerning multi-part text messages. More...

German regulators have fined Google €145,000 ($189,230) over the company's previous practice of collecting data via the WiFi antennas for Google's Street View cars. More...

A German court ruled today that Google's Android operating system does not infringe on any patents that are owned by Nokia in a case that the phone maker leveled against HTC. More...

A patent dispute between Microsoft and Google is looking like it might go in Microsoft's favor and could lead to the judge in the case banning Google Maps from being used in that country. More...

Once upon a time, OpenOffice seemed like a real challenger to Microsoft's throne, but if this takedown from a German city council is any indication, those days are long, long gone. More...

Some people in the UK, Canada and Germany who ordered a Surface tablet and then found the shipments would be delayed are finally getting their Windows RT-based tablets. More...

Microsoft has posted up new videos of the Windows 8 launch events in China and in Germany last week, along with a new video of the massive event in New York City's Times Square. More...

Microsoft is giving would-be customers around the world a cozy environment to try out the new Surface tablet, and we've got some photos from inside one of the new Surface Experience Centers in Germany More...

Days after the first pre-orders opened in the US, the Lumia 920 is now available for pre-order in Germany. Even better, the phone is available on all major carriers including Vodafone and O2. More...

The Microsoft Store websites in France and Germany have both placed back orders of between one to two weeks for the Windows RT version of the upcoming Surface tablet. More...

Vodafone Germany has confirmed that the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 will be available there from November 1st, verifying earlier reports that the new Windows Phones will launch in Europe before the US. More...

It's not just San Francisco and London that will get some Windows Phone 8 love on launch day. As October 29 approaches, more launch events have been confirmed for Milan and Munich. More...

A U.S. Court has ruled that Google's Motorola Mobility subsidary won't be able to enforce an injunction that would've kept Microsoft products out of Germany over a case that's been ongoing since 2010. More...

What Apple can do, Microsoft can do equally as well. Microsoft has won yet another case in Germany against Google's Motorola Mobility division for once again violating Microsoft software patents. More...

The German government has sent out an alert to its citizens that strongly recommends they not use Internet Explorer on their PCs until a recent security exploit is fixed by Microsoft. More...

Paul Ferson talks about his experiences with switching from QWERTY, the only keyboard layout he'd ever used, to QWERTZ, in order to properly review the Matias Tactile Pro 3.0 keyboard. More...

A rumor suggests that Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 refresh could come with a semi-flexible screen, potentially allowing for a larger battery or thinner bodied device. More...

If you're living in Germany and recently bought a Nokia Lumia 800 or 900, you're in luck, because Nokia is rewarding 50 euros worth of vouchers as part of a promotion tour for their high-end phones More...

A new pop-up window appearing on Facebook accounts in Germany encourages users to inform if their friends are using pseudonyms, leading to comparisons to the East German "Stasi" within the country. More...

Users of "Googlemail" in Germany can now use the @gmail.com address for the first time, thanks apparently to the settlement of a long running trademark dispute. More...

A new world record for cable modem download Internet speeds was announced this week as Kabel Deutschland of Germany achieved speeds as high as 4.7 Gbps in a recent test. More...

Microsoft has shut down access to its Bing Streetside feature in Germany after some citizens in that country expressed concerns about the possible privacy invasions. More...

A German court has ordered an injunction on the sale of several of Microsoft's products in that country, including Windows 7 and the Xbox 360 game console, as part of a lawsuit with Motorola. More...

GEMA, a German group responsible for royalty collection, has managed to take Google to court over YouTube's copyrighted videos, winning the case and potentially unleashing havoc on the site. More...

Scriptwriters in Germany have published a letter directed to the internet, pirates, greens, and left-wingers, targeting them over copyright and their stance towards it. More...

Microsoft's legal battles with Motorola Mobility are forcing the company to move its European distribution operations from Germany to the Netherlands, to avoid any disruptions the litigation might bring. More...

Germany has announced that the country has postponed its vote on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, showing that ACTA is starting to lose support in the European territories. More...

A court in Germany has upheld the sales ban for Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in that country, in a somewhat symbolic victory for Samsung's patent war opponent Apple. More...

Motorola has won a court order in Germany to stop Apple from selling the iPhone/ 3G iPad 2 in Germany. More...

The ratings board in Germany is now allowing the original 1996 version of id Software's first person shooter Quake to be sold in that country, a few months after Germany lifted the ban for Doom. More...

Samsung has come up with a solution to the German ban on its tablet: tweak the design so it looks a lot less like an iPad 2. The Galaxy Tab 10.1N is expected to launch only in Germany next week. More...

The winds of change shift; Motrola Mobility has been granted an injunction against Apple by a German court, potentially blocking the sales of Apple devices in that country. More...

Germany's government has finally allowed id Software's first person shooters Doom and Doom II to be sold to teenagers, 17 years after it restricted sales to just adults. More...

An independent organization in Germany has suggested the possibility of the Facebook Like system violating their strict privacy laws. More...

Respecting ones privacy is something that Google has always said it enforced with public data. Despite its notable slip ups, one thing Google has allowed users to do is to opt out of its popular... More...

Hewlett-Packard's Moscow offices were raided by Russian investigators on Wednesday after a request from German authorities. German prosecutors suspect that HP executives paid €8 million ($10.9 million) to the office of the prosecutor general of... More...

Bavarian minister Joachim Herrmann has likened violent video games to child pornography and drugs in a new press release posted earlier today. Game Politics have provided a translation via one of their readers. Herrmann was... More...

A survey on Internet use in different countries has shown that housewives in the UK spend more time online than the average Chinese Internet user, according to an article posted by the BBC today. Conducted... More...

Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc's new iPhone for as little as 1 euro ($1.54) for the 8-gigabyte version together with a 69 euro monthly contract, it said on Monday. Apple is set... More...

T-Mobile said Wednesday that it will sell the iPhone in Germany without a contract, complying with a court injunction against it. In addition, it will unlock any phone bought since November 19 -- the date... More...

In the United States, SCO's Linux/Unix litigation has been stalled out while the company's bankruptcy trial is being dealt with. In Germany, however, several court cases have found SCO Group GmbH, SCO's Germany branch, guilty... More...

The iPhone frenzy has just begun in Europe and it seems like Apple's ultimate gadget is off for a good start. Late Friday, Deutsche Telekom officials confirmed that more than 10,000 units were sold by... More...

Looking to join other governments and expand surveillance laws, the LATimes is reporting that Germany wants to be your friend and give you a Trojan. A Trojan horse, that is. Quote - ... More...

Later this year, the German language version of Wikipedia will restrict instant editing and limit "trusted editors" to look over the content before it appears online, making Germany the first country to wield tighter control... More...

Apple and T-Mobile said Wednesday that the carrier will begin selling the iPhone in Germany on November 9, the same day UK consumers first see the device. T-Mobile is Germany's largest provider with 30.7 million... More...

German anti-monopoly authorities have approved plans by mobile phone operators T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone to create a joint technical platform to bring television to mobile phones. The three operators will work to develop broadcasts on... More...

Canadian and German scientists have agreed on a deal (estimated at ~$8.4 million) to work together over the next three years to develop clean energy technologies. The National Research Council of Canada and the... More...

Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code by tightening up the existing sanctions and prohibiting any unauthorized user from disabling or circumventing computer security measures... More...