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Germany's new generation of ePassports come with fingerprint biometrics

Germany is switching over to the second generation of its ePassport passports, which include fingerprint biometrics. According to NXP, the supplier of the biometric chips, Germany is the first country in the world to introduce such passports. NXP is founded by Philips and has shipped over 100...

Tags: Germany, Passport, Chip, NXP, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Outrage over Germany's plan for "policeware"

You might recall that we ran a story about two months ago on a CNET News.com survey. In Warning: Police spyware detected!, News.com approached various antispyware vendors on their willingness to hide police-sanctioned spyware, or "policeware." As noted in the article, the impromptus for the...

Tags: Ars Technica, Germany, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-09-03

Photos: Scenes from CeBit

Highlights of the big tech show in Germany include a game tournament, a pillow phone and a waterproof big-screen TV.

Tags: tournament, CeBit, Germany, photograph, TV, game, telephone

Image galleries 2007-03-16

Photos: Germany's Leibniz supercomputer

The Leibniz Rechenzentrum supercomputer was built with public funds, no expense spared. In 2007, an upgrade will double its performance.

Tags: Germany, performance, photograph, supercomputer

Image galleries 2007-01-23

Photos: Buzz in Berlin? Sharp and flat

"Flat" and "high-definition" are de rigueur for manufacturers at annual consumer electronics show in Germany.

Tags: photograph, Sharp Corp., Berlin, Germany, Consumer Electronics Show, manufacturer

Image galleries 2006-09-06

Photos: Screening the options at CeBit

The big tech exhibit in Hannover, Germany, makes room for an array of displays, large and small.

Tags: CeBit, Germany, Hannover, photograph

Image galleries 2006-03-13

Photos: At CeBit, take a walk on the weird side

ZDNet UK reporters have some fun while touring the mammouth grounds of CeBit in Hannover, Germany.

Tags: CeBit, Germany, Hannover, photograph, walk

Image galleries 2006-03-10

Cuckoo Clock 3D 1 (Windows)

The cuckoo clock, traditionally crafted in Germany's Black Forest region, has been Germany's most famous clock since the mid 18th century. Today, they are primarily coveted by clock enthusiasts and tourists, but every now and then you'll still find a small masterpiece of German craftsmanship gracing the wall in a...

Tags: 3D, Clock, Germany, Screensaver-network, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-06-15

Tokio Hotel Screensaver 1 (Windows)

Tokio Hotel Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. This free screensaver contains many pictures of Tokio Hotel. Tokio Hotel is a German rock band who formed under the name Devilish in 2001 in Magdeburg, Germany. The quartet has scored four number one singles, two number one albums in Germany. From 2001 onwards,...

Tags: Germany, Screensaver, Microsoft Windows, BandsScreensavers, Tokio Hotel, Quartet

Software downloads 2007-12-18

Multi-Location Roll Out at Evangelische Stiftung Augusta Hospitals in Germany

It is not easy to get front-end speech recognition across as it means physicians have to prepare documents without the support of a secretary: at the beginning more time is needed. Philips SpeechMagic gave a resounding effect in the Radiology and Urology departments of the Evangelische Stiftung Augusta hospitals ESA,...

Tags: Germany, Hospital, Koninklijke Philips Electronics, Speech Recognition, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies

Case studies 2007-10-09

Frankfurt Maps Offline 1.0 (Mobile)

This will be useful when you are traveling to Frankfurt Germany and you don't have internet connection or you are residing in Frankfurt Germany and need a map of Frankfurt Germany. This Offline Maps is not a replacement of Google Maps. It is used when you don't have internet connection...

Tags: Germany, Mobile, Frankfurt, Apple iTunes, Sehat Rosny, Internet, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-02

Germany Patents PDF Downloader 1.0 (Windows)

Germany Patents PDF Downloader makes it easy to download PDF copies of Germany patents. Users can download up to 20 copies one time. Both English and German version are available.

Tags: Germany, Patent, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Patent De

Software downloads 2009-03-11

Germany Patents PDF Downloader 1.12 (Windows)

Germany Patents PDF Downloader makes it easy to download PDF copies of Germany patents. Users can download up to 20 copies one time no limit for super version. Both English and German version are available. Version 1.12 adds a timer to control download.

Tags: Germany, Patent, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Patent De

Software downloads 2009-05-21

eGovernment Meets eBusiness: The Case of Bremen

Germany's smallest city-state, Bremen, has raced ahead to become one of the country's leading lights in e-Government. Over the last three years, Bremen has put more than 100 applications online. Bremen's levels of technical sophistication range from full integration into legacy systems to signed pdf forms. This was achieved through...

Tags: Germany, Digital Signature, Back-office, European Union, E-business, Bremen, E-government, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Operational Accounting, Government, Security, Finance

Case studies

Strategic Command: European Theatre 1.07 (Windows)

Not a demo, but the full game, with 5 free hours of play. Strategic Command: European Theatre is a hex-based computer wargame in the classic mold. Covering the entirety of the war with scenarios that allow you to start in each year from 1939 on, at a scale of 50...

Tags: Germany, Manifesto Games, Microsoft Windows, Games, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-08

Fund Prices Downloader (Germany Edition) 1.1.1 (Windows)

Fund Prices Downloader previously known as Fund Downloader is a software that allows you to collect fund prices from Web sites. The prices are stored in database which can be exported later in a customized format. Downloading can be scheduled using built-in scheduler. In addition, free data manager allows you...

Tags: Germany, Edition, Globevestor, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Backups, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Internet

Software downloads 2006-07-04

HelpDesk: With Touchpaper, the Post Gets Delivered!

As the subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG German Post Office, Deutsche Post Customer Service Center GmbH offers various services in the area of customer communication and customer process management. At Einbeck, located in the Lower Saxony region of Germany, the organisation runs a 270-strong call centre with a hotline available...

Tags: Germany, Touchpaper Software, Help Desk, Call Centers, Telecom & Utilities, It Operations

Case studies

Networking Academy Experience Decisive in Job Success

Figen Ehliz, the daughter of Turkish immigrants to Germany, has successfully entered a profession where women are dramatically under-represented. She is now part of an 8-person team supporting the RheinEnergie AG network in Cologne. One of only 15 women out of 300 students on her course at of the Niederrhein...

Tags: Job, Germany, Women, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Gender And Diversity, Human Resources

Case studies

IT Services Company Banks on Power of mySAP Customer Relationship Management

Fiducia IT AG, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, is the largest IT service company for cooperative banks across Germany. The company wanted to boost sales and reduce costs. The challenge was to improve customer relationships and improve the quality of customer Data. The company decided to replace its heterogeneous customer service...

Tags: Bank, mySAP, Customer Service, Germany, IT Services, Information Technology, SAP AG, mySAP CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Product Marketing, Software, Marketing

Case studies

Post-Merger Integration Creates One of Germany's Largest IT Service Providers for the Financial Sector

In 2001, two major financial institutions in Germany - a bank and an insurance company - merged. As a consequence, IT service provision for each was consolidated to form one of the largest IT service providers for financial services in Europe. In order to gain significant cost reductions and strengthen...

Tags: Germany, Financial, Capgemini, Information Technology, Integration, Post-Merger Integration, Business Services, Strategy, Financial Services, Management

Case studies 2006-03-01