Rick Perera

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a grouping of the world's advanced economies, is continuing work to untangle the thorny questions surrounding taxation of cross-border electronic commerce transactions.

Rising competition and the high costs of implementing 3G (third generation) wireless networks will lead to a major shakeout in Europe's mobile telecommunications industry, according to a new report from Forrester Research BV in Amsterdam.

Integrated circuit maker Infineon AG is teaming with Toshiba Corp. to develop a new type of memory technology, the companies said Thursday.

Internet search engine Infoseek Germany is implementing a visual search feature which can locate faces of particular people.

U.K.-based wireless operator Vodafone Group PLC "is understood to have reached an agreement" to acquire a 15 per cent stake in Japan Telecom Co. (JT), the Financial Times newspaper reported Monday.

Half of the Internet services companies listed on Germany's Neuer Markt stock exchange are seriously in danger of financial liquidity problems, according to a study commissioned by the newspaper Financial Times Deutschland.

L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co. and Juniper Networks Inc. plan to invest some US$50 million to create a mobile Internet joint venture, the companies said Thursday.

Germany's IT industry is taking a wait-and-see attitude on a new fee to be charged on CD burners, which is meant to compensate artists and authors whose work is duplicated without their permission.