Emerging Tech

In an effort to keep pace with the United States and other countries that are opening their doors to foreign IT workers, Germany's main IT industry association used last year's CeBIT trade show to recommend radical changes in Germany's immigration policy aimed at attracting as many as 50,000 highly skilled IT workers from other countries.

The Telecom Italia Group has agreed to invest U.S.$2 million in the share capital of Virtual Self, an Israeli company that develops of knowledge management software for Internet and intranet networks, Telecom Italia SpA announced Thursday.

Bell Canada and Nortel Networks announcement Tuesday of the installation of an IP Telephony Network at Lakehead University, in Thunder Bay, Ont., is part of the university

3Com Corp. announced it would close its consumer Internet appliance unit following the posting of a pro forma net loss of US$122.8 million for the company's third quarter.

Lucent Technologies and Research In Motion Limited (RIM) announced a broad-based alliance to accelerate commercialization of third generation (3G) mobile solutions using Lucent

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday delivered details on consumer privacy enhancements that will come bundled in Microsoft's upcoming browser release, Internet Explorer 6.

AOL Canada Inc. and Telus Mobility announced Tuesday that AOL's Mobile services would be available to clients using dot.com ready phones on all Telus Mobility digital networks across Canada.

Dell Computer Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced Wednesday that they have entered into a $16 billion hardware and research and development alliance.