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Organizers declare CeBIT success

Science & Technology: 5 Mar 11
The organizers of the high-tech trade fair CeBIT have declared the event a huge success on its conclusion this weekend. READ »

Train drivers strike again as wage battle wears on

Business & Money: 4 Mar 11
Commuters were warned of massive delays and cancellations across Germany on Friday morning, as train drivers walked off their jobs in a bid to pressure employers in an ongoing wage dispute. READ »

Gadgets galore wow CeBIT crowds

Science & Technology: 2 Mar 11
A Shakespearean robot, the world's most merciless alarm clock and "intelligent" cocktail shakers were among the gadgets wowing visitors at the CeBIT high-tech fair on Wednesday. READ »

Window shopping with a wave of the hand

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 11
Always window shopping but never stopping to buy? In the future you can do both with new technology allowing you to point through the window at items and buy them with a swish of your hand. READ »

Tech fair CeBIT rides bullish IT sector

Science & Technology: 28 Feb 11
With the IT industry in a bullish mood, CeBIT opens on Tuesday in Hannover. The world's top high-tech trade fair is preparing to wow visitors with head-spinning futuristic gadgets and the latest in 'cloud computing' technology. READ »

Expert warns of free internet hotspot fakers

Science & Technology: 27 Feb 11
Using free wireless internet hotspots should only be done carefully, and never to conduct sensitive business, a computer security expert warned on Sunday. READ »

Turkey demands support for EU membership

Politics: 26 Feb 11
A day before he is due in Germany, Turkish President Tayyib Erdogan has harshly criticized Germany’s policy towards Turkish efforts to join the European Union, saying it should support full membership. READ »

Big high-tech firms return to CeBIT

Business & Money: 21 Feb 11
CeBIT, the world’s largest technology trade fair, is welcoming back several big-name tech firms following a few rough, crisis-hit years. READ »

Mind-reading computers turn heads at CeBIT

Science & Technology: 4 Mar 10
Devices allowing people to write letters or play pinball using just the power of their brains have become a major draw at Hannover's high-tech CeBIT fair this week. READ »

Teachers reject claim German schools are IT failures

Science & Technology: 2 Mar 10
The national teachers’ association on Tuesday rejected claims by Microsoft that German schools were failing to offer students adequate computer training, telling The Local better libraries were needed instead. READ »

Tech fair CeBIT hopes new gadgets will woo back consumers

Science & Technology: 2 Mar 10
CeBIT, the world's biggest technology trade fair, opened to the public in Hannover on Tuesday, as the beleaguered IT sector sought to woo consumers with trendy gadgets to make life easier and more fun. READ »

One quarter of Germans fine with microchip skin implant

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 10
It sounds like something from a creepy science-fiction film, but a poll published on Monday showed one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it. READ »

Minister warns of growing might of Google, Facebook and Apple

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 10
German Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner on Monday warned of the growing power of internet companies like Google and Apple, as CeBit, the world’s biggest high-tech trade fair, prepared to kick off in Hannover. READ »

CeBIT tech fair to open with 3D and smart gadgets

Science & Technology: 28 Feb 10
The world's biggest high-tech fair kicks off in Germany on Tuesday, with a focus on ‘smart’ gadgets as well as "Avatar"-inspired 3D products to make consumers' lives easier - and more fun. READ »

Attendance short-circuits at Hannover's tech fair CeBIT

Science & Technology: 8 Mar 09
Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t enough to draw visitor’s to this year's CeBIT, Germany’s biggest high-tech trade fair in Hannover. Attendance dropped almost 20 percent, the event's organiser Deutsche Messe said on Sunday. READ »

CeBIT keeps high-tech fun despite economic gloom

Lifestyle: 5 Mar 09
Deborah Cole heads to Hannover to check out intelligent champagne bottles, "green" USB sticks made of corn, an understanding alarm clock and plenty of other fun and futuristic gadgets at the world's biggest high-tech fair CeBIT. READ »

Schwarzenegger tells CeBIT fair that only 'losers whine'

Science & Technology: 3 Mar 09
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the world's biggest high-tech fair in Germany Tuesday after telling crisis-hit executives to stop their "whining" and invest in the future. READ »

IT sector grows despite recession

Science & Technology: 2 Mar 09
Despite the general economic downturn, Germany’s booming information and telecommunications industry is desperate to fill 18,000 jobs on offer across the country, according a leading engineering association on Monday. READ »

CeBIT fair promises green tech despite economic slump

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 09
The world’s biggest high-tech fair kicks off this week in Hannover, offering cutting-edge solutions promising to beat the economic crisis as well as climate change. READ »

Software turns phone into time machine

Science & Technology: 27 Feb 09
A German scientific institute has launched a new software that can seamlessly blend a mobile phone photo of a landmark with pictures and background information from historical archives. READ »

Putting the surround in sound

Lifestyle: 20 Oct 08
Berlin's music trade fair Popkomm is normally a place to discover new bands – not technologies. But when Neale Lytollis heard the man behind the MP3 was setting up a 3-D sound system at the club Tresor he had to check it out. READ »

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