Two regional websites for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) were hacked on Tuesday by unknown perpetrators claiming to be Turkish following controversial comments by her conservatives on immigration.
The popular program Adobe Flash Player can be used to take over another person’s computer and spy through their camera and microphone, researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have discovered.
Samsung on Thursday unveiled a gadget at the IFA electronics trade fair in Berlin that it hopes will eventually rival Apple's highly successful iPad tablet PC.
A man has been arrested for spying on more than 150 girls in their bedrooms by hacking into their computers and using their webcams to watch them, provoking warnings that others will be doing the same thing.
More than one-quarter of Germans older than 14 do not use the internet, according to a new study presented on Thursday by the federal government agencies and businesses.
Germany hung onto its dubious title as Europe’s leader in spreading computer viruses in 2009, though its share of malicious activity in the region dropped slightly, a survey has found.
A Berlin firm has developed a new tablet PC called the “WePad” that aims to bridge the gap between the publishing world and the internet while competing with Apple's hotly awaited iPad.
The venerable US internet services company AOL is closing its offices in Germany after 15 years, a spokesperson told branch website Meedia.de late on Monday.
Many Germans have been hit by a computer bug linked to the year 2010 that has rendered their bank cards useless, the ZKA banking commission said on Monday.
Customers are planning to sue mail-order retailer Otto after it failed to deliver on thousands of orders for Apple Macbooks priced at €49.95, news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported this week.
Despite the general economic downturn, Germany’s booming information and telecommunications industry is desperate to fill 18,000 jobs on offer across the country.
German high speed internet customers are deeply unhappy with their service providers according to an online survey by a consumer protection association.
The world leader in business software, German IT giant SAP, said Monday that it had dropped its 2008 financial targets because of the uncertain economic environment.
Google has appealed two Hamburg district court rulings that prohibit the company from displaying thumbnails of copyrighted images without permission, the internet search engine told The Local on Wednesday.
Facebook is asking a US court to shut down German website StudiVZ on the grounds it is an illegal “knockoff” of the online social networking superstar.
Gmail users in Germany were likely surprised late last week when instead of gaining access to their email, they were greeted with a mysterious message from the folks at Google.
