Corruption and vendor lock-in fears set back Poland's e-gov plan by years
The e-Poland project, intended to allow the country's citizens to do business with the government online, now won't go ahead til 2015 at the earliest.
Central Europe is becoming a hotbed for research and development for some of the world's largest companies. Michiel van Blommestein takes a look at this IT powerhouse in the heart of the continent.
The e-Poland project, intended to allow the country's citizens to do business with the government online, now won't go ahead til 2015 at the earliest.
Poland's Invisible Things Lab has launched its Linux-based desktop OS that uses sandboxed security.
Poland's great paywall has gone live, with content from 46 different publications shielded behind a single payment system. When it came to getting so many publishers to work together, it turns out technology was the easy part.
One of Europe's largest software companies is looking to acquire a Russian banking software company, not long after its plans for a buy on home turf failed.
With funding from the EU and new rollouts scheduled, Poland is improving its position as one of Europe's fixed broadband laggards - even as the country's mobile broadband is making progress.
Virgin Mobile has added another mobile operator to the Polish market, and one it hopes will attract a million customers in the country.
US testing company uTest has acquired Polish mobile app testing tools provider Apphance in a deal that's thought to be the biggest of its kind in the country.
Central European countries such as Poland are sometimes painted as having a lax attitude to wards IP protection - but the area isn't the legal wilderness many fear
Poland is seeing the number of students opting to take IT courses rising year on year, but there are fears from one of the country's major e-commerce companies that a demand for programmers could still outstrip supply in the coming years
The Polish Chamber of Books is preparing a case against Chomikuj, whose content storage and sharing facilities it claims are being used to pirate books.
The city of Lodz may not be an obvious BPO hotspot, but both HP and Infosys are among the companies establishing service centres there
Despite the threat of a substantial fine that increases every day they defy the EC, five EU countries appear to be in no rush to make opt-in cookies part of national law
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