Hacked off with slow download speeds the locals of Löwenstedt clubbed together the cash to build their own super-fast internet service to the delight of the village's tiny population.
Passengers on all German Intercity-Express (ICE) trains will have access to fast internet connections by the end of the year, Deutsche Bahn promised on Tuesday - but they'll have to pay for it.
The victims of Germany’s biggest ever data theft were being informed on Monday if their email account had been hacked. Authorities said 18 million email account details were taken and launched a webpage for people to check.
It has 12,000 doors, 14,000 windows and is made from 20,000 tonnes of steel. It is also Germany’s most secretive building and its first occupants moved in on Monday.
Bavaria's Finance Minister plans to kick-start an admin revolution, replacing Germany's notoriously paper-filled bureaucracy with a new online service.
Berlin will be the first city in the world to get its own domain name. Launching on Tuesday, .berlin already has 55,000 websites interested and other major metropolises will follow its lead.
From the no pants subway ride to the "grand central freeze" in New York, flashmobs can make for great video – or a boring waste of time. The Local has found Germany's best and worst examples.
A blog which posts pictures and names of internet users who make racist comments online has caused a stir in Germany and has had its Facebook page shut. Is it going too far?
German police have shut down an online black market site, similar to the Silk Road website, where criminals could buy drugs, weapons and credit card details. A contract killer was also rumoured to have offered their services on the site.
Each German government ministry and 17 of its members of parliament were targeted by the huge data theft in which 16 million online identities were stolen.
Millions of Germans have had their passwords and usernames for websites stolen, the country’s Federal Office for Online Security (BSI) revealed on Tuesday.
How many times do you check emails, news sites and social networking sites each day on your smartphone? Most people have no idea, say a group of German scientists, who have developed an app to help people regain control.
Germany’s secret services have dramatically cut down by 97 percent on the number of emails, phone calls and text messages they monitor, but still screened 850,000 electronic communications in 2012.
Germany's new government has confirmed it will set up a parliamentary committee for internet matters - six months after Chancellor Angela Merkel described the internet as "virgin territory".
Solicitors sending out fines to German users of porn streaming site Redtube said over the weekend that they had set their sights on visitors to other popular erotic sites which would potentially snare tens of thousands of internet users.
More than half of Germans want greater state control over websites, but about the same share are worried about surveillance of their own online activity, a survey on Tuesday revealed.
Police have launched a murder investigation after a 14-year-old girl was found stabbed to death in woods outside Berlin. The prime suspect is her older boyfriend who she met in an online chatroom.
Although more than 85 percent of German households are connected to the internet, many consumers are rightly unimpressed with the service they get from providers a study published on Monday suggested.
After months of waiting, the EU finally announced the date when mobile phone roaming charges will be scrapped. There should be no extra charge on calls, texts or internet by July 2016.
Online identity theft has exploded in the past months, with a growing number of thieves using social networks, online banking or shopping sites to steal from German bank accounts – often without anyone noticing.
Serious security flaws in a number of Vodafone internet routers could mean hackers could easily tap into customers' online data, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said on Tuesday.
A third of German school pupils have fallen victim to cyber bullying, a study released on Friday revealed. Yet severe cases of online abuse were rare, researchers found.
