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The article reports that the municipal government of Munich, Germany has begun migrating its computers to Linux operating system. The city had planned to move from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system to Linux one year back. But due to some delays, this work could start one year late. As the operating system migration work started, the 100 of the city's 14,000 PCs had been switched from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Office applications to Debian Linux and the OpenOffice suite in just a day.

The article reports on the power application design center opened by National Semiconductor Corp. within its headquarters in Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany on march 6, 2006. The opening of the center indicates the company's goal of strengthening application- and system-support services for engineers designing power supplies and power-management systems. The center is also aimed at providing power designers a full spectrum of engineering services.

This article reports that local police arrested two people and confiscated nearly 200 pirated copies of Office 2003 software in Cologne, Germany. This event happened a day after Microsoft Corp. lodged a criminal complaint against the alleged software pirates. The duo was discovered after the company conducted a test purchase of products being sold at suspiciously low prices on eBay Inc.'s online auction site in Germany.

Discusses the methods of predicting how quickly voltage-controlled oscillators will respond to frequency modulation bandwidth based on the application note "R&S FM-ARB: PC Software for Generating FM/AM Signals in ARB," about the FM-ARB software from the Rohde & Schwarz in Munich, Germany. Suggested arbitrary generators to use; Discussion on the transfer of data to the instrument and steps concerning waveforms.