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The article reports that the Frankfurt Regional Court has denied the request of Uber Technologies to suspend a nationwide ban in Germany on its ride-sharing UberPop service, as of September 2014. Topics discussed include an injunction issued by the court banning Uber from operating UberPop, a service that allows users of the Uber smartphone application to order rides from private drivers using their own cars, often at prices below those charged by taxis.

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.

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.