Europe

T-Mobile slashes iPhone price 75% in Germany

Apple Inc. is not a company known for dramatic price cuts, even when it's clearing inventory in advance of a new model.

So it was something of a shock to read on Friday morning that T-Mobile had slashed the price of the 8 GB iPhone from 399 euros ($625) to a surprisingly low 99 euros ($155).

There's a catch, of course. Buyers at that price must commit to a two-year contract at MORE

Apple's iPhone invades Austria and Ireland

The iPhone continued its march across Europe today.

Three months after it landed in Britain, German and France, Apple's (AAPL) mobile phone and computing device crossed into Austria and Ireland, where it will be carried by T-Mobile and O2, respectively.

It's all part of Apple's campaign to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008 by growing its international markets one region at a time.

The company now has its eyes on the Netherlands, Belgium, MORE

Europe's not finished with Microsoft yet

Heartwarming though it was, last week's declaration of software openness from Microsoft (MSFT) won't end its regulatory troubles. European antitrust watchdogs made that clear Wednesday.

The European Commission fined the software giant a record $1.3 billion, saying the company for three years overcharged competitors for information on how to make products that work with Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system. Microsoft was quick to portray the fine as an echo of the MORE

Fuzzy Math: How many iPhones did Europeans buy?

End-of-year sales figures for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone in Europe are trickling in, but not in any form that can be definitively pieced together.

That latest news comes from Germany, where the head of Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile division said in an online interview Saturday that it had signed on 70,000 customers in the 11 weeks since the device went on sale. (link)

What's not clear is whether that number represents iPhone sales or MORE