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T-Mobile, subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and one of the world's largest mobile operators, has started offering a new Instant Messaging solution for its subscribers in Germany and the UK. The solution is provided together with OZ, a Canadian company said to cater to about 85 million users with its mobile IM clien... |
30 September 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Opera Software and T-Mobile Germany have recently announced that German mobile users will soon have the chance to experience a new chapter of Mobile Web, with the introduction of web'n'walk version 4.0. This will bring widgets that can be personalized by users according to their needs. More exactly, you can... |
19 September 2008
08:25 GMT |
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The idiocy of videogame banning is still alive and well. Just a short while after having reported that Fallout 3 could be banned from sales in Australia because of its drug references, it seems that another long awaited title, Dead Space, could be banned in China, Japan and, most surprising of all, Germany.Andrew Gre... |
8 September 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Shortly after announcing a collaboration with Sony Ericsson, in order to release its JS1 Controller with the W760 slider in the Netherlands, the US-based Zeemote also made a deal with Nokia. The agreement will result in select Nokia phones being sold together with the JS1 in Germany. Moreover, the Finnish giant will ... |
18 August 2008
04:36 GMT |
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O2 Germany has signed a new deal with Nokia Siemens, according to which the German carrier's nationwide network will be expanded and modernized. This will allow O2's subscribers across Germany to enjoy improved voice and data services plus new services that require the latest network technologies. Both ... |
16 July 2008
10:28 GMT |
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Samsung Mobile announced yesterday the official release of its i900 Omnia Pocket PC in Germany, scheduled for the 6th of August. The new handset will be offered by all the German mobile operators: T-Mobile, Vodafone, the KPN-owned E-Plus and Telefónica's O2. The availability of Omnia in the first week of Augu... |
15 July 2008
06:12 GMT |
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After the news of BlackBerry Bold 9000 being released in Canada on July 25, via Rogers, we now have an even earlier release date for RIM's flagship smartphone: July 21. Unfortunately for all the BlackBerry fans in North America, the Bold will be available starting this date only in Europe, offered by T-Mobile Ge... |
5 July 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Nokia's factory from Bochum, Germany, is now closed (as of June 30), and it looks like the Finnish company has reached convenient agreements with the German authorities, agreements set to be beneficial for all the involved parties, including the ex-Nokia employees from the Bochum plant. Together with the Ci... |
3 July 2008
12:44 GMT |
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O2 Germany will apparently offer its customers Samsung's latest high-end Pocket PC, the i900 Omnia, starting August 2008. Although the South Korean company announced its new marvel only yesterday, European carriers are already making plans on how to better market the handset and O2 seems to be the first opera... |
10 June 2008
06:45 GMT |
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According to the German Welt Online, Google has opened a new branch office in Germany. The search engine company, which went to Hamburg in 2001, now has 5 offices in Germany totaling no less than 300 employees. Berlin is the latest to go on the list of Google's locations in Germany, right next to Hamburg, Düssel... |
28 May 2008
06:31 GMT |
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A group of eleven hackers were arrested by the German police as part of an investigation carried out by the local authorities over an Internet forum relying on hacking techniques. According to The Local, the forum had approximately 33,000 members, most of the topics being related to hacking activities, some of them e... |
8 May 2008
04:11 GMT |
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Those who say that Wikipedia isn't one of the most important web services nowadays should think twice. Because it surely is. But this is not enough and Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia is planning to do even more than that. According to several reports, Wikipedia will be released in printed version in G... |
24 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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After announcing the closing of its Bochum (Germany) factory, Nokia had some serious problems with the German authorities, which sustained the Finnish company did not fulfill all its duties towards the German state and the Bochum workers. Today, Nokia announced it has reached an agreement with the Bochum employee... |
8 April 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Mariah Carey is famous for acting like the ultimate diva wherever she goes to the point that even her dog gets to fly by private jet and have a personal chauffeur. The singer never hesitates to throw ridiculous amounts of money in order to ensure she has absolute privacy whenever she travels abroad, and is known for ... |
7 April 2008
08:10 GMT |
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The iPhone is unanimously (or almost) recognized as one of the hottest handsets to make its way into the market in 2007, therefore it came for prices that cannot be seen as "accessible" by most of the mobile users. But this was at the beginning and, since the handset's launching, Apple, as well as the operator... |
4 April 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Apple has given the green light to Germany for downloading hit television programming via its iTunes Store. From Germany's top networks, such as ProSieben, Sat.1, ZDF Enterprises, Brainpool or US broadcasters ABC Studios and MTV Networks, you'll be able to get anything your Deutsch heart can desire, as far ... |
2 April 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Nokia seems to have serious problems with the German state, after the January announcement regrading the company's factory in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, which is planned to be shut down in the summer of 2008. The plant's closing was presented by Nokia as being necessary, in order to assure the company&... |
11 March 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Not being able to access any of your favorite services on the Internet is a major bummer for everybody, and knowing that Google is the uncrowned king of the Internet, there's hardly a way to manage without using it even a little. Yet that was the situation in Germany yesterday, when Google Reader, Google Analyt... |
7 March 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the authorities wouldn't any longer be at large to collect data from the Internet users' personal computers whenever and however they please. Certain limitations were imposed upon the state-controlled agencies, such as the need for judicial permiss... |
28 February 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co KG (also known as SEN), the telecommunications branch of Siemens AG, today announced that it plans to restructure its orientation and activity and transform from a hardware supplier into a software and solutions provider. In today's continuously changing telecommunica... |
26 February 2008
14:52 GMT |
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A Reuters report, recently updated and corrected, says that Apple is hiring for the grand opening of several Apple retail stores in Germany and Switzerland. No doubt, the respective territories are packed full with people interested in purchasing Apple products, who, until now, could only order the consumer electroni... |
11 February 2008
09:58 GMT |
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The German authorities try to make another step in the fight against terrorism and attempts to move online, for a closer surveillance of potential terrorists. Germany's top anti-subversion official, Federal Prosecutor General Monika Harms, says that the web is becoming one of the most popular ways for organizin... |
14 December 2007
08:03 GMT |
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Paris Hilton, everybody, is in Germany, doing what she does best - absolutely nothing special. The heiress with the heart of gold (or, rather, the skin of gold judging by her latest ad campaign) and the wonky eye is in Europe promoting the latest wonder of alcohol technology: the canned champagne. I know, the very th... |
13 December 2007
03:34 GMT |
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As you may or may not know, Porsche is not just a luxury and sports car manufacturer, as more than 30 years ago the company started producing exclusive accessories too (not really related to cars) and now we get to have Porsche watches, ties and other similar products. Since June 2007, there is also a Porsche mobile ... |
12 December 2007
04:36 GMT |
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I must confess that I've never ever, ever, thought about it when purchasing things online. That would make me a bad example, but at least I'm not the only one available. Besides, he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone and if there be one, let him miss by a lot.A survey was conducted in... |
11 December 2007
09:03 GMT |
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I always thought Tom Cruise was self-obsessed and had an ego which was way too big for his size - and in case you needed any further confirmation of this, well, just ask anyone in Germany who tuned in to see the 59th annual Bambi Awards (the German equivalent of the Oscars) which took place in Dusseldorf at the end o... |
3 December 2007
07:08 GMT |
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Germany is that kind of country which aims to promote some laws that would allow the authorities to install some pieces of software on users' computers in order to monitor their activity and find incriminatory evidence for legal disputes. But it seems like some applications installed on the systems might block t... |
23 November 2007
03:24 GMT |
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The German authorities are trying to promote a law which would allow them to install software on some suspected computers to monitor malicious activities, The Sydney Morning Herald reported today. According to the same source, these utilities would be intended to track terrorist activity and to prevent such dangerous... |
21 November 2007
09:45 GMT |
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Vodafone just won't give up on that iPhone. The operator just won an interim injunction that will prevent T-Mobile from selling Apple's phone in Germany during these holiday seasons.Vodafone seems to be against T-Mobile's decision of forcing iPhone buyers to go with their contracts if interested to buy... |
20 November 2007
11:17 GMT |
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The Germans bought more than 10,000 iPhones on the first day of the handset's release in Germany, according to Deutsche Telekom, exclusive vendor in this country for Apple's phone.T-Mobile made its announcement on the 10,000 iPhones sold in the first day of its release with great pride. Still, it's way... |
12 November 2007
07:52 GMT |
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Ericsson just completed T-Mobile Germany network modernization in record time. Whether it was intended, or things just ran better than planned, it's admirable just the same. T-Mobile has a new EDGE-compliant GSM radio network in record time.No wonder that Ericsson managed to finish the job earlier. The company h... |
2 November 2007
11:09 GMT |
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This is a pretty serious piece of accusation coming from Germany as Hans Elmar Remberg, vice president of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, said in a conference that the Chinese authorities tried to steal information using spyware programs installed on their computers. Besides the traditional ... |
23 October 2007
06:30 GMT |
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No, it's not a mere resemblance, the XDA Star is actually almost identical with the HTC Touch Dual smartphone. Or the HTC Nike, or FOMA HT1100, or HTC Touch Slide. The device has come under so many names up to this point that it's difficult to keep track.Whatever it might be called, the handset brings the s... |
3 October 2007
08:49 GMT |
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The case between Google and Daniel Giersch was started a few months ago after the German owner of the G-mail service sued the Mountain View company for trademark infringement. The German court that investigated the case decided today to fine Google with 10,000 euros because it used the 'm.gmail.com' domain... |
3 October 2007
06:09 GMT |
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Since Google announced it has reached a deal to acquire the online advertising giant DoubleClick, the entire world started talking about the transaction, approving or rejecting the partnership. But because several top names such as Microsoft and AT&T complained that this merger might infringe the antitrust laws, the ... |
2 October 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Maybe you haven't heard it yet (this isn't exactly the freshest of news, but we have to share it with you even if it's a little bit late), but Clive Baker's Jericho has been banned in Germany. According to several gaming websites, Codemasters has also refused to edit the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360... |
1 October 2007
04:47 GMT |
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T-Mobile has just been announced by Apple as being the operator to carry the iPhone in Germany. No surprise here. Still, the recent rumors that this company will be the one to support the phone's release in up to 5 European countries has also been confirmed, although the exact date when this should happen has no... |
20 September 2007
04:41 GMT |
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DUSSELDORF - The Police stormed into the house of an innocent man, turned it upside down to search for bombs and in the end nabbed the poor guy. Alexander Jansen is a German IT engineer and he was operating a Tor server when the Police thrashed his house, after they thought he was a terrorist. You would think that ma... |
17 September 2007
03:10 GMT |
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Ten people of different nationalities have been arrested in Germany on accusations of Internet fraud. The scam had not been limited to Germany, but was at a world wide scale and it is presumed that its victims had lost hundreds of thousands of euros. The culprits were Russians, Ukrainians and Germans and they were re... |
13 September 2007
09:02 GMT |
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I guess that the Germans have panicked a bit because of all the hackings that took place this year and now they are deploying more and more security measures. This is not a bad thing, but it's sad that hackers had to set examples, for countries to act on cyber-security...Anyway, they have an even newer program t... |
6 September 2007
16:26 GMT |
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GERMANY - These guys' cyber-security is nothing ordinary, that's for sure. A few weeks ago, one of their laws hit white-hat hackers really hard, as their tools have been outlawed. So, how can you work in computer security to try and disclose vulnerabilities, without the proper tools? I don't know. But,... |
3 September 2007
06:24 GMT |
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The online video sharing platform YouTube is now attacked by an avalanche of criticism coming from Germany because the local authorities are criticizing the Mountain View company for posting nazi clips on its page. According to Reuters, these videos include "a 1940 anti-Semitic propaganda film "Jud Suess" and two mus... |
28 August 2007
06:43 GMT |
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Chinese hackers have hit many targets (civilian as well as governmental) before, in countries like Canada, UK, US and Australia, but only recently has there been news of attacks against Germany. When I first read about this on SecurityFocus I thought that they've really accomplished something big, since Germany... |
28 August 2007
03:00 GMT |
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Nokia announced today at the GC Developers Conference - the leading conference for game developers in Europe - that SNAP Mobile Games will be available in Germany starting from this year's third quarter. To begin with, the German gamers will be able to enjoy the flagship games from SNAP Mobile's Pocket Part... |
21 August 2007
08:49 GMT |
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A new law in Germany states that users should have no link with any type of hacking tools, and according to it, no one is allowed to posses any type of tool that might harm other users' computers, not to mention using it. This comes as a great hit to security experts that were using such software to test progra... |
14 August 2007
10:40 GMT |
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We've just received word that Buka Entertainment and Targem Games have announced a new racer for the PC. The game is called Sledgehammer, and it's really an action-racer. According to the folks involved with the game, Sledgehammer will create total chaos on your PC's monitor as it takes place on Americ... |
3 August 2007
10:37 GMT |
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Sony has been severely criticized for not adopting rumble for their latest machine's controller, the SIXAXIS. The company has gone through lawsuits and deals as high as the sky, but more recently, Sony has finally confirmed implementing rumble in the SIXAXIS. The upcoming Leipzig Games Convention in Germany, mig... |
3 August 2007
05:07 GMT |
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The iPhone has been spotted on the website of a German supermarket, Media Markt. The electronics retailer has advertised Apple's phone as a sure thing to come towards the end of the year in their shops.The title for the iPhone announcement states that "Touching is Believing", which shows that the retail store ha... |
24 July 2007
05:18 GMT |
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The famous Gmail might be shut down as the German authorities promoted a law that forces email providers to record personal information about the registered users. Basically, Google would be forced to store sensitive details about the consumers and, every time it is required, it must comply and offer them to the auth... |
25 June 2007
05:41 GMT |
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A few days ago, the online video sharing service YouTube released numerous versions of the product to be accessed from other countries than the US. Among the lucky nations that received their own YouTube, we can mention Brazil, France, Italy, Japan and Germany. This latest one caused some legal problems to the parent... |
21 June 2007
10:52 GMT |
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