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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has just brought the white flavor of its Samsung Galaxy S flagship device to the market in Germany, after making it available for purchase on shelves in the UK a while ago. The white flavor of this high-end smartphone would feature the same hardware specifications as the black... |
13 December 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Google Street View is now finally widely available in Germany in all 20 cities that the first wave included. Street View has been met with more resistance in Germany than in every other country, partly because the country as a whole is more concerned about privacy, partly because the matter has been more publicized t... |
19 November 2010
04:30 GMT |
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Palm Pre 2, the first smartphone that was launched on the market with the new webOS 2.0 operating system on board, is now available for purchase in the UK, priced at £399.00, SIM-free and unlocked.HP already announced plans to make the handset available for purchase in the country starting today, and it kept i... |
15 November 2010
04:20 GMT |
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After much controversy, setbacks and negotiations, Google Street View is going live in Germany. It's already available in the small town of Oberstaufen and it will go live everywhere else gradually. It will probably take longer than Google would have wanted, though, since, besides blurring faces and number plate... |
2 November 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, the latest mobile operating system version from Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, was put on sale in a series of European and Asia-Pacific markets about ten days ago, and already managed to win the hearts of customers, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest. Germany is among the coun... |
1 November 2010
05:21 GMT |
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This week, German wireless carrier T-Mobile has lost the exclusivity on the iPhone distribution in the country, and two new operators started selling the device for their customers too, namely O2 and Vodafone. The move follows several years of exclusivity that T-Mobile had on iPhone's distribution to German use... |
28 October 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Swedish energy company Vattenfall, has partnered with Germany's largest municipal utility to build a huge offshore wing farm in the North Sea, of a value of over 1 billion euros, by 2014.The wind farm is called DanTysk and it will contain 80 giant wind turbines supplied by Siemens, spaced out over an area of nea... |
22 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Google is marching ahead with Street View Germany plans. For the past few months Germans have been able to ask for the removal of their homes from Street View via an online tool and Google has now finished counting the requests. The company says that close to 250,000 people asked for their houses to be removed. This ... |
21 October 2010
10:12 GMT |
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In an unique move, Google allowed Germans to have their homes removed from Street View before the service went live in the country. This came after criticism from government agencies and privacy groups about the implications of the service. The period in which Germans were able to opt-out of Street View ended today a... |
16 October 2010
05:29 GMT |
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Cupertino-based company Apple seems to have signed the death certificate for the exclusivity deals on its iPhone. The iconic device is now available for purchase across Europe via more wireless carriers, as the latest exclusivity deals carriers had for the distribution of the handset ended in Germany and the Netherl... |
13 October 2010
05:27 GMT |
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Now that Windows Phone 7 was launched officially, and the first handsets powered by it set sail to shelves, what remains to be seen is how much would the new mobile phones cost when on the market. Some info on this was already unveiled, but there still are some devices without a price tag attached to it, at least no... |
13 October 2010
04:06 GMT |
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Google's Street View service has been especially controversial in Germany, a country with some of the toughest privacy laws in the world. Currently, Google is allowing Germans to have their houses removed from Street View once the service is launched later this year. But, after, reportedly, a huge number of peop... |
20 September 2010
09:40 GMT |
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Social networks are becoming an important source of information for employers about potential hires. But that may soon change as a new law in Germany would make it illegal to use social networking data in making a decision to hire someone. Googling the person will be allowed though. A new law on data privacy for empl... |
23 August 2010
10:22 GMT |
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Google's troubles in Germany are well known and they center mostly around Street View. The feature is about to go live in the country, later this year, but, due to concerns, Google has allowed individuals to request the removal of their houses from Street View, a first for the company. Now, a German photographer... |
21 August 2010
06:05 GMT |
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German police managed to arrest a bank robber after he emailed back in order to correct factual errors in the public report about the incident and the description released to the media.On August 10 a man with sunglasses and a cap entered a bank office in Röttingen, Bavaria, threatened the teller with a knife and... |
19 August 2010
05:55 GMT |
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Google has started allowing Germans to opt-out of the Street View service. For one month, people will able to use a dedicated page to have their house blurred when Street View Germany goes live later this year. Google has been struggling to launch Street View in the country for quite a while and has faced more opposi... |
18 August 2010
12:27 GMT |
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Google has announced that it plans to go ahead and launch the Street View service in Germany later in the year. The service has been the center of several disputes with authorities and is now the subject of privacy violation investigations in several countries, over Wi-Fi snooping.Google and German regulators have ra... |
10 August 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Security researchers from Avira warn of a new multiphishing campaign targeting German credit card owners. The rogue email messages falsely inform users that their credit cards have been locked and include links to phishing sites for both VISA and MasterCard.The subject of the fake emails is “Locked card” ... |
5 August 2010
05:26 GMT |
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The Germans don’t kid around with online privacy. While the numerous privacy fiascos, debacles and whatever else you want to call them, in the US cause nothing more than public outcry and blogger tirades, mishaps are not treated lightly in Europe and especially in Germany. The country’s data protection of... |
8 July 2010
06:56 GMT |
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A survey conducted by the German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) revealed that 41% of Germans never change their passwords, PIN numbers or other access codes voluntarily. The study also found that only one in six (17%) people replace them every three months.Th... |
29 June 2010
08:21 GMT |
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Mobile-phone maker Motorola has recently announced the launch of a new Android-based handset on the European market, the Motorola MILESTONE XT720, and introduced the device to the German market on Friday. The new phone is the European version of Motorola Motoroi, which was launched in South Korea earlier this year, a... |
19 June 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola recently announced the launch of a new Android-based device, the Motorola FlipOut. The handset is now said to come to the market in Germany in July, via two wireless carriers in the country, namely O2 and Vodafone. The handset should land on shelves in Germany with a price tag of €34... |
17 June 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Google has missed the deadline imposed by Germany’s data protection regulators to hand over the personal data it gathered with its Street View cars. The company says that it can’t release the data as it would be in violation with German laws on the issue. Yet the Hamburg data protection supervisor, Johann... |
27 May 2010
11:51 GMT |
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Nexus One, the first device pushed to the market with Google's Android 2.1 operating system on board, has just arrived on the market in Spain, and is expected to make an appearance on shelves in Germany on May 25, the latest reports around the Internet suggest. We already knew that Vodafone was set to bring the... |
21 May 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Samsung Wave S8500, the first handset to run under Samsung's new bada operating system, is now available for purchase in Germany. The company has made the new mobile phone available for pre-order in the country, and is expected to push it to more European markets in the near future. May 2010 was the initially p... |
20 May 2010
05:32 GMT |
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As expected, the ramifications of Google’s admission of collecting personal data with its Street View cars are beginning to unfold. The company has already started destroying the data at the request and with the cooperation of regulators, but is facing increased scrutiny and, it has to be said, rhetoric, especi... |
18 May 2010
12:41 GMT |
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German officials were “horrified” to find out last week that Google was using Street View cars to collect Wi-Fi data. Why it took them so much to find out a publicly known fact, they didn’t say, but they were clear that Google’s actions were out of bounds. The claims were a bit hypocritical, s... |
28 April 2010
12:07 GMT |
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German privacy regulators love to get everyone worked up about various, horrible privacy violations companies engage in. But it is their job after all, so maybe there’s nothing to read into it. Their favorite target of late has been Google and especially its Street View product, which isn’t even available... |
23 April 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm will soon have its Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus available for purchase to a wider range of users, and both devices are bound to arrive on the airwaves of O2 and Vodafone in Germany. According to a recent announcement from the company, the two service providers should bring the ... |
13 April 2010
08:54 GMT |
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On Thursday, mobile phone maker Motorola announced the launch of its Android-based Motorola Backflip handset on the German market. The device has been already released on other markets around the world, including the United States, China or Italy, and should land in Germany in April, via Mobilcom and online on Amazo... |
2 April 2010
09:44 GMT |
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Germans really don't like Google Street View or, at least, the ones that don't like it are more than eager to express their feelings. Government officials don't have a particular fondness for the service, or Google in general, for that matter, but it looks like individuals are taking the fight to the s... |
30 March 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Waze, the crowd sourcing navigation service launched last year, has just announced that mobile phone users in Germany and France can now benefit from the features of their free turn-by-turn GPS app. According to the company, handset owners in these countries will enjoy access to a comprehensive set of German and Fre... |
11 March 2010
08:43 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has just announced that it will push its Motorola Backflip handset to the market in Germany, delivering its MotoBlur solution to more users around the world. The Motorola Backflip, as most of you might already know, comes with Google's Android operating system on board, while also fe... |
3 March 2010
04:33 GMT |
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Google Street View can be seen as a great product which enables people to view the world in ways it simply hasn't been possible before. Or it can be seen as a great Google conspiracy to, well, take over the world or whatever it is that evil corporate super-powers try to do these days, besides creating brain-eat... |
8 February 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled to the world late last year its first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the Xperia X10, and said that the phone would arrive in early 2010 on various markets around the world. Following previous announcements that wireless carrier Ro... |
29 January 2010
09:08 GMT |
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It's lonely at the top, something that is becoming clearer and clearer for Google. It's being attacked from all sides, government regulators and private companies alike, sometimes over real issues, but most of the time over what amounts to jealousy of Google's increasingly successful ventures. In the l... |
18 January 2010
10:53 GMT |
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The year 2010 has caused date representation problems in various pieces of software, crippling critical functionality. Local German media reports that the owners of up to 30 million debit and credit cards issued in the country were unable to use them starting with January 1.Ten years ago, as the year 2000 was approac... |
6 January 2010
08:11 GMT |
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Book sales, just like almost all existing businesses, are being disrupted by the Internet. Amazon started out as an online book retailer and built an e-commerce empire from that. Brick-and-mortar books sellers weren't thrilled, but there wasn't much they could do about it. In Germany a rather interesting, ... |
30 December 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Atomic clocks, also referred to as cesium fountains, are the norm when it comes to keeping time. Their measurements dictate systems such as GPSs, as well as the yearly division of days, months and so on. They are extremely suited for this kind of applications, as they basically dictate the length of a second, the bas... |
23 December 2009
05:29 GMT |
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The German government plans to launch a major botnet-cleaning operation in the country in 2010. ISPs will identify and contact the owners of infected computers and a specialized call center will be created to offer assistance with cleaning the malware. The project is a joint initiative of the German Federal Office f... |
10 December 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Old civilizations can be credited with a lot of things, from setting the basis of modern societies (Sumer), to boosting astronomical knowledge and mathematics. But, at times, the cities and villages inhabited by our ancestors turned into savage grounds, where people would get killed for no apparent reason. This appea... |
5 December 2009
07:21 GMT |
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Firefox has certainly been a success story both for open source software, but also for the web at large. But, despite its rising user numbers, it still has some catching up to do to reach Internet Explorer's adoption worldwide. In Germany, though, it's a different story and a new study by local consulting f... |
2 December 2009
12:41 GMT |
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Either Germans care a whole lot about their privacy or they really have it in for Google. Most likely it's the first, but it doesn't discount from the fact that Google is getting in trouble again in the country, after the whole Street View affair, this time for Google Analytics. Several government official... |
24 November 2009
10:41 GMT |
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The largest credit card recall effort in Germany's history is underway after an undisclosed payment processor in Spain was breached. Affected individuals are currently being notified and they will be reimbursed if they suffered any losses.The warning about the dangerous situation came from both Visa and Masterca... |
20 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided: this year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Herta Muller, a prolific novelist, poet and essayist that is mostly renowned for her depictions of the harsh conditions present in Romania during the rule of the Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. She was born in t... |
8 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States have recently reported that the analysis of a bone fragment from a skull that is believed to have belonged to former Nazi Party ruler Adolf Hitler revealed that the remains actually belonged to a yet-unidentified woman. This is the same bone section that historians used to argue in the... |
30 September 2009
07:07 GMT |
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In the darkest day of World War II, when German submarines were patrolling the waters alongside the Eastern seaboards of the United States, many a trawling and fishing vessels were pressed into active duty, outfitted with small cannons and machine guns, and sent out on patrol. Large numbers of these vessels fell prey... |
11 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Video games are a form of entertainment, just like TV shows or movies, meaning that they must follow certain guidelines in order to prevent exposing younger people to images that might have a lasting impact on them. That is why there are plenty of rating systems, with the two most important ones coming from the ESRB... |
26 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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During World War II, numerous military and merchant ships en route to Europe were destroyed and sunken by the German U-boat (submarine) fleet, which incurred massive casualties and losses in resources to the Allies. A large part of the battle took place in the waters off the coast of North Carolina, and that's w... |
10 August 2009
04:50 GMT |
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We've been hearing a lot of game-related news from Germany these days, mostly regarding its strict and severe policy in regard to violent video games. But in recent months, a veritable crusade against them has been started, all beginning with a high school student who shot many of his friends because, as the med... |
6 August 2009
15:01 GMT |
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