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Nokia has been long rumored to plan the release of a white flavor of its Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone, and it seems that all might actually become official as soon as next month.
The Finnish handset vendor is expected to make the pale Lumia 800 model available for purchase in Switzerland in Febr... |
25 January 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Since the downloading of copyrighted content is an issue that puts pressure on governments worldwide, Swiss authorities decided to conduct a study to see if they should declare the phenomenon illegal. The results of the research revealed that there’s no need for such legislation since copyright holders are not ... |
2 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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After debuting in Austria, Spotify didn't take long to conquer a couple of new countries. The popular music streaming service is now available in Belgium and Switzerland as well. The service is essentially the same as everywhere else, for better and for worse, so users in these two countries can now finally get ... |
16 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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As the world’s first electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster has enjoyed a great deal of worldwide success, with more than 1,800 units delivered so far. Now, the 100th Roadster in Switzerland has been handed over to its new owner.Martin Meier is a Swiss architect that ordered his Obsidian Black Tesla Roadster t... |
5 October 2011
05:11 GMT |
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US federal authorities seized almost $15 million from a Swiss bank account associated with a fugitive scareware peddler indicted in US since 2008.The Swiss government transferred $14.8 million to the United States on May 31 in accordance with a federal seizure warrant issued in New York.The money was stored in a... |
10 June 2011
08:28 GMT |
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Street View has always been one of Google's most controversial products. Though the service is largely understated in the public eye, it manages to grab the attention of those either genuinely interested in the public's privacy or just looking for an easy target to prop up some political agenda.Google has b... |
12 May 2011
11:40 GMT |
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A new mass phishing attack targeting Swiss credit card owners was seen using pages signed with a fake and expired SSL certificate.According to security researchers from Symantec, the attackers used a large number of domains pointing to the same IP address and server.The phishing page was signed with a certificate tha... |
26 February 2011
09:51 GMT |
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On a trip to the Geneva Apple Retail Store (in Switzerland) one of our tech news editors was delighted to take a few snaps of Apple's new super-light, ultra-thin MacBook Airs, as well as experience the systems hands-on. He also managed to capture a little extra something. Besides confirming that Apple’s l... |
28 October 2010
05:24 GMT |
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As the world celebrates the opening of the Gotthard base tunnel through the Alps, engineers and researchers at Empa are proud to have participated in the design by solving a monumental problem – how to keep the construction dry for an entire century.Gotthard is now officially the longest rail tunnel in the worl... |
18 October 2010
11:08 GMT |
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A team of investigators has recently determined that methane reservoirs can release significant amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere, sometimes at levels comparable to reservoirs in tropical areas. The dangerous greenhouse gas, which is about 25 percent more potent in terms of the warming effect than carbon dio... |
11 October 2010
06:41 GMT |
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Archaeologists found in a Swiss cave, a jaw fragment belonging to an ancient dog. After radiocarbon-dating it they concluded that it is over 14,000 years old and that it might be the earliest dog ever known.Establishing when the first fully-domesticated wolf became a dog is a rather sensitive subject among researcher... |
24 July 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Just as Google got fined for its Books project in France, the company is making concessions on its other controversial product Street View, this time in Switzerland. Authorities in the country claim that Google has agreed to stop publishing any new images taken in Switzerland for Street View until a court can decide... |
18 December 2009
10:44 GMT |
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Although it may seem easy to do, measuring the thickness and evolution of glaciers is a very tricky business. Glaciologists still use wooden poles and shovels to measure the thickness of glaciers, or sometimes just shovels. These methods may be very well suited for small applications, such as assessing the yearly or ... |
3 December 2009
09:42 GMT |
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The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has been the target of cyber-espionage. According to an official press release, government IT specialists have located a piece of malware on the network that was specifically designed to steal information and remain undetected.The Federal Department of Foreign Af... |
2 November 2009
09:45 GMT |
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Google is no stranger to controversy lately, with the pending DOJ investigation of the Google Books deal but also with the endless string of officials and regular people taking issue with Street View, the company's effort to provide photographs offering a 3D perspective of major cities in a number of countries a... |
25 August 2009
03:04 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple's retail stores, has posted a collection of pictures taken before and after the opening of the Zurich Apple Store, Bahnhofstrasse. The Apple Store at 77 Bahnhofstrasse (Zurich) is Apple’s third store in Switzerland. Opene... |
22 May 2009
03:23 GMT |
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Korean mobile phone maker Samsung announced a few weeks ago to the world its first mobile phone running under the Google Android operating system, the Samsung i7500, while also informing that the handset would come to the market on the airwaves of O2. In the meantime, we learn that T-Mobile also intends to release a ... |
16 May 2009
07:34 GMT |
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Nokia, the worldwide leading mobile phone maker, has announced today that the Nokia Music Store is now live in Austria and in Switzerland. The Nokia Music Store is able to bring to users five million tracks from known artists, independent labels, and up-and-coming local acts, while offering consumers a simple way to ... |
13 February 2009
06:17 GMT |
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The piece of legislation may seem to be a bit redundant to the casual observer, given the fact that going about in the mountains being equipped with nothing more than a bag pack can have its risks. For one, even the slightest fall has a chance of causing extensive damage to various parts of the human body, as well as... |
10 February 2009
13:41 GMT |
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Striving to keep up with an ever-diversifying market, Swiss Army knife manufacturer Victorinox featured at its CES 2009 stand a new and innovative piece of technology, the Presentation Pro knife, which can be used to direct slide shows, and incorporates a USB flash that can hold up as much as 32 GB of memory, as well... |
12 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Up until this point, some 261 sites throughout the globe have been nominated as participants to an international voting contest, whose aim is to determine the most beautiful and impressive natural sites in existence. The monuments span 22 countries and were selected from the top-voted nominees in these nations. Along... |
7 January 2009
03:08 GMT |
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Under existing Swiss laws, people are allowed to seek a doctor willing to give them a lethal dose of drugs, if they suffer from incurable diseases, or they simply are in too much pain from their medical conditions. Non-profit organizations, founded to answer this need, operate in Switzerland under the assumption that... |
15 December 2008
10:07 GMT |
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Heroin (diamorphine) can from now own be obtained in drug stores in Switzerland, the people voted on Sunday. Patients with severe dependency will be able to buy both their doses and their needles from the pharmacies, in a move that the Social-Democrat party says will drop crime rates in the country. The Swiss People&... |
1 December 2008
02:18 GMT |
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Law-makers in Switzerland really outdid themselves this time, with the introduction of an amendment to a 10-year-old law that legally protected the dignity of all living things. The new measure states that plants have to be treated with dignity as well, and that all abuses in that direction, such as "decapitation of ... |
22 October 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Boingo Wireless, the Los Angeles-based company specialized in Wi-Fi software and services, has announced that its Boingo Roaming Network now includes more than 1,100 new hotspots from across Switzerland. The hotspots are owned by Swisscom, the largest mobile carrier in the Central European country, and include airpor... |
17 September 2008
11:59 GMT |
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Apple is set to open as many as three new Retail Stores in Switzerland by the end of the year, ifoAppleStore is reporting. The first one to be inaugurated for eager Deutsch-speaking Apple fans willl be the Apple Store, Rue de Rive (Geneva), spy shots have revealed.According to ifoAppleStore's sources, the Grand ... |
4 September 2008
04:03 GMT |
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Nokia Siemens Networks announced today that, together with Swisssom, the largest Swiss mobile operator, it has been and would still be transmitting images from Euro 2008 arenas for UEFA's IBC (International Broadcast Centre). After reaching the IBC, the images go worldwide, bringing the spirit of Euro 2008 into ... |
10 June 2008
12:35 GMT |
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And, once again, "evil video games" should be blamed for everything! This time, for a strange and sudden sword-attack that happened in Switzerland: on a Sunday morning, a 19-year-old teen was playing his favorite video games and, after a few hours, his mother told him to stop. He considered that so enraging that he t... |
4 June 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Swisscom, the largest mobile operator in Switzerland, together with Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, launched one of the first mobile TV services in Europe, under the name of Bluewin TV. Available starting mid-May, the new service bring Swiss users a high-quality mobile TV experience, thanks to the DVB-H (Digital Vi... |
3 June 2008
06:49 GMT |
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UEFA EURO 2008 is the only officially licensed videogame based on the upcoming real-world championship that begins in June in Austria and Switzerland; it was released on April 11. The game features some amazing representations of the world's most famous players, in a more accessible, faster paced and responsive ... |
2 June 2008
09:13 GMT |
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The availability of Apple's iPhone in Switzerland is as official as it gets, since there's even a tiny page on Swisscom's website (click here to view it) dedicated to the upcoming launch. What's not official yet is whether or not Apple's handset will come in its original 2.5G edition or in th... |
14 May 2008
09:51 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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It's very good to know that some things work exactly as they should and are not corrupted or surpassed by the technological evolution we have going on at the moment. It's a sight for sore eyes and when a simple Captcha manages to fool the great Google, it sort of fills my heart with joy. Not because I have ... |
27 November 2007
13:51 GMT |
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