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| O2 Germany Expands and Improves Its Network |  | 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 the 2G and 3G networks of O2 Germany will benefit from Nokia Siemens' enhancements. The Finnish-German joint venture ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 10:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Omnia Gets an August Release and a $1,000 Retail Price |  | 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.
[admark=1]The availability of Omnia in the first week of August is surely great news for German mobile users, but there's also a not-at-all great aspect, which relates ... [read more >>] | | 15 July 2008, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BlackBerry Bold out on July 21 in Europe, SAR Problem Spotted |  | 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 start ... [read more >>] | | 05 July 2008, 06:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Shows It Cares About Bochum |  | 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 City of Bochum and the Government of North Rhine-Westphalia (where the city is situated), Nokia has developed a & ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 12:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| O2 to Offer Samsung Omnia in Germany |  | 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 hands ... [read more >>] | | 10 June 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Opens Berlin Office |  | 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, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main and Munich. The more recently acquired office space is said to be of only 150 square meters, which liter ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 06:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bavarian Teenage Hackers Arrested |  | 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 even concerning credit c ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wikipedia to Be Released in Printed Version |  | 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 Germany as soon as September and will be sold for 19.95 euros. Wikipedia receiving as much as $1.59 per copy, the Sa ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Agrees to Pay 200 Million Euros to Bochum Workers |  | 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, ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 20:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Shameless: Mariah Carey Lip-Syncs |  | 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 being one of the most demanding celebrities out there, making outrageous demands and bringing along upwards of 100 ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 08:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iPhone On the Cheap Side, Now For 99 Euros |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2008, 04:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Has to Pay 60 Million Euro to Germany |  | 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's long-term competitiveness. The production from the Bochum factory will be transferred to Nokia's new pl ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Offline in Germany |  | 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 Analytics, Google news, Gmail and so on couldn’t be accessed for about two hours.
Google Germany was prompt to answer any q ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 06:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Online Privacy Rights Endorsed by Court Ruling |  | 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 permission to attempt tapping into a person’s PC, and that is to be granted only under special conditions.
Digital rights activists must have th ... [read more >>] | | 28 February 2008, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Siemens to Fire 3,800 Workers and Transfer Another 3,000 |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 14:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Recruiting Employees for New Retail Stores |  | 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 electronics, and seek advice via specialized websites, blo ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 09:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| German Anti-Terrorism Forces Go Online Looking for Extremists |  | 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 organizing terrorist attacks, as many of the extremists go online to give orders and set up some details of their attacks, D ... [read more >>] | | 14 December 2007, 08:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is Paris Loosing Her Sexy? |  | 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 thought of it is revolting, but everything comes in a can these days, so... I suppose we shouldn't be that surpr ... [read more >>] | | 13 December 2007, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Porsche P9521, Two Times More Expensive Than the iPhone |  | 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 phone, a luxury one, of course: Porsche P9521. The handset is created in collaboration with Sagem, the French electronics pro ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 04:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Shop Green Lest It’s Black from Now on |  | 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 Europe regarding this aspect of everybody’s Internet life and boy, oh, boy, does publicity turn out to be there for ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 09:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tom Cruise Is Officially the Most Boring, Pompous Person in This World |  | 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 of last week. Tom received the "courage" award, for his latest movie "Valkyrie", that deals with ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Skype Blocks German Terrorist Investigation |  | 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 them from reaching their goal as the German experts are unable to bypass their protection. Skype is one of those because the o ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 03:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Germany to Develop Advanced Computer Spying Tools |  | 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 attacks that could threaten the security of the residents. The law was not voted yet but the Interior Ministry alr ... [read more >>] | | 21 November 2007, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Vodafone Sues T-Mobile Over iPhone Monopoly in Germany |  | 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 one of these handsets. What's most interesting on this issue seems to be the fact that Apple managed to sell a huge ... [read more >>] | | 20 November 2007, 11:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More than 10,000 iPhones Sold on First Day of Germany Release |  | 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 below what Apple managed to pull off in the US in the first days of their handset's release, although the ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 07:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Record-Breaking Network Modernization from Ericsson |  | 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 holds many years of experience behind them to drive some rapid decisions and get things done in time. Not only t ... [read more >>] | | 02 November 2007, 11:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Germany Attacks China For Starting the Cyber-War! |  | 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 spying methods, the Chinese government attacks Germany's computers every one or two days, the official sustain ... [read more >>] | | 23 October 2007, 06:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XDA Star Heading towards O2 Germany |  | 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 same performances and a HTC Touch design improved by the added slider that reveals a numeric keypad. The mobile ... [read more >>] | | 03 October 2007, 08:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gmail Germany Steals 10,000 Euros from Google's Pocket |  | 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 for the local mobile flavor of the mail technology, CNET reports today. Because the Gmail domain was actually owne ... [read more >>] | | 03 October 2007, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Germans Not so Google-Lovers as Americans |  | 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 privacy regulators from all around the world were required to give their opinion. Following the recent talks be ... [read more >>] | | 02 October 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| T-Mobile Confirms iPhone Negotiations for More Countries |  | 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 not been specified yet.
The same question that ... [read more >>] | | 20 September 2007, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Police Nets Innocent. Terrorists Still At Large |  | 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 maybe he was a black-hatter or something like that, but you’d be wrong – this guy was just running the server and min ... [read more >>] | | 17 September 2007, 03:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Scam Gets 10 Busted |  | 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 residing in different cities. That’s the thing about Internet, you don’t need to be in the same place with your a ... [read more >>] | | 13 September 2007, 09:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Germans – Security Freaks! |  | 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 to protect themselves against any threats coming from the Internet. As NetworkWorld tells us, the German governm ... [read more >>] | | 06 September 2007, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Germans Say: Heil Spyware! |  | 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, in any case, that's just old, now they want to use spyware on possible terrorists. First they don't acce ... [read more >>] | | 03 September 2007, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Attacked For Nazi Material |  | 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 music videos of outlawed German far-right rock band Landser." It seems like some of the movies wer ... [read more >>] | | 28 August 2007, 06:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Chinese Steal Data from the Germans |  | 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 has one of the toughest cyber-security systems. But the thing is these attacks were not such a great achievement, ... [read more >>] | | 28 August 2007, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Wants to Make German Gamers Happy |  | 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 Party series, including Sudoku and JellyPop, games that are already available for users in North America and Asia Pacific.
Hig ... [read more >>] | | 21 August 2007, 08:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Anti-hacking Law Hits German Websites |  | 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 programs. Further more, to some people, this law sounds a bit like "You can't own a knife, you might kill someo ... [read more >>] | | 14 August 2007, 10:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PC Gamers to Get One Hell of a Fun Racer - Sledgehammer! |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 03 August 2007, 10:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Will Sony Show the Rumbling SIXAXIS at Leipzig? |  | 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 ... [read more >>] | | 03 August 2007, 05:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iPhone Announced to Come at Media Markt in Germany |  | 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 & ... [read more >>] | | 24 July 2007, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Plans to Shut Down Gmail |  | 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 authorities. As the search giant is currently involved into an important battle for the users' privacy, the Mounta ... [read more >>] | | 25 June 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Germany Causes Legal Problems |  | 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 company Google because the search giant didn't agree with the copyright organization GEMA on the fees concern ... [read more >>] | | 21 June 2007, 10:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ericsson and Telefónica Deutschland Will Build Optical Network |  | Ericsson has joined forces with Telefónica Deutschland in order to build and operate an optical network. As a result, the two companies will have a considerable German market share to gain.
Ericsson will contribute to the building of a DWDM (Dense Wavelenght Divisio Multiplexing ... [read more >>] | | 30 May 2007, 11:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LinuxTag 2007 Is About to Begin |  | May is almost over. There’s just about one more week until we’ll be reaching its 30th day. Are you thinking what I am thinking? No, I wasn’t thinking of swimsuits, sunbathing and hot summer days at the beach. I was referring to the world’s no.1 Linux expo and conference since 1996, the Linuxtag, which will take place from Wednesday May 30 to Satruday June 2 this year. It will be held in Germany at the Berlin Expo Center under the Funkturm ... [read more >>] | | 18 May 2007, 00:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ultimate Gaming Platform - The New Commodore |  | Commodore Gaming has confirmed some time ago their plans of making a gaming optimized PC platform that will carry the name of the old Commodore, only this time, we're talking about 64 Bit, not 64 K. The ... [read more >>] | | 15 March 2007, 05:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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