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The developers at EA Sports have offered yet another trailer for the upcoming FIFA Street reboot, showing players some actual action featuring players from two of the best teams in the world, France and Germany.
The two have developed a healthy rivalry over the years and are expected to do well at the upcoming Europ... |
14 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The global protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA) seem to have left their mark on state leaders, the latest country to pull back being Germany. While they didn’t clearly state that they were against ACTA, German officials decided to postpone their decision on whether or not th... |
11 February 2012
06:13 GMT |
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Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the government’s IT security service provider, issued guidelines with the purpose of educating both individuals and companies on the safety measures they should implement to make sure their digital assets are protected.
Their recommendations addres... |
6 February 2012
07:22 GMT |
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The Document Foundation, creators of the LibreOffice office suite, have announced in a press release that they will be moving to Berlin, in the legal form of a German Stiftung. A "Stiftung" is a German Foundation established with an endowment and supervised by state authorities, according to The Document Foundation."... |
1 February 2012
09:42 GMT |
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The hacker known as SEPO managed to breach three important sites, accessing their databases and leaking sensitive information online for everyone to see. First, he managed to access the servers of ProCredit Bank, a financial institution from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but since the part of the server he had breached di... |
28 January 2012
04:29 GMT |
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This week, the series Hackers around the world presents a grey hat from Germany that’s famous for hacking into sites such as MySQL.com, CIA.gov. NASA.gov, and some famous university websites such as the ones that belong to Oxford and Harvard. The hacker, which many may know as D35m0nd142, was kind enough to off... |
21 January 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Researchers from the Vulnerability Labs discovered a number of critical SQL Injection (SQLI) vulnerabilities on the official website of the Dusseldorf International Airport, one of the most important airports in Germany’s most important economic region.
The vulnerabilities, if unpatched, could have allowed an ... |
19 January 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Grooveshark's troubles continue as the site has been forced to block German users from accessing it. The recent lawsuits the major record labels have filed against the company are not to blame, rather, rising licensing prices demanded by the German music rights collection group GEMA, have forced Grooveshark to s... |
18 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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It may be hard to believe, but a hacking operation that targeted the computer networks of Germany’s federal police, last summer, began after an officer wanted to spy on his daughter.
The Local reports that an officer placed a Trojan on his daughter’s computer to monitor her Internet activity. A hacker,... |
10 January 2012
11:17 GMT |
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As part of Operation Blitzkrieg, the Anonymous hacker collective launched a site on which they post all the sensitive information they can gather on members of Germany’s far-right parties and other extremist groups.
“For quite a while now we have been watching our precious Interwebs (sic) being used as ... |
4 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Those of you living in Germany who planned to find the Asus Transformer Prime under your tree this Christmas need to look elsewhere as the tablet won’t arrive in time in your country.Asus has confirmed this news on the company’s official Facebook page via a post noticed by NetbookNews.de.Instead, the tabl... |
12 December 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Post-it notes have been quite a popular item among Apple fans wishing to leave a tribute to the late Steve Jobs.Most people used single sheets to jot down something heart warming and stick them on the glass walls of Apple Stores. One group of people, however, decided to use a tad more notes, and not one post-it has w... |
17 October 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Nokia SeaRay, one of the first smartphones from Nokia to pack Windows Phone, might be released in Germany between November 7th and November 13th via T-Mobile Germany as the Nokia Surprise, if recent reports are to be believed.
Nokia is expected to make official their first handsets running under Microsoft's ... |
14 October 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Built close to Ingolstadt, a new gas and steam power plant that is said to set new standards for efficient and environmentally-friendly electricity production has just been inaugurated by energy and gas provider giant E.ON.
The new German plant, which bears the name ‘Ulrich Hartmann power plant,’ has a... |
21 September 2011
02:35 GMT |
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Google has settled its dispute with German data privacy regulators concerning Analytics. The privacy watchdogs were worried that Analytics tracked user activity without explicit consent or even notification.
German data privacy regulator Johannes Caspar announced that Google has agreed to some of the conditions an... |
15 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Last month, the Facebook Like button was declared illegal in a German state. The state's data privacy regulator argued that the fact that it sent visitor data back to Facebook every time someone loaded a page with the Like button was a violation of user privacy and threatened websites in the area with fines if t... |
6 September 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a recently discovered botnet designed to mine Bitcoins has been updated with components that facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.The so-called Miner Botnet uses a peer-to-peer infrastructure and can also serve as a malware distribution platform.However, considering t... |
26 August 2011
02:16 GMT |
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A German data protection authority warns companies that they might be fined if they continue to use the Facebook 'Like' and 'Pages' features which, according to its findings, violate local and European data protection laws.The Data Protection Commissioner's Office (ULD) from the Northern Germ... |
23 August 2011
13:12 GMT |
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If a data protection official in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has his way, the Facebook Like button will be removed by any website from that state, or face the risk of a 50,000 Euro fine.
Apparently, the Like button is "illegally" being used to send back user information to US servers. Likewise, it is "i... |
22 August 2011
08:37 GMT |
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Video game developer PopCap Games has announced the results of the National Gamers Survey conducted in a number of European countries by Newzoo that shows that more than half of all the adults in the United Kingdom, Germany and France are playing video games on consoles, using casual game sites, mobile devices and so... |
9 August 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Facebook is no stranger to controversy issues. One of the latest has been around its facial recognition feature, which it rolled out in Europe in the last few months. The feature caused a lot of outcry, even though it's not really a privacy violation.
Germany's privacy regulator begs to differ though, t... |
4 August 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The German Federal Police (BKA) has warned consumers about a new banking trojan that tricks victims into transferring money out of their accounts by themselves.While that might sound improbable, the attack is actually very sneaky and relies on web injects, a technique commonly used by banking trojans to modify pages ... |
29 July 2011
10:54 GMT |
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Germany has always had a tough stance on violent video games, but it seems that the country's USK ratings board has given the Gears of War franchise a break with the third installment, which was given an '18' rating, as opposed to the first two games, which were denied classification.
The Gears of W... |
18 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is facing serious embarrassment if a report about blueprints of its future headquarters disappearing proves to be true.The alleged security breach was reported by the German-language Focus magazine last week. The publication quotes an unnamed intelligence official as sour... |
14 July 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Germany launched a national cyber defense center whose primary task will be to protect critical computer infrastructure from cyber attacks.The Nationale Cyber-Abwehrzentrum (National Cyber-Defense Center) is based in Bonn in the same building as the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).For now, it has ten pe... |
20 June 2011
13:25 GMT |
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In a coordinated effort, law enforcement authorities from Germany, Spain, France and the Netherlands, took down KINO.TO, one of the largest pirated movie streaming websites in Europe, and arrested thirteen people suspected of being involved in its operation.KINO.TO was particularly popular in German-speaking countrie... |
10 June 2011
04:57 GMT |
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The German Ministry of Finance has swapped images loaded by phishing pages directly from its website with ones alerting users of the scams.The loading of images or even code directly from impersonated websites is common in phishing scams that use local HTML documents instead of remotely hosted pages.The number of phi... |
12 May 2011
12:01 GMT |
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HTC Sensation, the latest flagship mobile phone that Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation unveiled to the world, is nothing short of its name, and the price tag it might feature in certain markets around the world would reflect that.
This applies to the price tag at which it is listed at the moment at Am... |
10 May 2011
07:14 GMT |
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Perhaps it's Google learning from past mistakes, or maybe it's a temporary thing, but the company has stopped shooting new photos in Germany for Street View. Whatever is online or has been captured so far is all that the Germans are going to get for the foreseeable future. Google hasn't explained exact... |
11 April 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has brought to the market in Germany yet another highly appealing Android-based mobile phone, the HTC Desire S, which was officially unveiled during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, in February.The new mobile phone is now available for purchase SIM Free via ... |
29 March 2011
09:34 GMT |
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Google's Street View was deemed legal in Germany after a court found that the service did not violate privacy or property rights. The court argued that since the photos were taken from the street, even if they were higher up, they were not in violation of any laws. The ruling can't be appealed any further. ... |
22 March 2011
09:40 GMT |
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HTC Incredible S, the latest flagship Android-based smartphone the Taiwan-based handset vendor HTC announced during the ongoing year, is now available for purchase in Germany with a price tag of €495.99 attached to it, via Amazon. According to the online retailer, the handset would normally sport a price tag of... |
15 March 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson Xperia neo, one of the latest Android-based smartphones that Japanese-Swedish handset vendor unveiled to the world during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, is expected to arrive on the market in Germany with a price tag of €346 attached to it.No official announcement on this was ... |
9 March 2011
04:43 GMT |
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LG Optimus Pad and Motorola XOOM, two of the most appealing tablet PCs that would arrive on shelves in Europe during the ongoing year with Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system on board, have just made an appearance at a German retailer.Both devices were officially announced last month during the Mobi... |
3 March 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell has just announced the availability of its Dell Venue Pro smartphone on the market in Europe, following a series of delays from the initial October availability window for this device. Starting today, users in the UK or Germany interested in the purchase of a Dell Venue Pro would be able to do so... |
1 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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While investigating two teenagers for hacking into the computers of numerous celebrities, German authorities have found an entire community dedicated to stealing unreleased material from recording artists.Back in August, German police arrested 22-year-old Christian M. from Wesel and 17-year-old Deniz A. from Duisburg... |
27 January 2011
12:54 GMT |
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Facebook has reached an agreement with German privacy regulators over the use of Friend Finder, a tool which enables users to send the people in their email address books invitations to join Facebook. The move has been heavily criticized in privacy-conscious Germany and Facebook was asked to amend its practices. Face... |
24 January 2011
10:41 GMT |
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A German archaeobotanist studied an ancient Celtic site and ended up by finding the recipe that was used to make beer, in the year 500 BC.Dr Hans-Peter Stika, from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, has been studying the remains of an early Iron Age Celtic settlement at Eberdingen-Hochdorf, dating fro... |
17 January 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Google and German data protection authorities rarely see eye to eye and Google has been under the spotlight in the country for several of its products. Street View has made the most waves, but Google Analytics has been criticized as well. Now, Hamburg's data protection commissioner Johannes Caspar, who's no... |
13 January 2011
04:34 GMT |
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Samsung Wave II S8530, the latest high-end mobile phone the leading South Korean handset vendor brought to the market with its own bada operating system on board, is now available for purchase in Germany. The new device has landed on shelves in one of the largest mobile markets in Europe with a price tag of €42... |
4 January 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Germany has announced plans to open a national cyber-warfare center, outlining the increased attention governments give to such threats.During a press conference on Monday, a spokesperson for the German Interior Ministry revealed that a new "National Cyber-Defense Center" will be created next year.According to CBC&nb... |
28 December 2010
12:53 GMT |
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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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