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German ''Fakebook'' Site incurs wrath of Facebook
By Nicola Leske
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ehssan Dariani, founder of German social network studiVZ,
never made any secret of his admiration for Facebook, which is now suing studiVZ
for copying its ideas and look.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:34:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
iPhone 3G to be available in 1,800 Shops in Germany
This is iWeek - The iPhone 3G will go on sale this coming Friday in lots of markets world-wide. T-Mobile just announced today that the iPhone 3G will be available in 1,800 retail locations throughout Germany on July 11th.
Besides the 600 Telekom shops, The Phonehouse, Euronics/Medimax, Gravis, and debitel Group together with the Media Saturn Holding and their dug shops will offer the iPhone 3G for German customers starting at 1 Euro.
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Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:43:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nokia tries to make good on closed German Factory with over $32m Investment
Nokia, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the City of Bochum jointly unveiled a plan today to stimulate growth, create new jobs and generate investment for Bochum and the neighboring cities.
Nokia invests 20m Euro (~$32m) into the Growth for Bochum program plus the net proceeds from the sale of Nokia's production facility and property in Bochum.
The state of NRW will also contribute a co-investment in the amount of 20 million Euros ($32m).
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 06:38:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MSI Wind U100 sold as Medion akoya mini in Germany at Aldi
Discount retail giant Aldi will offer the Medion akoya mini Netbook starting July 3rd. The Medion akoya mini is actually an MSI Wind U100. This is great news for Netbook fans in Germany. They can pick up an MSI Wind for 399 Euro (~$619).
The $499 MSI Wind is delayed in the U.S. until June 27th. The Aldi/Medion deal could be part of the reason for the delay, as I'm sure Aldi demands quite some inventory.
Update:
More akoya mini details revealed
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Posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:08:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Gravis Stores to sell iPhone 3G in Germany
There are no Apple Stores in Germany, but there is a chain called Gravis that has sold Apple gear for years. Now the Gravis shops will also carry the iPhone 3G and will sell them with T-Mobile contracts according to Heise (German).
Apple is supposedly opening an Apple store in Munich in 2008. The building is still a construction site in early stages. Apple is already hiring personal for the Munich Apple store though.
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Posted on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:56:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
German spying Scandals reawaken dark Memories
By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) - A spate of chilling snooping scandals involving some of their
country's biggest corporations has unsettled Germans who have not forgotten the
dark days of the Cold War.
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Posted on Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:39:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Baby listed on eBay Auction in Germany
A couple from Bavaria, Germany listed their new-born baby on eBay for 1 Euro.
The crazy auction was up for two hours. eBay users reported it and eBay and the Police identified the parents. They said the auction was a joke. Police sees it very differently and took away their child and has launched an investigation into possible child-trafficking.
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Posted on Sun, 25 May 2008 12:38:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
T-Mobile Germany brings 3G iPhone in 2009?
The 3G iPhone hype is already pretty red hot and at this time nobody really questions that the 3G iPhone will become available in June/July timeframe. Wouldn't it be very, very disappointing if it does not ship that early? Today I was at a T-Mobile shop in Munich, Germany. When I mentioned the 3G iPhone is coming in June, the sales person said right away no it is coming in early 2009 in Germany.
She further said that Apple would announce the 3G iPhone in June, but it would be available in the United States earliest in Fall and then a couple of months later in Germany, which would be 2009 by then.
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Posted on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:13:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
T-Mobile says to keep iPhone Exclusivity in Germany
T-Mobile Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan said today that the carrier will continue to be the only one in Germany to offer the Apple iPhone according to Reuters.
As reported Apple started making deals with more than one carrier in some countries.
T-Mobile says they have a very good relationship with Apple and will also stay exclusive for the next generation 3G iPhone.
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Posted on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:25:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
T-Mobile dramatically slashes iPhone Prices in Germany
Uh, somebody is not meeting their iPhone sales numbers. T-Mobile announced a Spring sale for the Apple iPhone, which features the 8GB iPhone at only 99 Euro (~$155) - The normal price is 399 Euro!
Nothing comes for free of course. You only get the 99 Euro iPhone if you pick the highest plan, which is 89 Euro/month (~$140). Still, for power users, that is the plan you'd want anyway.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:09:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
German Schnuffel Bunny ready to attack U.S. Music Charts
This story is not about the Easter Bunny. Verisign owned Jamba did it again. It released a ringtone that ended up dominating the German music charts for 4 weeks. Now the adorable Schnuffel Bunny and its Snuggle Song is going global.
Ringtones that take over the music charts are nothing new. I think it all started with the Axel F Crazy frog back in 2005.
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Posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:54:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
German Court curbs Data Storage Law
By Diana Niedernhoefer
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's top court curtailed a law on Wednesday
requiring telecom firms to store phone and Internet data for six months, dealing
a new blow to the government's efforts to beef up anti-terrorism measures.
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Posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:06:06 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
16GB iPhone sold out in Germany
Heise reports that the new 16GB Apple iPhone is apparently sold out in Germany.
T-Mobile, the carrier offering the iPhone in Germany is estimating that it will be four weeks until the next shipment of 16GB iPhones.
The cheaper 8GB iPhone is readily available though.
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Posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:03:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Film shows Germans not immune to return of Nazis
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - The director of a new film that explores the hypothetical
question of whether another dictatorship could ever emerge in Germany has come
to the chilling conclusion that it could happen again.
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Posted on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
I4U Gadget Model featured in German Maxim Magazine
One of our I4U Gadget Models is featured with very hot photos in this month edition of Maxim in Germany.
We featured Larysa Poznyak from the Fashion TV channel back in November. In Maxim she is only wearing some very fine lingerie. You can see some of the photos online at the German Maxim site (NSFW).
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Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
German ''Idol'' faces Fine for Teen Humiliation
By Scott Roxborough
COLOGNE, Germany (Hollywood Reporter) - A teenager who suffered a breakdown on
the German version of "American Idol" could end up costing its broadcaster
100,000 euros ($147,000).
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Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:22:05 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
German Retailer takes your old HD-DVD Player when you buy a Sony Blu-ray Player
The HD DVD camp does not have it easy these days. Saturn, one of the largest consumer electronics chains in Germany now offers a 150 Euro rebate (~$221) when you bring your old HD DVD player and buy a new Sony Blu-ray player.
So for instance if you buy the Sony BDP-S300 you pay 349 Euro instead of 499 Euro. If you compare prices you can already get the BDP-S300 for 380 Euro on German Internet shops, but Saturn also throws in 8 Blu-ray movies. This deal is nice, but more importantly is really bad PR for HD DVD.
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Posted on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
German State, Nokia seek Solution for Bochum Plant
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and
Nokia will seek "innovative solutions" for a plant that the Finnish mobile phone
group plans to close to cut costs, the state said on Monday.
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Posted on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:35:28 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
German Unions urge Nokia Boycott over Plant Closure
BERLIN (Reuters) - German unions on Thursday called for a consumer boycott of
Nokia products to protest against the cellphone maker's plans to close a German
plant.
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Posted on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:04:58 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
German Samwer Brothers invest in Facebook
The three Samwer brothers are well known in internet entrepreneurs in Germany. Now they make headlines with a high profile investment in social networking king-pin Facebook.
The Samwer brothers founded successfully in the past the Alando auction platform they sold to eBay and the Jamba ringtone company which they sold to Verisign.
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Posted on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:47:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Germans say ''Nein'' to Television
MUNICH (Hollywood Reporter) - For the first time in recent memory, Germans spent
less time in front of their TVs in 2007 than they did the year before, according
to a new survey.
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Posted on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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