Items tagged with Germany
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Mark Tyson - Tue, Aug 08, 2023
The world’s largest contract chipmaker is coming to Europe with a large $11bn semiconductor plant planned to open by the end of 2027. Today, TSMC announced that it will set up its third manufacturing center outside of its home turf at a...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 06, 2021
Regulators in Germany are making a push for smartphone makers to extend the lifespan of their handsets with more than a have a decade of security updates. Seven years, to be more price, should the European Commission be swayed by the...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Jan 04, 2019
Yesterday, Qualcomm put up €1.34 billion in security bonds in order to enforce a German court ruling in its favor made in late December regarding a bitter patent dispute with Apple. The patents pertained to "power savings technology" used...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Nov 18, 2017
Germany's regulatory arm for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post, and railway markets, has issued a ban on smartwatches designed for children over concerns that they can be used by parents to spy on their kids and teachers...
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Brittany Goetting - Tue, Nov 29, 2016
900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany were hit with an internet outage beginning on Sunday, and IT analysts have concluded that the company was the victim of a hacker attack. The 900,000 affected customers make up roughly 4.5...
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Brittany Goetting - Wed, Aug 24, 2016
France and Germany are just two of the countries that are pressing mobile messaging companies to provide access to encrypted content during terrorist investigations. Both countries have experienced a series of deadly attacks and have been...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 26, 2016
A city in Germany has embedded LED traffic lights into sidewalks so that pedestrians who are too busy looking at their smartphone won't accidentally walk out into oncoming traffic. Sadly, this isn't a belated April Fool's story, and it...
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Sean Knight - Mon, Oct 27, 2014
Amazon was unable to live up to analysts’ expectations when it was revealed in its report, for the third quarter of 2014, that there was a net loss of $437 million. Now, it appears that the online retailer is not living up to its...
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Seth Colaner - Wed, Jan 01, 2014
HTC is not starting out the new year on a strong note; the company lost a patent case to Nokia in a Munich court that affects all HTC Android devices in Germany. At issue is a technology for a "method for transferring resource information"...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Dec 17, 2013
Bah, humbug. Just as the holidays approach, Amazon.com has an issue on its hands over in Germany. The company, which prides itself on tremendously quick turnarounds and lightning-fast shipping, is now dealing with hundreds of employees who...
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Michael Santo - Mon, Oct 10, 2011
A well-known German hacker group has accused the German government of releasing a Trojan horse program into the wild. According to the Chaos Computer Club, the program is the stuff of political fiction: it was designed to allow the...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Sep 05, 2011
Here's a weird one. Doom, the first-person shooter we all grew up playing, hasn't been on sale in Germany –– ever! A rather strange report has surfaced over the weekend, showing that the classic will finally be on sale after 17 years of being on a ban list. Yeah, 17 whole...
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Michael Santo - Tue, Nov 30, 2010
In the quest to keep bicycles safe, here's a new idea. Instead of trying to create the invulnerable bicycle lock, how about having it shinny up whatever pole you attach it to instead, and out of harm's way? A German company called Conrad...
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Michael Santo - Mon, Nov 22, 2010
Google Street View just recently launched in Germany. It's possible to opt out of Street View, and in Germany, 244,000 did, asking Google to remove their residences from the service. Not, however, this naked guy in a car trunk. This image appeared shortly after the service launched, in 20...
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Joel Hruska - Thu, Jul 15, 2010
With the World Cup over and the sound of vuvuzelas thankfully fading away, you might think it's time for business as usual to begin again. Toshiba, however, appears hooked on the excitement, fun, and motonous buzzing a PR crisis can deliver. Back in early June, the company ran a series of ads...
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Michael Santo - Tue, Jan 29, 2008
Ah yes, as technology advances, so do surveillance techniques. So this should surprise no one - should it?Classified documents from September 2007, leaked last week by the German political "Pirate Party," show one particular system that Bavarian police could have in place by February, and its high operating cost.The system, provided...
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Chad Weirick - Tue, Nov 20, 2007
If you live in Germany or plan on moving there soon, you're going to want to kiss German Vodafone CEO Friedrich Joussen when you're there. He and his company just obtained a court order that forces rival, T-Mobile, to sell iPhones without contract to those that want it.“For its part...
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Michael Santo - Mon, Aug 27, 2007
YouTube faces harsh criticism in Germany over Neo-Nazi clips that are on its site. What's surprising is not the presence of such material, but rather that complaints have been made as many as 100 times, and yet the clips are still there. In fact, according to the report, some have been there...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Mar 12, 2007
Corsair Showcases Families of Products at CeBIT Germany -- Spot dazzling display of Corsair flagship memory, power supply and consumer flash products in action, March 15-21, Booth B38, Hall 21 -- Fremont, CA (March 12, 2007) - Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer products...
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Gregory Sullivan - Mon, Feb 05, 2007
With 1945 still fresh in a lot of people's minds, Germany is trying to ban violent video games. Like a reformed drunk that refuses to walk past a tavern on the way home, they figure it's best to avoid temptation altogether. But is it legal to ban them? Some German officials link these...
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