germany

Apple to get a temporary suspension of the German Motorola injunction

Published on: 12th November, 2011

Several German lawyers contacted by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patent have insinuated that Apple could get a temporary suspension of the German Motorola injunction. As Mueller said, although there is no guarantee, Apple may get a suspension of the injunction that would give it the occasion to put forward its defense properly. It is not [...]

Nokia sues Apple in Netherlands, Germany and UK again

Published on: 23rd December, 2010

Nokia refused to back off in its dispute with Apple over some patents and sued the American firm in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The complaints in The Hague, Düsseldorf and London accuse Apple of violation of 13 extra patents added to the other 24 already invoked in the United States complaints. This [...]

Street View showing hidden images in Germany by error

Published on: 10th November, 2010

Only one day after violating UK regulations through its Street View data collection methods, Google is accused in Germany for failing to blur images that should not be shown. The newly launched Street View feature in Germany was expected to prevent users from being shown properties that their owners had opted out of the program. [...]

Microsoft says Xbox Live friend cap would jump to 1,000

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

In a German Facebook post, afterwards pulled, Microsoft suggested that the approaching Xbox 360 Dashboard update will eventually eliminate the Xbox Live’s 100-user friend cap. According to the post, the list of friends may now contain 1,000 persons and using Facebook it would be possible to even get more. The beta Dashboard update still does [...]

Microsoft will offer again the Windows 7 Family Pack promo

Published on: 6th September, 2010

Microsoft will soon bring back in the USA the Windows 7 Family Pack promotion, in order to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Windows 7; the promotion will be available starting October 3. The company claims that customers with valid Windows XP or Vista licenses on a PC that is able to run Windows 7 can [...]

Samsung Wave – early shipping to Germany

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Slightly ahead of its schedule, Samsung has launched the Wave smartphone in Germany. Samsung’s first Bada device can be bought by German customers for 429 Euros, the equivalent of $545, unlocked. The handset sports a 3.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen having an 800×480 resolution, a 1GHz processor and a 5-megapixel camera capable of recording 720-pixel video. [...]

German Website Sets Autumn as Time for Palm Pre Release

Published on: 22nd September, 2009

eMD presents the Palm Pre German site, O2 Germany, which states that the gadget is “Exklusiv ab Herbst bei O2.” To put it in English, it seems that we were right in positioning the Palm Pre release by the end of this year. The German sentence means that in autumn (Herbst) the new GSM Palm [...]