Tag Archives: german

North Korea’s ‘Hotel of Doom’ suffers yet another setback in 26-year path to opening

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North Korea’s unfinished Ryugyong Hotel has towered over the capital city of Pyongyang for over a quarter-century without opening, but late last year it looked like the 105-story pyramid’s development hell was coming to an end. German…


Extensive BlackBerry Z10 demo video posted by German website [video]

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Want to know about all the hottest features in the upcoming BlackBerry Z10? Well now you can, although it will help if you can speak German. German website TelekomPresse has posted a pretty extensive video showing off the BlackBerry Z10′s user interface, multitasking capabilities and its BlackBerry Hub messaging center. The video doesn’t show anything we haven’t seen before, although it has a lot of great closeups of the Z10 that show how compact and thin RIM’s (RIMM) new BlackBerry phone will be. The full video of the BlackBerry Z10 demonstration is posted below.


Apple wins EU-wide injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

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Word around the mulberry bush is that Apple has just won itself a Europe-wide injunction against the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, in case anyone still wanted to buy that tablet now that the Nexus 7 is out. The decision was taken in-between bee…


Roku 2, LT and new HD boxes upgraded for more languages, future remote apps

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Over on the Roku blog the company just announced it’s delivering a software 4.8 upgrade starting today. First up there’s a few new features included right away like support for Spanish and German in the UI, performance optimizations and playback impr…


German court upholds ban on iCloud and MobileMe push emails

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It’s been well over a month now since Apple suspended push email from its iCloud and MobileMe services, and it doesn’t look like it will be switching them back on any time soon. According to the Wall Street Journal, a German regional court has backed …


Apple’s second slide-to-unlock case against Samsung stayed in Germany

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Nothing like a little drama in the ongoing never-ending saga between Samsung and Apple to spice up your Friday morning, eh? As legions of consumers are cashing in a vacation day in order to pick up one of Apple’s newest iPads, a court in Mannheim, Ger…


CeBIT 2012 wrap-up

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For better or worse, our week in the frigid German city of Hannover has come to a close, bringing with it the end of this locale’s days-long tourist season. All of the local highlights were in the region’s Messe, and were focused around CeBIT, which d…


Facebook loses friends in Germany over privacy breaches

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Before you’ve even sipped your morning brew, a regional German court has delivered yet another stern judgement affecting a multinational organization. This time it’s Facebook back in the dock over the Friend Finder feature, which uploads a user’s conta…


We’re live from CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany!

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Where is Hannover, you ask? Well it’s definitely in Germany — of that much we’re sure. This town certainly isn’t a tourist haven, save for a week in March when tech pros from every continent arrive and grow the city beyond its typical community of 50…


German court upholds ruling against Apple, clears Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N for sale

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Apple’s legal team has been dealt another blow in Germany, where a court today shot down the company’s requests for a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N. In a statement issued this morning, the Dusseldorf Regional Court said …