May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Iphone":
Business & Money: 14 May 12
Rumours that Apple was preparing to buy a German television manufacturer pushed its share price up by more than 20 percent on Monday – even though the only thing the company said was that the idea was mistaken.
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Society: 4 Mar 12
The high price of petrol is leading more and more Germans to engage in illegal activities in order to keep their tanks full without going bankrupt, an article published in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper said.
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Business & Money: 23 Jan 12
German businessman Thorsten Heins became the surprise choice on Sunday to replace previous heads of the Canadian-based Research in Motion (RIM), struggling makers of the Blackberry smartphone.
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Business & Money: 19 Jan 12
A free online music streaming service, Grooveshark, has closed its German operations, saying the music industry is charging too much for access to songs.
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National: 10 Dec 11
Apple said Friday it would immediately appeal a German court ruling in favour of rival Motorola in a patent dispute that could see Apple's sales company prevented from selling iPhones and iPads in Germany.
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Science & Technology: 17 Nov 11
Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it had modified the design of its newest tablet PC to bypass a sales ban in Germany, and would start selling it there as early as this week.
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Science & Technology: 7 Nov 11
A German court has issued an injunction that temporarily bans Apple Inc. from selling or marketing its mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads in Germany. But it’s unclear whether it will have an immediate effect on the company.
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Society: 26 Oct 11
A café in Bonn called Apfelkind has become entangled in a legal fight with Apple over its logo, with the computing giant trying to block the cafe owner’s trademark application. The Local spoke with its owner Christin Römer.
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Business & Money: 6 Oct 11
People laid flowers outside Apple shops in Germany in memory of the computer company’s dead founder Steve Jobs, who died aged 56 on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 9 Sep 11
Apple won the latest battle in a global legal war with Samsung on Friday when a German court banned the Korean firm from selling a tablet computer in Germany, ruling it had copied the iPad.
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Science & Technology: 5 Sep 11
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from US rival Apple.
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National: 6 Jul 11
Frankfurt prosecutors announced Wednesday that nationwide police raids had brought down a major fraud scheme based on buying the latest mobile phones overseas without paying sales tax and then reselling them in Germany.
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Business & Money: 6 Jun 11
As Apple prepared to launch on Monday an eagerly awaited service that lets consumers listen to their music collection on any Apple device, a German music-streaming site has lodged an anti-trust claim against the technology giant.
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Business & Money: 20 Mar 11
AT&T on Sunday agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Germany's Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion (€27.5 billion) in a blockbuster deal in the US wireless telecommunications sector.
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Science & Technology: 2 Mar 11
A Shakespearean robot, the world's most merciless alarm clock and "intelligent" cocktail shakers were among the gadgets wowing visitors at the CeBIT high-tech fair on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 11 Feb 11
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have discovered a way for hackers to access passwords stored on a locked iPhone in only six minutes, without even cracking the phone’s passcode.
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Society: 9 Feb 11
With almost 400 films and countless other events accompanying this year’s Berlinale, choosing what to see can be a daunting task. Fortunately, The Local has sifted out a sampling of the festival’s most interesting offerings.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 11
Social networking site Facebook announced Monday it was launching its “deals” service, on which members can look up special offers on anything from a cup of coffee to a football scarf on their smart phones.
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National: 7 Dec 10
Germany is to double the amount of money it gives to Jewish Holocaust survivors for elderly home care, bringing the total to €110 million next year, as a wave of former victims reaches very old age.
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National: 10 Nov 10
US authorities unveiled charges late on Tuesday against 17 people in a long-running scheme that fraudulently obtained some $42 million in Holocaust compensation funds from Germany.
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Business & Money: 4 Nov 10
German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom disappointed investors with third-quarter results on Thursday, and spotlighted the impact on earnings of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone.
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Science & Technology: 26 Oct 10
An electric car drove from Munich in southern Germany to Berlin without recharging its battery on Tuesday, setting what organisers hailed as a new world distance record for an everyday vehicle.
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Science & Technology: 9 Aug 10
The German government said Monday ministers and senior civil servants have been told not to use iPhone and BlackBerry mobile devices as the interior minister warned a "dramatic" rise in cyber attacks.
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Science & Technology: 14 Jul 10
The Bavarian State Library this week released a free application for Apple’s iPhone and iPad offering users the ability to browse rare books including the Guttenberg Bible and precious medieval manuscripts.
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National: 26 Jun 10
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has called on IT giant Apple to make clear what personal data it is keeping about its customers, for how long, and what for.
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Science & Technology: 17 Jun 10
Anyone hoping to buy an iPhone 4 in Germany will have to wait until at least July. A crush of customers trying to pre-order the new model have overwhelmed Apple’s German partner Deutsche Telekom.
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Lifestyle: 6 May 10
This Week's Highlights: A new park opens at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, Hamburg holds a big birthday bash for it's celebrated port, and Nathalie Merchant plays Cologne.
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Society: 23 Apr 10
Gray Powell, the Apple employee who compromised the firm’s product security by losing a top-secret iPhone prototype after too much German beer, has been offered a chance to drown his sorrows in Munich by German carrier Lufthansa.
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Science & Technology: 21 Apr 10
The world’s best beer has been the downfall of many a good man. In the case of American software engineer Gray Powell, German brewing was enough to tear a hole in technology giant Apple’s legendary product security system.
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Science & Technology: 25 Feb 10
German publishers are ringing alarms over what they say are threats to press freedom stemming from Apple's scrutiny of an iPhone application from tabloid daily Bild that undresses women.
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Lifestyle: 17 Feb 10
Legendary industrial designer Dieter Rams has always focused on doing ‘less but better’ – a credo David Sharp found he even applied to a rare interview with The Local.
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Lifestyle: 21 Jan 10
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, hits the catwalk for Fashion Week, uncovers the art of being tacky and helps you brush up your German skills.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 09
In an effort to squeeze more money from its internet operations, publisher Axel Springer is introducing iPhone apps with monthly subscription fees. The Bild app will allow users to “shake” the clothes off the paper’s naked front page girls.
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Science & Technology: 2 Dec 09
Hollywood’s raven-haired beauty Megan Fox has edged out Britney Spears as the most googled person in Germany, according to the company’s “Zeitgeist 2009” list released this week.
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Society: 25 Nov 09
Apple has summarily removed an iPhone application from German news magazine Stern due to objections over photo galleries featuring too much naked skin, Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 09
The Local’s German media roundup surveys the overwhelmingly positive response to Chancellor Angela Merkel's historic address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday.
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National: 27 Oct 09
Germany’s hated GEZ public broadcasting licence fees – required of everyone who owns a television or radio – may be changing soon, daily Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 12 Oct 09
German flag carrier Lufthansa and Japanese electronics giant Panasonic have teamed up to offer passengers wireless Internet on long-haul flights from 2010, the airline announced Monday.
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Lifestyle: 12 Oct 09
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, highlights a travel writing workshop, a killer iPhone app and locally produced pasties.
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Science & Technology: 23 Sep 09
Organisers of Munich's venerable Oktoberfest have updated the beer festival for the 21st century with a line of boozy mobile applications for the iPhone.
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Science & Technology: 18 Aug 09
O2 Germany has announced plans to be the first major mobile phone provider in the country that would no longer block internet voice (VoIP) applications on devices.
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Society: 21 Jul 09
The 25th edition of the German language dictionary Duden is out with 5,000 new words, daily Die Welt reported on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 26 Jun 09
T-Mobile could soon lose its exclusive rights to Apple’s widely popular iPhone in Germany, Manager Magazin reported on Friday.
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Business & Money: 20 May 09
German firms have become a popular target for industrial espionage by China and Russia, costing the country billions each year, head of the ASW association for economic security said on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 31 Mar 09
German telecommunications giant T-Mobile will not allow their customers to use the new Skype application for the iPhone, the company told The Local on Tuesday.
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Lifestyle: 9 Mar 09
This month Exberliner, Berlin's leading English-language magazine, picks the best places to show off your Wii moves, hang out with the cool crowd in Mitte and play bingo with a twist.
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Science & Technology: 27 Feb 09
A German scientific institute has launched a new software that can seamlessly blend a mobile phone photo of a landmark with pictures and background information from historical archives.
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Science & Technology: 14 Nov 08
An iPhone application for Berlin's public transport network will be back online and revamped in two weeks after being banned last month by Berlin bus and metro company BVG, daily Die Tageszeitung reported on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 31 Oct 08
Berlin public transportation company BVG has banned a beloved iPhone application developed by a 21-year-old student to help people navigate the city’s intricate metro system, daily Die Tageszeitung reported on Friday.
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National: 6 Oct 08
German police searched more than 140 apartments for stolen electronic goods in a nationwide search for illegal ebay dealers, a police spokesperson told daily Berliner Morgenpost on Monday.
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Business & Money: 26 Sep 08
Social networking website Facebook has teamed up with a promotion agency to boost its nascent German unit via real-world recruitment, The Washington Post's internet edition reported on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 7 Aug 08
Armin Heinrich, a German software developer, has riled the tight-knit Apple community by developing an application for the iPhone that costs $1,000 – simply to show that the owner can afford it.
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Science & Technology: 17 Jul 08
Just one week after the new Apple iPhone 3G hit the German market on July 11, customers are pressing their noses to empty display cases in T-Mobile stores.
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Politics: 11 Jun 08
A third of all members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party are considering leaving the SPD, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
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Science & Technology: 11 Jun 08
T-Mobile plans to release the new 3G Apple iPhone on July 11 in Germany, according to news agency Reuters.
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Science & Technology: 4 Apr 08
Possibly in anticipation of the coming release of Apple's latest iPhone model, sole German retailer T-Mobile has drastically cut prices for the popular mobile phone.
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Science & Technology: 13 Feb 08
Yahoo wins battle in the war for mobile Internet domination.
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