An all-but-final loss of the Gmail trademark case in Germany and a newly-passed law on retaining personal information on its users has Google’s email service reeling.
VTO – German Google Book Search Competitor
On Tuesday, Mathias Schindler reported how easy it was to access the site of German Google Book Search competitor in progress, VTO (full text search online).
German Ingenuity, As Applied To Wikipedia
The German-language version of Wikipedia may see some changes in the very near future. A new editing system, designed to reduce the amount of vandalism (and plain inaccuracy), is going to be implemented. These issues are commonly identified as the online encyclopedia’s biggest problems.
German Publisher Drops Google Protest
German publisher WGB dropped its petition for preliminary injunction against Google Books Library Project this week. Google says the Copyright Chamber of the Regional Court of Hamburg advised the company the petition would not succeed.
German Cops Bust 3,500 File Sharers
Providing song files to other music fans through the use of the eDonkey file sharing application turned into a pain in the ass when a widespread record industry sweep took place in Germany.
German Publishers Fight Google Print
As publisher and author conflicts with Google heat up on the legal front over Google Print, publishers in Germany plan to avoid the problem by starting their own network.
German Teen Spreads Worms
Sven Jaschan admitted to wrecking computers worldwide when he confessed to creating last year’s Sasser computer worm. The worm devastated hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. In the process, he’s bought himself some real jail time for his computer terrorism.
Bloggers May Be Targets in Massive German Spam Attack
Many bloggers are saying they are getting bombed with right-wing German spam today. I am one of them.
German Search Site Wants Google In Court
Claiming that Google violated the terms of an injunction issued from a Hamburg court, German meta search engine metaspinner has “vowed” to take the search engine to court. The dispute once again comes from Google’s trademark policy.
Getting Listed In German Search Engines
How does one get listed in Google.de? If you’re in the US Google will you automatically show up in Google.de? What other German search engines or directories are there for sites who want German-speaking visitors?