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Article | 7/02/2013 Facebook deleted all EU facial recognition data, regulators confirm

Facebook has deleted all European facial recognition data, the Irish data protection commissioner and a German data protection regulator confirmed ind...

Article | 6/02/2013 Movie industry not entitled to Usenet piracy profits, UK high court rules

The movie industry has no rights to the profits made by the owner of Usenet-indexing website Newzbin2 by infringing on copyrights, the England and Wal...

Article | 5/02/2013 Former Atari CEO bids to save his old gaming company from bankruptcy

Former Atari Interactive CEO Frédéric Chesnais has decided to take a 25.23% stake in the company in a bid to save it from bankruptcy, Atari announced ...

Article | 4/02/2013 Amsterdam using Airbnb listing service to identify illegal rentals

In a move that might dampen the popularity of Airbnb's site for Amsterdam, the city government is now using the accommodation listing service as a sou...

Article | 4/02/2013 German publishers say Google won't get the same deal it got in France

German newspaper and magazine publishers said Monday that they won't give Google the same copyright deal as it struck with French publishers to settle...

Article | 1/02/2013 Microsoft accused of infringing old Lycos search patents

Intellectual property company I/P Engine has sued Microsoft for infringing two search patents it acquired from Lycos.

Article | 1/02/2013 European Commission says it has received Google's proposal to settle antitrust case

The European Commission has received Google's proposal to settle an antitrust investigation into the search engine's practices, a Commission spokesman...

Article | 31/01/2013 Valve sued in Germany over game ownership

The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZVB) has sued computer game distributor Valve because it prohibits Steam-gamers from reselling their...

Article | 30/01/2013 Tech industry sharply criticizes German online copyright bill

As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online start...

Article | 29/01/2013 Apple to offer iPad with 128GB storage

Apple will start selling a version of the fourth-generation iPad with 128GB of storage starting Feb. 5, doubling the maximum offered storage space.

Article | 25/01/2013 Important Samsung mobile patent likely to be invalid, German court says

A mobile-technology patent that Samsung deems essential to the UMTS standard is likely to be invalid, the Regional Court in Mannheim, Germany, said.

Article | 24/01/2013 Having an Internet connection is crucial to everyday life, German federal court says

Internet access is as crucial to everyday life as having a phone connection and the loss of connectivity is deserving of financial compensation, the G...

Article | 23/01/2013 Steve Jobs threatened Palm with patent suit if it objected to no-poaching pact

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm with a patent lawsuit if it did not enter into an agreement in which the companies pledged not to hire emp...

Article | 22/01/2013 Microsoft won't release study that challenged success of Munich's Linux migration

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard won't share a study claiming that the German city of Munich had its numbers wrong when it calculated switching from Wind...

Article | 21/01/2013 Telefónica introduces phone-to-phone payments in Germany

German smartphone users will be able to make smartphone-to-smartphone payments using only an account and a phone number from mid-February, Telefónica ...