Tag archive: Hamburg

Next time you post a party to Facebook, make sure you set the invitation to “private,” or you might end up with a giant mess on your hands. Just ask Thessa, a teenage girl from Germany, who learned that lesson the hard way late this week: Police estimate that between 1,400 and 1,600 random Facebook users showed up at her Hamburg home on Friday after she accidentally made her party public on the social network. The 16-year-old… Read More

Johannes Caspar, the head of the Hamburg regional office for data protection, said that although Google Inc. made a 13-page response to other requests, the U.S. company didn't make a guarantee on deleting the raw images after the faces, license plates and other information are scrambled or otherwise rendered unrecognizable. "We consider this to be highly problematic," Caspar said in a telephone interview. Google Germany… Read More

European mobile operator Vodafone has been granted a preliminary injunction by a German court in Hamburg against the sale of Apple iPhones by rival T-Mobile. Vodafone alleges that the sale of an unsubsidized handset locked to T-Mobile service with a two-year contract violates German competition laws. However, the injunction does not actually stop T-Mobile from selling the iPhone, and T-Mobile is continuing to do so. Vodafone says the goal of… Read More

Last weekend’s Live Earth concerts might have been criticized for their green credentials, but there’s one way they were a huge winner. The nine concerts, inspired by former Vice President Al Gore, held in cities spanning the globe, drew a record 10 million video streams.   Designed to raise awareness of climate change and global warming, concerts were held in New York, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro,… Read More