Rovio gets $42 million investment
Maker of Angry Birds Rovio has secured $42 million to push forward into frontiers hitherto unknown to the company and its staff. Rovio made a name for itself by developing Angry Birds, mobile game...
View Article3DS tickles TechEye's memory circuits
TechEye got a Nintendo 3DS sample unit to play with last week, over half a year after first manhandling it at the Gamescom show in Cologne. It has to be said, playing with Nintendogs and brawling...
View ArticleBitkom says women love the mobile web
It appears German women are a bit more keen to access the web from smartphones or tablets than their male counterparts. According to industry organisation Bitkom, 20 percent of women asked in a survey...
View ArticleThe Onion Router is secure and very well thank you
The Onion Router (TOR) is alive and kicking, feeling secure and very healthy despite other plaices saying the contrary. Cryptome.org recently linked to two posts on PGPBoard in the last few days,...
View ArticleGermany blacklists cybermobbing site
Germany has more or less banned Isharegossip.com, a cybermobbing website aimed at school children and youths. The country’s censor body “Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien” (BPjM) (“Federal...
View ArticleNintendo to cull Nintendog Guttenberg
TechIcke will be sending back its 3DS test unit to Nintendo this weekend, spelling certain death for loveable Nintendog Guttenberg, a cute little puppy adopted and trained by TechIcke. Nintendo will...
View ArticleState trojan will see heads roll in Germany
On Saturday, Germany’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC) released a detailed analysis of the so-called Bundestrojaner (Federal Trojan) used by various police forces to spy on suspects. According to the CCC,...
View ArticleAsia Pacific set to rule mobile market
Punters in the Asia Pacific region are set to carve a grin on the faces of handset makers as people flock to mobile phones. According to the GSMA and soothsayers Machina Research, 5.6 billion mobile...
View ArticleGerman pirates set sail for change
Last weekend will find itself an entry in political history over here in Germany. In the state of Saarland, the country’s Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) won 7.4 percent of votes and entered the federal...
View ArticleZTE feels hidden hand of scaremongering
We visited Chinese device maker ZTE at this year’s Cebit, which was there for the first time in seven years, an age where feature phones were the only species in the handset realm. ZTE has been making...
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