In order to fight child pornography, last week’s friday, german internet access providers “Deutsche Telekom”, “Vodafone/Arcor”, “Hansenet/Alice”, “Telefonica/02″ signed contracts with the Bundeskriminalamt BKA (Federal Criminal Police Office) to implement technical bans to block access to certain webservers. As exploiting children for sexual abuse is one of the most horrible things we as parents could [...]
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[News] Censorship Flush 0.9 beta in Germany
April 23rd, 2009 
J. Epstein 
Posted in News 
Tags: BKA, Bundeskriminalamt, Censorship, Chaos Computer Club, Germany, Operation Freedom Fright, Ursula von der Leyen, Zensursula 
1 Comment »[DVB] Rumors about NDS Hack in Germany (Update)
March 30th, 2009 J. Epstein In german forums people are rumoring that the NDS Videoguard encryption for the german Pay-TV channel Premiere has been compromised. As this has not been confirmed we currently expect this to be a hoax like the Nagra3 hack that has been reported in august 2008. For completeness we release a translation of the hacker’s statement [...]
Posted in DVB-S / DVB-C, News Tags: Germany, Kudelski, Nagra 3, Nagra Aladin, Nagravision, NDS, Premiere, Tarnovski, Videogard, Videoguard 2 Comments »[Microsoft] MSN Germany to launch free Movie portal
November 16th, 2008 J. Epstein The future of video-on-demand seems to begin soon. Microsoft Germany announced to launch their MSN Movie Portal. Launch date is set to November 17th, 2008 (monday) – means tomorrow. About hundred movies, TV-series and animations Microsoft will be offered for free watching. As like private TV channels MSN will apply commercial breaks every ten minutes. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Commercial, Deutschland, Film, Filme, Germany, Microsoft, MSN, Serie, Video-On-Demand, Werbefinanziert, Werbeunterbrechung, Werbung No Comments »[iPhone] T-Mobile to Sell Prepaid iPhone 3G in Germany
September 18th, 2008 J. Epstein Starting on 1st of october, 2008, T-Mobile Germany is going to offer the iPhone 3G with a prepaid plan for 569€ including 100€ calling credit. Following features will apply: 0,29€ / min to any german carrier 0,19€ / SMS no included data (Xtra web’n’walk Starter costs 0,90€ every 10 minutes) Use of T-Mobile’s WLan Hotspots [...]
[e-Biz] T-Mobile vs. Sipgate: Court rules in Favor of T-Mobile
September 11th, 2008 J. Epstein The higher regional court of Hamburg (Hamburger Oberlandesgericht) yesterday ruled in favor of T-Mobile. Sipgate is not allowed to promote or distribute its iPhone application that allowed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony on jailbroken iPhones anymore. The issue is not the application, but installing Sipgates VoIP client required to jailbreak the iPhone. And jailbreaking of T-Mobile’s customer’s [...]
Posted in News Tags: Court rule, Germany, iPhone, Jailbreak, Sipgate, T-Mobile, voice-over-ip, VOIP No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 3G sold out in Germany
July 17th, 2008 J. Epstein While the iPhone 3G has just been launched in France (we reported here), in Germany T-Mobile must be quite content, because iPhones over here are completely sold out. Currently it is not clear, when new iPhones can be delivered by Apple. T-Mobile needed to set some thousand customer orders pending. T-Mobile said they already sold [...]
[Muzaq] Reclaim the Beats at Cassiopeia’s
July 13th, 2008 J. Epstein Whenever you visit Berlin and you like independent Techno and Electro, we got a nice hint for you. You gotta see the Cassiopeia in the Friedrichshain district. As a matter of chance our team went to the Cassiopeia place yesterday and enjoyed accidently an event named “Reclaim the Beats“. Reclaim the Beats To make things [...]
Posted in News Tags: Astonishing, Berlin, Capital, Cassiopeia Berlin, Demanding Techno, E-Werk, Electro, Elektro, Elektrokohle, Friedrichshain, Germany, Hauptstadt, Hauptstadtrocker, Lichtenberg, Muckomat, Mukke, Mukkomat, Musik, musique, Muzaq, Muzaq-Production, Nachwuchs, Perfect, Reclaim the Beats, Regierung, Sound, Sounds, Techno, Underground No Comments »[Muzaq] Experiences with In-Earphones AKG K 324 P
June 19th, 2008 J. Epstein The problem with the manufacturer equipped iPod earphones You know the situation: you got an iPod, but the earphones sound so horrible that you wonder why Apple still includes them in the packages. So you go to the store and buy some very nice in-earphones – like the AKG K 324 P ones. AKG’s K [...]
Posted in Muzaq, News, Short Stories Tags: AKG K 324 P, ersatzohrpolster, Germany, Helpdesk, substitute earpad, substitute earpads, Support 1 Comment »[iPhone] T-Mobile to sell iPhone 3G for 1Euro
June 16th, 2008 J. Epstein T-Mobile will subsidize the iPhone 3G. They just announced to sell the new UMTS 3G iPhone for just 1€, if bought with a two year lasting contract for 89€. With a contract for 29€/month the price for the iPhone will be 169€. As a loyalty bonus to clients who bought the “old” iPhone, the new [...]
Posted in News Tags: altkunde, altkunden, Deutschland, Germany, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone UMTS, neue Tarife, rabatt, T-Mobile No Comments »[iPhone] German Telekom confirms 100,000 iPhones sold
May 10th, 2008 alexander Golem.de reports, that german Telekom CEO Rene Obermann today confirmed that more than 100,000 iPhones have been sold on the german market. » Golem.de: Telekom bestätigt Verkauf von mehr als 100.000 iPhones (german only)…