What could be a better gift to have on your birthday than to have your friend share the all new Website for the iPhone 5. We had already shared news on Germany opening up the preorders for the iPhone 5 and the video of the site comes from Germany as well, which makes it more believable. And gladly enough the design looks super sleek and worth having in the hands.
For those of you in Germany, there is some very big news. iPhone lovers are all set to preorder the next generation of the iPhone. You read it right that you can actually preorder the iPhone 5 in Germany. This comes as a great surprise as we aren’t yet aware of what the device looks like, let alone detailed specifications of the iPhone 5.
I guess someone wise wizard, really wise wizard thought that there weren’t enough addictive games on Facebook already. Reports state that Witcher, the popular RPG is coming to the social network. This, stating the obvious would give users one more reason to be addicted and lose money, lose jobs or worse get Facebook blocked at work.
The German gaming firm; Gamigo thought that if people could waste their life playing Farmville, giving them a hard core game that has some action wont be a bad move. The best part, it’s going to be in English, meaning it wont have any barrier targeting the masses. I am not a big fan of social or online games but a bit of a try of Witcher appealed to me, maybe because I had grown up playing Age of Empires and Red Alert, but playing the same on Facebook, I am not sure how impressive it turns out to be.
Wow, Why? Ahem, sorry but it surprises me why would officials in Germany try to put a ban on Google Analytics? The reason? Well the service uses valuable data from the site and provides statistics based on these. Which according to them is illegal since Google or companies using Analytics, never ask for user permission to use the data. Worse still, they will fine firms who continue to use this. Well this means more than 10% of German sites must get ready to pay those fines.
The courts are throwing in a lot of fines on firms as Rapidshare got its share of it today. The Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany fined the file hosting service with a massive $34 million. The case was filed by GEMA, a copyright protection association that represents more than 65,000 artists, composers across the globe. Along with the fine, Rapidshare will also have to remove more than 5,000 tracks and make sure none of these are uploaded by users.
