Neowin News Feed for: German

Reddit now lets you translate posts into 8 languages

Paul Hill — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:56:01 +0000

Reddit has added the ability to translate posts into eight languages. Some of the included languages include English, Spanish, French, and German. It said that comment translations will arrive soon. Read more...

Amazon employees in Germany to go on strike again

Usman Khan Lodhi — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:01 +0000

Verdi has called on workers at an Amazon warehouse in Germany to strike again to disrupt the processing of orders during Black Friday. Roughly 500 workers participated in an earlier strike. Read more...

Cortana on Windows 10 can now instantly translate from French, German, Italian and Spanish

Andy Weir — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:44:01 +0000

Microsoft's increasingly capable digital assistant can now instantly translate spoken or typed phrases from French, German, Italian and Spanish into dozens of other languages on Windows 10 devices. Read more...

Omelette du fromage: Skype Translator now supports French and German

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:44:01 +0000

The Skype Translator app has just become more useful as it now supports near real-time spoken translations in French and German, bringing the total number of supported spoken languages up to six. Read more...

Cortana now available in France, Germany, Italy and Spain

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:27:11 +0000

Cortana will now be able to operate in more languages if you have the Windows Phone Developer Preview installed, with support added for the digital assistant in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Read more...

German federal agency recommends Google Chrome

Denis Wong — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:49:59 +0000

Google Chrome's sandbox, plus automatic updates of its components and the Flash plugin, earned a recommendation from the German Federal Office for Information Security. Read more...

German played Far Cry 2 the night before shooting rampage

Joshua Seed — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:27:34 +0000

Tim Kretschmer, the 17 year-old gunman responsible for the shooting rampage last week at his school in Germany, played Far Cry 2 the night before killing 15, the Times Reports. Kretschmer played the first-person shooter... Read more...

Skype encryption stumps German police

Tom Warren — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:26:54 +0000

German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on Thursday. Skype allows users to make... Read more...

German watchdog opposes Google purchase of DoubleClick

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:59:55 +0000

The proposed $3.1bn merger of search giant Google and online advertising company DoubleClick would lead to "a massive violation of data privacy rights", a German privacy watchdog has warned. The Data Protection Commissioner of the... Read more...

German Police Arrest 10 International Phishing Suspects

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:06:25 +0000

Germany's Federal Crime Office has arrested a Russian-Ukrainian-German group of 10 suspects accused of running a Trojan horse phishing attack that has been targeting users' bank accounts. An 18-month police investigation culminated in arrests on... Read more...

The Unfriendly Side of German Game Development

Marcel Klum — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:09:57 +0000

As hysterical as American media and politicians can get over 'violent' videogames, the folks making games in Germany have it a whole lot worse. Tim Partlett (a developer at Crytek) shared his experience with the... Read more...

German Gears of War Canned

Todd Tanner — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:51:25 +0000

Sorry to say but the German censorship police have nuked another one. Indeed, Gears of War will not be coming out in Germany now. Microsoft had considered recutting the game, but found it would make... Read more...

Microsoft's German CEO quits

Steven Parker — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:33:55 +0000

The head of Microsoft's German subsidiary has quit over differences with the US headquarters. JÃ¼rgen Gallmann, CEO of Microsoft Deutschland - one of the software giant's largest subsidiaries - resigned on Friday. In an email... Read more...

EU takes over German antitrust inquiry into Intel

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:35:39 +0000

European Commission regulators have taken over a German antitrust investigation into allegations that Intel put pressure on a major electronics retailer to forgo using processors from competitor AMD. Germany's antitrust agency, Bundeskartellamt, received a complaint... Read more...

EA to Acquire German Developer's of "FarCry"

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:59:04 +0000

Electronic Arts last week purchased German game developer Phenomic, the developers of SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars. Now it seems that EA has it's eyes on Crytek, another German developer and makers of FarCry, the FPS... Read more...

Microsoft sues German firm over spam

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:46:50 +0000

Microsoft has launched a case against a German man believed to be the linchpin of a spam gang. The software maker's legal complaint was lodged against an unnamed company in the North... Read more...

D-Day demo & German patches v2.14

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:38:21 +0000

New patches for the demo of D-Day has been released by Digital Reality. The patch is also available for the Germal version of the game. This patch updates the variants of their 3D real-time tactical... Read more...

German court ruled GPL valid

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 06:24:30 +0000

A hardware manufacturer Sitecom loses round one of the court battle after the German court ruled the GPL (General Public License) license as valid. The German court issued a preliminary injunction against Sitecom's... Read more...

German Clothier Introduces Wireless Jacket

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:11:08 +0000

If it's simply unbearable to be unable to hear music, here's something you should slip on: a jacket with a built-in MP3 player. A new jacket from Rosner GmbH & Co., a... Read more...

German Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years for Microsoft Fraud

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:25:54 +0000

A German man was jailed for five and a half years Thursday for repackaging cheap versions of Microsoft Corp. software and selling them on at a higher price. Ralph Blasek, a software... Read more...

Codename Panzers Utah Beach German SinglePlayer Demo

Marcel Klum — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:41:25 +0000

The second single-player demo (german version) of Codename Panzers is now available for download, featuring the Utah Beach mission from the Allied campaign - the english version will be released tomorrow. This 3D tactical combat... Read more...

Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor German demo

Marcel Klum — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 09:12:41 +0000

A German playable demo of Gorky Zero: Beyond Honor is now available to renew the opportunity for trying out the imminent third-person stealthy action adventure by Metropolis. This demo supersedes the earlier Polish version to... Read more...

Trackmania Updated German Demo

Marcel Klum — Tue, 04 May 2004 18:26:28 +0000

Deep Silver has released an updated german demo of Trackmania the racing/track building game developed by Nadeo which will finally hit german stores not before long. News source: Gamer's Hell ... Read more...

German police crack down on hacking group

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:57:50 +0000

German police have carried out their biggest ever crackdown on internet piracy in probe against 126 members of an online hackers' forum. The Germans are thought to be part of a wider network of 476... Read more...

IBM lands huge German mainframe contract

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:42:05 +0000

IBM Corp. will deliver 20 high-performance mainframe computers to a German financial IT service company in a deal worth over €100 million ($127 million), IBM spokesman Hans-JÃ¼rgen Rehm said Friday. Sparkassen Informatik GmbH... Read more...

Castle Strike German demo

Marcel Klum — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 10:31:44 +0000

A German playable demo of Castle Strike is now available, offering the first opportunity to try out this medieval 3D real-time strategy game by Related Designs and Data Becker. This single-player demo includes Tutorial 2... Read more...

RTL Ski Jump 2004 German Demo

Marcel Klum — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:15:45 +0000

Koch Media has released a playable demo for RTL Ski Jump 2004 (aka Skispringen Saison 2003/2004), allowing you to try out this recent ski jumping simulation developed by VCC Entertainment. The demo offers a tutorial... Read more...

Microsoft equips 110,000 PCs in German state

Tom Warren — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:55:55 +0000

DÃœSSELDORF, Germany -- Even though interest in open source software is high in Germany's public sector, Microsoft Corp. continues to grab contracts with local authorities. This month the U.S. software giant began... Read more...

German police smash massive child porn ring

Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:29:56 +0000

German police have broken up one of the world's biggest child porn networks which linked around 26,500 suspected users of child abuse material in 166 countries across the world. Investigators said members of... Read more...

KnightShift German Demo

Marcel Klum — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:39:37 +0000

Zuxxez Entertainment has released a playable demo of KnightShift (aka Once Upon a Knight in North America), allowing you to try out this imminent RTS/RPG by Reality Pump Studios. The demo offers a good portion... Read more...

German state to block US neo-Nazi sites

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 07:47:48 +0000

Germany's most populous state is requiring Internet providers to block two US-based neo-Nazi websites after a court ruled the measure did not violate the providers' rights, officials said Thursday. The verdict followed... Read more...

MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries mission editor & German audio fix

Marcel Klum — Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:57:07 +0000

Microsoft has released the mission editor for MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, the recent 3D stomping action game by Cyberlore and FASA Studios. Details on the editor are scarce, but it allows you to create both single-... Read more...

RTCW and UT not for German fans

Marcel Klum — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:41:12 +0000

Bad news today for the gaming community. The german government institution BPjS which tasks are to:Prohibit, punishment-reinforced, youth-endangering media on request by youth ministers and their offices so that these are only accessible by adults,... Read more...

Nasty internet worm targets German Anti-Trojan users

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:11:39 +0000

A destructive new mass-mailing Internet worm has been launched into the wild in the form of a Trojan horse targeting the security-conscious. The worm, which has been named "Yarner" by virus researchers,... Read more...

German government employees get electronic signatures

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:58:28 +0000

Germany's federal government is introducing electronic signatures for its employees, a step it hopes will help make the security procedure generally accepted in the country. More than 200,000 employees of ministries and agencies will be... Read more...

OT: Copperfield Says German Lottery Forecast No Trick

Steven Parker — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:26:19 +0000

American illusionist David Copperfield said Sunday he was bombarded by requests for tips on the winning numbers in Germany's national lottery Saturday night -- numbers he said he had predicted seven months ago. ... Read more...