BROWSING: Germany

Reuters | August 27, 2011 | Peter Maushagen Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) said it had not been cutting jobs at its U.S. arm T-Mobile USA in anticipation of the unit's sale to AT&T (T.N), as reported by a German online magazine on Friday. Read the full article...

Germany has a long, storied history of being both swift and overzealous in their enforcement of privacy and intellectual property laws. Today Germany's Independent Centre for Privacy Protection has issued a blanket ban on the Facebook Like button.

Cisco | August 15, 2011 | Press Release SAN JOSE, Calif., August 15 2011 -- Cisco today announced that Kabel Deutschland (KD), Germany's largest cable operator, is deploying Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers to aggregate and distribute enhanced video, data and voice services...

An image used to sway a German court into granting Apple an injunction against sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe could have been manipulated it has been revealed. Dutch IDG affiliate Webwereld.nl  claims images of Samsung’s tablet – effectively now banned in...

Wall Street Journal | August 12, 2011 | Philipp Grontzki FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Samsung Electronics Co. (SSNHY, 005930.SE) will go to court on August 25 to appeal an earlier decision banning the South Korean technology giant from selling its Galaxy tablet computer in most of the...

Last week Apple persuaded an Australian court to ban sales and promotion of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now a court in Germany has also sided with Apple, resulting in an Europe-wide ban on sales of the device.

Bloomberg | August 4, 2011 | Cornelius Rahn Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), Europe’s largest phone company, reported a 6.5 percent decline in second-quarter profit before some items as it ceded mobile-phone customers in the U.S. and recorded costs for early retirements in Germany. Read the full...

Deutsche Telekom | August 4, 2011 | Press Release Deutsche Telekom’s financial figures for the second quarter of 2011 are characterized by significantly improved trends in a number of operational areas and a 17-percent increase in adjusted net profit, causing the adjusted EBITDA margin to...

Deutsche Telekom | August 4, 2011 | Press Release As in the first quarter, start-up costs for the major deals secured last year had a noticeable effect on T-Systems' figures. As such, the adjusted EBIT margin totaled 2 percent in the second quarter, down from...

Deutsche Telekom | August 4, 2011 | Press Release As in the first quarter, start-up costs for the major deals secured last year had a noticeable effect on T-Systems' figures. As such, the adjusted EBIT margin totaled 2 percent in the second quarter, down from...

Bloomberg | August 1, 2011 | Cornelius Rahn Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) plans to reduce administrative employees at its headquarters as Europe’s largest phone company tries to improve profitability. Read the full article here via Bloomberg

Nokia Siemens | July 22, 2011 | Press Release Nokia Siemens Networks’ IP Multimedia Subsystem platform to offer new services M-net Telekommunikations GmbH, a leading operator in Bavaria, Germany, is swapping its existing softswitch with a solution from Nokia Siemens Networks. The operator has selected Nokia...

Deutsche Telekom | July 22, 2011 | Press Release Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, operator of the T-Mobile network, and PTK Centertel, operator of the Orange network, signed an agreement today to share their radio access networks. The agreement covers management, planning, support, development and maintenance of...

BBC News | July 18, 2011 The boss of Everything Everywhere, the parent group of UK mobile phone networks Orange and T-Mobile, is standing down for "personal reasons". Read the full article here via BBC News

Ericsson | July 14, 2011 | Press Release Today, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) Money Services launches its first global ‘corridor’ for cross-border international remittance in partnership with Globe Telecom and Smart Communications Inc (Smart) enabling mobile phone users in the Philippines to send and receive money to...

Telia Sonera | July 7, 2011 | Press Release TeliaSonera has signed the cooperation agreement with France Telecom-Orange and Deutsche Telekom to increase the quality of service and interoperability for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The agreement, which initially was signed by France Telecom-Orange...

Deutsche Telekom | July 11, 2011 | Press Release Microsoft has honored the 2011 Partner of the Year for Germany. T Systems edged ahead of the competition with its cloud solution that enables users to manage their household energy consumption over the Internet or via...

Information Week | June 20, 2011 | Ed Hansberry Nokia's European VP Victor Saeijs said that the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will be the first to see Nokia phones running Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. .... Read full article here via InformationWeek

Macheen Inc., an Austin-based mobile broadband service provider for retailers and device makers, announced that the company raised $10 million to put into product innovation, sales and marketing. Founded in 2009, Macheen has now raised a total $12.75 million to support expansion of the...

Austin-based Macheen Inc., announced that the company formed an advisory board and now has a VP of marketing in Kent Libby. While often quiet about the company’s business plans, CEO Richard Schwartz spoke with RCR Wireless at CTIA in Orlando in March, expanding on Macheen’s...

Reuters | January 24, 2011 | Sinead Carew China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL has filed a lawsuit to block Motorola from selling one of its business units to Nokia Siemens Networks, demanding that the $1.2 billion deal be altered to avoid infringing on intellectual...

Wall Street Journal | January 12, 2011 | Matthew Dalton BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--A small German technology firm has asked the European Commission to continue its probe of unfair subsidies allegedly given by the Chinese government to help its wireless modem manufacturers, mainly Huawei Technologies Corp....

Popping up again like a recurring rash is the rumor that Intel is about to acquire German chip maker Infineon's mobile chip business, a move which would significantly help the firm in its ARM wrestle for significance in the mobile/wireless space.