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Germans Seek To Block Google Street View

Aspects of Google are pretty popular in Germany; the latest comScore data indicates, for example, that it's cornered 79.8 percent of the country's search market.  Google Street View is being looked at in a different light, however, and may hit a show-stopping barrier in the town of Molfsee.

Google Chrome Gets Slapped Around in Germany

It doesn’t get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “Warning against internet browser"*:

Internet Has Almost Double The Influence Of TV

In the UK, Germany, and France the Internet has about double the influence of television when it comes to consumer decision making according to the Digital Influence Index, a study done by Fleishman-Hillard and Harris Interactive.The study found that consumers use the Internet in a number of ways to make decisions. Consumers are more likely to seek opinions of others by visiting social media and product rating sites when making choices that have a major personal impact.

Google Gives Up Gmail Name In Germany

After years of trying to wrest the rights to the Gmail name away from a German businessman, Google decided to abandon the fight.

German Investors Turning To Social Networks

Private investors and venture capital firms in Germany are looking to social networks when they make investments according to a study.Angel investors, who usually invest their own funds, said about 41percent of their capital goes towards social networks, a study of 539 investments in 2008 of 49 investors, and venture capital firms revealed.

The German Digital Divide

Germany, Europe's biggest economy, is experiencing a digital divide, according to German industry association Bitkom.Western German states, including Hesse and Bavaria, have the majority of Internet addresses ending in the German ".de" country code domain, with the country's five former Communist eastern states landing at the bottom of the list.

Google Temporarily Inaccessible In Germany

A few inches of snow are supposed to fall on Lexington, Kentucky today, and if history is any indicator, everything will cease to work.  Yesterday, folks in Germany had it comparatively easy - only Google didn't function.

German Startups Imitated Tribbles In 2007

We know, we know - it's almost March.  But a story a story relating to what ended a few months ago just emerged, and it turns out that in comparison to 2006, the number of German Internet companies created in 2007 more than tripled.

Habeas Gives Hand To German Email Marketers

Email reputation service provider Habeas has partnered with eco, the whitelist provider in Germany and the Association of the German Internet industry.Habeas identifies and certifies email marketers who comply with a set of standards and a code of conduct relevant to the European market. This reduces the time Internet Service Providers (ISPs) spend determining if the sender should be included on a whitelist.

YouTube Increases Maximum File Size

One of my chief complaints about YouTube has always related to the crappy video quality.  It now looks like I’ll have to find something else to whine about - the site has increased its limit on files’ sizes by a factor of ten, and files’ lengths still can’t exceed ten minutes.