On Friday last week, German media reported that government computers had obviously fallen prey to a Chinese hacker attack using Trojans.
Of course, one might wonder about the state of German government
IT-departements, after - some months ago and deplorably enough - files...
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Last week I told you about the a German invention, making little or no sense: The Rubbish Robot. This week, I put my inphone-cam to work to bring you a German invention for the better of man (and women-) kind: The...
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A while ago, a massive flocking in of neoconservative viewpoints apparently commenced at NowPublic. On one hand, it is a welcome fact, because we see that very apparently infulential groups see it as a necessity to state their opinions on this portal.So far for the good news....
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Let me tell you an innocent story of three friends who wanted to hold a Skypecast. Skypecasts are Skype's version of teleconferencing. A theoretically unlimited number of people should be able to audio-conference...
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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief strategist of U.S. President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign said he had lost faith in the president over Iraq and other issues, in one of the highest-level ruptures of Bush's inner circle. Matthew Dowd, a polling expert who...
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"Certainly Germany is a country where great inventions have been made, and are being made as we speak. Nice to know that others take these inventions to the market. The legend goes that the basic technology for...
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"It seems, these days we are moving on from Web 2.0 to Web 2.5. Let me explain: When I started off in the Internet, some 15 years ago, things were nice and simple. You used a program called gopher to retrieve information. Later a new gadget called Lynx appeared. It was a...
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While this is nothing to brag about for the tech-savy, I found it a good 101 for people not so acquainted with the inner workings of cell phone technology. Worth watching."This short video explores ways to determine if your cell phone has been compromised to act as a bug....
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Some weeks ago, I reported on a scandal within the ultra-conservative CSU, eternally governing party in the German state of Bavaria and probably the most hypocritical organization in Germany.At the time, Gabriele Pauli, a forty-something career politician who had gotten...
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My recent trip to China was instructive in more than one way. I have already reported on my first impressions of Shanghai.One of the first things I did upon arrival was to dive into the brawl of a China Mobile store to get myself a prepaid SIM card. It would have been hard...
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"France has signed an extradition treaty with China despite concerns expressed by human rights groups over Beijing's use of the death penalty. France's justice minister said a suspect would be extradited in cases punishable by death only if China guaranteed they would...
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When UN special envoy, Professor Vernor Muñoz Villalobos presented his report on the condition of the secondary school system in Germany, it could have been preceived as a wake up call for German politicians that something is awry in the State of Germany.For long it has been...
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German newsweekly Der Spiegel reports in its online edition that the association of professors, Deutscher Hochschulverband, passed a resolution, calling for a return to traditional values of German academic life. Namely, according to Der Spiegel, the paper calls for so called...
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On my recent trip to China, one thing became clear to me: Everything that can be built and transported, eventually will be built, transported or exported from China.Here's the next round in a waterfall of messages that will trickle in at ever shorter intervals, if I am not...
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A few days ago, I posted my first travellogue from Shanghai. I thought it might be a good idea not only to talk about the place but share some pictures as well.
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Web 2.5