BMW and Vodafone have announced a partnership that’ll see all new BMW cars in Germany fitted with a special machine-to-machine SIM card.
The Vodafone SIM will work with the BMW ConnectedDrive telematics system, offering a personal concierge service, traffic updates and an emergency call function.
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Apple has switched off the ‘push email’ part of iCloud in Germany. It follows a court ruling earlier this month in favour of a patent held by Motorola Mobility.
Customers using iCloud in Germany can still receive email messages but now need to configure the service to check regularly.
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Apple has won a patent-related court case against Motorola Mobility in Germany.
The ruling, which could be enforced as an injunction if Apple pays a bond to the court, stated that a number of Motorola Mobility smartphones infringed the ‘slide-to-unlock’ touchscreen patent owned by Apple.
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Researchers at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security at Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum have cracked the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
The ETSI algorithms, which are used for satellite telephones, were breached within an hour.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Facebook’s certainly had its share of privacy concerns – but last week the social network revealed plans to go public in a very different way. It formally announced its intention to launch on the stock market; what is known in the USA as an Initial Public Offering. The IPO is expected to raise around $5 billion, although that’ll just be a fraction of the total (and as yet undisclosed) value of the company.
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