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'Locust' Nokia faces up to 80 mln eur compensation claim from German govt UPDATE

2008-01-16 22:43:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...German authorities for up to 80 mln eur compensation following the Finnish handset maker's decision to close a factory in North Rhine-Westphalia , the region's premier Juergen Ruettgers said Ruettgers said he is looking into ways to obtain reimbursement of 60 mln eur of regional aid The world's biggest handset maker was a 'locust which got...
 
Tags: nokia, german federal government, federal government, mln eur compensation, mln eur, nokia repay, regional premier, western regional premier, locust
 
 
 
 
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Epocware releases 4 Duden dictionaries; German language students rejoice

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2008-01-23 12:07:31 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...German spelling dictionary (Duden - Die deutsche Rechtschreibung), Duden German dictionary of synonyms (Duden - Das Synonymwörterbuch), Duden German dictionary of foreign words (Duden - Fremdwörterbuch) and Duden German explanatory dictionary (Duden - Deutsches Universalwörterbuch) are already available and cost 19,95, 21,95, 21,95, and...
 
Tags: german, german television, german dictionary, dictionaries, dictionary, german explanatory dictionary, pons dictionaries, die deutsche rechtschreibung, epocware releases
 
 
 
 
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German state demanding Nokia refund $60.5 million factory subsidy, Nokia laughs

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2008-02-06 18:33:42 by willpark in IntoMobile
...German factory in Bochum has unleashed all manner of German-angst (not the kind of angst you want to mess with) on the Finnish handset manufacturer. The issue at hand is two-fold The German plant closure left 2,300 Germans without employment and left the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia feeling ripped off for 41.3 million (around $60.5...
 
Tags: german, close german factory, german factory, nokia, million, nokias, nokias decision, german-angst, nokias credit
 
 
 
 
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German unions urge Nokia boycott over plant closure

2008-01-17 23:30:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...German unions on Thursday called for a consumer boycott of Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile , Research) products to protest against the cellphone maker's plans to close a German plant Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, said on Tuesday it wants to move production to lower-cost regions and said the plant, in the western city of Bochum, is...
 
Tags: nokia, cellphone, top cellphone maker, plant closure, plant, urged nokia, german unions, cellphone maker, boycott nokia
 
 
 
 
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German Minister joins boycott of Nokia mobiles

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2008-01-19 12:21:21 by HASH0x8c33a88 in Newlaunches.com
...German government minister said Friday he was joining in a boycott of Nokia mobile phones after the Finnish manufacturer announced it was closing Germany's last surviving wireless handset factory. Horst Seehofer, the German agriculture minister, told reporters in Berlin that he was changing to another brand of mobile phone "because I don't...
 
Tags: nokia, nokia spokesman, nokia senior management, nokia phone, nokia mobile phones, mobile phones, western germany employs, germany, bochum plant
 
 
 
 
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German govt demands Nokia repay 4 bln eur of research subsidies - report

2008-03-17 08:48:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...German government is demanding that Nokia (NYSE:NOK) Oyj pay back 4 bln eur worth of subsidies after the company announced plans to close its factory in Bochum, Germany , WirtschaftsWoche reported, citing Ministry sources The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia last month called on Nokia to pay back 41 mln eur of subsidies, and the...
 
Tags: german, ministry, german research ministry, nokia, bln eur, german government, bln eur worth, projects, research projects
 
 
 
 
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Atari sues German website over review of potentially pirated game

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2008-06-23 08:12:57 by John Biggs in CrunchGear
...German site, 4players.de , got a preview copy of Alone in the Dark from some undetermined location, reviewed it , and it looks like they got an injunction from Atari to remove their review and pay 50,000 euro or about $5 billion A reader on Fidgit explains it thus The cief editor of 4Players wrote in his column, that they bought a copy of the...
 
Tags: review, game, game-review, sites, review sites band, video game industry, 4players point-of-view, 4players, atari
 
 
 
 
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A Look Inside Futuristic German Car Factories [German Engineering]

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2008-07-09 20:00:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...German car factories. Why? Because they are gadgety, first and foremostbut the architecture of the factories is significant as well. In other words, German car manufacturers are realizing a vision where both the product and the factory are an integrated work of art. Examples include the VW factory in Wolfsburg that features 200 foot tall...
 
Tags: german car factories, german, factories, german car manufacturers, features, oobject features, oobject, production line, factory
 
 
 
 
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German Wikipedia will be printed

2008-04-24 15:10:21 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
German publisher Bertelsmann has announced that they will be selling a stripped-down printed version of Wikipedia later this year. Wha'? The idea is to use Wikipedia to capture the zeitgeist by selecting the most popular entries, Beate Varnhorn, the editor in charge of Bertelsmanns reference works, said in an interview by telephone. We think of...
 
Tags: wikipedia, german wikipedia, german wikipedia entries, entries, popular entries, star wars edition, edition, content, german publisher bertelsmann