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Apple pulls iPad and iPhones in Germany

Motorola has dealt a double-whammy to Apple in Germany. Following a December ruling by a German court that Apple failed to license one of Motorola’s wireless intellectual properties and the ruling’s subsequent patent injunction, the Cupertino-based company has now begun to pull older iPad and iPhone models from it German online store. In a separate lawsuit, Motorola also won a permanent injunction against the push email service of Apple’s iCloud and any devices that can access the services in Germany. The sales ban relates to a Motorola-owned patent for a “method for performing a countdown function during a mobile-originated transfer for a packet radio system.” The separate push email ban would only come into effect if Motorola decides to enforce the judgement, which deals with a patent relating to two-way communications between pagers and other devices. Apple isn’t taking the news sitting down, however, and has vowed to appeal the rulings and to keep its products available elsewhere for its German customers.

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Google home page gets a makeover

A new year, a new look for Google’s home page. In a bid to simplify the page and improve user experience, the titans of search are rolling out one of the biggest home page changes to date. The revamp takes away the black bar that currently runs horizontally across the top of the Google home page and replaces it with a grey logo. When a user clicks or highlights the new logo, a drop-down menu appears offering seven alternative services to the site’s search page, such as Gmail and YouTube. Experts are speculating the change was designed to promote more of Google’s businesses while still maintaining its preferred uncluttered and plain minimalist front page. A spokesperson for Google said that the roll-out was also designed to improve user-experience

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World War Tech: EU to tighten web privacy laws

Proposed legal changes to the European Union’s Data Protection Directive may cause trans-Atlantic tensions over Internet privacy. According to the New York Times , European justice commissioner Viviane Reding plans to insert new wording into Europe’s main data privacy law that would likely require non-E.U. companies to abide by stricter rules on data collection or face fines and prosecution. Ms Reding signalled her intentions to strengthen privacy laws in a speech to publishers in Brussels on Tuesday. “Companies who direct their services to European consumers should be subject to E.U. data protection laws. Otherwise, they should not be able to do business on our internal market,” she said. “This also applies to social networks with users in the E.U.

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European Antitrust Investigators Looking at Google Advertising Practices

European Union antitrust investigators are querying Google advertisers to find out if the search engine was using undue influence to keep advertisers or force them to spend more money for ads on their site. The New York Times reports that an investigation was opened by the European Commission last November after the organization received complaints from Internet companies in France, England and Germany.

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Get Ready for ad:tech London 2011

It’s never too early to start thinking about ad:tech London 2011, which is taking place on September 21-22 at the National Hall, Olympia! The show will be here before you know it, and you want to make your plans early to take advantage of the best that the event has to offer. Many people are speculating that the market is right for London to become Europe’s “Silicon Valley,” and with the digital world going global, it’s important for digital marketers, advertisers and other experts to become familiar with the European market.

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EU Regulators Blast Search Engine Data Collection Policies

The New York Times reports that European Union officials have accused major search engine providers such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft of violating user’s personal rights by storing private data for too long. The Article 29 Working Party, an EU advisory board made up of 27 European national privacy chiefs issued a letter to the three companies on Wednesday urging them to appoint outside auditors to ensure that practices used to render data collected from individuals anonymously truly removes all links to a person.

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Google Offers Opt-Out of Analytics Tracking

Google announced yesterday the beta version of a new opt-out for Google Analytics, making it possible for users to stop being tracked by Google Analytics and have their information included in its reports.

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Judge Slaps Permanent Injunction on ISOHunt Search Engine

PC World reports that a U.S. District Court judge has issued a permanent injunction against ISOHunt, which has become one of the most popular sites for searching for BitTorrent content. Judge Stephen V. Wilson ordered ISOHunt to prevent access to copyright protected content such as movies, TV shows and music recordings and threatened to hold ISOHunt founder Garry Fung in contempt of court and sentence him to jail time if the site does not comply.

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Yahoo! and Nokia Strike an Alliance

Yahoo! announced today a “global strategic alliance” with Nokia that will allow both companies to leverage each others’ products and services including email, instant messaging and maps and navigation services for both PC and mobile devices.

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Microsoft and Yahoo! discussing partnership with European regulators

Given its past history with European regulators, it’s not surprising to read a report by Computerworld that Microsoft is proceeding very cautiously in its search engine partnership that will see Yahoo! use Microsoft’s Bing technology to power its search engine while Yahoo! will use its ad sales acumen for both companies.

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