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Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad—But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy

The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have their own Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) sites.

Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud. However, as the day progressed, an injunction on the...

Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service

It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a business out of...

Rhapsody Arrives in U.K. and Germany Via Napster Deal

Streaming music service Rhapsody, which has only been available in the U.S. for the last 11 years, has finally made it to Europe. The service has finished a deal to buy one-time competitor Napster's operations in the U.K. and Germany; last fall, Rhapsody bought Napster's U.S. assets. Rhapsody competitor Spotify isn't in Germany yet, but...

Kantar: Apple Back On Top As Bestselling Smartphone In The U.S.

Considering the staggering results reported by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) last night, this should come as little surprise: the company’s iPhone is back on top as the bestselling smartphone in the U.S. Android has managed to hold on to its position in the UK but there, too, Apple massively increased its share...

German President Christian Wulff Blocks Publication of Threatening Call

President Christian Wulff refused to let a newspaper publish a transcript of his threatening phone call to its editor.

Wanna Download A Free Movie With No Legal Worries? Go Dutch.

Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to existing laws against unlicensed downloads. Other countries, it seems, are going in quite the other direction, as a recent decision in the Netherlands shows.

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Wanna Download A Free Movie With No Legal Worries? Go Dutch.

Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to existing laws against unlicensed downloads. Other countries, it seems, are going in quite the other direction, as a recent decision in the Netherlands shows.

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Smartphone Penetration Approaching Tipping Point As PC Usage Declines

Smartphone penetration is slowly approaching the tipping point where it will be more common to have a smartphone than a feature phone among the general population. Ofcom says the UK and Japan are among the countries leading the way to that milestone as consumers turn away from PC usage—a trend with wider implications for the...

Axel Springer Becomes Industry’s Latest Newsstand And Flipboard Clone

The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west.

Updated: In Samsung v. Apple, Are Injunctions A Viable Nuclear Option?

Two more advances in the ongoing, international fight between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android tablet maker Samsung over alleged patent violations, this time in France and Australia, plus one more appeal from Apple in the case being heard in a U.S. district court in California. With no obvious overall “winner” in the dispute,...

Stocks & Bonds: Shares Gain on Hope Europe Can Solve Debt Crisis

Equities and other markets are watching closely as euro zone nations are expected to vote on an agreement to tighten fiscal controls on them reached by Germany and France.