https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Police admitted on Tuesday they were powerless to stop German drivers using their smartphones at the wheel and that the number of people doing so was going up. https://www.thelocal.de/20140225/police-powerless-against-phones-at-the-wheel Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:55:00 +0100 police-powerless-against-phones-at-the-wheel Customers at German discount supermarket Netto will soon be able to pay for their shopping with a mobile phone app, the company said on Friday. Over 4,000 branches are expected to offer the technology. https://www.thelocal.de/20130510/49637 Fri, 10 May 2013 17:17:00 +0200 49637 Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today – a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable. https://www.thelocal.de/20111026/38451 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:07:00 +0200 38451 Armin Heinrich, a German software developer, has riled the tight-knit Apple community by developing an application for the iPhone that costs $1,000 – simply to show that the owner can afford it. https://www.thelocal.de/20080807/13571 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:20:00 +0200 13571