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www.inhandnetworks.de The first storm of the year, Storm ‘Burglind’, forced dozens of people to leave their homes on Thursday and left damage to property amounting to hundreds of millions of euros. industrial iot The German Insurance Association (GDV) estimates that the storm’s strong winds and rain contributed to a little less than half a billion euros in damages across the country. Early on Wednesday morning the storm hit the west of Germany, bringing along with it hurricane-like gusts of over 120 km/h. As meteorologists predicted it then headed south; in the Black Forest wind speeds measured at almost 160 km/h. On Wednesday evening, the German Meteorological Service (DWD) lift LAN router ed their warnings against hurricane-like winds, but stated that many regions could continue to face persistent rain. By then, police had reported flooded roads and basements in various parts of the country, such as in Hanover and in the dis...

www.inhandnetworks.de Bavarian prosecutors have raided high-end carmaker BMW in a fraud probe relating to more than 11,000 vehicles they suspect were rigged to appear less polluting in regulators' tests. Industrie Router "On suspicion of fraud in around 11,400 cases, prosecutors have opened an investigation against unidentified workers or managers at BMW and raided BMW headquarters in Munich and another site in Austria," the authorities said in a statement. "There is an initial suspicion that BMW uses or has used a 'defeat device' that activates during testing" by regulators to determine emissions levels, prosecutors added. A defeat device refers to a system like those built into more than 11 million cars worldwide by Volkswagen in the "dieselgate" scandal. In the VW case, it operated exhaust treatment systems to remove harmful nitrogen oxides (NOx) at full effectiveness when cars det...

www.inhandnetworks.de A recent study suggests that refugees would resort to less violence if they had better exposure to education, extracurricular activities and female influence. Criminologists are calling for better prevention measures to deal with violence committed by refug IoT Kommunikation ees, following the release of a study shared with the German Press Agency (DPA) and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others. The study recommends refugees have access to language courses, sports, internships and more exposure to women. The authors of the Ministry of Family Affairs-commissioned study are forensic scientists Christian Pfeiffer, Dirk Baier and Sören Kliem.The trio examined the increase in violent crimes observed in Germany over the past two years, according to police crime statistics. In the federal state of Lower Saxony, the authors draw a link between increased violence and the influx of refugees: between 2014 and 2016, t...

www.inhandnetworks.de The head of Germany's powerful BDI industry federation warned companies Thursday to prepare for a "very hard Brexit", p iot Lösungen ointing to persistent Hersteller infighting in London over what Britain wants from EU exit talks. "German firms must prepare for the worst-case scenario of a ve Router für die Hutschiene ry hard exit, anything else would be naive," BDI chief Joachim Lang said in a statement.    Britain's governing Conservative party is "at odds" with itself on Brexit strategy, leaving the outcome "completely open" in London-Brussels talks set to end in March 2019, the statement said. "Whatever kind of Brexit there is, it will bring a significant number of legal, economic and business problems with it," Lang said. The industry federation is making its own preparations, with a task force split into 10 teams hoping to head off "potenti...

www.inhandnetworks.de German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier voiced concern on Sunday over a "substantial change" in trans-Atlantic ties, amid European tensions with US President Donald Trump over trade, defence and the Iran nuclear deal. Steinmeier, Germany's largely ceremonial head of state, conceded that the EU's biggest economy -- which has long enjoyed US protection under the NATO umbrella -- needs to "grow up" and "rea UMTS Industrie Router LTE Router lize our international responsibility". "But, honestly speaking, I'm really concerned about the development of the trans-Atlantic relationship," said the former foreign minister in an interview with public broadcaster ARD. "Not because I'm looking at a president with some irritating Twitter messages, but because a substantial change is now going on and (there is) a new American administration that no longer sees us a...

www.inhandnetworks.de For a country so famous for its castles, Germany has done surprisingly little to record them all. That is slowly changing thanks to a new project. At the moment nobody can say where Germany’s oldest castle lies. Nor can anyone say where the highest is, or indeed how many castles Germany has. But the German Castle Club (DBV) is about to put an end t IoT Kommunikation o the confusion. It has started to build up a record of every single castle in the country - both those standing and those that once stood - and is gradually uploading the information into a public database Industrie Router called EBIDAT. “All the castles in Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia and the Saarland are already completely recorded," says Reinhard Friedrich, who is leading the research project. "We're almost finished in Lower Saxony, too." READ ALSO: Germany's 10 most beautiful and iconic castles Tho...

www.inhandnetworks.de UPDATED: Volkswagen said on OpenVPN Industrie Router Thursday that its most recent model of diesel motor was "definitely not manipulated" using software designed to defeat regulators' emissions testing. "Following a thorough examination we are now certain that there is no software built into vehicles with the EA 288 under EU emissions regulation 5 that would constitute an illegal defeat device," a company statement said.   A Volkswagen spokesman had said earlier on Thursday that newer versions of Volkswagen diesel engines may have had a 'defeat device' designed to fool emissions testing built into them.   Until now, the EA189 model engine was believed to be the only motor with the software included.   The EA288 diesel motors were fitted to cars starting in 2012, the company said, including to the highly-popular Golf. German authorities at the Federal Office of Motor V...

www.inhandnetworks.de Germany's government is set to finally loosen restrictive rules that have turned businesses off offering iot Lösungen free Wi-Fi, media reported on Wednesday. Cafe owners and other public spaces in Germany have long been leery of allowing general access to Wi-Fi, as under current rules the person providing the connection can be liable for crimes people commit using the network. That means that if a person brings their laptop to a cafe and downloads a Hollywood movie, the cafe owner could be sued by the studio for piracy. Very few people have proven willing to take that risk, leaving the country largely bereft of public Wi-Fi networks. But the controversial liability rule, which opponents say has stood in the way of public Wi-Fi becoming more widespread in Germany, is set to disappear in a future telecoms law reform, Spiegel Online reported on Wednesday. "This is an overdue and important step...

www.inhandnetworks.de After legislation was approved in January last year, the new law - set to be fully implemented on Saturday - will force companies to be more transparent about salaries paid to male and female employees. In a bid to tackle the gender pay gap, the law states that workers in companies with more than 200 employees (around 14 million people in Germany) have the right to know what men and women in equal positions are earning. Businesses with more than 500 staff members will also have to publish regular updates on salary structures to show they are complying with equal pay rules. The income gap between men and women for similar jobs currently stands at an average of 21 percent, according to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). But under the Wage Transparency Act, which has been in force since early July and is set to be in full force by Saturday, the reduction of existing wage gap Smart Grid mit LTE Rou...

www.inhandnetworks.de Why, after a decade of being completely free, are we asking loyal readers of The Local to become paying Members? Founder and Chief Publishing Officer James Savage explains. In the same week that we founded The Local in Germany, exactly a decade ago in March 2008, another website had some big news. Facebook, a popular social networking site with a million active users in the German-speaking countries, released a German-language version of its site. Germans would now be able to “anstupsen” their friends, instead of poking them.    The site’s translation, in true collaborative fashion, had been carried out for free by its own users.   “Including English and Spanish, the addition of the German version of Facebook means the site is now available in three languages,” The Local reported at the time.   Fast forward a decade and much has changed. Facebook has gone from being a collaborative s...

www.inhandnetworks.de German airline giant Lufthansa said Wednesday it had carried 130 million passengers in 2017, nosing ahead of budget Irish carrier Ryanair to become Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers. The German group - which includes Lufthansa's own blue-and-yellow liveried aircraft, Austrian and Swiss Airlines, no-frills Eurowings and Brussels Airlines - boasted around 19 percent year iot Lösungen -on-year growth in bookings. Meanwhile, Ryanair reported growth of around 10 percent to 129 million customers. Ryanair has made a policy of needling Lufthansa, with pugnacious chief executive Michael O'Leary often using press conferences to call out by name his counterpart at the German group, Carsten Spohr. Executives at Lufthansa were left fuming last year by the Irish carrier's arrival at their home base in financial capital Frankfurt, where airport operator Fraport agreed to charge the low-cost airline l...

www.inhandnetworks.de Six German airports will face strikes on Wednesday, with Europe's largest airline Lufthansa warning that almost 900 flights will be cancelled. The strikes are set to hit Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne-Bonn, Dortmund and Hanover airports as service workers' union Verdi enters a battle with the government over pay rises for the public sector. Lufthansa's plan to cancel 895 flights - 60 percent of its usual services - will hit a total of 87,000 passengers. In Munich 545 Lufthansa flights have been cancelled, with a further 350 cancelled at Frankfurt. Passengers can check whether their flights will be affected on the Lufthansa website. Verdi says that public sector workers deserve a pay raise of six percent, and many German states have seen walkouts at kindergartens, hospitals, town halls and local transport as well. “We announced the action on Friday to take passengers into account,” Verdi bos...

www.inhandnetworks.de Germany’s biggest airline Lufthansa has announced it will add 1,000 new domestic flights per month in response to an increase in flight prices on some of the popular G LAN router erman routes as a result of Air Berlin’s bankruptcy. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr recently announced the additional flights within Germany after noticing that flying had become more expensive on some of the in-demand routes, including Berlin-Munich and Berlin-Cologne, since Air Berlin went bankrupt. “As soon as we get the green light from Brussels, we want to add 1,000 Industrie Router Hutschiene domestic flights in Germany per month for Eurowings alone,” Spohr told Bild newspaper on Monday. Eurowings is a budget airline that is owned by Lufthansa. “I can promise that LTE Industrie Router new domestic flights will bring stable prices again,” Spohr added. The additional flights are intended to remedy capacity constraints as a result of...

www.inhandnetworks.de German airline group Lufthansa said Monday it plans to hire more than 8,000 people in 2018, the latest step in a relentless push for growth at one of Europe's largest carriers. Taking into account workers leaving the company, a Lufthansa spokesman told AFP that the net effect of the hiring spree would be "several thousand" new jobs - an inc OpenVPN Industrie Router rease on the roughly 3,000 who started work last year. More than ha industrie router wlan lf of the new employees will be flight attendants. As well as its own blue-and-yellow liveried fleet, Lufthansa owns a slew of smaller airlines, including no-frills Eurowings, Swiss Air, Austrian and Brussels Airlines. Some 2,500 of the new hires will go to Lufthansa proper, while 2,700 take up jobs at Eurowings. The subsidiary has been the focus of Lufthansa's expansion, as chief executive Carsten Spohr seeks to ward off the challenge from low...