Great! Now, also some German universities publish some free podcasts, videos and scripts via “iTunes U”. Until now, you can find content from the following universities from Germany:

• Hasso Plattner Institut / IT Systems Engineering / University of Potsdam
• RWTH Aachen University
• Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• University Freiburg

Perfect! Especially high school graduates can get a first impression of the different universities. At the end there is no getting around visiting the favorite universities to make the decision, but the iTunes U content is another first impression.
But also for students, post graduates and alumni, there are quite interesting contents – and some real gems also

Source: Macnews.de (only German)

Today at 10:30 ETC (16:30 MEZ) we’ll be enlightened: At that time the T-Mobile press conference begins in New York. The first Android mobile phone should be announced there. Even here at the Google Developer Day in Munich there is nothing specific new and interesting about the Android roadmap – the only news: wait until 16:30

The Announcement of T-Mobile is one of the first fire tests of the young mobile platform, which received early praise for it’s Open-Source approach. Now, we’ll see whether a revolution is possible in the closed-source-loving mobile industry … because the best mobile platform is worth nothing, if there aren’t any handsets and mobile data rates that make sense!

If you can trust the Apple job postings the first retail Apple Store won’t be located in the German capital Berlin – but in the beautiful city of Munich Wonderful: finally a Genious-Bar nearby!
There is just one open question – will the rumors prove right, that the flagship store will be situated directly in the center of Munich at the Marienplatz?

[Update] Today, Georg Albrecht, head of PR Apple Germany, confirmed, that the first German Apple Flagship Store will be located in Munich.

Sources & Graphic: Apple and fscklog

It was quite interesting to watch a presentation at the MobileMonday in Munich of Antonio Vince Staybl, CEO of gofresh.de the creators of the mobile off-portal community itsmy.com.
They did an amazing job over the last five years in growing their mobile community and now, itsmy.com and an other German based portal called Peperonity.com are some of the bigges mobile off-portal communities in the US besides Fotochatter.com and Flirtomatic.com. Really amazing.
To make one thing clear: from a designers standpoint, it’s hard to believe that all of them are working, because it really reminds me to the times of C-64 … but they work

The German mobile service "Call a Bike" shows, that mobile services do not only need to be virtual. This year the mobile phone based bike-sharing service is rolled out in Stuttgart, the city you probably know as the home of DaimlerChrysler.
The system is quite simple to use: At all major crossings within the city users can rent a bike with a mobile phone call – and return it. The user receives a code via SMS to his or her mobile phone and is able to open the electronic lock of the bike. Returning the bike is as easy as renting it: Just leave it at a major crossing and check out with another phone call and the deactivation code of the electronic lock. The registered user is charged by minute. Mehr …