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Europe’s Biggest Paper Blocks iPhone Browsers To Force Sales Of Its App
Europe’s Biggest Paper Blocks iPhone Browsers To Force Sales Of Its App
So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content – at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe’s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung , intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone ...
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European newspaper: you WILL buy our iPhone app
Macsimum News — ... Europe’s biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app, reports TechCrunch. The paper tabloid is going to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website. ...

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