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Yahoo!
Yahoo! Mexiiiicoooo !
Yahoo! a lancé hier un nouveau portail, entièrement dédié au Mexique. Il recense actuellement plus de 6 000 sites. (Abondance)

Suisse
Geneva-portal.ch
La ville de Genève naugure son nouveau site portail en avant première de TELECOM99.

Bol Suisse
La librairie Bol poursuit son expansion internationale : elle vient d'ouvrir un site destiné aux Suisses. (Les News Net)

Press clippings [ October 7, 1999 ]

Instant Messaging
AOL Lets Lycos Use Its Messaging Feature
AOL will provide its instant messenger feature to users of the Lycos World Wide Web site, allowing Lycos customers to trade private messages with AOL subscribers. (NY Times)

UK
BT in mobile Internet trials
BT and Microsoft are launching a large scale trial of a wireless Internet service via mobile phone. About 1,000 mobile phone users - including some from the BBC - will be involved in the trial, in the UK and Norway. (BBC)

Sweden
Swedish Net users flock online
Nearly 49 percent of Swedes aged 12 to 79 logged on to the Internet in September, making Sweden one of the world's biggest online users, a survey by pollster Sifo said today. (CNet)

eBay
eBay attacks "deep linking"
Deep linking. It's the subject of one of the sharpest legal battles emerging on the Web, and leading auction site eBay is finding itself on the edge. (USA Today)

Advertising World
Media Metrix to buy AdRelevance
Media Metrix, which measures the popularity of Web sites, has agreed to acquire AdRelevance for as much as $65.7 million in stock. (News.com)

E-Commerce
Every Site a Web Store
There's a world of Net commerce out there, and every enthusiast home page should get a piece of it. Companies show how to turn community into cash at Internet World. (Wired News)

Visionary
Torvalds sees future full of free operating systems
Operating systems and other "large blocks" of software will one day be free as a matter of course, Linux technical lead Linus Torvalds predicts. (News.com)

"What will drive the software industry is special software for special needs. Software companies make money off of personalization, ways for users to get their own Web interface. Bigger is not better'' -- Linus Torvalds.

High Level Chat
Albright chats online with counterpart from El Salvador
Perhaps heralding a new era in the practice of diplomacy, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Wednesday held the world's first bilateral meeting of foreign ministers on the Internet. She chatted with her counterpart from El Salvador. (Techserver)

Netaid : World's most powerful stie
Charity concert's Web site touted as world's most powerful
The Internet site that will run during this weekend's NetAid charity concerts is a technological marvel, one organizers boast as the world's most powerful Web site. It could mark a milestone in the evolution of the Web as a broadcast medium. How powerful is it? If the site, at www.netaid.org, were a virtual bus transporting listeners on the Internet who couldn't attend Saturday's concerts in New
York, London and Geneva, it would be a rocket-propelled Greyhound with 10 million seats.



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