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Coupures de Presse [ le 20 octobre 1999 ]

Vente aux enchères
L' économie réinventée par le Réseau
Les enchères en ligne rapportent gros... aux propriétaires des sites. Par Francis Pisani pour le Monde Interactif.


L'Excellence du Web Francophone
Les Chroniques de Cybérie
A l'index cette semaine, par Jean-Pierre Cloutier.

* Haïti et la politique réseau
* Echelon, cybermanif et filière canadienne
* Un anonyme de «pssst...» se dévoile
* Journalisme, une question de famille?
* Corel, délit d'initié?
* L'EPIC poursuit le FTC
* Suivi de dossiers
* Citation de la semaine - * Beau détour



Hola Lycos
Lycos en Amérique Latine
Lycos et Tripod ont annoncé hier la création d'une douzaine de nouveaux portails en Amérique latine, et plus particulièrement au Brésil, au Mexique, en Argentine, au Chili, Pérou, et au Vénézuela. Deux sites en espagnol pour les résidents américains sont également prévus au programme. (Abondance)


Vie Privée
Nouveau protocole Internet contre vie privée ?
Un nouveau protocole de transmission sur Internet inquiète les organisations de défense de la vie privée. Un numéro d'identification unique associé à chaque ordinateur accompagnerait chaque paquet de données envoyées sur l e réseau. (Actual Info)


Press clippings [ October 20, 1999 ]
Health
Company Launches Interactive HIV Counseling Service
Home Access Health, the manufacturer of the only Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV and Hepatitis C home testing service, announced yesterday that it has become the first company to offer real-time online counseling for people with questions about the illnesses. (E-Commerce Times)


E-Commerce
IBM Plans to Pull Its PC's Out of Retail Outlets
IBM, which lost $1 billion on personal computers last year, will sell its Aptiva desktop machines only on the Internet after Christmas. (NY Times)

It Takes An 'iVillage': Portals Partner To Form Online Mall For Women
Women's online portal iVillage announced today that it will partner with eight brand-name retailers to launch a women's shopping service : Gap.com, Garden.com, Macys.com, Nordstrom.com, Gloss.com, Petopia.com, PlanetRx.com and Tavolo. The program will also include iVillage's iBaby and iMaternity. (E-Commerce Times)

USA Networks moves to become first in jewelry
USA Networks Interactive's Internet Shopping Network launched First Jewelry, hoping to leverage the powerful distribution, fulfillment, and customer service infrastructure of USA's Home Shopping Network. The site will be a full-service online jewelry retailer offering a range of jewelry--including earrings, rings, and watches. (C/net)




eBay opens curtains on Great Collections
eBay launched a high-end site called Great Collections, one of the first fruits of buying venerable auction house Butterfield & Butterfield but yet another expansionary move. Amazon.com, which announced a ten-year deal with Butterfield rival Sotheby's in June, is expected to launch its own premium auction site in coordination with Sotheby's later this year.(News.com)


Trading Online
Site to allow fixed-dollar stock buys
Netstock Direct Wednesday will announce an online trading site that
lets investors buy a fixed-dollar sum of stock on a weekly or monthly schedule for only $2 a trade. The ShareBuilder.com site, scheduled to open next month, also will let investors buy fractions of shares if the dollar amount they're investing isn't enough to cover a full share.(USA Today)

UK warning on day trading
Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, said 70% of day traders in the United States lost money and it was important that people were aware of the risks and understood the expenses needed to stand any chance of making a profit. (BBC)


Media
Dow Jones, Hearst to invest $30M in Smartmoney.Com
SmartMoney magazine owners Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and Hearst Corp. said Tuesday they will invest a total of $30 million to expand the Internet edition of the personal finance monthly. (SiliconValley.com)


Italy
Free Internet powers Italy mini-boom
Italian Internet leader Telecom Italia gave a glimpse of strapping cyberspace growth in Italy Tuesday when it forecast users doubling by year-end, powered by the success of free Internet access. (SiliconValley.com)


Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Joins the Internet Age
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, afraid of becoming just a dusty relic of the precomputer age, announced it was making its 32-volume set available free on
the Internet. (NY Times)


Religion
Filters for Religious Groups
Evangelical Christian groups were quick to embrace filtered Internet service providers, which block access troublesome online material for their subscribers. Now two companies are launching filtered ISPs aimed at Roman Catholics. Catholic Online and Catholic Families Network . (NY Times)




It's the finalcountdown




Old nuclear foes join to avert Y2K catastrophe
Deadly nuclear foes from another era plan to ring in the new year together to make sure the world survives the 2000 technology bogy known as Y2K. The project -- the Center for Year 2000 Strategic Stability -- was devised by the Pentagon, which fears Y2K glitches may blind Moscow's missile-launch detection system or cause false alarms -- and possibly spark a nuclear nightmare. (CNN)




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