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Coupures de Presse [ le 27 octobre 1999 ]

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

* Copernic : pas à vendre
* AltaVista, dommage...
* Le COMDEX et théorie de la relativité
* Sécurité en ligne : test pratique
* Hédonistes, rationnels, suiveurs et réfractaires
* Des livres, des livres, des livres
* En bref... * Citation de la semaine * Beau détour


Alta Vista suite...
AltaVista : nouvelles indications
Voici quelques chiffres sur le nouvel AltaVista, sur lequel on commence à obtenir des infos complémentaires : son index proposerait 275 millions de pages (90% des sites Web, selon le portail) et 25 millions d'"objets multimédia" (image, vidéos, sons). [ ... ] (Abondance)


Lycos
Lycos veut aussi envoyer des voeux
Juste après l'annonce du rachat de BlueMountain par Excite, c'est au tour de Lycos de succomber à la stratégie du "me too" en annonçant un accord avec
le site AmericanGreetings.com pour proposer des cartes de voeux en ligne. (Abondance)


The Sprit Channel
Cyber esprit, es-tu là ?
Le créateur des chaînes Hard Rock Café et House of Blues, Isaac Tigrett, travaille actuellement à un nouveau concept très tendance, The Spirit Channel, qui reposera d'abord sur le Web. (Les News Net)


Press clippings [ October 27, 1999 ]

Up Graded!
Intel, Microsoft broaden Dow Jones position in technology
Underscoring the decline of America's smokestack economy and the rise of high technology, Dow Jones and Co. has added Microsoft and Intel to its namesake industrial average, while Chevron, Goodyear and Union Carbide are being dropped. (Techserver)

Legislation Passed
House Passes Cybersquatting Bill
The House passed legislation, « The Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act » to crack down on so-called cybersquatting, the practice of buying up popular words as Internet addresses in the hopes of reselling them to companies and trademark holders at a hefty profit. (NY Times)


E-Life
Parents go online for party help
Online party stores are making it possible for harried working parents to sit down at the computer after the kids are tucked into bed and to order all the makings of a theme party that with a few clicks of the mouse can make them feel like virtual Martha Stewarts. cf Top party sites. (USA Today)


Book War
Amazon, Bertelsmann expand E-Commerce war '
Amazon.com Inc and Bertelsmann AG expanded their electronic commerce war to new fronts Tuesday as each announced the start of music sales from European web sites. (SiliconValley.com)

Barnesandnoble.com adds art, musical greetings
Barnesandnoble.com (BNBN) announced a prints and posters gallery, images that can be produced on demand on museum-quality canvas or high-quality paper. (Tipworld newsletter)


Teen Story
Teen Trades Education for E-Biz
A 19-year-old from Maryland day trades his college fund on the Net and makes a bundle - enough to start his own Internet company - Surfbuzz.com - with his brother. Like MyPoints, CyberGold, and AllAdvantage.com, Surfbuzz.com grants points to users as they use email, chat, and search the Web on the site. (Wired News)


Advertising
SPECIAL REPORT: World Brands
For the first time, the Advertising Age International World Brands special report is available on the Web. Search the database of 400 advertisers, and the agencies and 22 agency networks that handle the accounts. In addition to the database, Ad Age International ranks the Top 25 World Brand Advertisers and the Top Agency Networks. (Advertising Age)


Business
Web Site Will Distill Business Concepts
On Nov. 15, he is scheduled to launch MeansBusiness an on-line database service for researching 1,500 business concepts along with book summaries distilled from 400 recent books on business. (Computer News Daily)


UK
Net catches the UK
The UK is much more wired than previously thought, according to a major new survey - 40% of adults now have some way of accessing the internet. Young men and women, aged 16 to 24, not surprisingly are leading the way into the digital future, with nearly 70% online. (BBC)

Freeserve launches women's portal
Freeserve said it started a Web service that caters to women, hoping to increase the number of people using and spending time and money on its site. The online community, called iCircle, offers five channels on health, personal relationships, finance, travel, and parenting. It will feature publicly known personalities. (C/Net)


Turkey
First Turkish-language portal launches
Mynet, the first Turkish-language portal, has opened. The portal starts with an initial capacity to serve one million Internet users, according to Ahu Sarialioglu, a spokeswoman for the Istanbul-based company. (Advertising Age)


In poor taste
Egg auction site in Viagra deal
Talk about a match made in online heaven. The controversial Web site that auctions ovarian eggs from attractive models struck a deal Monday with its first advertiser: an online seller of Viagra. (USA Today)



It's the finalcountdown




Virus authors catch Millenium bug
Anti-virus companies have been warning that malicious programmers will take advantage of Y2K fears to slip viruses into users' hands. So far, researchers have identified four rare Y2K related viruses. (ZDNet) )





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