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Coupures de Presse [ le 5 novembre 1999 ]

L'Internet sans abonnement
MSN France et Wanadoo lancent l'Internet sans abonnement
MSN France et Wanadoo s'associent pour proposer l'accès Internet sans abonnement. Le service, accessible depuis le portail conjoint wanadoo.msn.fr, est proposé jusqu'au 31 janvier. MSN France étend par ailleurs ses partenariats.

An 2000
Le bug de l'an 2000 aura coûté 71 milliards aux entreprises
Cela représente 17% de la dépense informatique totale dans les entreprises en 99, selon enquête publiée par l'institut d'études IDC. (Europe Infos)

Press clippings [ November 5, 1999 ]

Click-For-TV
New Banner Ads Link To Television
The TV empire is striking back with new ad technology to stem the tide of viewers who are migrating to the Internet for their entertainment. Set-Top.com, a recently launched Internet TV portal used with set-top boxes, has started running so-called Click-For-TV banner ads that transport users who click on them back to standard television programming. These new banner ads are currently available to users of WebTV Plus set-top boxes. (Allnet Devices)

Online Trading
18 percent of U.S. investors trade on Web - SIA survey
Online trading is gaining in popularity, and nearly one-fifth of U.S. investors now use the Web to buy and sell stocks, according to a Securities Industry Association survey released Thursday. (SiliconValley.com)

E-Bay
eBay starts business-business auctions
Internet auction site eBay Inc said Thursday it is expanding into online business-to-business trading and had chosen Germany as its first test market. The eBayPro platform would allow companies to offer products and services in more than 2,000 categories to other firms for bidding. (SiliconValley.com)

Fourth eBay setback in five days
eBay suffered more technical troubles today, as a key server went down and some users reported trouble even accessing the site. (News.com)

eBay Blocks AuctionWatch Access
A dispute regarding a new search service from AuctionWatch.com has led eBay Inc. to refuse any AuctionWatch.com servers from reaching the popular auction site. (Internet News)

Amazon
Amazon spreads auctions to Europes
The top Internet retailer starts auction services and shopping malls on its German and British Web sites, in time for an expected increase in online shopping by Europeans this holiday season. (News.com)

Amazon.com settles suit with feminist bookstore
Internet giant Amazon.com and a small feminist bookstore that has called itself Amazon since 1970 settled a legal dispute today over the use of the Amazon name. (Seattle Times)

E-Commerce
Do Luxury Retailers "Get" E-Commerce?
According to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc., luxury brick-and-mortar retailers such as Neiman Marcus are approaching e-commerce with a bargain basement mentality. (E-Commerce Times)

Health
Med Sites Prescribe Ethics Credo
The top names in e-health reveal details of a plan to draft a code of ethics designed to protect consumers while drawing the lines between advertising and health information a little more clearly. The Internet Healthcare Coalition is also creating a broad-based ethics code. (Wired News)

Archiving the Internet
Experts call for a national e-archive
Policy-makers should create a new system of “electronic depositories” to preserve digital information for posterity, America’s top research council says in a new report. The National Research Council’s recommendation is contained in a survey of the challenges surrounding intellectual property rights in an online age. (MSNBC)

Latest Attack
Hackers Deface U.S. Air Force Web Site
The Internet site at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio was defaced last weekend by a group of Pakistani-based hackers whose members vow to target U.S. government and military Web sites in a bid to win independence for Kashmir. By one estimate, the group has struck some 85 sites since it first began its hacking spree, hitting a variety of civilian and military in numerous nations. (Computer News Daily)

It's the finalcountdown

F.B.I. Is Year 2000 Ready
The Federal Bureau of Investigation turned the clock forward to Jan. 11, 2000, on its main crime-fighting computer, in a test that indicated fugitives would not slip through the cracks because of glitches caused by the new millennium. (NY Times)

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