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Coupures de Presse [ le 8 novembre 1999 ]

Net2One
Un agent d'information très spécial
Avec Net2one, la petite entreprise française Central Cast lance la revue de presse en ligne et à la carte. Chaque jour, les abonnés reçoivent par courrier électronique une liste des nouveaux articles correspondant à leurs centres d'intérêt, précisés au préalable. Par Laurent Mauriac pour Libération. Bookmark!


Kitalettre#03 - Les nouveautés
VEO European Internet Newsletter
Un site sur l'actualité du secteur Internet en Europe. Bookmark!


Mal Lotis
Des ambassades américaines n'ont même pas accès à l'Internet
Les diplomates américains travaillent souvent dans des «conditions inacceptables», dans des bureaux aménagés dans des baraques de chantier et avec des ordinateurs ne disposant pas de l'Internet, selon une étude publiée aujourd'hui à Washington. (Multimédium)


Nasdaq version Européenne
L'Europe aura son NASDAQ à la fin de l'année 2000
La NASD, l'opérateur du Nasdaq annonce le lancement d'une version européenne de la bourse électronique pour la fin de l'année 2000. Vivendi, Softbank et News Corporation en seront actionnaires et d'autres partenaires, notamment des institutions financières, devraient se joindre au tour de table. (france.internet.com)


Noms de Domaine
Populis mise sur un Internet familial et tribal
Populis propose désormais d'héberger gratuitement les noms de domaines qui correspondent à des noms de famille. Ce service, fondé par trois frères en mars 1999, parie sur une explosion des communautés familiales et tribales en France. (france.internet.com)

Monsite.swurl.com
Swurl s'adresse aux auteurs de pages perso, dont les URL à rallonge sont difficiles à mémoriser :ils peuvent la simplifier en obtenant une adresse monsite.swurl.net. Ce nouveau service d'adressage se distingue de concurrents, tel Go.to, par son instantanéité : le changement ne prend que quelques secondes. (Les News.Net)


e-Divorces
Divorce on-line
Six pour cent des divorces par consentement mutuel prononcés en Grande-Bretagne sont conclus sur internet, rapporte lundi The Independent. Dix semaines après sa mise en service, le service on-line Desktop Lawyer a réalisé 1.800 divorces, permettant à autant de couples de mettre fin à leur union rapidement et à moindre coût. (Yahoo Actualités)


Press clippings [ November 8, 1999 ]

DOJ vs Microsoft
Judge calls Microsoft a "monopoly"
A federal judge has determined that Microsoft holds a monopoly in computer operating systems, strongly criticizing the company in a decisive statement that could signal the outcome of the landmark antitrust case. (News.com)

"Fair and responsible' resolution sought by Gates

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said in a letter published Sunday in the Washington Post that the software maker is committed to "a fair and responsible" resolution of its antitrust trial. (Techserver)

Microsoft's rivals "delighted"

"My basic reaction is I'm delighted by the findings," said Jim Barksdale, the former chief executive at Netscape and one of the central figures in the case. "I thought my team worked so hard at Netscape to overcome a lot of this. I'm glad the judge understands this and agrees with it. (News.com)

Chat rooms alive with Microsoft talk

Internet pundits and online punters agreed today that the federal ruling against Microsoft threatens the firm's lofty stock price, but some see a predicted drop as a fine chance to snap up cut-rate shares of the software giant. (News.com)

Washington state residents rally behind Microsoft

One day after a federal judge ruled that Microsoft has monopoly power over personal computer operating systems, local supporters of the Redmond, Washington,-based software giant rallied to its defense. (CNN)

Ruling to hit Microsoft shares

Shares in Microsoft are set to tumble on Monday following a US judge's ruling that the company abused its power as the world's leading computer software firm. (BBC)

What Does the Microsoft Case Mean for Consumers?

Software giant Microsoft Corp. "harmed consumers'' by stifling innovation and crushing competition, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said Friday in the Microsoft antitrust case.

While the court's decision may not bring immediate changes, the trial itself may have already helped consumers. Two years of intense and often harsh scrutiny by government officials and reporters may have restrained Microsoft during a time when the Internet-based economy was exploding. (Computer News Daily)

"Microsoft, in the absence of this trial, would have been much more aggressive in the Internet business,'' -- Art Russell, a technology analyst with Edward Jones, a St. Louis-based securities company.


Phone Fraud
Clinton launches Web site to fight phone Fraud
President Clinton Saturday launched a national campaign to fight telephone fraud that includes a Web site that lets victims file complaints online. (SiliconValley.com)


Throw-away-phone
Throw Away That Cell Phone
A full-time inventor in New Jersey has patented a technology that she says can be used to manufacture cellular phones so inexpensively that they could be sold for a fixed amount of air time and then tossed in the garbage. (NY Times)


Live Answer Community
Net firm to connect users by phone
A new Net start-up, Keen.com, is jumping on the trend of offering expert advice--but it says it will connect information seekers with experts over the phone. Keen.com will offer what it calls the Live Answer Community, in which people can find others with similar interests or information to share about a given topic, and the company sets up a phone call between the parties. Keen.com calls both participants, so neither has to reveal his or her identity or phone number, the company said. (News.com)


Health Scare - Debatable
Mobile phone 'brain risk'
Radiation emissions from mobile phones could place users at risk of brain conditions including Alzheimer's disease, according to reports. Researchers in Sweden have found that just two minutes' exposure to energy waves from a handset can disable a defence mechanism in the body designed to prevent harmful proteins and toxins in the blood from entering the brain.(BBC)


OfficeClick.com
A Man for All Modems
Executives of OfficeClick.com, a Web site that officially opens Monday, say theirs is the first e-commerce site specifically aimed at the estimated 10.5 million administrative assistants in the United States, who procure goods on behalf of some 70 million colleagues. (NY Times)



It's the finalcountdown




Y2K cash withdrawals pose risk
Whatever the reason, many senior citizens are withdrawing money from banks, or making plans to do so, because of the Year 2000 computer bug. (USA Today)





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