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Coupures de Presse [ le 30 novembre 1999 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Alta Vista
Une chatte a moins d'1 chance sur 3 de retrouver ses petits sur Internet
Selon une étude de la célèbre revue Reference & User Services Quarterly, les utilisateurs du moteur de recherche Altavista ont plus de chance de trouver une réponse exacte que fausse. Mais ils ont encore plus de chance de ne pas trouver du tout de réponse. (Actual Info)

Amazon
Amazon.com ouvre ses rayons aux Palm VII
Amazon.com, la très célèbre omniboutique en ligne, propose depuis peu aux internautes une application à télécharger gratuitement, celle-ci permet d'acheter directement chez Amazon.com depuis son Palm VII. "Amazon.com Anywhere". La (La Lettre de l'Internet)

Press clippings [ November 30, 1999 ]

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E-Commerce
Consumers are flocking online for holiday shopping

Yahoo! Inc. said Monday that the volume of transactions processed through its shopping section on Nov. 26 rose 400 percent from last year, and that orders were up more than 110 percent from the previous month, although it did not give specific figures. (ZD Net)

America Online Inc. said online shopping spending nearly tripled compared with the $1.2 billion spent during the 1998 Thanksgiving week, as more than 4 million AOL members made purchases.

And Amazon.com said that -- from Thursday midnight through Saturday -- its volume of orders was two-and-a-half times greater than the same time last year. (ZDNet)

Spend Your Way to Doing Good
Here's a great idea: harness your e-commerce dollars for charity. Just start your shopping at one of the sites below, which act as portals that send you to online retail stores. They then donate a portion of your purchase (usually 5 to 15 percent) to the charity of your choice. (Newsweek)

shop2give.com

greatergood.com

igive.com

4charity.com

E-Commerce
Microsoft Besieged by civil suits
The gold rush has begun: In the weeks since U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released his findings of fact stating that Microsoft abused its monopoly power, several civil lawsuits have been filed against the software giant, in five different states. An awful lot of lawyers seem to think that it's their chance to claim a piece of the Microsoft antitrust pie. (SiliconValley.com / Salon)

More than Gooey
Putting Your Mark on the Web
Third Voice, Odigo, uTOK, esgear, Instant Rendezvous, Gooey. Gibberish? Hardly. All are services that add new ways of communicating on the Internet, including the ability to post notes on a Web page. (SiliconValley.com)

Privacy Issue
Cartoon-cursor software tracks customers on the Web
Comet Systems Inc., a private company in New York, does not dispute that its free cursor software, installed by more than 16 million people, reports back to its own computers with each customer's unique serial number each time that person visits any of 60,000 Web sites - including dozens aimed at young children - that support its technology. (Techserver)

AltaVista
AltaVista to Acquire Raging Bull, A Popular Financial-Chat Web Site
AltaVista agreed to acquire stock-chat site Raging Bull from investors including company employees, CNET and AltaVista majority owner CMGI. (WSJ) Paid subscription required.

Dell
Dell consumer PC shows focus on the Net
Dell Computer will tomorow unveil a stylized, easy-to-use consumer PC, and with it a whole new plan for reaching consumers. Price range from $999 to $2,399. (News.com)

It's the finalcountdown

Y2K bug shows up in Philadelphia
As many as 500 people got notices telling them to show up for jury duty in 1900 -- an error caused by the so-called Y2K bug in city court computers. (USA Today)

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