Coupures de Presse [ le 27 octobre 2000 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Barnes and Noble Barnes & Noble propose des achats en ligne dans ses magasins Les clients du libraire américain Barnes & Noble pourront acheter des produits en ligne depuis des terminaux installés dans les magasins, grâce à un partenariat conclu avec la librairie en ligne Barnesandnoble.com Inc. (Yahoo Actualités) MSN.fr MSN France ouvre un nouveau service de recherche Le portail généraliste MSN France, de Microsoft, a mis jeudi en place un nouveau module de recherche. Grâce à lui, l'éditeur espère couvrir environ 80% des demandes des internautes. (01.net)

Press clippings [ October 27 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch In Doubtful Taste Honoring the Dearly Dot-Departed Hosted by the Humor Network, the "Dot.Com Deceased Memorial" at the Internet World Fall 2000 honors 13 gone-but-not-quite-yet forgotten stabs at e-commerce. Gravestones marked with names and the birth and death dates of each company have been erected in their honor, and are being lovingly decorated with icons that express the spirit of the services the dead offered -- cosmetics, food, video tapes, pet supplies and other bits and pieces of dot-com debris. (Wired)

Latest Attacks Hackers Break Into MSN Hackers reportedly broke into Microsoft Corp.'s computer network and may have stolen blueprints to the latest versions of the company's Windows and Office software. (SV.com) Israeli government, army Web sites crash after hostile hits Several official Israeli Web sites crashed after being flooded by thousands of simultaneous hostile hits in a digital onslaught by Islamic groups abroad, officials said Thursday. (CNN)

Soyuz TM-26 Russian space capsule for sale on Web site For sale: One Russian space capsule that has traveled 79 million miles - a bargain at just $2.2 million. The Soyuz TM-26 is on sale online at the Space Store. (Techserver)

P2P Business, bandwidth may dash hopes of a peer-to-peer utopia Hopes of peer-to-peer utopia may vanish. A special report by News.com

More on dotcom demises The Dimming Lights of Silicon Alley In the last few months, Silicon Alley's dot-coms have laid off about 3,000 people, given up acres of office space and a couple have gone bankrupt, changing the outlook for the once-lucrative industry. (NY Times)

Science - Offline Beautiful people are ruining others' chances of happines At least, that is the conclusion of mathematicians, who have found out what many people have known for years: personality is more important than looks. (BBC)

VoyeurWeb Nude amateur hour At Voyeurweb, ordinary citizens exchange naked pictures of each other and foretell the future of the Web. The site is a popular destination for the Web's ordinary folk -- if ordinary includes wanting to post pictures of oneself totally nude or engaged in explicit sex. [...] Today Voyeurweb draws about 1 million unique visitors a day. [...] By this point you're thinking, "Aren't we talking about just another adult site here?" But Voyeurweb is more than yet another porn emporium. It's a compelling demonstration of one of the things the Web does best -- providing a forum in which the users are also the producers. (Salon)