Coupures de Presse [ le 23 novembre 2000 ]

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Question.fr Question.fr va lancer un système de réponses d'experts en "marque blanche" Le site Question.fr est en train de mettre en place un système d'outil de recherche humain, avec réponses d'experts, en marque blanche, donc destiné à être revendu à d'autres sites web. (Abondance) Projet Moïse La restauration du Moïse de Michelange en direct sur internet La restauration du Moïse de Michel-Ange, une des oeuvres les plus achevées de l'artiste et qui orne le monument funèbre du pape Jules II Médicis en l'église St Pierre aux Liens à Rome, débutera en janvier 2001 et pourra être suivie en direct sur internet. (Yahoo Actualités) Dot-Com Cartoons dotboutique publie des cartoons de Richard Tennant sur les noms de domaine. Le premier est en ligne!

Press clippings [ November 23 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Wonderful New Technology Device Helps the Blind Avoid Clothes That Clash For the blind, getting dressed poses a series of logistical problems. Careful organization — or a limited wardrobe — is necessary for avoiding fashion faux pas such as clashing colors. Shaped and sized roughly the same a cell phone, adevice, called Color Talk, contains a color diode sensor on one side. When a user lays it on a piece of clothing and presses a button, a small speaker in the unit announces the fabric's color. (NY Times) Voice-Guided Cash Machines for the Blind Getting cash from an automated teller machine is a convenience that most people now take for granted. But not the blind. Now Diebold Inc., of Canton, Ohio, a major manufacturer of automated teller machines, has developed a prototype for an inexpensive machine guided entirely by audio prompts. (NY Times) Magic' Pen Works As Scanner, More A Swedish tech start-up, C-Tech AB, wants to turn pens into electronic Swiss Army knives of sorts that can write, scan text, translate words and snap pictures. (WSJ) Paid subscription required.

Cybersquatting ? Palm gets heavy with "cybersquatter" who predicts future announcement Palm has got heavy-handed in a domain name spat with one of its users. The dispute stems from the mighty California outfit's announcement earlier this month to start a portal launch called MyPalm. Nothing wrong with that. Only problem for Palm is that execs decided on the name for the MyPalm portal without bothering to buy the TLD first. When they checked, they found Mypalm.com was already registered to a UK company, Intanet Communications. (The Register)

SMS The new hip SMS patois "Mobile phone messaging is just a feature - it will never take off". That at least is what every mobile phone operator told us just two years ago. And it's something we occasionally remind them of when they get caught up slapping each other on the back for their tremendous insight. (The Register) AFAIK - as far as I know BTDT - been there, done that c%d - could CID - consider it done CUL8r - see you later DXNRE - dictionary GAL - get a life HHOJ - ha ha only joking IL BL8 - I am going to be late MbR$d - embarrassed OMG - oh my god PCM - please call me

Talking about the weather AIR PRESSURE --- DAVENETICS Weather has firmly established itself as one of the top categories of content available on the web. Can it achieve the same success in the wireless market? Some think it can do even more... (Business2 / Davenetics)