Coupures de Presse [ le 29 novembre 2000 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Monde Mobile Lifestylers, un jeu de rôles sur le wap La société suédoise Picofun vient de lancer son deuxième jeu communautaire. Le Wapnaute choisit un personnage dont les actions doivent correspondre au maximum à son style de vie. (Europe Info Multimédia) Australie : le recyclage des mobiles marche fort Les Australiens lancent un programme de recyclage des téléphones mobiles et de leurs batteries. Un succès. (mobiconso.com) Canada Une partie du Web canadien s'éteindra jeudi soir La nuit de jeudi à vendredi risque d'être noire pour des milliers de propriétaires de noms de domaines «.ca». Presque 50 000 noms de domaine, dont l'enregistrement n'a toujours pas été renouvelé, seront désactivés durant cette nuit, entraînant avec eux sites Web et adresses de courriel. (Multimédium) Yahoo! France Plus de sexe sur Yahoo! France ! De nombreux internautes se sont aperçus, depuis quelques jours, que la catégorie Commerce et Economie Sociétés Sexe avait purement et simplement disparue des pages de Yahoo! France. (Abondance) Fureteur pour Enfants AmiWeb: navigation sécuritaire Dédié aux enfants de 4 à 11 ans et aux parents souhaitant contrôler l'accès à Internet de leurs enfants, le fureteur AmiWeb propose une solution sécuritaire qui restreint l'accès aux sites souhaités par les parents. (Branchez- Vous)

Press clippings [ November 29 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Domain Names Will Phone Numbers replace URLs Australian company Nascomms claims to be the first in the world to go online with numeric addressing, in which telephone numbers are used in replace of the ubiquitous dot-com address. (ZDNet) Cybersquatters evicted Wembley stadium, Jaap Stam and Pierre van Hooijdonk all win battles with "cybersquatters". (BBC)

More Microsoft Arrogance MS to Judge: And You're Ugly, Too In a scathing 150-page brief, Microsoft accuses U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of being a stranger to logic, ignorant of technology, a media blabbermouth and preternaturally biased toward the Justice Department's point of view. (Wired)

Yahoo! Yahoo delivers encrypted email The Web portal quietly introduces a way for people to send scrambled messages through a deal with Zixit, an email encryption firm. (News.com)

«Wapare» Shake-out looms for Europe's online brokers Europeans caught the online share-dealing bug this year, fuelling explosive growth for retail brokers across the continent. Germans have been the most fanatical, accounting for more than half of the European online broking market. The French and the Swedes have been no slouches either and the Italians have even coined a new verb -- ``wapare'' -- to describe share dealing via WAP mobile phone. (SV.com)

Living Off the Internet Only Russian party boy secludes himself in Web experiment At 4 p.m. on a Monday afternoon in late November, Fyodor Pavlov-Andreyevich closed the door on his worldly life as the editor of a Moscow teen magazine and became iOne, a cybermonk on an online crusade. Unlike the American DotComGuy, a former systems manager who earns a salary promoting e-commerce by living off his computer and credit card, iOne's financial sponsor, Alfa-Bank, told him to obtain credit and test his entrepreneurial skills on the Web. (CNN)

The Plant [Contd...] Hiatus for an Internet Book Stephen King is suspending his independently offered Internet serial "The Plant" to work on other projects. An aide said sales had fallen sharply and that fewer buyers were paying after downloading. (NY Times)

E-Mail in the UK C&W sacks six over emails Cable & Wireless has dismissed six staff for sending offensive emails and disciplined dozens of others. The sackings, last Friday, highlight the trend among employers to crack down on the alleged misuse of electronic communications. (The Guardian) Could employers ban personal email? Private e-mail at work may become a thing of the past, thanks to the Data Pprotection Commission. (ZDNet)

Internet Cafe Times Square Send Off Stelios launches US cybercafe empire in New York Entrepreneur and EasyEverything head honcho Stelios Haji-Ioannou flew to New York to launch the Internet cafe, which has 800 computer terminals open 24/7, and to kick off his US e-empire. HP's Fiorina drops in to cut ribbon. (The Register)

Love By Mail Japan's Men Date Hot, Sexy Bots You send her a flirtatious e-mail, she sends one back. Push too aggressively, she admonishes you. Woo her just right, and she'll fall in love. Too bad you're the only human in this scene. (Wired)