Coupures de Presse [ le 11 décembre 2000 ]

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Norvège Norvège : surfez, vous êtes surveillés ! Les services secrets norvégiens ont secrètement passé un accord avec 15 des principales compagnies et administrations du pays pour mettre en place une structure de contrôle de la Toile. (Europe Infos/ Multimédia/Société) Pour Internautes au Volant Voilà la Bunnymobile ! Bunnyfoot, une société britannique spécialisée dans l'optimisation de l'accès au Web, a présenté une voiture qui permet de surfer sur Internet sans détacher les yeux de la route. (Les News Net) Pour Fans Nintendo Puissance Nintendo change de peau et grandit ! Puissance Nintendo lance un nouveau design, et annonce sa fusion avec Nintendo Gamers, effective dès aujourd'hui. Cette fusion permet au Réseau Puissance Nintendo de s'étoffer de nouveaux sites dédiés aux jeux vidéo, consacrés notamment aux Pokemon et à Perfect Dark, en plus des sites déjà existants Puissance Pocket (consacré à la Game Boy) et Puissance Zelda (consacré à l'univers The Legend of Zelda). n/e/tsurfquiz.com NetActu Quiz [9.12.00] Les actualités Internet de la semaine passée en revue. Testez-vous!

Press clippings [ December 11 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Send a Howler to Warner Brothers! Warner Brothers bullies girl over Harry Potter site Huge conglomerate behaves disgracefully Warner Brothers has threatened a 15-year-old fan of Harry Potter with legal action over her Web site, www.harrypotterguide.co.uk. There's no bad faith here, no profit being made - it's a fan's site that justifies its URL entirely. If WIPO does look at it and does decide against Claire, we (The Register) will fly over to Geneva and personally slap director general Kamil Idris. ® (The Register)

Amazon.com : Infiltrated Analysts go undercover to get story on Amazon.com Amazon.com Inc., the online retailer that began as a bookseller, has itself become the subject of a plot worthy of a investor-style cloak-and-dagger novel. The Seattle-based company was recently infiltrated by two analysts from brokerage Credit Suisse First Boston, who got jobs at an Amazon.com warehouse working as seasonal employees. The pair -- Jamie Kiggen and Rick Vallieres -- worked for about a week at Amazon's Delaware warehouse before emerging from undercover. (SV.com)

Satire Wire The Yankifier Here's a new marketing opportunity, suggested Satire Wire - sifting non-American content out of the web. (The Guardian's Weblog) "Sensing a market opportunity, NetNanny, makers of NetNanny filtering software, announced this week it will introduce NetNarrow, an English-only product that automatically filters out content that appears to be international." (Satire Wire)

Music Recording Industry Scores Copyright Win The U.S. Copyright Office ruled Friday that radio broadcasters must pay licensing royalties when they simulcast programs on the Internet. (The Industry Standard)

Ruling Are Parents Legally Responsible for Their Children's Internet Use? Most people would agree that it's a good idea for parents to supervise their children's use of computers and the Internet. But what happens if a mother or father fails to do so? According to a state judge in Illinois, that parent can face trial in court. (NY Times)

Do you have a record? Colorado arrest records to go online The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is about to introduce a new Internet service that will allow state residents to run background checks on anyone over the age of 18. (Techserver)

Nice German village will have an Internet Christmas The inhabitants of the village of Oberhambach couldn't ask for a nicer Christmas present: almost all 279 of them are getting free computers and Internet access, thanks to an experimental program to create Germany's first "Internet community." (CNN)

Financial "Surviror" Contest Marketwatch.com to test investor 'survivor' skills CBS Marketwatch.com, is offering investors the chance to win back more than $500,000 in a stock market "Survivor'' contest based on the wildly popular television show that aired on CBS this past summer. (SV.com)