Coupures de Presse [ le 18 décembre 2000 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

USA Les grands électeurs bombardés d'e-mails les appelant à voter Al Gore REVOICI avec mot manquant Les grands électeurs, qui doivent désigner lundi le président américain, sont bombardés d'e-mails les appelant à voter pour Al Gore, une campagne de pression organisée sur internet par deux militants favorables au suffrage universel direct. (Yahoo Actualités) e-Book Lancement en janvier 2001 du premier livre électronique français Le premier livre électronique français, le Cybook, sera distribué à partir du 22 janvier 2001, a annoncé vendredi Olivier Pujol, Pdg de Cytale. Les téléchargements -d'une durée de 3 à 5 minutes- ne seront possibles que dans le site-librairie de Cytale ainsi que dans le cadre d e partenariats avec des sites sécurisés. (Yahoo Actualités) n/e/tsurfquiz.com NetActu Quiz [15.12.00] Les actualités Internet de la semaine passée en revue. Testez-vous!

Press clippings [ December 18 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Predictions 2000 Boom Town Becomes Gloom Town in 2001 The euphoria of the Internet industry has been cut to shreds. Could things still get worse? Here are some predictions for 2001. (WSJ) Paid subscription required.

Domain Names ABN AMRO Snatches Mortgage.com Domain for $1.8m A day after naming an assignee to oversee the sale of its assets, Mortgage.com, sold its domain name to ABN AMRO Mortgage for $1.8 million. (Internet.com) Warner Bros backs down Well, that didn't take long. One week after we got a little indignant about Warner Brothers sending 15-year-old Claire Field a legal letter demanding she hand over her www.harrypotterguide.co.uk domain, the giant conglomerate has backed down and waxed lyrical about how wonderful her site is, what a great fan she is etc etc, you know the drill. (The Register)

Google Google browser add-on could raise privacy concerns Google's new toolbar extension may give Web surfers the feeling they're being watched. That's because one version of Google's toolbar keeps track of every site a person visits to analyze search and surfing patterns. (News.com)

AOl AOL may be forced to share instant messaging The Federal Communications Commission intends to approve the Time Warner deal if AOL allows rivals to operate on its IM system, according to reports. (News.com)

Iran Iranian ayatollahs wage war on Web Dissident cleric Hossein Ali Montazeri, once in line to be Iran's supreme leader, dropped a political bombshell this week by publishing his memoirs on the Web, sparking a cyber war with the leadership in Tehran. The document, published in Persian and available at montazeri.com, provides important testimony to some of the most dramatic moments of the Iranian revolution and the war with Iraq. (Techserver)

MacArthur Park Movie Passes Death Sentence on Gates Makers of a mock documentary about the assassination of the world's richest man are using the Web to pique interest. (The Industry Standard)

Wapathy The Unplugged Internet Generates 'Wapathy' There is a new word in the English lexicon and it describes the frustrations that have mounted over the limitations of calling up the World Wide Web on cell phones: wapathy. (NY Times)

Must Reading You've got morse A century-old tale has uncanny parallels with today's wired world. Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes, by Ella Cheever Thayer (WF Johnston, New York, 1879). The Industry Standard Europe