Coupures de Presse [ le 19 décembre 2000 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

USA Northernlight vous dit tout sur le sans fil Le moteur de recherche Northernlight vient d'ouvrir sur son site une zone spéciale dédiée au monde du sans-fil. (Abondance)

Press clippings [ December 19 2000 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Domain Names Findus Loses Out on Its Domain Findus frozen food, the company that brought the world Lean Cuisine, will be unable to bring the world a frozen food Web site at www.findus.com. Findus has been trying to get the name away from a Swedish couple, but a U.N. arbitrator ruled against Findus and agreed with the current domain owner, deciding the name could be read as "Find Us." (Internet News) Warner Bros/ Harry Potter dispute kicks off again We thought it was all over, but the argument over the Harry Potter Web site run by 15-year-old Claire Field has kicked off again following her father's anger at media manipulation by Warner Brothers' head of publicity Barbara Brogliatti. (The Register)

Aimster Aimster sets sights on MSN, Yahoo The Napster of instant messaging is rolling out a souped-up version, which it said lets users of different instant messaging platforms communicate with each other, plus swap and share files. (News.com)

Hard Times.com Happy Holidays ... You're Fired It's a pink (slip) Christmas for many ex-dot-commers. Loved ones probably shouldn't expect another Ferrari under the tree. (Wired) Red Herring, other tech magazines meet hard times Red Herring Communications laid off nine percent of its employees Monday in the latest belt-tightening move at a media company with fortunes tied to the slowing technology industry. (Techserver) EToys puts self up for sale Online toy retailer eToys became the latest dot-com to falter, saying it will cut its work force and may run out of operating cash by the end of March because of weak holiday sales. (USA Today)

Good News Pearson puts more into the net Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times, yesterday gave the internet an increasingly rare vote of confidence when it said its online ventures would hit profitability sooner than expected. (The Guardian)

CyberCrime Treaty Cybercrime treaty condemned A draft European treaty on cybercrime is attacked as "appalling" by civil liberty groups around the globe. (BBC) Global Internet Liberty Campaign GILC Members Maintain Opposition to Cyber-Crime Treaty

Filtering Law ACLU moves to block filtering law The American Civil Liberties Union said Monday it plans to fight new legislation requiring all schools and public libraries that accept federal money to use Internet filtering software. The filtering law was attached to the federal budget bill and passed in an eleventh-hour push by the lame-duck Congress to tie up the year’s loose ends. (MSNBC)