Coupures de Presse [ le 4 avril ]

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Cybermétrie Les mesures d'audience de Cybermétrie en question L'équipe de Statisticator a encore frappé: cette fois-ci, elle montre comment on peut gonfler l'audience d'un site. (ZDNet) Napster Napster manifeste à Washington Alors que le Sénat américain commence à se pencher sur la musique en ligne, les partisans de Napster manifestaient hier à Washington. (futur(e)s) Prince Prince lance un single sur Napster Le site d'échange de musique en ligne Napster s'apprête à lancer avec le chanteur Prince le prochain single de l'artiste, ont annoncé le chanteur et le site lundi. En signe de protestation contre les maisons de disques, Prince lancera sur Napster le morceau "The Work - Pt. 1", premier titre de son prochain album baptisé "The Rainbow Children". (Yahoo Actualités) L'Excellence du Web Francophone Les Chroniques de Cybérie A l'index cette semaine, par Jean-Pierre Cloutier: —  3 avril, triste anniversaire... —  ...et cybermanif douteuse —  Nouvelles donnÈes sur Internet au Canada —  Etats-Unis : on craint la cybercriminalité —  Visa pour le commerce Èlectronique —  José Bové : avis de recherche —  En bref : CNIL et Internet en milieu de travail, zéro de conduite aux policiers de Washington, mauvaises nouvelles d'Irlande —  Beau détour

Press clippings [ April 4, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch To the Tune of Microsoft MSN joins Net music skirmishesn Microsoft is throwing its hat into the post-Napster online music ring, targeting the same audience rival RealNetworks seeks with its MusicNet service. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company will unveil a new MSN Music site Wednesday, the first time it has directly offered music as a part of its online content portfolio. (News.com) N.B. Need a PC and Explorer to acces: MSN Music: http://www.msn-music.com/Downlevel.htm or MSN Music : http://music.msn.com Interesting, Micrsoft doesn't have msnmusic.com (yet) it is registered to: Domain: MSNMUSIC.COM Registrant: (kyusang kyung) and has just expired: Expiration date: 27-MAR-2001

Ranking e-Mail Microsoft product outlined by Bill Gates at conference Researchers are developing software to rank e-mail by priority and deliver the messages - on a cellphone or a desktop unit - that are important enough to interrupt whatever you're doing, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said. (Nando Times)

Domain Names ICANN warns against preregistering domain names With seven new top-level Internet domains due to become available later this year, some domain name registrars are getting an early start by offering companies the opportunity to preregister names. But that practice has risks for users, according to the organization that oversees the domain name system. (CNN) Authors win rights to net names Three authors win the rights to their internet domain names from a cybersquatter, who wanted to sell them for a profit (Julian Barnes, Louis de Bernières, and historian Antony Beevor). Complaints from authors Margaret Drabble and Joanna Trollope will be heard in the next few weeks. (BBC)

Hard Times Lucent to Cut 1,000 Jobs Lucent Technologies Inc. said it expects to lay off 1,000 workers statewide, double the amount of cuts previously announced. (NY Times) Compaq to Cut 700 Jobs in Scotland Compaq Computer Corp. said Tuesday it will cut 700 jobs at its computer assembly plant in Scotland as part of a plan announced last month to cut 5,000 jobs worldwide. (NY Times) Dotcoms become cash shells Investors agonise over internet investments that have lost more than nine-tenths of their peak value, but a more telling measure of the collapse of confidence in the sector is the growing number of dotcoms worth less than their cash balances. (FT)

Sex.com [ update ] Sex.com aims to be adult portal After long legal battle, coveted domain undergoes makeover A prime piece of cyberspace real estate emerged from an epic legal battle with a somewhat toned down look Tuesday, as Sex.com mutated from a collection of hard-core porn ads to what its creator describes as a “sticky portal” to adult content on the Web. (MSNBC)