Coupures de Presse [ le 23 avril ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

AltaVista Accord Altavista-Lexiquest LexiQuest, éditeur de logiciels de recherche d'informations en langage naturel sur les Intranets et Internet, et AltaVista annoncent la disponibilité des fonctionnalités de recherche linguistique avancées à l'ensemble de leurs clients au niveau mondial. (Abondance) Internet dans les airs La compagnie Singapore Airlines lance le surf aérien sur le Web La compagnie Singapore Airlines a inauguré dimanche un nouveau service permettant aux passagers d'envoyer et de recevoir des courriers électroniques mais aussi de surfer sur le Web depuis leur siège. (Yahoo Actualités) NetActu Quiz [20.04.01] Les actualités Internet de la semaine passée en revue. Testez-vous!

Press clippings [ April 23, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Hard Times Ericsson cuts 12,000 jobs The mobile phone supplier announces further lay-offs and predicts a second-quarter loss. (The Industry Standard Europe) Silicon Graphics Posts Wider Loss, Announces Plans to Cut 1,000 Jobs Silicon Graphics posted a much wider net loss and announced plans to eliminate about 1,000 jobs, or 15% of its work force. Its shares dropped sharply Friday. (WSJ) Paid subscription required

Health Bush wants medical mistakes listed on Net The Bush administration is working to create an Internet-based clearinghouse of medical mistakes made by doctors and hospitals, with the intention of helping them avoid such errors in the future. (News.com)

Chess Chess showdown pits man vs. machine Bahrain will this October host the biggest man-against-machine chess showdown since Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in 1997, sources familiar with the $2 million deal told Reuters Friday. Kramnik, 24, a former pupil of Kasparov who beat his old teacher in November last year, will face the best of a number of computers currently playing against each other in Spain. (MSNBC)

E-Mail from world's rooftop Bid to send world's highest e-mail from top of K2 A Scottish businessman hopes to send the highest e-mail from the top of a Himalayan mountain. Michael Jackson hopes to reach the summit of K2 without oxygen and aims to take his business Wildday.com with him. Once he's reached the top of the 26,410ft mountain he wants to send an e-mail and enter the Guinness Book of Records. (Ananova)

Something to think about Human costs of a connected world Multitasking, checking your e-mail, operating at peak RPMs: you’ve become addicted to wireless life—and it has a cost. (MSNBC)