Coupures de Presse [ le 27 avril ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Il est quelle heure? Swatch et AOL scellent une alliance autour des montres connectées à Internet Les deux groupes ont signé un accord de coopération et de marketing en vue de commercialiser des montres reliées au Web via la page d'accueil d'AOL. Voir le communiqué presse. (Le Journal du Net) Yahoo! YAHOO! | Carton rouge La presse américaine est contrariée. Le portail Internet le plus célèbre du monde a refusé que les journalistes assistent à la réunion annuelle des actionnaires qui devrait se tenir vendredi 27 avril. Pour une entreprise spécialisée dans l'accès à l'information, ce type d'agissement (qui reste légal) n'est pas très fair play. Une décision d'autant plus étonnante que toutes les grandes entreprises acceptent les journalistes à ce type de réunion. Les résultats de Yahoo! seraient-ils si catastrophiques ? (Internet Actu) Northern Light NorthernLight s'ouvre aux intranets L'excellent moteur de recherche NorthernLight a annoncé dernièrement que les intranets d'entreprises clientes chez eux pouvaient, et cela gratuitement, intégrer sa technologie de recherche d'information. (Abondance) Les Chroniques de Cybérie [ Edition Spéciale ] Le Sommet des politiques : Bilane Une édition spéciale sur le Sommet des Amériques qui se tenait du 20 au 22 avril à Québec. Le Sommet des politiques : bilan, et autres considérations. Par Jean-Pierre Cloutier.

Press clippings [ April 27, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Domain Names VeriSign's Domain Deal on Hold The U.S. government will need until May 14 to review a controversial deal extending computer security firm VeriSign's managerial responsibilities for running the .com domain system, according to documents released late Wednesday. (The Industry Standard) 'Hijacked' domain saga continues The domain of PR company Portfolio Metrica (www.portfoliocomms.com) that mysteriously disappeared on Monday to be replaced by an American free ISP is now up for sale on eBay. (The Register) Domain Rush Over, Or Has It Just Begun? The sudden rush to register domain names for new businesses or to protect existing trademarks has come to a screeching halt, according to a report by domain name protection concern SnapNames. An average of 25,000 names per day expire and are returned to the pool of available names, while about 35,000 new names are purchased each day. Just six months ago, only a few thousand were deleting while over 60,000 new names were being sold. (Cyberatlas) ICANN gets its own animated cartoon Worth a peek if you know about ICANN and fancy a laugh. "All the world is a stage - at ICANN» - the Icann Movie (The Register)

Music Industry Anti-piracy firm sues Microsoft InterTrust, a company that provides technology to protect songs and videos from being illegally copied, says the software giant's music and video software illegally infringes its patent rights. (News.com) Princeton professor won't fight recording industry Bowing to a threatened recording industry lawsuit, a Princeton University computer scientist decided against making public details about how he and other researchers thwarted security measures meant to protect copyright digital music. (SV.com)

Cellephony Teen Market a Tough Cell The future of teen communication is on hold in the United States. Teens are too picky and the hardware is too expensive. While mobile Internet is a phenomenal hit with youth in certain parts of Europe and Asia, U.S. telcos have so far ignored this market to cater to professionals -- and for good reason. If it isn't cheap and chic, teens don't want it. Only 14 percent of teenagers online -– those aged 13 to 20 -– own their own mobile phone, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. (Wired) E-mail 'the business' for corporate mobile users A new report suggests e-mail is to become the application which will persuade corporate mobile phone users to upgrade their handsets. Access to e-mail has spurred the success of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode web phone service in Japan. (Ananova)