Coupures de Presse [ le 7 mai ]

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Alerte Virus "Moment de bonheur", un nouveau virus détecté en Chine Baptisé "Moment de bonheur", le virus en question est véhiculé par les e-mail mais son potentiel semble nettement supérieur puisqu'il est capable d'infecter une machine avant même que son utilisateur n'ait ouvert le message, précise le quotidien. (Yahoo Actualités). Danemark Le Danemark comme terre promise pour Napster? Suite à un article du site Internet danois Politiken.dk, plusieurs rumeurs se sont mises à circuler à l'effet que le Danemark s'apprêtait à légaliser Napster et les services semblables, faisant du pays une possible terre d'accueil pour les serveurs dédiés à ce genre d'activités. Il semble plutôt que l'on ait fait une montagne d'une simple mise à niveau de la législation danoise. (Multimedium) Lof t Story Le téléphone portable de mon chien… Au Japon, les entrepreneurs fourmillent d’idées originales voir loufoques. Ainsi, deux sociétés japonaises de téléphonie mobile pensent développer d’ici 2003, une sorte de mini-téléphone pour nos amis canins ! Le chien aura ce petit téléphone mobile attaché au cou afin que son maître puisse, à tout moment, palier à ses absences par des mots doux murmurés à l’oreille de son animal de compagnie. (TF1 Mobiles)

Press clippings [ May 7, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Uh-Oh Program Catches Copycat Students A University of Virginia professor uses a self-written computer program to catch students who plagiarize term papers. Over 100 students are being investigated and may be expelled. (Wired)

Attacked White House Site Hit By Denial-of-Service Attack Hackers attacked the White House Web site Friday, bombarding it with enormous amounts of data that forced it to shut down for more than two hours. (The Industry Standard) Pentagon computers under assault A series of sophisticated attempts to break into Pentagon computers has continued for more than three years, and an extensive investigation has produced “disturbingly few clues” about who is responsible, according to a member of the National Security Agency’s advisory board. (MSNBC) Hackers link business conference site to hard porn Hackers have linked a business conference website to one featuring hardcore pornography. Visitors to the site looking for information about speakers at the Fortune Global Forum in Hong Kong are taken to a site dedicated to 'sexy petite women'. (Ananova)

New Browser 'No limits' browser planned Later this year, the hacking collective known as the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) is planning to release a web browser called Peekabooty that it claims will it almost impossible to restrict what the information people look at on the web. Peekabooty will work like the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that has no central server and instead uses all the machines in the system to hold data. (BBC)

Yahoo! Yahoo Germany chief quits The Net giant has lost yet another international head as Peter Würtenberger leaves to join the Bild-T-Online joint venture. (The Industry Standard Europe) Yahoo Explores Active Ads The portal company is letting its ads overtake its content -- literally. New Ford Explorer ads temporarily take over an entire Web page, as the company searches for revenue. (Wired)

eBAYWATCH Controversial voting machines to be sold on eBay To defray the cost of buying more modern voting equipment, Palm Beach County is selling the voting machines at the center of last year's chad debate. (Nando Times)

LifeMail College grads offered lifetime e-mail addresses Graduate from college these days and chances are you'll get more than a diploma. Hundreds of schools now offer lifetime e-mail addresses for their alums, a "subtle-resume". (Nando Times)

Family Ties A new front in the divorce wars: online visitation rights Among divorce lawyers, they are known as move-away cases: the often-bitter disputes that flare when parents with custody of children try to relocate far from ex-spouses with visiting rights. For better or worse, the long-distance prowess of Internet technology is expected to play an expanding role as these cases reach America's courtrooms. The pivotal question: Should the prospect of ``virtual visitation'' -- through e-mail, instant messages and video-conferencing -- make it easier for a custodial parent to get permission to move? (SV.com) Silver surfers 'get closer to family' Older people using the internet believe it has strengthened family ties and friendships rather than added to social exclusion, a survey suggests. (BBC)

Music Classes Online Online Conservatories Strike a Chord With Music Students The Web is home to hundreds of music courses, ranging from play-by-numbers piano lessons to personalized, interactive master classes. (IHT)

A Feudal System Microserfs should throw off their feudal chains Among the many myths that encrust the Bill Gates legend is a story of how, during a university visit, a student asked him to autograph his Windows 95 installation disk. Gates declined. Why won't you sign my disk?' asked the student. 'Because it's not yours,' replied Bill. (The Guardian)

Cellephony Mobiles blamed for Fat Kids British kids are the fattest ever, and it's all down to mobiles. Apparently. One in nine children between the ages of seven and 11 is medically obese, a study at Leeds Metropolitan University has discovered. The study has been published in the British Medical Journal and points to a doubling in obesity since the last time a large-scale fat-kid survey was done in 1990. (The Register)