Coupures de Presse [ le 7 juin]

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Excite Excite France fermera ses portes le mois prochain L'information nous a été confirmée mercredi soir par Excite France. (Abondance) Google Google dit "non" au référencement payant Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology du moteur de recherche Google, a indiqué qu'il était contre les offres de référencement payant du type de celles que propose Inktomi. (Abondance) Noms de Domaine Le .com Rénégocie Les droits d'exploitation des noms de domaine de premier niveau, .com, .net et .org seront désormais plus chers pour les sociétés d'enregistrement. Le but : 20% de budget en plus pour l'ICANN. (Les News.net) Téléphonie Internet, c'est simple comme un coup de fil Net2Phone, l´opérateur spécialisé dans le téléphone sur Internet, lance aux Etats-Unis un service qui permet de passer des coups de fil via le Net en utilisant un combiné classique. (transfert) «Train de l'Internet» Un "Train de l'Internet" pour présenter l'administration électronique Un "Train de l'Internet" va présenter pendant tout le mois de juin, dans 12 villes de France, les téléservices publics sur internet ainsi que le portail de l'administration (service-public.fr) lancé en octobre 2000 (Yahoo Actualités)

Press clippings [ June 7 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Dotcom Hard Times CLASS IS IN ACTION --- DAVENETICS The IPO market is starting to see a familiar pattern when it comes to high tech companies. The company goes public. Investors buy the stock. The stock goes down. Investors bring a class action suit against the company. (Wired / Davenetics) Prospects remain grim for dotcoms A year on from the start of the dotcom fall-out, the number of internet company failures shows little sign of slowing down. (FT) Lucent offers early retirement to 10,000 US managers Telecoms company Lucent Technologies is offering early retirement to 10,000 of its US managers following the collapse of merger talks with rivals Alcatel. (Ananova)

Net Security FIFTY WAYS TO BRING YOUR LAWSUIT --- DAVENETICS Representatives from fifty different countries are holding two weeks worth of meetings to work through the rules for international lawsuits. At the top of the list will be international ecommerce issues. (The Economist / Davenetics)

Music Napster wins over record companies Three of the world's largest record companies are close to a deal to license their catalogues to Napster, the 'renegade' song-swapping service. (The Guardian) Napster may be subject of new movie It's got plenty of the right ingredients — lawsuits, money and rock 'n roll. That's right. Napster the movie may be coming to a screen near you! (USA Today) Professor sues music industry to discuss cracking copyright technology A Princeton University professor who successfully bypassed the music industry's latest anti-piracy technology sought court permission Wednesday to talk about his research. (Nando Times)

Privacy Issue Defense Department Web sites track visitors One in four Web sites run by the Defense Department have no privacy statement posted, according to an oversight report. An even larger number collect information about the public despite a White House directive barring the practice. (MSNBC)

Windows XP New 'Smart Tags' Can Be Dangerous Microsoft's Windows XP has a feature that will allow Microsoft's Web browser to turn any word on any site into a link to the company's own Web sites and services, and in effect, may threaten editorial integrity. (WSJ) paid subscription required

Cyberstory Computer screen parrot alerts firefighters Fire crews spent an hour searching an office block for a trapped parrot - only to find the squawking bird was a computer screen saver. (The Guardian)