Coupures de Presse [ le 1er novembre ]

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Yahoo! Yahoo prépare des programmes vidéo payants La société de média internet a déclaré lundi avoir étoffé son offre gratuite de programmes vidéo, mais elle envisage sérieusement de faire payer l'accès, d'ici à la fin de l'année, à certains contenus diffusés en continu. (ZDnet) Quelm Quelm, éditeur du portail high-tech Inovao.com, cesse ses activités La société se rémunérait à 40 % par la vente B-to-B du contenu de ses différents sites rassemblé sur le portail Inovao.com. Représentant 40 % également des revenus, le custom publishing comprenait un package intégrant des services, du conseil et une production personnalisée. Enfin, 10 % provenaient de la publicité et 10 % de l'hébergement de sites. « Notre modèle économique est viable, mais pour le moment, le marché est trop difficile. Cependant, ce fut une expérience enrichissante et globalement positive », conclut Thierry Piolatto. (01.net) Amazon Amazon vend maintenant des abonnements à des magazines Le détaillant en ligne Amazon.com Inc. a lancé sur son site un service d'abonnement en ligne à des magazines tels que Rolling Stone ou Time. (Multimédium)

Press clippings [ November 1, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Good News E-mail lists get virus protection L-Soft International, maker of the popular Listserv e-mail list software, and antivirus company F-Secure announced a deal on Monday by which F-Secure's antivirus will  check every attachment sent using the Listserv software in an attempt to stop the spread of viruses over e-mail lists. (CNN)

Cellephony City turns on fast wireless internet Manchester is to become the first city in the world to have high speed, wireless internet access at restaurants, pubs and coffee shops. (The Guardian) Following Europe's Lead, U.S. Mobile Firms  Have Begun Switching to GSM Technology The U.S. is finally joining the global telecom pack, and it's the Europeans who stand to really benefit. Tuesday's announcement by Cingular Wireless, the second-largest U.S. mobile carrier, that it is converting to the global system for mobile communications, or GSM, provides a big boost to Finland's Nokia Corp., Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson of Sweden and Germany's Siemens AG, which sell GSM equipment. (WSJ) Paid subscription required

Google Google tests snapshots of Web pages A new feature would offer stamp-size pics of sites alongside ordinary search results. But longer page-loading times could mean a thumbs-down for the thumbnails. (News.com) Point of View Berners Lee: WWW royalties considered harmful WWW creator Tim Berners Lee has given his strongest hint yet that the W3C organization he created ought to shun the idea of accepting royalty-bearing patents as web standards. He also acknowledges that the move could lead to the fragmentation of the Web.  (The Register)

Reading Offline Perspectives from the bubble After the boom comes the bust, then the memoirs. As the internet bubble of the late 1990s fades into memory, a mini-craze for dotcom reminiscences has broken out. (FT) Book review: Boo hoo When Boo.com went into liquidation on May 17 last year, barely six months after its launch, the question was not why the global online fashion retailer had closed. Rather, it was why investors had allowed the company to burn through $100m before it did so. (FT)