Coupures de Presse [ le 2 novembre ]

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Google Nouveaux formats indexés par Google En plus de ses 22 millions de fichiers PDF, Google vient d'annoncer qu'il indexait dorénavant les fichiers Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), Powerpoint (.ppt), Rich Text Format (.RTF) et PostScript (.ps). (Abondance) Allemagne Les Allemands inventent la redevance pour PC Tollé en Allemagne contre l'introduction des ordinateurs reliés à Internet dans le calcul de la redevance télé.  (01.net)

Press clippings [ November 2, 2001 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Virus Computer virus hits hospitals Computer systems in hospitals across Northern Ireland have been hit by a virus. An investigation has been launched to see how the computer virus got into the system and where it came from. (Ananova)

DOJ vs Microsoft Microsoft competitors angered over DOJ deal The US Justice Department and Microsoft have agreed to the outline of a settlement in their landmark antitrust battle. Microsoft competitors, however, have accused the US Justice Department of "selling out".  (FT) A chronology of the Microsoft antitrust case Here are key dates in the antitrust case against Microsoft Corporation. (CNN)

Domain Names Dot-Kids, or Dot-Kids R US? A bill in Congress seeks to establish a dot-kids domain, since ICANN won't do it. An amendment to the bill would make it dot-kids.us.  (Wired) North Korea First email link for North Korea A Chinese-based company is offering the first commercial email link to North Korea, a country that has previous shut out the internet. The service is at present restricted to people who want to contact North Korean businesses, government agencies or official organisations but it marks a turning point in the world's last Stalinist regime's attitude to electronic communications. (The Guardian)

Cellephony The next digital battle: Ring tones The same forces that took on file-swapping companies Napster and MP3.com are quietly setting their sights on what some regard as the next digital copyright battle: selling ring tones for cell phones. (MSNBC)

Daily Telegraph Dotcom Telegraph folds into main paper The technology supplement of the Daily Telegraph will be folded into the main paper after its last publication next Thursday, November 8. (The Register)

Loch Ness Armchair Nessie-watchers can view moving  underwater webcam Images from the first moving underwater Loch Ness webcam have started broadcasting. The underwater webcam - the first not fixed to one spot - begins broadcasting at 9pm. (Ananova)