Coupures de Presse [ le 22 octobre, 2002 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

WiFi Le Wi-Fi au coeur d'un procès entre fabricants de semi-conducteurs Agere Systems, spécialiste de la puce Wi-Fi, veut conduire au tribunal la société Intersil, estimant qu'elle utilise illégalement ses brevets. Une querelle autour de la norme sans fil remettant en question la pertinence de tels brevets. (ZDNet)

Press clippings [ October 22 2002 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Snipper Speculation Who Is the Sniper? Blogs Tell All A dearth of hard evidence about the mysterious D.C. shooter has sparked a mad rush to the Internet, where blogs are bursting with speculation about the assassin's identity. Conspiracy theories have long been an Internet staple. But a dearth of evidence about the sniper -- and the phenomenal explosion of blogs -- have brought online speculation to a screeching crescendo. (Wired) Press ONA Panel Warns Not to Charge for General News Newspapers that charge for online access will fail to generate sufficient revenues or subscribership, a panel at this weekend's Online News Association annual meeting in New York City concluded. Panelist Peter Krasilovsky of Borrell & Associates, which surveyed 15 U.S. newspapers that charge readers for online access, reported that "none are getting a premium return on their investment" and are instead generating a mere 1.4% to 1.8% return. (Poynter.org) Good Technology Telemedicine lifeline for villages Rural doctors in Bangladesh are to be connected to the internet in an attempt to help them provide better care for the sick. A private company called Bangladesh Telemedicine Services (BTS) has come up with an ambitious project to set up telemedicine centres to help doctors identify diseases early on. The centres will be linked to a network of 200 specialists in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, who will be on hand to offer their expert opinion. (BBC) Dilbert Dilbert's a weasel and so are you The dot-com bubble was tough for cartoonist Scott Adams. But now that things suck again, it's boom time once more for disillusioned cubicle droids. We're all a bunch of weasels, says cartoonist Scott Adams in his new book "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel." Those corporate bad boys like Enron CFO Andrew Fastow are just the top of the weasel pyramid, having perfected the slippery backstabbing that all of us exhibit in our smaller-scale, sniveling, pathetic ways. (Salon.com)