Coupures de Presse [ le 23 décembre 2002 ]

Articles à la "Une" : www.netsurf.ch

Canada Un site québécois vend du cannabis en ligne À la suite d'un jugement de la Cour supérieure du Québec qui établit qu'il est inconstitutionnel de refuser à certains patients l'accès au cannabis à des fins thérapeutiques, le Club Compassion de Montréal lance un site Web dans lequel les membres peuvent commander et se faire livrer à domicile du cannabis. (Branchez-Vous)

Press clippings [ December 23 2002 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch «Kick Through» feature Pop-ups add new twist Some pop-up advertisements will include a new feature — called the "kick through" — that can direct someone to another Web site by a simple move of the cursor across the ad--no clicking necessary. (News.com) Google The World According to Google Google's stats are impressive - versions in 87 languages, 150 million searches a day, fourth most visited Web site - as is the fact that the company is profitable and private. Best of all is the notion that Google may just have opened the Internet up for all of us, allowing us to surf easily on top of the ocean of Web info that inflated so rapidly that it might have overwhelmed less scalable and robust search tools. While it's true that huge bodies of knowledge remain locked away behind subscription barriers and that unsophisticated searchers often misjudge the significance of search results, no one can deny that making the Web manageable and useful is an enormous boon. MSNBC has a searching piece about the phenomenon that is Google. (Netsurfer Digest) WiFi A Double Dose Of Wi-Fi The name Wi-Fi are two types of networking technology: one technically known as IEEE 802.11b, the other as 802.11a. The difference between them is in the frequency range they use. Wi-Fi uses the unlicensed 2.4 Gigahertz range, which is the same range that many cordless phones use. 802.11a uses frequencies in the 5 GHz range. (Forbes) WiFi's Widening World WiFi has been the buzz this holiday season, and this trend in computer fashion makes a lot of sense. (The Washington Post). Be Careful Out There E-card virus warning for Christmas Thousands of European companies fall prey to viruses every month, and this figure is rising as more employees send Christmas cards through cyberspace. A new virus called Yaha was identified by London-based watchdog Message Labs on December 13. Meanwhile new versions of the existing Trojan, Bride B and Happy 99 viruses are also spreading in the Christmas boom. (CNN) Gaming World ‘I’d like to thank my texture painter’ The National Network, a unit of the MTV Networks division of Viacom Inc. said Thursday it will develop, produce and air an award show for the video game industry to be shown toward the end of 2003. No venue for the show was announced. The network said the two-hour show will honor categories like “Hottest Hero and Heroine,” “Most Addictive,” “Coolest Villain,” “Best Game based on a Movie,” “Best Celebrity Actor and Actress in a Game” and “Game of the Year.” (MSNBC) Weblog World It Ain't Venture Capital — Steve Outing on weblogs Andrew Sullivan is arguably the most prominent weblogger in the land. He's popular enough to have raised about $80,000 in a one-week "pledge drive" to solicit reader contributions to sustain his blog. As Sullivan writes in his blog today, "It's not exactly venture-capitalism but it's a great start. We've proved, I think, that the Web has the potential to deliver truly independent, reader-supported journalism." (Poynter.org)