Coupures de Presse [ le 31 janvier 2003 ]

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Musique Sony et Universal Music refusent-ils d'ouvrir leurs catalogues au site de Virgin? Virginmega.fr, le site de distribution numérique des magasins Virgin, s'impatiente auprès des maisons de disques Sony et Universal sur l'ouverture de leur catalogue musical. Universal fait une mise au point. Par Jérôme Thorel pour ZDNet.

Press clippings [ January 31, 2003 ]

Featured Articles : www.netsurf.ch Good Grief Messenger Pop-up Spam makes us sick In recent days, pop-up spam has begun appearing, by way of Windows Messenger, on the home computer of a Register staffer. Mostly, the messages promote porn sites. How to prevent this assault? Microsoft's advice to personal user is to use a firewall to block NetBIOS and RPC traffic. MSN Instant Messenger is not affected. (The Register) Sneaky Toolbar Hijacks Browsers Internet users are mystified by a tricky browser add-on that installs itself without permission and defies attempts to remove it. Some are calling the program the most insidious thing on the Web. (Wired) Net Study The Net is cutting into TV time, study finds Internet users watched about 4.8 fewer hours of television each week than non-users. And the decline in TV viewing hours grows more dramatic as Internet users gain experience. Internet veterans watch about 5.8 fewer hours of TV than non-users. The UCLA survey found that 70 percent of Americans now go online, spending an average of 11.1 hours a week -- up from 9.8 hours a year ago -- checking e-mail, reading news and doing research for work or school. (SiliconValley.com) The power of computing State Department Link Will Open Visa Database to Police Officers Law enforcement officials will soon have access to a database of 50 million overseas applications for U.S. visas, including the photographs of 20 million applicants. (NY Times) Telephony NTT links mobile videophones with PCs Japan's biggest telecoms company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT), is to launch a videophone platform that connects 3G phones and PCs. The telecoms group claimed the development of such a platform to international standards was a world's first. (The Register) The Lord of the Web Tim Berners-Lee’s next big idea Tim Berners-Lee’s next big idea. Tim Berners-Lee could well be the J.R.R. Tolkien of the computer world. Tolkien, a philologist and author of “The Lord of the Rings,” created a fantasy world in which characters used languages he invented. Berners-Lee is the inventor who gave us the World Wide Web, a system built on “languages” largely created by Berners-Lee. He’s now working on a sequel, called the Semantic Web. (MSNBC) Very, very embarrassing Norway MP in war game gaffe Norwegian member of parliament has apologised for playing war games on his pocket computer while colleagues debated the possibility of real war in Iraq. Mr Helleland played the game for about seven minutes in full view of TV cameras which had zoomed on him from behind. (BBC)