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Nokia’s New Chief Faces Culture of Complacency - 27 septembre 2010
A few years before Apple introduced the iPhone, research engineers at Nokia prepared a prototype of an Internet-ready, touch-screen handset with a large display, which they thought could give the company a powerful advantage in the fast-growing smartphone market.
The prototype was demonstrated to business (...)
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Google reste sur l’iPhone, malgré la guerre ouverte avec Apple - 25 septembre 2010
Bien que concurrents, Google et Apple n’oublient pas leurs relations économiques. Lors d’un entretien accordé à Business Week, le directeur général de la firme de Mountain View a indiqué que l’accord avec Apple dans le domaine de la recherche mobile a été renouvelé. Un accord qui coûte 100 millions de dollars par an à (...)
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Yahoo CEO says no interest in Alibaba stake sale - 17 septembre 2010
That is what Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) Chief Executive Carol Bartz tells the founder of Alibaba Group whenever he asks if he can buy back Yahoo’s 39 percent stake in the Chinese Internet company.
Alibaba "constantly" approaches Yahoo about repurchasing its stake, Bartz told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on (...)
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Yahoo prédit l’effondrement de la régie publicitaire d’Apple - 17 septembre 2010
Lors d’un entretien avec Reuters, la directrice de Yahoo a exprimé de sérieuses réserves sur la stratégie d’Apple dans la publicité mobile. Selon elle, le modèle fermé d’iAd risque de susciter la défiance des annonceurs.
Au printemps dernier, Apple annonçait la quatrième version de son système d’exploitation mobile iOS. À (...)
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Google’s Chief on Social, Mobile and Conflict - 17 septembre 2010
Lately, stories about Google often seem to be stories about conflict "” Google knocking heads with China or the Justice Department or Facebook.
For Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, that is a good sign. "This is winning," he said this week, speaking to a group of reporters at Google’s Zeitgeist conference (...)
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BlackBerry Gets Squeezed by Rivals - 17 septembre 2010
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. posted a surge in quarterly profit and revenue, though it added fewer new subscribers than it had expected amid intensifying competition in the U.S.
RIM said it shipped 12.1 million devices to wireless carriers and stores in its fiscal second quarter, up 45% from a year (...)
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Musique : Google prépare la grande offensive - 17 septembre 2010
La bataille qui s’annonce entre Google et Apple promet d’être sanglante. Cet été, les rumeurs allaient bon train : la firme de Mountain View serait en discussion avec des maisons de disque, pour concocter un service à disposition, entre autres, des smartphones Android. Une initiative visant clairement à contrer Apple et (...)
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L’ascension éclair de HTC, le petit taïwanais devenu l’un des plus grands fabricants mondiaux de mobiles - 17 septembre 2010
Londres, mercredi 15 septembre, dans l’un des bâtiments historiques de la City londonienne : Peter Chou, le PDG de HTC, jean troué - griffé Diesel, précise un communicant -, présente deux nouveaux téléphones du groupe taïwanais, le Desire HD et le Desire Z, à des centaines de journalistes européens.
La société. HTC - qui (...)
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Apple opens App Store to programs written in Adobe Flash "“ and more - 13 septembre 2010
Flash developers stand to benefit as app review guidelines are also published "“ but Apple will do well as more apps can be developed for iPhone and iPad
Apple is opening up its iTunes App Store "“ from which people can download apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch "“ so that developers can write programs for it (...)
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Germany Plans Limits on Facebook Use in Hiring - 26 août 2010
As part of the draft of a law governing workplace privacy, the German government on Wednesday proposed placing restrictions on employers who want to use Facebook profiles when recruiting.
The bill would allow managers to search for publicly accessible information about prospective employees on the Web and to view (...)
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Apple Said to Seek Show-Rental Deal - 25 août 2010
Apple, which is widely expected to announce a revamped product for television sets next month, is pressing the television networks to rent their TV series through its iTunes service for as little as 99 cents an episode.
The News Corporation, parent of the Fox network, and the Walt Disney Company, parent of ABC, (...)
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La neutralité du net à l’épreuve des nouveaux forfaits d’Universal Mobile - 19 août 2010
À mesure que l’Internet mobile se développe, la question de la neutralité des réseaux dans ce domaine se fait plus pressante. Il y a quelques mois, lors du colloque sur la neutralité du net, un consensus s’était fait jour sur les situations différentes entre Internet fixe et mobile. Pendant ce temps, les opérateurs mobiles (...)
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Facebook Places location tool unveiled, sparking fresh privacy concerns - 19 août 2010
Facebook Places, which will launch in the US only at first, will allow users to ’check in’ at a location
Facebook risks an inevitable privacy backlash today when it launches a feature that shares information on the location of users with their online friends, despite devising a range of controls that require users (...)
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Wired Declares The Web Is Dead"”Don’t Pull Out The Coffin Just Yet - 19 août 2010
The Web is dead, or at least in decline, declares Wired editor Chris Anderson in the magazine’s September cover story. The article is anchored by the startling infographic above, which shows the proportion of different types of traffic on the Internet. The Web, HTML traffic visible though a browser, is only about a (...)
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Google shows off in-browser gaming - 18 août 2010
Google has showcased Chrome’s in-browser gaming capabilities at a technology event in Cologne
Google has been showing off the new app store for Google Chrome, which brings video games to the computer browser.
Mark DeLoura, a game developer advocate at Google, and Michel Mahemoff, a senior figure in the Chrome (...)
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Millennial Media : Android OS Grew By 47 Percent In July, iPad Requests Up 327 Percent - 18 août 2010
Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly mobile mix report today. According to Nielsen, Millennial’s ads reach 63 million of a total of 77 million mobile web users in the U.S., or 81% of the U.S. mobile web. In July, Android OS grew at a faster clip than in June, with requests increasing by 47 (...)
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Google and the Search for the Future - 18 août 2010
The Web icon’s CEO on the mobile computing revolution, the future of newspapers, and privacy in the digital age.
To some, Google has been looking a bit sallow lately. The stock is down. Where once everything seemed to go the company’s way, along came Apple’s iPhone, launching a new wave of Web growth on a platform (...)
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How a business grew out of a failed social-media app - 9 août 2010
In early 2009, Foursquare’s chief executive sashayed out of South by Southwest with 2,500 users and enough chatter to launch a rocket. Social Bomb’s founders, meanwhile, left deflated after the launch of their product, Paparazzi — another mobile location app, with a photo-sharing tool — which delivered on the promise (...)
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Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers - 6 août 2010
WASHINGTON "” Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.
The charges could be paid by companies, like YouTube, (...)
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Le joli coup tactique des Emirats sur les téléphones BlackBerry - 5 août 2010
La décision de pays du Golfe de mettre le téléphone BlackBerry au ban a toutes les allures d’un coup stratégique. Faute d’assouplissement dans le système de cryptage du téléphone de la société canadienne RIM, l’Arabie saoudite va suspendre des services du BlackBerry dès vendredi 6 août. Les Emirats arabes unis, eux, ont (...)
