Monthly Archives: March 2007

EU clippings

Posted by coulson on March 29, 2007 None comments

A British report made public recently shows a clear need for concern over Internet security issues in the UK, while another report seems to give credibility to the bloggers shouting ‘timber’ in the debate – digital publishing versus dead wood. …

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Europeana is – European it ain’t

Posted by coulson on March 24, 2007 1 comments

This week at the Paris ‘Salon du Livre’ book trade show, Jacques Chirac finally inaugurated Europeana, a prototype of the French effort towards the long time coming, European Digital Library (ELD).

FireFox Rising

Posted by coulson on March 22, 2007 2 comments

FireFox’s progression marches steadily on in the Euopean ‘Browser wars‘. The open source underdog has been chewing out lumps of the market from under IE7′s feet for a while and it looks set to continue. A survey carried out between …

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POSH home page – open source NetVibes-like

Posted by coulson on March 19, 2007 4 comments

Portaneo, another Parisian web company offering Ajaxified start-page packages akin to NetVibes & Webwags, have just taken a boulevard perhaps less travelled but in the long run one that could prove to be more interesting, by giving away the source …

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Panda pulls a quick one – AV scan online

Posted by coulson on March 15, 2007 None comments

The Spanish software company Panda has just released NanoScan, a free anti-virus online scan. The prototype (beta) represents a new twist in virus and spyware protection. First a small driver – 200K is downloaded then all tests, emulations, sandboxing etc. …

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France24 big in Japan

Posted by coulson on March 12, 2007 None comments

France24 – the round the clock TV & Internet news network touted as the “French CNN” – online since December has released figures claiming 3 million visits were made to their website during the last 3 weeks of 2006. Announcing …

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French presidential campaign – a Blast

Posted by coulson on March 6, 2007 None comments

There are many feed remixing solutions out of private beta these days and judging from the blog coverage, Blastfeed solutions with the best of them. Which is not bad to say that 2or3things are a three-man Parisian start-up, 8 months …

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