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“Harvard releases innovative P2P video software” these titles abound at the moment, concerning Tribler, the p2p file sharing client…
A news release issued by Harvard University last week, was distilled by the New Scientist, and produced the title: Bandwidth could be a new global ‘currency’. Tasty little soundbite and prime candidate for a few front […]

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FlashEarth, the marvelous mashup of online mapping services by Paul Neave from the UK, has broken into new territory, thanks to Valery Hrosunov and Barry Hunter.
“What if the current view in Google Earth was quickly viewable in other maps, such as those made accessible by FlashEarth? Well, now it is. As you […]

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“Deezer is the first juke box on demand totally free in the world!” that’s according to Deezer.
Brief recap: BlogMusik - French mp3 streaming site - is closed down by SACEM (equivalent to ASCAP or BMI in the US, or SOCAN in Canada). BlogMusik sheds skin, becomes Deezer. Deezer signs a deal with almighty SACEM (first […]

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35 open-air sites and 70 municipal buildings in Paris and the ‘Ile de France‘ region are now set to offer free, unlimited, wi-fi access to the Internet. These 105 sites are equipped with 160 hotspots and a further 155 public emplacements are scheduled for September, this will take the number of hotspots to around 400.

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Yesterday Freebox, the sister company to Free - a rapidly growing broadband ISP operator in France - launched an IPTV User Generated Content service. With TV Perso Free subscribers equipped with a Freebox HD are the ‘first people in the world’ to be able to create their own television channel that can be viewed directly […]

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As the French go to the polls today for the first round of the Presidential elections, certain French bloggeurs are preparing to step out side of the law by publishing the names of both candidates through to the second round on the 6th of May, before 8:00 pm in France when the early exit polls […]

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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 code of their web portal - available for download here.

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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. can be processed on line using Panda software without calling on you computer’s resources, this […]

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