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Aiming to make ‘Paris the most connected city in the world’ Bertrand Delanoë has presented plans to install 400 free Wi-Fi hotspots by the end of 2007. As part of the ‘Paris digital city’ project along with the development of a fibre optic network, the Mayor of Paris is hoping to give “…Parisians a rapid […]

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Two Swedes in the Net news.
Twingly pulls in blog RSS feeds from all over the world, showing them accumulate in pillars on a rotating 3D globe. Post titles scroll by; click on any title to display the post and have the globe flip to the blog’s physical location.
Hackzine calls it “Fun eye candy for a […]

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First Europe - next the world. Skype Pro, the latest offer from the popular VOIP & co. and another bang on the ear for traditional phone companies, was launched on Wednesday and is now available in 15 European countries. For 2 euros per month Skype Pro allows free (excluding the small connection fee) unlimited domestic […]

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Sock-puppets wont be waring shades in Europe this year – the future’s not bright. ‘Sock-puppet’ reviews or websites – in case you didn’t know (I didn’t) – are fake blog entries or whole web sites purporting to be created by customers that are in fact, made and maintained by businesses to tout their wares. A […]

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The redemption of P2P file sharing made headway in some parts of Europe recently. In a similar decision to the one made in a Spanish courtroom last year, the Italian Appeal Courts overturned an earlier conviction against two Turin students, stating that - the downloading of copyrighted material for non lucrative purposes, is not illegal.
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I wrote about the EasyGate ‘box’ last September,(picked up by Slashdot - link) I suppose you could call it a follow up to the French Minitel, designed for Internet access and not much else really. But then, with the whole concept of Web based operating systems taking off, online storage for free etc. what […]

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Picture the scene - Jean Michel Billaut, recently promoted ‘Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur’ by President Chirac for the promotion of the Internet in France, walks buff naked into the Socialist Party conference rooms to be greeted by right-wing fanatics throwing hand grenades. Showing remarkable ’sang foid’, Monsieur Billaut calmly made his way into […]

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With less than 100 days to go to the first round of the French Presidential elections, France2 along with Google Vidéo France has opened a website elections.france2.fr dedicated to the campaign. Along with a selection of the main stories from the biggest public daily news channel here in France, the site will also […]

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