Posts Tagged ‘France’

The naked Europeana

Europeana err…how’s it described again, the ‘Google Books Competitor’ the ‘digital library of European literature, art, history, and culture’ etc. anyway it hit the ground running head first today on it’s official launch date.
But then again we shouldn’t worry, in fact it’s been a poor victim of it’s own (sic)success (?) if you read some [...]

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El Grid : from the people who brought you the Internet – coming soon!

For those of us who seldom show interest in Proton collisions at this time of the year, the coming red-button day at the CERN might have escaped our attention. The fact that a circular tunnel 27 kilometres long under the Swiss / French border will be used this summer to recreate Big Bang conditions pulling [...]

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More Lucre for French Search engine

Quaero – ring any bells? In a word it’s the former European Google-Killer turned Gallic pied de nez (cock-a-snook). There are those that have said it’s more like a bottomless money-pit which will never amount to much. There are also those that are willing to throw money into it like there is no [...]

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Fibre optic in Paris for 1 € per month!

Homes in Paris are to be fitted out with fibre optic relayed Internet connections that will cost 1 € (1,19 with tax) a month for each household connected. This has got to be the cheapest deal in Europe at the moment, no?
It’s part & parcel of the “crossing the digital divide…we want to [...]

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Free and legal music downloads saga continues…

With shake-ups and shake-downs fast becoming monnaie courante in the online music world, music discovery service Last.fm have shook a leg once again:
launching its on-demand service in the US, UK and Germany immediately, [Last.fm] plans to roll it out globally over the coming months…’the world’s biggest free music service‘.
The service allows anyone to tap [...]

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