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Mozambique has decided to grant for its ten-year strategy on science, technology and innovation: the highest priority to the development of community multimedia centers throughout the country. In Mozambique, the population has only a small number of access points to ICTs. The situation is that of equipment under this plan there. The fact is that sites in the Associated Schools Network, the documentary digital provincial centers and community multimedia centers offer access points to a small number of people. Continue reading »

Wireless Island is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide wireless Internet access free public users of mobile phones and PDAs through the city of Montreal in Canada. Users can use the Internet in some places called points accèsexternal link, provided they have at their disposal a laptop equipped with a WiFi card. The group works with cafes, shops and organizations to make the Internet available free in public places. Continue reading »

The territory of Quimper Community has adopted the project to develop a network at high speed. The goal is to offer everyone and the same price, which lies on a rural or urban, a powerful liaison to the Internet. It involves the construction of a network open to all telecommunications operators. Continue reading »

In the Monde on May 24, 2006, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, gives an optimistic vision of the digital divide in the coming years in developing countries. It starts from the observation that for centuries, access to information was restricted to an elite. Today, it is becoming more democratic through the Internet. Just type a few keywords on a search engine to obtain information. Within a few years, Internet has grown from a marginal phenomenon to a media “inevitable” in the heart of our existence. It is the communications technology that has most changed our lives since the invention of television. Continue reading »

A report published by Euro stat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, presents the results of surveys on Internet access and broadband connections to households and businesses, as well as Internet usage by individuals, In the European Union of 25 Member States (EU25). The report also covers electronic commerce. This study indicates that 48% of households in the European Union (EU25) had access to the Internet in the first quarter of 2005 and 23% had a broadband connection. Continue reading »

The Linux kernel developers have created this week a mailing list dedicated to its vulnerabilities. When a community member detect a flaw in the Linux source code, it may do so in this space.So far, this type of information was lost in the mass e-mails sent by developers to the team in charge of the nucleus.”We want this process is as open as possible,” said Chris Wright, developer of the kernel within the consortium OSDL (Open Source Development Labs). Continue reading »

The operating system Mac OS X 10.4 is released in two versions: client and server. The United States, which wants to strengthen its position in enterprise servers, claims that his product can easily be deployed in a networked environment Windows. Apple markets, Friday, April 29, its operating system Mac OS X 10.4, better known as code-named Tiger. With this new version, the firm apple displays the ambition to expand its sphere of constituencies to attack the server market in business. Mac OS X Server 10.4 is available at the same time that his client version. Continue reading »

Obviously inspired by the web community, Microsoft expands free access of millions of students and schoolchildren to its design tools and development under the programme DreamSpark. Through this initiative, the Redmond company wishes to contribute to “the exaltation of the imagination - and careers - students, developers and designers.”isual Studio 2005 and 2008 Professional Edition, XNA Game Studio 2.0, Expression Studio (Web, Blend, Design, Media), platforms SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows Server Standard Edition are among the tools available for free downloading to students. Continue reading »

Fragile balance between targeted information and confidentiality for Facebook. In addition to chat and video that should make their appearance on the platform in the coming weeks, the social network Facebook has to have a system for checking the privacy of its members. Announced yesterday in a press release, this new tool to create, according to his interlocutors, different degrees of confidentiality.Users can configure and disseminate information according to predefined groups, for example by creating one for their colleagues and another for their families. Continue reading »

To ensure that the hopes raised by electronic commerce becomes reality, there must be national and international rules governing commercial activity, sometimes undergo significant adjustments imposed by the materializations of trade, increased permeability of borders, rapid lévolution and unpredictable technology.These prospects have been well received by the USA, intending to make the fullest possible for their economies and have, accordingly, erected a major priority negotiating international rules that govern electronic commerce. Continue reading »