Social Network professional, Xing boosts Marketplace, his job area opened in May 2007. Under a pilot phase, a new rating system is being tested by 10,000 users selected, Xing said in a press release of 1 September 2008. Continue reading »
On the Mozilla Foundation and the search giant Google have extended their partnership, which now expires in November 2011. Through this agreement, Mozilla place Google as default search engine on its Firefox browser, and a dedicated homepage. In return, Google reverse the foundation a portion of revenues generated by the traffic search from the browser. Continue reading »
ARCEP has unveiled its forecast figures on the share of Internet connections to high speed in the second quarter of 2008. On June 30, 2008, ARCEP has counted 16.7 million broadband subscribers against 14.1 over the same period last year. Among these great surfers, 15875 million subscribe to an ADSL subscription. This represents an increase of 2.8% (or 450000 new subscribers) compared to the previous quarter. Bids unbundled are the most subscribed market with an increase of 198 000 new opening lines. Since the coverage area of unbundling extends more and more, these offers now represent more than half of access high-speed DSL in France (4.2 million). Continue reading »
It remembers the fiasco that has surrounded the use of machines to vote in the presidential election in 2007. Aware of issues, the Forum of rights on the Internet (FDI) has released its recommendation “electronic voting and modernization of the electoral process.” Until the advent of online voting and distance for major elections, this recommendation concerns only the voting machines. Continue reading »
To allow greater access to its content, YouTube has introduced a new feature that allows users to add subtitles to their videos. Available from your user account, this option also works for clips already online. In the navigation bar at the top right, choose My Account> My Videos. After selecting the video that you want to add subtitles, click on Edit and then go to the tab Subtitles. Continue reading »
Returned digital for all? The Regional Council of Aquitaine wants to equip students whose families can not afford buying a computer, lack of resources. To this end, the region has purchased 300 laptops, software and security. These PCs will be loaned to students with the most “disadvantaged” and motivated by 14 high schools participating in the pilot phase launched in May. Continue reading »
On the institute Gartner study estimates that global spending in the field of information technology (IT) could represent 3.4 trillion (10 ^ 12) $ in 2008. An increase of 8% compared to 2007, which analysts attributed in part to the fall of the dollar, but also in emerging countries, renewal of infrastructure and development solutions “on demand”. In currency growth of IT spending amounts to 4.5%. Continue reading »
Barely one year after launching the beta Mash, Yahoo! closes his ex-new community service. Given the failure of Yahoo! 360 and the growing success of precursors such as Myspace, Yahoo! Mash had to be a response weight by offering users a personalized profile that can decorate various modules, similar to Facebook applications. Today, testers invited to the beta received an email teaching them that Mash will close on September 29 next. Continue reading »
Media consumption in France is progressing and the Internet is not to be outdone. While 28% of people aged 13 years and more were in contact with the Internet in January-February 2006, this proportion rose to 41% the same period in 2008, according to the study “Media in Life” made public Mediametrie on Wednesday.
Anyway, the Web is still dominated by its elders: television, radio and press. Continue reading »
Internet Explorer 8 will see the day in 2008, recently confirmed Bill Veghte, vice president in charge of the Windows division at Microsoft whose remarks were reported by journalist Mary-Jo Foley. So far, the publisher had always shown relatively vague about the date of the forthcoming version of its Web naviagteur, which is currently the most widely used in the world, despite the continued progress made by his great competitor Firefox, which now holds 30% market share in Europe. Continue reading »