This is one of the findings that emerge in the hollow of the voluminous report released on Sunday 23 January, the High Authority for the dissemination of works and the protection of rights on the Internet (Hadopi) on patterns of content consumption Cultural Online: punish illegal downloading will only go through the monitoring of peer-to-Peer (P2P).According to the poll conducted for the Hadopi before the introduction of "flexible response", in France there are almost as many Internet users illegally downloading via Rapidshare or Megaupload (37% of respondents claiming to download illegally) than to P2P users (42% of the sample). Other figures seem to confirm this trend.
This is the first time that Facebook is expressed on the subject: in an article in The Atlantic magazine, Joe Sullivan, the head of security of Facebook, explains how his team tried to fight against "Anmar," the system Web censorship in place in Tunisia's Ben Ali government. Alerted to Christmas on growing complaints of sudden disappearances and Facebook pages, Joe Sullivan explains that Facebook has investigated for ten days, before concluding that the government had put in place a comprehensive flight of passwords of accounts Tunisian users social network.
CANNES - Foursquare What is the service more "trendy" at the time no doubt. It is to confirm the current rating of the company founded by Naveen Selvadurai and Dennis Crowley, according to Bloomberg, worth more than $ 250 million. Selvadurai We met in Cannes at the Midem, where the co-founder of Foursquare has also announced that the geolocation service, which has already forged partnerships with several companies such as Pepsi Co, Zagat, Starbucks, Safeways, obtaining his first earnings probably would be a new round of funding by the end of the year, but is not interested in an IPO.
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The actors of e-commerce in France have a smile. According to the study published Monday, January 24, the Federation of e-commerce and distance selling (Fevad), French Internet users spent $ 31 billion online in 2010. An increase of 24% in one year. Most importantly, no loss of power is considered in the coming months.
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, met the leader of the Egyptian telecom operator Orascom, which co-manages the mobile network launched in late 2008 in this country, said, Monday, January 24, official media of Pyongyang. Naguib Sawiris's visit takes place "at a time when investment Orascom progressing successfully in several areas in North Korea, including in telecommunications," said the North Korean agency KCNA.