Mubarak condemned for having suspended the Internet in January

Former President Hosni Mubarak and two other former Egyptian officials have been convicted, Saturday, May 28, a fine of 540 million Egyptian pounds (63.5 million euros) for having suspended the Internet and the mobile phone during demonstrations in January. The administrative court in Cairo sentenced Mr.

Mubarak to a fine of 200 million pounds, the former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif to 40 million pounds and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to 300 million pounds for injury to the national economy, a judicial source said. The three men can appeal. This is the first ruling against Mr.

Download: Germany is considering a graduated response system

Bernd Neumann, German Minister of Culture, announced consider putting in place a system of graduated response, similar to that established by the Hadopi in France, to fight against illegal downloading. Speaking at a convention of the CDU (conservatives), the Minister said that Internet providers should "take responsibility" and he expressed support for the establishment of a system warning prior to legal sanction.

Match.com is about to launch a takeover bid for Meetic

USA site internet dating match. com (IAC) will launch a takeover bid for its French counterpart Meetic, the price of 15 euros per share, with the support of the founder, who will bring the majority of its shares. The proposed price values the French group in its entirety to 345 million euros and represents a premium of 11.6% over the closing price of the share Meetic Friday at the Paris Bourse.

LA Noire, in the shadow of GTA

Sex cases, murder or drug trafficking in the City of Angels in the late 1940's ... Console XBox 360 and Playstation 3, LA Noire waives all the tricks of the thriller. With the history of Cole Phelps, a former soldier turned police detective in Los Angeles, Rockstar Games, best known for his series Grand Theft Auto (GTA), intends to revisit the novel black and offer a unique game mechanics.

Team Bondi, the Australian studio that designed the game to Rockstar, did not want to emulate the proven mechanical set of famous gangsters. Opting for greater screenwriting adventure, LA Noire was first removed from the completely open world of GTA. And while Grand Theft Auto places a high priority for action, the new title from Rockstar concentrates most of its game mechanics on the investigation and interrogation.

Television stations will no longer include their Facebook pages

Refer viewers to the Facebook page of France 2 and TF1 smacks of surreptitious advertising for social networking. The High Council of Audiovisual (CSA) held on Saturday that "the return of viewers and listeners to the show's page on social networking without mentioning this is informative, while the reference to these pages by naming the relevant social networks is an advertising character.

" These references are surreptitious advertising for Facebook, Twitter, slice the audiovisual watchdog. Seized by a chain which does not reveal the name, the CSA does not prohibit chains about Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The decision is limited to references to the pages or channels or accounts of their broadcasts on social networks.

If the power does not listen to the people of the Internet

You can organize a "historic event" on the Internet without the "people" of the Internet? You can enhance the role of the Internet to make possible the democratic changes and then be silent or reticent on effective protection of fundamental rights on the network? You can define the Internet a "common good" and then say the opposite, his submission to the logic of private property? Yes you can, as it may seem paradoxical or contradictory.

Lockheed Martin suffered a virus attack

The defense group Lockheed Martin announced Saturday it had been a "significant" attacks against its computer system on May 21, he claims to have rejected. "With the measures taken timely and appropriate to protect the network and to improve computer security, our systems remain secure," said Lockheed Martin in a statement, which states that "no personal information of customers or staff were affected ".