« Industry support is growing behind Mozilla’s plans to launch a new fully open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5. The operating system, which Mozilla today confirmed will use its Firefox brand, will power the launch of smartphones built entirely to open Web standards, where all of the device’s capabilities can be developed as HTML5 applications ». (via Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS | The Mozilla Blog)
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Evansville – The SWAT team attempted to execute a search warrant on an anonymous Internet user, but destroyed the home of an innocent grandmother instead.
The SWAT team in Evansville, Indiana, dressed in full protective gear, wanted to make an example of an anonymous Internet user who made malicious remarks and threats against the police in Evansville.
On tracing the IP address involved, members of the Midwest town’s SWAT team plotted their raid on the alleged home of the person behind the malicious remarks, posted on an Internet forum.
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« Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations choked on the “leap second” that was added to the world’s atomic clocks ». (via ‘Leap Second’ Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com)
Le retard français en matière d’Internet dû à la volonté de protéger le Minitel aurait-il été effacé si vite en l’absence de la concurrence de Free ? La France aurait-elle été pionnière en matière de box et de triple play sans l’irruption d‘“un entrepreneur ingénieux qui a fait preuve d’une réactivité peu commune” ? Les trois opérateurs auraient-ils été si lourdement condamnés pour entente en 2005 si le marché avait été efficient ?
Either way, Apple’s latest IP acquisition offers yet one more paradox of the sometimes-weird world of technology: Protecting our identities, it says, may be as simple as replicating them.
Le phénomène de globalisation entraine aujourd’hui deux types de tentations : l’ouverture ou la fermeture. Et ces tentations ont lieu partout dans le monde « développé » au même moment. On veut réfléchir à cette question sous différents angles car elle nous semble cruciale.
A man who hacked the email accounts of celebrities should pay movie star Scarlett Johansson $66,179.46 in compensation, federal prosecutors said. The hacker also should serve 71 months in prison and pay a total of $150,000 in compensation to all his victims, prosecutors said in court papers filed this week.
Pour la première fois aux États-Unis, les revenus générés par la vente d’e-books est supérieur à celui généré par les ventes papier. En France, il reste du chemin à parcourir…