Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a downgrade that is freighted with symbolic significance but carries few clear financial implications.

La ville de Séoul a annoncé le 20 juillet qu’elle mettrait en place une section réservée aux femmes sur la ligne 2 du métro à partir de septembre. Si cette expérience remporte l’adhésion des citoyens, la ville élargira le projet.

Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn will replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in three years to cut rising labor expenses and improve efficiency, said Terry Gou, founder and chairman of the company

The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers and other devices using those wireless networks and then made the data publicly available through Google.com until a few weeks ago.

Delivering his keynote address at this week’s annual CA Expo in Sydney, former Google CIO Douglas C Merrill added to the growing belief that punishing and demonizing file-sharers is a bad idea. Merrill, who after his Google stint joined EMI records, revealed that his profiling research at the label found that LimeWire pirates were iTunes’ biggest customers.

Serveurs basés en Europe alimentés de Madagascar, connexions au site Tripadvisor avec une clé 3G ou depuis un cybercafé pour brouiller l’identification de l’ordinateur utilisé… Tous les moyens sont bons pour ces sociétés étrangères et françaises qui alimentent en faux avis les sites Internet de leurs clients. Une stratégie de com’ illégale, discrète et très rentable.

Now distribution is going mainstream with the App Store. And it’s already begun changing the lives and businesses of independent software developers. On the surface, it all looks good. There are more customers, increased revenues, and many great new products. But this expanded distribution is also putting our business at risk: there are people in this new market who claim a right to a part of our hard work. Either by patent or copyright infringement, developers are finding this new cost of litigation to be onerous. The scary part is that these infringements can happen with any part of our products or websites: things that you’d never imagine being a violation of someone else’s intellectual property. It feels like coding in a mine field.