European Union data protection regulators said on Wednesday that they would investigate Facebook over a feature that uses face-recognition software to suggest people’s names to tag in pictures without their permission, and a privacy group in the United States said that it planned to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the feature.

La réflexion d’Orange sur la segmentation de l’accès aux réseaux télécoms n’est pas nouvelle, puisqu’elle est notamment apparue dans une campagne publicitaire de 2009. Les liens que tissent l’opérateur télécom français avec Dailymotion (vidéo) et Deezer (musique) laissent craindre l’émergence d’un Internet à plusieurs vitesses, depuis un même abonnement.

For Mr. Jobs, who has likened the PC to a pickup truck used only for work, it really could be the beginning of the end for the home computer.

The scene unfolding at the Thai restaurant in Brooklyn was like that of any other casual dinner party. A small group of people sat around a wooden table, passing large dishes of spicy red curry and fried rice, drinking cold beers and swapping war stories about apartment hunting in New York. But the twist was this: Before about 8 that evening, none of us had met before.