France
Category: France
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Water Price in France Regions
How much does the water cost in France ? What is the stage of distribution network ? Answer . http://www.prixdeleau.fr/ What i like on this website – is a very good mesh-up, clean and strong UX – it reflects a continuous study behind – is very social-media active – it has a “visual” on how much…
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Free Books in French (and not only)
The French website Youbooks raised 530.00 € (2013) to develop his paying offer for the 100.000 users they have. Youboox’s innovation: discover, read and share thousands of ebooks with free and unlimited access online via iPad or on the web. Youboox introduces a new access to reading, based on the development of e-readers and tablets, and makes…
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France Kills Piracy Disconnections
After years of debate and controversy the French Government has finally backtracked on the law which allowed errant subscribers to be disconnected from the Internet. 9 JULY 2013, a decree was published which removed the possibility for file-sharers to have their connections cut for copyright infringement. Instead, those caught by rightsholders will now be subjected…
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Open Public Data in France
The First minister Jean-Marc Ayrault created in 31 October 2012 the General Secretary for Modernization of Public Action , under his authority, an extension of General Secretary for Government, and the management was charged to Mr. Jérôme Filippini, chief-consultant for the “Cour des Comptes”. The opening of the public data on Internet (« Open Data »), is driven by…
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The Internet School (University)
What does EEMI stand for? École Européenne des Métiers de l’Internet = European School of Crafts on the Internet Paris based European School of Internet Jobs – EEMI, Ecole Européenne des métiers de l’Internet –, founded by three successful entrepreneurs from the web sector: Xavier Niel founder of Free, Marc Simoncini founder of Meetic, Jacques-Antoine Granjon founder of vente-privee.com. The…
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Santa Claude
Saturday 15 December Santa came at Laval Mayenne Technopole. Well, in fact it was another version, not from North but from East, not small but tall, and nobody knows the comparation in terms of “fatness”. And it was not Santa-Claus but Santa–Claude, since i was designed to distribute gifts to children. A very warm atmosphere, very…
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French Government open to OPEN (Source)
In an official document the Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, encouraged the usage of open source, for its obvious benefits. Of course, the action is meant to reduce the governmental costs up to 10%, but nevertheless there also some other benefits : – the open source sector employs in 2012 about 30.000 people in France – the rate of…
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Facebook Bug. The French Way
“L’informatique doit respecter l’identité humaine, les droits de l’homme, la vie privée et les libertés” – this is the motto of CNIL , the institution who said there may be a confusion regarding this presumed BUG of Facebook… What happened ? The Métro website published an article about the possibility of having private messages (from previous years) on the…
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9 millions French are NOT online
Havas Media reveals a study counting 9.3 mil French OFFLINE (18% from population) The main reasons are : – over 60 years Minitel generation are not good driving the keyboards and suffers of isolation – some people gain not enough to afford a permanent Internet connexion (3.8% population parents of 16% ado) – fear, especially…