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The new French revolution

The new French revolution

France, Canada and the UK are among countries united in their determination to ram home the Three Strikes element of ACTA, the entertainment industry’s last desperate attempt to gain exclusive control of how, and by whom, content is distributed (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Jon Newton

Is This Foursquare’s Coming Out Party?

Is This Foursquare's Coming Out Party?

In 2008, SXSW conference in August marked the coming out party for Twitter. It was then and there that the digital elite embraced Twitter and cool concept of micro-blogging with so much enthusiasm that it started to spill out into the mainstream. With (...)

8 Mar. 2010 | | Mark Evans

Ridding French of its Anglicisms

Ridding French of its Anglicisms

The French are at it again - or so it would seem. Someone appears to "have the hump" with the number of English words creeping into everyday use in France and wants to try to put a stop to it. This time around it’s the junior (...)

4 Feb. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

Downloading pornography at work not illegal - rules French Supreme Court

Downloading pornography at work not illegal - rules French Supreme Court

La Cour de Cassation in France, or the country’s Supreme court, has overturned a decision made by an industrial tribunal and an appeals courts which had both upheld the dismissal of an employee who downloaded pornographic images at work. The case (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

The French government’s online million-billion loan muddle

The French government's online million-billion loan muddle

It’s an easy enough mistake perhaps getting a few zeros confused especially when the amounts involved are to most of us pretty mind boggling. But it’s not really the sort of error you would expect from a government purportedly more adept at (...)

30 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Music to the ears France’s lip-synching government ministers

An all-singing, all dancing, all lip-synching video featuring government ministers of France’s ruling centre-right UMP party. It’s the latest video to create a buzz on the Internet here in France; members of the governing centre-right Union (...)

10 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

The French do-it-yourself online swine flu test

The French do-it-yourself online swine flu test

So you’ve got a cough or maybe are running a temperature and you think you might be coming down with "swine flu" (H1N1 or influenza A as it’s more commonly called in France). Well now (for those living here) there’s a simple (...)

9 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

France Telecom’s new monthly mobile phone bill record: €159,000

France Telecom's new monthly mobile phone bill record: €159,000

If you’ve been following the story of astronomical mobile ’phone bills here in France, you’ll know that in the past week two cases have made the headlines: One for over €45,000 and another for €39,500. Well, if you thought (...)

19 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

A new case of mobile phone bill madness in France

A new case of mobile phone bill madness in France

Just another news-making day in France for Orange, the mobile ’phone network operator and Internet service provider of this country’s main telecommunications company, France Telecom. And that of course can only mean an astronomical bill for (...)

18 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

One Frenchman’s monster €45,000 Internet bill

One Frenchman's monster €45,000 Internet bill

Those of a certain generation and background will doubtlessly have been raised with the idiom ringing in their ears, "If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves." Ah yes the lesson of thrift and sensible budgeting, (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Old fools and the Internet

Old fools and the Internet

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has proved, yet again, that he is a dinosaur who does not fit in with today’s world in the 21st century. Miffed by aggregators, like Google News, Murdoch has sworn to fight Google and other online aggregators (...)

13 nov. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Latin America Turns Challenge into Opportunity

NGT LA

The Long Awaited NGT Summit in Panama unites world leaders to build Latin America infrastructure. Latin America is home to the "B" in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) quartet of leading emerging economies, but is still relatively (...)

12 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Twitter ‘I make money online’ scam

Twitter ‘I make money online' scam

Late yesterday afternoon I had a Twitter tweet from Dan Nash, a friend in the UK. It said » » » Okay, you know you’re twitter account ? @p2pnet. Well, it sent me a direct message earlier, which said, ‘I make money online with google. i (...)

4 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Real time & social media search on the way

Real time & social media search on the way

I’ve honestly never heard about LeapFish until today. LeapFish is actually a powerful and quick search engine that captures results from multiple sources, such as posts, online shops, yahoo answers, videos, etc. How does this different from Google ? (...)

3 nov. 2009 | | Michael R. Aulia

Jotwell Launches Today

Today is the official launch of Jotwell : The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), a new online law journal that I am editing. At Jotwell you will find leading academics and practitioners providing short reviews of recent scholarship related to the law that (...)

2 nov. 2009 | | Michael Froomkin

The Emergence of Twitter 2.0 ?

The Emergence of Twitter 2.0 ?

CNet’s Caroline McCarthy had a short, but interesting, story yesterday about Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, who was talking at the 140 Conference about Twitter’s recent $100-million financing. (Spark is an investor in Twitter). Sabet said (...)

30 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Mark Evans

Gov 2.0 : If I could start with a blank sheet of paper ? (part 1)

I was recently invited to be a member of the International Reference Group of the Australian Government’s Web 2.0 Taskforce. Like with the British (who drafted this excellent report) I’m impressed the Australian government is thinking about (...)

27 oct. 2009 | 1 comment | David Eaves

Arts & Entertainment

Fans want to pay musicians

Fans want to pay musicians

By way of an update, a2f2a (artists-to-fans-to-artists), is now online with debates on payments to artists, writes and wrongs on copyright, and a lot of other items of immediate interest, going hot and strong, as p2pnet readers who’ve already (...)

26 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

What’s Crowdsourcing Have to Do with It ?

I enjoyed Dan Wood’s recent Forbes article entitled, The Myth of Crowdsourcing. But, his argument is confusing. Here’s the core of what he’s saying : But in the popular press, and in the minds of millions of people, the word (...)

23 oct. 2009 | | John Winsor

Net Neutrality : Hell’s A Popping As Cyber Technology Meets The Big Bad World

Net Neutrality : Hell's A Popping As Cyber Technology Meets The Big Bad World

The concept of net neutrality is simple : That the Internet as it applies to broadband residential use is a level playing field. There are no restrictions on content or modes of communication, no information should have a higher priority than any other, (...)

19 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Shaun Mullen

Web Not Killing These Video Stars

Web Not Killing These Video Stars

At any given time, without anyone really noticing, some aspect of our life is becoming obsolete. In my lifetime, I’ve seen TV and radio repair shops disappear, along with neighbourhood tailors, and those hairdressing shops that seem to have been (...)

16 oct. 2009 | | BlogTO

The Destruction of Cause & Effect

I’ve just learned that 52% of my Facebook friends are Democrats and 48% are Republicans, so I went to read some of their blather. One told me that there is an alarm clock that will wake you up to the smell of bacon. Another of these alarm clocks (...)

30 sep. 2009 | | Cobb

Van Loan’s Misleading Claims : Case for Lawful Access Not Closed

Van Loan's Misleading Claims : Case for Lawful Access Not Closed

The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities - dubbed the "lawful access" initiative - dates back to 1999, when government officials began crafting proposals to institute new surveillance technologies within Canadian networks along with (...)

30 sep. 2009 | | Michael Geist

How bloggers can keep the internet healthy

I’m continuously trying to brainstorming ways that Mozilla can find the next million mozillians and figure out activities they can do. I think I’ve stumbled on to a new one but would need some help to make it happen. As some of you may know, (...)

25 sep. 2009 | | David Eaves

Stop Receiving Cold Calls, Join a Call Center’s LinkedIn Group Instead

With many companies now using networking sites as an opportunity for business, online data can be shared with ease. But just who is reading our profiles? Recent studies have shown that the use of social networking sites are now being seen as an (...)

10 Sep. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

Indeterminate sentences and Baby P

Fresh and yet more noxious light has been cast on the working of the indefensible régime of IPPs (indeterminate sentences for public protection) by the sentences passed in May on the three people convicted of indirect responsibility for the death of (...)

12 aoû. 2009 | | Brian Barder

The European Parliament’s experience with social media - a post election reflection

The European Parliament's experience with social media - a post election reflection

As the night was approaching and the last votes were counted on June 7, the final day of the European Parliament ( EP) election, you could read Twitter updates in 22 different languages from EP’s official Twitter accounts. Or debate the outcome with (...)

4 Aug. 2009 | | Bente Kalsnes

Joel lawsuit fund NOT for the RIAA

Joel lawsuit fund NOT for the RIAA

I just had a call from a friend in New York telling me things have changed with the Joel Tenenbaum fund. Earlier today I posted Who’s going to pay the RIAA ? .suggesting a collection being put together for RIAA victim Joel mightn’t be such a (...)

3 aoû. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Why we need to launch a cyberattack on Florida

I spend a lot of time at a computer keyboard typing about biological viruses like influenza A, but computer networks are also subject to self-reproducing parasites of one kind or another and we continue to have a layperson’s fascination with those (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | Effect Measure

The NEW Pirate Bay

The NEW Pirate Bay

I tell you, I want some of what the Global Gaming Factory (GGF) is smokin’. After the GGF sent out a press release concerning the imminent acquisition of The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million (krona ?) the P2P doomsayers had a coronary, and with good (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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