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French Music Store Claims IPod 'anticompetitive'
News French online music store Virgin Mega has filed a complaint against Apple Computer, claiming that the company's refusal to license the copy-protection technology used in its iPod is harming competition.
[August 6, 2004, 9:05]
ILOVEYOU: French Virus Centres On The Defensive
News Transparency is not included either in the statutes of another French CERT, the Cert/IST (Industries et Secteur Tertiaire), which acts on the account of the private sector. Last week, ZDNet France denounced the delay with which the Cert-Renater...
[May 15, 2000, 11:46]
French MPs Dump Windows For Linux
News After the gendarmes and the Ministry of Culture, it's French MPs' turn to switch to open source. From June 2007, PCs in French députés' offices will be equipped with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software.
[November 27, 2006, 8:03]
French Opt For Laissez-faire Linux
Talkback The cost savings used by the French Minister,and Massachusetts ITD people, are not consistent with what I read on the "Get the Facts" advertisements, when talking about TCO costs.The MS articles wouldn't be telling 'porkies' would they?
[November 13, 2005, 11:14]
French Consumers Get ADSL For £25 A Month
News The French service is currently available in the six districts of central Paris and the suburbs of Issy-le-Moulineaux, Neuilly sur Seine and Vanves. Any French ISP can offer the service, as long it has an ADSL gateway.
[November 9, 1999, 10:36]
French Cry Havoc Over Google's Library Plans
Talkback I'm sure that Google envisions a time when they can digitize French library collections, but they had to start somewhere. This kind of massive undertaking also requires the cooperation of French and EU librarians.
[February 22, 2005, 18:53]
French Cry Havoc Over Google's Library Plans
Talkback It's unfortunate but true: the French in their ever present resentment of American (English speaking) cultural dominance present themselves as desperate and foolish. Of course the world benefits from multiculturalism, but the French fail to...
[February 22, 2005, 17:28]
French Cry Havoc Over Google's Library Plans
Talkback I care, if you were French (I am ½ English and ½ Spanish, living in the UK) you'd understand what it feels like to be trampled on when so proud of one's country. I think all countries are great and to have them speak about their own history in...
[February 22, 2005, 16:57]
French Army Takes Aim At Apple's AirPort
News Researchers from France's National Centre for Scientific Research warned in a newsletter last week that French buyers of Apple's new iBook notebook computer could be in for a nasty surprise if they use the machine's AirPort wireless transmitter...
[September 29, 1999, 9:25]
French Connection To Connect In Cyberspace
News Fashion retailer French Connection Tuesday announced a move into e-commerce, with a Web site to go live 30 September. French Connection reported an 84 percent rise in pre-tax profit to £6.5m in the six months to July 31.
[September 22, 1999, 11:17]
French Tax Agency Plans Massive OpenOffice Deployment
News The French tax agency, which manages the taxes of all states and cities in France, plans to deploy the open source office productivity application OpenOffice.org on thousands of its PCs. Jean-Marie Lapeyre, chief technical officer at the French tax...
[November 9, 2005, 17:25]
French Cry Havoc Over Google's Library Plans
Talkback french - who cares?
[February 22, 2005, 11:24]
French Fry Up Their Own GPL
News Three French public agencies released details of a new software licence last week that they say is similar to the General Public License (GPL) but tailored for the market in France. According to its creators, CeCILL was written with French...
[July 13, 2004, 15:05]
French Gendarmes Reach For Mozilla
News The French public sector has once again shown its love of open source with the news the gendarmerie — the French military police — is to switch to Firefox and Mozilla's email client Thunderbird. In an interview with the French magazine Linux...
[January 6, 2006, 8:40]
French Inland Revenue Service Goes Open Source
News The French Inland Revenue service announced on Thursday that it has chosen JBoss's open-source application server to run the next version of its tax applications. The move comes as part of a French ministry initiative called 'Copernic' that will...
[August 5, 2004, 17:00]
French Groups Appeal In Yahoo Nazi Case
News Two French human rights organisations that successfully sued Yahoo in France over the sale of Nazi-related material on its auction site have appealed against a US District Court ruling that shielded the Web portal from enforcement of the French...
[December 6, 2001, 11:53]
French 3G Woe Could Impact On UK
News As one of the four bidders withdraws from the French 3G mobile phone auction blaming high prices, experts warn that the even higher prices paid in the UK could do serious damage to the economy and the UK's place in Europe.
[January 25, 2001, 16:15]
French Education Authorities Migrate To Linux
News The French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of a strategy to invest in open-source solutions and avoid proprietary software lock-ins.
[September 5, 2007, 16:58]
French Students To Get Linux CDs
News Many secondary schools students in the French region of Auvergne will receive CDs containing free and open source software when they return to school in September. The Live CD is based on Kaella, a French derivative of Knoppix.
[August 11, 2005, 14:20]
French MPs Choose Linux Over Windows
News When French MPs and their assistants return from their summer break this June, they will conduct parliamentary business on PCs running Ubuntu. The project has been defended by MPs Richard Cazenave and Bernard Carayon of the UMP party, who have put...
[March 13, 2007, 9:03]
