L’agence de publicité userADgents a eu la bonne idée de se pencher sur les caractéristiques de l’App Store en France qui compte près de 80 000 applications. Lorsqu’Apple communique autour de son App Store, il le fait de manière globale. Difficile alors de connaître les spécificités liées à chaque pays où le service est présent, en France par exemple.

Mauvaise nouvelle pour le gouvernement Fillon : la commissaire européenne Neelie Kroes, qui recevra les explications de la France sur le problème de la taxe télécom (censée compenser l’arrêt de la pub sur France Télévisions), passe pour une libérale coriace pour qui toute entrave à la libre entreprise est insupportable. À 69 ans, cette Néerlandaise a succédé à la commissaire Viviane Reding au portefeuille des médias et industries des télécommunications… Avant d’abandonner son poste à sa consoeur, Viviane Reding a engagé contre la France une procédure de sanction à propos de cette taxe jugée incompatible avec le droit européen.

French president Nicholas Sarkozy has been given a Teorem phone which its makers claim “guarantees a very high safety level”. Photo: Getty Images

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has been presented with a super-phone with “impenetrable” encryption levels compared to commercial handhelds such as the Blackberry.

President Sarkozy got to grips with the Teorem phone, which looks like a regular smartphone, while on a visit to the Thales Communication factory in Cholet, western France.

Amid the flat, wide fields of central France, a team of re-trained secretaries and IT experts is packaging Europe’s literary heritage for the digital era.

Avec cette offre rassemblant standard téléphonique, Internet, communications fixes et mobiles, l’opérateur promet jusqu’à 30% d’économies sur la facture télécoms. Mais l’usage du terme quadriplay prête à confusion.

France could start taxing Internet advertising revenues from online giants such as Google, using the funds to support creative industries that have been hit by the digital revolution, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
The proposal, put forward in a government-commissioned survey, is France’s latest challenge to the virtual free-for-all for Internet content. The country has [...]

France: 274 million sms sent on the 24 December, another million on the 25 and expecting 5000 million on new year’s eve, a 37% increase form last year.
The french operator forecasts for the Jan 1 2010

Orange 186 million SMS
SFR 180 million  SMS
Bouygues Telecom 126 million SMS

Source AFP

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc. is breaking French law with its policy of digitizing books, handing the U.S. Internet giant a euro10,000-($14,300)-a-day fine until it rids its search engine of the literary extracts.
A judge also ordered Google to pay euro300,000 ($430,000) in damages and interest to French publisher La [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A French court fined eBay Inc 1.7 million euros ($2.6 million) for violating a 2008 injunction that prevents French users of the online auction site from buying or selling LVMH perfumes and cosmetics on any eBay website.
EBay Inc said on Monday that the Commercial Court of Paris’ fine was too high and [...]

A number of iPhones that reportedly “exploded” in France were not due to the battery overheating as had been suggested, Apple has said…….