I used to, but not anymore, Telecom Italia and Vodafone (Italy) serves you a nice Huawei modem for Internet services via EDGE or GPRS, cheap, working…but what about the technology inside…?
Fondé en 1988 par Ren Zhengfei, un ancien ingénieur télécoms au sein de l’Armée populaire de libération (APL), Huawei Technologies est généralement considéré comme proche des services de sécurité de Pékin. Ce soupçon gêne le développement du groupe, qui a réalisé un chiffre d’affaires de 23 milliards $ en 2008. (…)
Les liens de Huawei Technologies avec les services de renseignement chinois empêchent le groupe de se développer à l’international. (…)
Le patron d’Apple, Steve Jobs, a défendu les conditions de travail des employés du groupe taïwanais Foxconn Technology, qui fournit notamment son groupe, et qui a été marqué par une série de suicides, jugeant l’usine du groupe incriminée “plutôt chouette”. “Foxconn n’exploite pas ses employés”, a assuré M. Jobs au Salon All Things Digital, consacré aux nouvelles technologies, à Rancho Palos Verdes en Californie. “Quand on va sur place, c’est une usine, mais quand même, ils ont des restaurants, des cinémas et des hôpitaux et des piscines. Pour une usine, c’est plutôt chouette”, a affirmé le patron de la marque à la pomme. (…)
http://www.liberation.fr/economie/0101639157-suicides-a-la-chaine-chez-le-geant-foxconn
Google a annoncé la semaine dernière ne plus vouloir censurer les résultats des recherches sur son portail chinois, Google.cn, renversant ainsi la stratégie adoptée en 2006. Cette annonce a surpris par son ton, et par les raisons invoquées : une série de tentatives de vol de code informatique et de piratage de comptes email d’opposants chinois…[mondediplo.net]
What Nato failed to understand
Afghanistan: the neo-Taliban campaign
The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September, killing some 60 people, was compared to 9/11 in Pakistan and could be a turning point in the conflict in this region. President Bush has authorised ground operations against Taliban bases in Pakistan, which has now become the main theatre in the ‘war on terror’. Meanwhile, the neo-Taliban, operating an al-Qaida franchise there and in Afghanistan, have controlled the escalation of guerrilla resistance in a sophisticated military strategy based on the conduct of the Vietnam war. [mondediplo.com]
Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
MIRANSHAH, North Waziristan – With a truce between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad now in place, the Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda and clearly sided with the Taliban in Afghanistan. [atimes.com]
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Some news and not to read about the biggest and the others…
[economist.com]
And then there were none
What the death of the investment bank means for Wall Street
The doctors’ bill
The chairman of the Federal Reserve and the treasury secretary give Congress a gloomy prognosis for the economy, and propose a drastic remedy
The big boys are back
Japan’s big banks put their megabucks to work in the West
[monde-diplomatique.fr]
Comment General Electric a réinventé le capitalisme américain
Qui, aux Etats-Unis, ignore encore que « General Electric nous apporte les bonnes choses de la vie » ? Martelé pendant des décennies par d’innombrables publicités, ce slogan un peu immodeste a précédé bien des films, des séries et des débats politiques parrainés par l’entreprise. Très présente dans la vie quotidienne des 300 millions d’Américains, General Electric n’oublie pas non plus d’intervenir dans la vie électorale du pays.
Par Olivier Vilain
Cast your vote now in the American presidential election with The Economist’s Global Electoral College
[economist.com]
FINANCE houses set out to be monuments of stone and steel. In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood. Ten short days saw the nationalisation, failure or rescue of what was once the world’s biggest insurer, with assets of $1 trillion, two of the world’s biggest investment banks, with combined assets of another $1.5 trillion, and two giants of America’s mortgage markets, with assets of $1.8 trillion. The government of the world’s leading capitalist nation has been sucked deep into the maelstrom of its most capitalist industry. And it looks overwhelmed. [economist.com]
Russian pullout from Georgia ‘followed criticism on Facebook’
Political analysts were still reeling last night following the disclosure by sources within the Kremlin that Russia had only “buckled under pressure” when reviewing group membership statistics on the social networking website Facebook.
Doctors may soon have a new diagnostic tool in their kit bags
Everyone knows industry needs oil. Now people are worrying about water, too
Les « bidouilleurs » de la société de l’information
Défendre les citoyens contre les technologies menaçant leur vie privée, ou protéger la sécurité de systèmes informatiques pour le compte des militaires ? Dans un monde chaque jour plus technique, les compétences des hackers restent rarement inemployées…
Links: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2008/09/MANACH/16226
If you feel like wasting some time: Shrinking the Nissan GT-R
Citing Poor Conditions, China Refuses To Send Delegation To Olympics
BEIJING—In an 11th-hour move that shocked the international athletic and political communities alike, the Chinese Olympic Team announced Wednesday that it will not be attending the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing due to “shocking, shameful, and ultimately dangerous environmental conditions” in the host city.
Russian Team blames poor scores on cheating by Georgia.
Many members of the Russian Georgia Invasion team are still hopeful of medals despite receiving low scores from a panel of International judges on the first day of action after the start of the Olympics. American head of the judges George Bush said; ‘They started well, but see, they put their foot over the line and obviously we have to look real close at that. We expected them to steady themselves, regain their concentration and sort themselves out, but nope, they just kept right on a-goin. And nobody’s gonna give them full marks for that.’
Hello again, I’m Vista
Microsoft hires a hot ad agency in an effort to improve its image
Miracle postponed
Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to put together an Italian solution for Alitalia
Fatale incidente stradale: muore Andrea Pininfarina
E’ morto in un incidente stradale alle porte di Torino Andrea Pininfarina; aveva 51 anni. Pininfarina era presidente e amministratore delegato della storica carrozzeria italiana, autrice di alcune fra le più belle auto di tutti i tempi. Vicepresidente di Confindustria durante la presidenza di Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, attualmente era membro del consiglio direttivo. Nel 2005 era stato nominato Cavaliere del Lavoro. Secondo le prime informazioni sembra che sia stato travolto da un auto nella località di Trofarello mentre viaggiava in moto. Facciamo le nostre più sentite condoglianze alla famiglia per questo tragico evento.
La Chine n’a pas respecté ses engagements
Pour justifier l’attribution des JO à la Chine en 2001, le Comité international olympique (CIO) avait argué d’une ouverture démocratique sans précédent dans ce pays. A quelques heures de l’ouverture de cet événement, une grande partie de la presse internationale ne cache pas sa déception.
Des détails embarrassants sur la libération des otages
La libération d’Ingrid Betancourt et de 14 otages a constitué un succès retentissant pour le gouvernement colombien. Mais la diffusion de certaines images de l’opération militaire réalisée le 2 juillet met en difficulté Bogotá.
Welcome to a (rather dour) party
China is keen to show its best face at the games and that face is indeed a lot better than it once was. But do not expect any dramatic slide from authoritarianism…
Connecting the dragon
China now has more internet users than America
The destruction of old Beijing
Hurry, to catch China’s medieval capital
Chinese to censor Olympic press net access
Sensitive sites blocked, despite previous assurances
The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?
“Les jeunes Chinois veulent oublier les trente dernières années”
Deux films de Wayne Wang sortent le 30 juillet sur les écrans français : Un millier d’années de bonnes prières et La Princesse du Nebraska. Le cinéaste hongkongais explique dans une interview comment ces deux portraits de Chinoises exilées traitent de la rupture entre les générations et de l’absence de mémoire de la jeunesse chinoise.
Liu Xiang, emblema della Cina olimpica
Pechino 2008, la Cina conferma la censura sul web
What human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympic Games?
IOC caves in to China’s demands on internet censorship
The International Olympic Committee has said that there won’t be uncensored internet access at Olympic media venues.
- Bossi e Barbarossa la fiction lottizzata
- Adidas: Les chaussures made in China trop chères
- The Big Mac Index: Sandwiched
Zouhair Yahyaoui: human rights defender
Zouhair Yahyaoui was the founder and editor of the satirical website TUNeZINE and internationally respected as a human rights defender. He was imprisoned for his activities by the Tunisian regime on 4 June 2002 and was not released until November 2003 after an international campaign of solidarity. After his release he continued to publish www.tunezine.com and to speak out on human rights. He died suddenly of a heart attack on 13 March 2005. He was 36 years…
Blogging from East to West
According to Reporters Sans Frontières, at least 63 bloggers have been arrested, and most of those are publishing articles outside of the country [China]…
Journalist and cyber-dissident Zheng Yichun held on subversion charge
Need to feel more secure ?
Communications: VOIPSA Alliance to Secure Phone Calls on Internet
Other links about print media (French):
- M&#eacutedias en crise by Ignacio Ramonet
- Combats pour les médias ( MANIERE DE VOIR/ n.80 / AVRIL – MAI 2005 ), lire la recension
Japan :
- Takafumi Horie, a 32-year-old internet entrepreneur, has shocked Japan’s business establishment by positioning himself to gain control of Fuji TV
- Bobby Fischer on way to Iceland (from Tokyo)
Cuba :
I’ve posted Fidel Castro billionaire ? that’s links to Forbes but Hector Arturo, from Granma International, has something to write about Fidel’s fortune
She’s beautiful but not cumbersome. Vivienne Rose live in a mobile phone screen. To obtain an appointment with her, it will be enough to handle a third generation mobile phone with video capacity.
V-girl: the new misadventure of the tamagotchi !
You can chat with her or messaging SMS. Offer to her flowers and diamonds, she will reveal you her private life. You forget her birthday? Vivienne snobs you. But be generous and you will be able to follow her at the office, sports hall, coffee break and at the restaurant but not in the bed !
Vivienne has emotions, but “it does not admit sexual relations”, remember, she’s virtual (it should be virtual emotion)
The relation is paying, the gifts too. This 3D creature, created by the -Hong Kong based – American company Artificial Life, lives only on the Asian mobile phones.
Check imaginarygirlfriends.com and virtual-girlfriend.net for a real stupid (virtual) girlfriend…
In the mean time if you meet a REAL girl you may check for a sized-to-fit condoms before to do REAL sex !
“Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle” it’s the title of the series broadcasted in North Korea by state-run Pyongyang television. Fashion victims are directly challenged, the TV programme even gave their names and addresses…
It is just another media campaign that’s looks (just a little) like a Communist propaganda or a regular use of the TV (as Europeans and US channels use to do) to make people becomes all the same, think the same and believe in the same things…
Check BBC for more info
UPDATE : it’s North Koreans could be more inspired for fashioned hair cut having a look to this nice japanese hair shop web cam ?
