The “G8 of the Web” or the “eG8”, the next step for more control?

The G8 of the web will be in Paris on May 24th and 25th of this year

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Naiara Nolla, an artistic soul

Miss Naiara Nolla is a Spanish girl with a strong international background, She has been travelling all over the world and that experiences have had a deeply impact on her ways of showing the reality, She has spent few years in London and now she is based in Barcelona, working for a radio. Photography is one of her hobbies and it’s one of the ways that she uses to express her artistic personality in total. Her shots are amazing, colours and passion are mixed together leaving an artistic image on any picture. Her pictures are not just images impressed on jpg but are the content of emotion and are always giving something more to the viewer. At...

Friday, May 20, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a success for the IMF

The idea here is not to judge what is widely discussed everywhere. An investigation is running and will probably be the reflection of what really happened. We have no knowledge of the facts so we will only focus ourselves on what Mr Strauss-Kahn did when he was the head of the IMF. 1/ The achievementsThe reform of the voting rights:Six months were necessary for DSK to make members reach an agreement. The voting rights have been recalculated and now give more power to emerging countries. The IMF reached a consensus on the new distribution of votes that is much closer to what the world’s economy is like today. The improvement of the finances:The...

Rob Summer's miracle

An electric stimulation on the spinal cord permits to Mr Summers to stay up on his legs and walk on a tapis roulant for a few minutes after 5 years.This new experimental treatment has been done in USA and is going to give a real hope to any person that, like Mr Summers, have lost the capability to move their body. ...

Thursday, May 19, 2011

LinkedIn values itself at $3billion!

LinkedIn will go public on New York Stock Exchange later this month. In order to do so, the company had to prepare a file containing its figures and valuations. From the file sent earlier this week to the Securities and Exchange Committee, LinkedIn estimates its valuation at three billion dollars. This committee acts as a gendarme of markets across the Atlantic. The start-up recognized in its presentation that its growth could slow down in the future but investments are being planned to increase the capacities of the site. The professional website could even not be profitable this year. In 2010, the network registered fifteen million dollars...

Janice Tunnicliffe, forced to be without technology

Janice Tunnicliffe is a 55 years old woman, mother of two, from England,Everything started after she did a chemio therapy three years ago, the treatment has been successful but unfortunately it left another disease… the disease for technology (better known as electrosensitivity).What is Electrosensitivity?A unhealthy sensitivity (or sensitivities) to a particular source of electricity, for example mobile phones, computers, power lines or even minor electrical equipment. Symptoms are wide-ranging and can include skin problems, headaches, fatigue, fainting, light sensitivity, heart problems and much more. Electrical HyperSensitivity is a name...

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Monica Silva and “l’io dentro di me”

Monica Silva is a Brazilian artist based in Europe. Monica went to England in 1986 and after having spent 2 years in London she moved to Italy. She has been for eight years assistant director for national and international advertising production but then, in 2001, she needed to do something more, she felt the need to properly express her self and to show her knowledge! She started working in professional photography industry and after a while she became a member of “Nikon Pro Photographer” expanding her skills and knowledge. The thirst of sharing and communicate got bigger and bigger and then she decided to move to the world of art photography. She...

A bit of fun: Amusing laws that have never been revoked!

We wanted to share with you a few amusing laws that still exist around the world:In Florida, try not to have a too big argument with your loved one. It is stipulated by law that if you break more than three plates a day because of an argument; you could end up in jail!In Kentucky, a law says, “no woman can be seen wearing a bathing suit unless she is with two police officers or equipped with a club”. An amendment has been added later saying that the law doesn’t apply to women who are less than 27kgs or more than 90kgs.In Kansas it is against the law to ask for ask ice cream if you are eating a cherry pie!In Ohio, it is against state law to get...

Android Phones and Tablets are not secure!!

A German study revealed today that most of the phones and tablets using Android as an operating system are not secure. IT specialists of the University of ULM in Germany have demonstrated that the incredible amount of 99,7%(!!) of these terminals present a fault in security. Moreover, the breach is caused by Google itself and doesn’t come from another application.This negligence allows malicious people to access any kind of data but the ones of Gmail apparently. It means that someone can have access to Google servers and modify them. The diary, the contacts, the text messages and photo albums can also be seen by someone else.So if you are using...

Gentlemen, to your coffee maker! It is for your own good!

An American scientific study has been published yesterday Tuesday. It shows that men who drink coffee in high quantity have fewer risks of developing a prostate cancer. From what we can understand of this study, men who drink six cups of coffee a day or more see the risk of having the most lethal type of prostate cancer decrease by 60%! The study has been published by the Harvard School of Public Health and demonstrates that it has been done seriously. Lorelei Mucci, the Harvard associated professor, asserted that "Few studies studied in detail the association between the consumption of coffee and the risk of developing a lethal cancer of the...

Russia: the Kremlin explains to children why a country needs a political opposition.

The Kremlin launched yesterday on its website a section dedicated to Russian children. The goal is to make them understand why a country needs a “political opposition”. The section has been designed child-friendly and is full of coloured animations. Doing that, Russian administration wants to show that they highly consider the opposition and that it is not as marginalized as other countries think it is. The section is available on kids.kremlin.ru and is entitled “what is an opposition and why do we need it”. Kids can find a lot of questions-answers forms explaining the positive role of independent media or the importance of listening to...

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