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Nextgen iPhone spotted in the wild?

Virgile — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:51:15 +0000

Well here’s an interesting one. French iPhone blog iPhon.fr got these pics from an anonymous and unverified source, and while there’s no way of telling if the shots are legit, they certainly have a truthy ring to them. They follow what we know so far about the shape, size and color of the upcoming 3G iPhone, and while there’s always the possibility of knockoff, a Photoshop job, or some other evil plot to mislead us, we’re certainly not going to discount these shots entirely in the runup to iPhone’s second coming.

Donation from Sale of Naked Bruni Pictures Refused

Virgile — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:47:04 +0000

A DOCTOR running hospitals in Cambodia said today he had refused a donation raised by selling a picture of France’s first lady in the nude, because Cambodians disapproved of exploiting female flesh for...

Sony BMG Sued for Software Piracy

Virgile — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:00:45 +0000

RECORD label Sony BMG, one of the most vocal and ferocious opponents of music piracy, has been accused of using unlawfully installed programs on its computers by a small software company.

French company PointDev, which makes applications for Microsoft Windows, claims to have discovered pirated versions of its software installed on Sony BMG computers and is suing the label for €300,000 ($514,910).

Jean Nouvel Pritzker Prize Architecture

Virgile — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:25:27 +0000

Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.

Mr. Nouvel, 62, is the second French citizen to take the prize, awarded annually to a living architect by a jury chosen by the Hyatt Foundation. (Christian de Portzamparc of France won in 1994.) His selection is to be announced Monday.

French workers crossing over to live the English dream

Virgile — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:24:43 +0000

Thousands of French workers are leaving home, where ambition is often stifled by poor prospects or discrimination, to benefit from the flexible job market in London hailed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who arrives here...

France and Italy: Is nuclear power the way for energy independence?

Virgile — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:19:47 +0000

One of the main arguments of the present debate on energy is whether a nuclear energy program should be restarted or not. We can use the cases of Italy and France as a way for evaluating whether it is a good idea for a non nuclear country to get...