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Noël approche et l'angoisse rode du côté de la grande distribution. Que faire pour vendre toujours plus ? Facile : baissons les prix et les quantités.
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CONSO-MATEUR
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une,
Consommation,
Luc Chatel,
grande distribution,
Argent,
Carrefour
Jean-François Probst revient sur les raisons de la colère des élus locaux réunis en congrès cette semaine
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VIDÉOS
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France,
une2,
politique,
Jean-François Probst
Participez au jeu-concours organisé à l'occasion de la sortie du nouveau film de Michael Moore. Un caméscope à gagner !
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BIG BIZNESS
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une3,
Cinéma,
capitalisme,
Michael Moore,
Chroniques
Manolosanctis présente "Phantasmes", son premier recueil thématique de BD.
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Manolosanctis
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une3,
Dessin,
BD
Les journalistes chroniqueurs de jeux vidéos font d'une pierre deux coups : tester les jeux avant leur sortie et les revendre pour arrondir les fins de mois.
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Chronique Jeux vidéo
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France,
jeux video,
bloc une (col droite) 2nd
MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording industry—but what came as a surprise was Glickman's irritation at various ACTA "protests" which create "apprehension over the Agreement's substance."
He's referring to online outlets that have hoisted the anti-ACTA flag over the last year, accusing the treaty of being a pretext for ramming "three strikes" laws through without Congressional oversight or empowering Customs agents to check the contents of your iPod. Based on our reporting, neither of these items appears to be in the draft text, but the secretive nature of the negotiations and the bland, impenetrable public statements about ACTA have fueled plenty of suspicion.

Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR deployments part of its stimulus package. But many have pointed out that simply throwing computers at a problem isn't a solution unless the software and practices are also in place to allow the medical community to leverage the technology efficiently. A study of US hospital data suggests they may not be: computerization only had a mild impact on quality of care, and it didn't seem to alter costs in any significant manner.
The study will appear online at The American Journal of Medicine Friday. Its authors combined three datasets that collectively track the computerization and outcomes at thousands of US hospitals. Data on the deployment of medical IT systems were obtained from an annual survey performed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The survey contains over 20 measures of computerization, including both administrative and clinical functions.


Participant samedi à un colloque international pour la réforme des politiques antidrogues au Nouveau-Mexique, Jorge Castañeda, ministre des Affaires étrangères de l'ancien président mexicain Vincente Fox, a accusé l'armée mexicaine de pratiquer des exécutions extrajudiciaires de membres des cartels de trafiquants de drogues.
Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That's exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission's Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to steal "tens of millions of dollars" from the program.
VRS was first launched in Texas in the mid-90s as a way for the deaf to communicate via telephone. A hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired person could use a video phone to dial into a VRS service equipped with sign language interpreters, who would then dial through to a hearing recipient. The interpreters would read the caller's signing over video and speak it to the recipient to help facilitate the call.

The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the patent infringement claim and Microsoft's claims against Mullor, Ancora's founder and former Microsoft employee. All claims between the three parties have been resolved; they have agreed to deny any and all liability, and have released each other from all claims of the litigation, but made sure to keep the terms of the settlement as confidential. "I am pleased with this resolution and wish my friends at Microsoft's Windows division nothing but success with Windows 7 launch," Mullor said in a statement.
