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Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe joined San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in a round-table discussion at San Francisco's City Hall about how each city can help the other spur growth in their respective digital-media sectors. Also in attendance were representatives from local tech companies, including Lucasfilm, Dreamworks, the Orphanage and Wildbrain, as well as French technology leaders.
The meeting came as Franco-U.S. relations are supposed to be at an all-time low. Many Americans haven't forgiven France for declining to support the U.S. mission in Iraq.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the French are wary of U.S. control of the Internet.
The French National Assembly recently passed legislation that will try to force Apple Computer to make the songs it sells through its iTunes Music Store
Worried about a cultural invasion, French President Jacques Chirac has called for the
Delanoe said his visit was prompted by San Francisco's success in promoting digital media companies. He also commended Newsom's plan to
Delanoe "said Paris is hoping to be the second city to do free Wi-Fi," Newsom told reporters. "This is a big issue internationally, the possibility of giving people free access to information. Mayors around the world are paying attention to what S.F. is doing. This effort is a big part of bridging the digital divide."
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socialism. No wonder they're cozying up to each other. France
could effectively compete with the US if they trimmed their
government bureaucracy by 50%, embraced true capitalism, and
encouraged entrepreneurship. It's working in India. France
(along with Germany, although with the rise of the conservative
party in Germany that might change) is becoming the
laughingstock of the world with its lackluster economy and out-
of-control populace. If they don't do something sensible soon,
they may be in for a rude awakening when French Revolution II:
Attack of the Communists begins playing in the European
theater.
Jared
Here in France (in the IT business) everybody think that the french parliament is making a mistake about apple.
This law hasn't been voted yet.
They should rather look at the OS business and consider if it is normal that one company own 95% of the market.
Infortunately they have discovered this kind of problem with the music industry and Apple is getting a bad point.
I dont think this law will be voted.
Laurent / Paris /France
Search for steak, the answer you get is...
"Why do you search for ze steak? You wouldn't know good steak if it bit you, you silly English pig dog. Go soak your bottom and go away or I will taunt you a second time!"
Don't they have certain vintages of wines that have protected names that come from France.
They have sued wine makers in Napa Valley, California to not use those names because even though the Napa Valley wine is Superior to the crap the Frnch bottle and call wine, it is a protected name.
Now isn't the same true about certain cheeses.
In this case, anyone should be able to call their wine and cheese whatever they want so they can sell them on equal footing.
Governments need to step in and let Apple and the record companies know that that sort of customer cherry picking isn't acceptable, just as trying to restrict people to certain hardware isn't either.
- anoox is another European/french based search engine effort
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by Sandra_Kerns
April 23, 2006 9:58 AM PDT
- There is another European/french based search engine effort. That is various companies through Europe and elsewhere are grabbing the free open source Anoox search engine for offering
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See all 30 Comments >>localized (country based) versions of Anoox search engine. You can read about it here:
http://www.anoox.com/sep-overview.jsp
Think about it, this is really cool: because this really is going to smash open the Yahoo & Google (BIG US Media) monopoly over people's access to information. Because rather than 2 companies
in Silicon valley controlling what people see worldwide when they search for something, 100s and 1000s of companies worldwide from their own country will do this.
Hooray to Anoox
Hooray to open & free information controlled by the people and not 1 or 2 Giant US media companies.