Twitter and Facebook are not alternative: App.net enables a new user freedom
What must one do in order to create a social network that protects the privacy in which the contents are the users and the third by feeding leaves with and grow? At the beginning of the story is a simple question to which there is no easy answer. Caldwell has experienced this in the music [...]
Curbed innovation: the case of Japan
In 1999, it launched i-mode, an access to the internet and web services that based on the communication of "packets". This major innovation at the time had a lot of interest. But ahead of its time, it was based – as Minitel – a sufficiently flexible technology. Then the iPhone arrived. The company had understood [...]
Why we need to rethink the user fee
Co-payments, the average rate of 35% of the acts, has dented the redistributive potential. Despite comparable care needs, less affluent pay more, relative to their income than the rich. At the same time, they have less access to supplementary pension schemes and are thus less likely to seek care. The proposed reform applies the principles [...]
Report on teachers: “Peillon is totally disqualified”
In the program of Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2002 there was a reform of education. If the reasoning developed by socialists today about marriage for all we follow Nicolas Sarkozy should have corporatist despite protests from teachers and other staff unions (turn would come later), carry out promised reforms . We know what it is. The [...]
Riots in poor neighborhoods: Fire in Stockholm
On Tuesday evening Fredrik Reinfeldt was called to rest. In the Reichstag, Swedish Prime Minister appeared before the press and expressed concern about the riots in Stockholm's Husby. Nights with great restlessness, damage and intimidating atmosphere you have experienced, he said. "Now, all, including parents and children, helping to make again for rest. The inhabitants [...]
North Korea: Kim Jong-Un sent a good Mission offices in China
In a context of tensions between Pyongyang and Beijing, Choe Ryong-Hae, director of the Politburo of the People's Army Korea, flew to China as a special envoy of Kim Jong-Un, has announced the official news agency KCNA. Choe is probably the most senior North Korea to visit China since Kim Jong-Il, the late father of [...]
Yann Galut, not evasive on the escape
One day, Yann Galut came home from school and found his mother crying on the sofa. He was scared, thought of his grandfather. It was September 11, 1973. His mother told him: "They murdered Allende." Yann Galut was 7 years old. Forty years later, this is where he traces his desire to go into politics. [...]
Mandela, his daughters because they want a heritage of more than 1 million
ROME – Before the grandchildren stars of a reality show, now the daughters that are due to snap up the assets. Even at 94 Nelson Mandela, weakened by several health problems, is able to enjoy a little 'of tranquility. As revealed by the South African newspaper The Star, Makaziwe and Zenani Mandela, a daughter of [...]
Threats against a school in Strasbourg: the track is required hoax
An investigation stalled. After four days of stalking, a notice of four national research and hearings, investigators still do not know who is the author of the mysterious Internet threatening message of carnage in a school in Strasbourg last Friday. In the absence of tracks, they now seriously doubt the reality of the threat made, [...]
Miccoli and friendship with the son of the boss Fans acclaim: “Proud of you”
It has been regularly deployed in the field. It regularly wore the captain's armband. A Fabrizio Miccoli Palermo gives an output with all the honors in what could be his last game with the shirt rosanero. Big applause to his entry into the field in the game against Parma, choirs, applause and then a banner [...]