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| 21/10/2008
Fit für ein Auslandssemester in Frankreich
| | Viele Abiturienten, die später ein Auslandssemester in Frankreich verbringen möchten, nutzen die Übergangszeit zwischen der erlösenden letzten Prüfung und dem Studienbeginn, um ihre Fremdsprachenkenntnisse aufzupolieren und das Nachbarland kennen zu lernen.
Sources: http://www.welt.de/ von Jan Philipp Burgard
So bietet das deutsche Haus in der Cité Internationale Universitaire, einer Studentenstadt im Süden von Paris, die Möglichkeit, den Sommer in der Hauptstadt zu verbringen und mit (...) > en savoir plus |
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| 21/10/2008
Report 2005: Liebes Deutschland...
| | ...also, das war vielleicht eine ruppige Begrüßung von dir!"Rot!"hast du mir hinterhergequakt, als ich über die Straße ging und weit und breit kein Auto zu sehen war. Verachtest du noch immer jeden, der die Regeln nicht exakt auf Punkt, Komma und Ampelfarbe einhält? Genauso ätzte jedenfalls die tadelnde Passantenstimme, die du mir zur Begrüßung hinterherjagtest. Das hatte ich vergessen dürfen in Paris, wo ich bis Oktober drei Jahre lebte. Dort gibt man sich geschmeidiger als hier bei dir - nicht nur im Straßenverkehr. Ein wenig freier irgendwie. > en savoir plus |
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| 07/10/2006
Weekly News Update
| | Somali Christian Refugees in Kenya Face Increasing Persecution -- Somali Christian refugees in Kenya continue to face increasing attacks from Somali groups and struggle to receive adequate assistance to survive. >> Lire la suite |
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| 05/10/2006
L'A380 se fait attendre
| | Les journaux allemands consacrent aujourd’hui plusieurs commentaires aux retards de livraison de l'A380, l'avion géant d'Airbus. Pour compenser les coûts engendrés, le constructeur prévoit une restructuration qui pourraient supprimer de nombreux emplois. L’affaire met en danger la réussite du projet européen, mais risque aussi de semer la discorde entre la France et l’Allemagne. Berlin s’inquiète de l'avenir du site de production d'Airbus à Hambourg, dans l’hypothèse d'un transfert de l'ensemble de la production de l'A380 vers Toulouse. >> Lire la suite |
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| 07/09/2006
Amazon Unboxes Digital Video Service
| | After watching all day for the rumored debut of Amazon Unbox, the online retailer's much-anticipated digital video download and rental service, I see from a tip on on Alan Taylor's Kokogiak that it's now live. More to come on... 
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| 07/09/2006
Come Clean, HP
| | Having reported these past few days on the mess surrounding HP's investigation into board leaks to the press, I--like most others--am dissatisfied with the extent of HP's response. While the company has taken a leadership stance on many ethics-related topics... 
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| 06/09/2006
Share a Game, Win Some Cash
| | Casual games site Big Fish Games wants to, well, be the big fish of the sector and has come up with an interesting plan to overtake rival Real Arcade. Jumping on the social networking craze, the company is launching My... 
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| 06/09/2006
PS3-Blu-ray Woes Redux
| | Sony just can't seem to shake its Blu-ray woes. Now comes official word from the company that the supposed worldwide launch the company confidently predicted in May of PlayStation 3 was nothing more than wishful thinking. Fanboys have been buzzing... 
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| 05/09/2006
Got Sisu?
| | The social gaming site Bunchball just got venture funding, so it's hiring--as long as you have sisu. I had to follow the company's link to the Wikipedia entry to figure out what it means (assuming this entry is correct): It's... 
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| 05/09/2006
On Telephone Telepathy and Chat Robots
| | E-mail and phone telepathy? A robot that can concurrently have up to 1,000 conversations? A new cancer treatment? All of these are being discussed at this week's British Association for the Advancement of Science conference. 
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| 04/09/2006
Wikipedia: Maybe It's Democratic After All
| | Lately, some skeptical folks, notably Nick Carr, have been wondering how democratic a process Wikipedia really has. Even founder Jimmy Wales has noted that a very small number of people do the lion's share of editing. But Aaron Swartz dug... 
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| 01/09/2006
Samsung Takes on Apple's iPod (again)
| | Introducing the K5. All I can say is, It's about time Samsung! After years of trying, the South Korean giant has finally come up with a truly drool-worthy competitor to Apple's iPod. True, the moniker K5 doesn't give me any... 
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| 01/09/2006
Movie Downloads Coming on iTunes
| | ... starting in mid-September, says my colleague Ron Grover. It appears that Wal-Mart is not happy about the pricing: $14.99 for new DVDs and $9.99 for older ones, compared with today's wholesale price of $17 for retailers. I'm still not... 
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| 31/08/2006
Time for a Surprise Tech IPO Upswing?
| | VC Paul Kedrosky wonders if we've just hit the trough of tech IPOs, and are likely to see a surprise return of the Valley's financial elixir. I'm not sure it's going to be many of those Web 2.0 companies surviving... 
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| 31/08/2006
Update on the UN open source symposium
| | In the wake of my last posting, I finally got hold of Colleen Thouez, chief of UNITAR, the United Nations Institute of Training and Research. She filled me in on the intent of UNITAR's three-day symposium on open source software,... 
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| 31/08/2006
LBO Gang Eyes Silicon Valley. Hmm.
| | My colleagues Peter Burrows and Justin Hibbard have written a story on private-equity firms circling the Valley--an interesting analysis of why it may be time for some tech companies to reconsider whether being a public company is a good thing.... 
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| 29/08/2006
Wait, Now It's Google + Apple. Or Is It?
| | Lots of speculation about what it means that Google CEO Eric Schmidt is joining Apple's board. Marshall at TechCrunch muses that Google's just-announced online office suite on Apple computers might pose a potent threat to Microsoft. (Mmm... maybe. Wonder if... 
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