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FIFA Street Gets Indoor Germany vs. France Trailer

The developers at EA Sports have offered yet another trailer for the upcoming FIFA Street reboot, showing players some actual action featuring players from two of the best teams in the world, France and Germany. The two have developed a healthy rivalry over the years and are expected to do well at the upcoming Europ...

14 February 2012
12:11 GMT

French Court Finds Google Guilty for "Maps" Being Free

Google has been found guilty of unfair competition in France and ordered to pay €500,000 or $660,000 in damages along with a €15,000, $19,675 fine. The court found that Google was abusing its dominating position in the market by giving away Google Maps for free. Bottin Cartographes, a company that offers a...

2 February 2012
07:11 GMT

Alleged Anonymous Hackers Arrested in France for Attack on EDF

Two suspects, aged 26 and 36, were arrested in Paris, France, after being suspected of launching distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks on Electricité de France (EDF), a leading electricity supplier, several times. According to FranceInfo the men are accused of launching attacks on April 20 and April 23...

27 January 2012
08:09 GMT

Google Fined €50,000, $64,670 in France over Search Suggestions

Google is getting into trouble again in France and it's over the same issues, people don't like things they find in the search results. This time, it's a variation on the theme, someone didn't like the Google suggestions.A French insurance company, Lyonnaise de Garantie, didn't especially app...

30 December 2011
04:51 GMT

French MP Valerie Boyer’s Website Hacked for Genocide Denial Bill

A Turkish hacker collective defaced the personal website of Valerie Boyer (valerie-boyer.fr), a member of the French parliament, as a result of the fact that she authored a bill that fines and imprisons anyone who denies genocide acts. According to The Hacker News, Boyer called the police after she and her family re...

27 December 2011
10:39 GMT

French President Caught Illegally Downloading ‘Beach Boys’ Album (Updated)

Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France and one of the most powerful men of Europe, was busted today after journalists from a French news site, armed with Élysée Palace IPs, took a peak to see what has been downloaded from the president’s residence. If the three-strike piracy law adopted by Fr...

15 December 2011
11:02 GMT

Nokia Lumia 800 Usage Going Up in France

Nokia’s first Windows Phone, the Lumia 800, has seen a warm welcome from mobile phone users in France, and it seems that they are still in love with it. Some of the latest reports on the matter show that the mobile phone’s usage among end-users in the country has increased significantly during the past f...

7 December 2011
16:41 GMT

Nicolas Sarkozy Hangs Out with Eric Schmidt at French Google HQ Inauguration

Google has just opened up its new French headquarters. This isn't just some small local office, Google plans to run all of its business in South Europe, Africa and the Middle East from here.Google Executive Chairman and diplomat extraordinaire Eric Schmidt was there and so was French President Nicolas Sarkozy. &...

6 December 2011
12:51 GMT

Britain to Deal with Flooding Risks and Water Shortages

Climate change will trigger long-term damaging effects, different for every region, according to a recent study issued by the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. The organization tried to forecast how 24 would be affected by global warming by 2100, unless governments find appropriate...

6 December 2011
11:06 GMT

Greenpeace Activists Break in French Nuclear Site

Greenpeace activists might have gone a little too far this time, after they broke in a French nuclear site located 95 kilometers from Paris. Their action aimed to reveal the vulnerability of the power plant. Greenpeace called the police and they arrived in no time to investigate the case. After nine hours spent on t...

6 December 2011
02:43 GMT

French Anti-Piracy Group Strangles Cyberlocker Funding

Hadopi, the French anti-piracy organization that was put in charge with handling the now famous three-strike law, is determined to attack piracy from another angle. More precisely, they want to go after the means utilized by illegal file-sharing websites and cyberlockers to fund their operations. According to Torren...

29 November 2011
15:31 GMT

France Will Showcase the Largest Tidal Farm Ever Built in 2012

Despite the fact that France has openly admitted that it can't afford to say goodbye to nuclear power, the nation is excited to welcome extra green power coming from a giant project which will harness the water energy in a particular area located off the coast of France near Paimpol-Bréhat. The massive ...

15 November 2011
04:24 GMT

France Can't Afford to Say Goodbye to Nuclear Power

Many nations have redefined their position regarding the nuclear power usage, after the devastating impact of the Fukushima disaster. Countries like Belgium, Austria, Germany and Switzerland started to realize the seriousness of the threats behind this industry, so they are presently trying to replace the benefits p...

10 November 2011
07:17 GMT

Rumor Mill: 6,000 Copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Stolen in France

News sources in France are reporting that about 6,000 copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the highly anticipated first person shooter from developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision, have been stolen from a truck in France and are now fetching record prices on eBay.TF1 News says that sources close to the ...

7 November 2011
05:49 GMT

Nokia Lumia 800 Top Selling Phone in France the Last Week of October

Nokia has just unveiled to the world the first handsets it designed with Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system on board, and it seems that they already are highly popular among mobile phone users. Nokia Lumia 800, for example, has become the top selling smartphone at PhoneHouse in France during the last ...

4 November 2011
05:57 GMT

Le Huffington Post, the Popular News Aggregator to Launch French Edition with Le Monde

The Huffington Post, the sometimes criticized but undoubtedly popular "news and opinion" website, is branching out with its third international expansion in France. It became available in the UK earlier this year and in Canada before that, but the French version will be the first non-English edition. Imaginatively...

10 October 2011
09:30 GMT

E.ON‘s Sixth Wind Farm in France Goes Online

E.ON France has recently opened a new onshore wind farm on the “Kergrist Moëlou – Plounevez Quintin” site in the Côtes-d’Armor. The company’s sixth such project has increased its installed renewable power capacity in France to 83.5 MW.
The onshore wind farm has 13 wind turbine...

10 October 2011
03:38 GMT

Amazon Launches Kindle Store and Ebook Reader in France

Amazon made quite a splash with the launch of its new Kindle line, which includes the Fire tablet. But, unfortunately, most of those devices are available in the US, well, they will be once they start shipping. The Kindle Fire tablet will be an US exclusive device and, for now the Touch Kindles are only available, o...

7 October 2011
10:51 GMT

Nintendo Wins Legal Battle Against French DS Pirates

A French court has ruled for Nintendo in a lawsuit against six companies that were accused of selling flash cards for the DS line of handhelds, saying that they were guilty and needed to pay more than 460,000 Euro in criminal fines and 4.8 million Euro in damages to the Japanese company (which is a little over 690,00...

6 October 2011
13:31 GMT

More than Half European Adults Play Video Games

Video game developer PopCap Games has announced the results of the National Gamers Survey conducted in a number of European countries by Newzoo that shows that more than half of all the adults in the United Kingdom, Germany and France are playing video games on consoles, using casual game sites, mobile devices and so...

9 August 2011
17:21 GMT

French Daily Deals Site Gets Banned from Google, AdSense, Files Antitrust Complaint

Google is being targeted once again in Europe by companies complaining about the search giant's alleged anti-competitive practices. The latest is a French daily deals site which claims that Google has "illegally" removed the site from its search index and that it blocked it from using its AdSense program.The com...

8 August 2011
11:11 GMT

Google Books to Offer Tens of Thousands of Titles in France, in First-of-Its-Kind Deal

While talks languish in the US, Google has managed to strike a first of its kind deal in France for its Google Books project. Google has managed to get publisher Hachette Livre to sign a deal with the company enabling it to offer out-of-print as well as in-print versions of the books owned by Hachette in Google'...

8 August 2011
07:11 GMT

Homo Sapiens Defeated Neanderthals Through Sheer Numbers

For many years, historians and archaeologists have been trying to piece together the history of what happened with the Neanderthals that used to inhabit Europe and Asia some 35,000 to 45,000 years ago. A new study reveals that Homo sapiens replaced this species due to its large numbers. Neanderthals were the first...

30 July 2011
04:25 GMT

Sony Pictures France Website Hacked

Two hackers claim to have found an SQL injection vulnerability on www.sonypictures.fr which gave them access to its underlying database.The hackers who go by the online handles of Idahc and Auth3ntiq, claim to be from Lebanon and France, respectively.In support of their claim they released screenshots showing the son...

20 June 2011
05:43 GMT

ZTE Skate to Hit France in July for Under €200

ZTE Skate, the Android-based mobile phone that was unveiled to the world during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is reportedly heading for the market in France with a price tag of under €200 attached to it.Apparently, the new mobile phone is expected to arrive on shelves in the country as soon as next mo...

11 June 2011
02:23 GMT

Facebook and Twitter Banned from French TV

In a piece of news that has been making the round and getting quite a lot of people riled up, perhaps for good reason, France has now concluded that TV stations and radios are forbidden from uttering the words "Facebook" or "Twitter" in any other occasions than in news stories pertaining strictly to the two companies...

4 June 2011
08:11 GMT

HTC Sensation Lands in the UK and France Tomorrow

Ever since HTC has announced the release of HTC Sensation, enthusiasts have been eagerly awaiting for info on its market availability, and it seems that things are finally lining up well on this direction, as France and the UK are expected to receive it as soon as tomorrow, May 19th. Initially set to make an appeara...

18 May 2011
08:45 GMT

HTC Sensation's Launch Gets Pushed Back in France

HTC Sensation, the high-end smartphone that HTC Corporation unveiled only a few weeks ago, was expected to land on shelves in France on May 12th, but its release was pushed back. The mobile phone was set to land in the country on the airwaves of wireless carrier SFR, which had exclusivity on the device. The ...

14 May 2011
06:02 GMT

Xperia neo Arrives in France as Xperia kyno

Sony Ericsson Xperia neo, one of the new mobile phones that leading handset vendor Sony Ericsson unveiled to the world in February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is expected to arrive on shelves in France under the name of Xperia kyno. The new name was chosen by Sony Ericsson fans in the country, the...

12 May 2011
06:51 GMT

HTC Pyramid to Land in Europe Next Month

One of the most interesting smartphones that Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation is rumored to plan on making available for purchase around the world would be the HTC Pyramid, and some more info on the device's arrival on shelves emerged recently. Apparently, the yet-unannounced mobile phone is exp...

2 April 2011
03:58 GMT

Google Fined €100,000 over Street View WiFi Snooping

Google has received its first financial penalty for its Street View WiFi mishap. The French privacy regulator, CNIL, awarded Google with the maximum fine it could impose, €100,000 almost $142,000. It is the first time the agency has had to do this. What's more, CNIL criticized Google for its lack of coopera...

21 March 2011
18:11 GMT

French Finance Ministry Targeted in Cyber Espionage Attack

The French government confirmed that over 150 Finance Ministry computers were affected by a cyber attack that targeted information related to the February G20 summit.The incident was first reported by French weekly magazine Paris Match and is said to have occurred in December.The origin of the attack was traced back...

7 March 2011
08:54 GMT

France Based Gamers Love Red Nintendo Wii Consoles

One of the leading executives of Nintendo working in the French division of the hardware manufacturer and video game developer has said that gamers in the country love the red Wii consoles that have been recently launched on Mario's anniversary and have bought no less than 150,000 of them since they were introdu...

4 January 2011
03:46 GMT

French Parliament Adopts Controversial Website Blocking Legislation

The French National Assembly has adopted a controversial article of a bill known as LOPPSI 2, which allows the government to order websites blocked without a court order.LOPPSI 2 stands for "loi d'orientation et de programmation pour la performance de la sécurité intérieure," which translate...

20 December 2010
10:55 GMT

French King Henry IV's Head Finally Laid to Rest

About 400 years after King Henry IV of France died, authorities are finally laying his remains to rest. And by that we mean of course his head, which has apparently been making the rounds in private collections of antiquities enthusiasts for centuries. Back in 1793, as the revolution swept France, revolutionaries sym...

15 December 2010
09:34 GMT

Google Strikes Book-Scanning Deal with French Publisher

Google and the French publisher Hachette Livre have reached a deal pertaining to out-of-print books from the publisher. The deal will enable Google to scan and sell the books the publisher agrees to with a revenue split. The deal is non-exclusive, but is a welcomed relief for Google in a country which hasn't tak...

18 November 2010
09:33 GMT

Google to Be More Transparent About Ad Policies to Settle French Case

Google has settled with the French authorities in a case concerning its policy of blocking certain keywords somewhat arbitrarily. Google has agreed to notify account owners three months in advance when it plans to block keywords, but only in France and only for companies selling devices aimed at drivers trying to avo...

28 October 2010
12:20 GMT

Civilization V – Forward for the French Empire

Civilization V is the new turn based strategy game from Jon Shafer, Sid Meier and the team at Firaxis, allowing players to take control of a nation as a mythical leader and lead them to glory in search of victory via domination, science, social policies or democratic world vote.Napoleon is a funny little guy. Student...

4 October 2010
19:01 GMT

Google Loses Another Lawsuit in France over Suggest Feature

Court decisions swing either way for Google. While the company won an interesting copyright case involving YouTube in Spain last week, it lost another case in France over its Google Suggest feature which was deemed slanderous and Google responsible. Google was sued in the country by a man found guilty of "corruption ...

27 September 2010
09:52 GMT

Google Street View Car Searched by French Authorities

A Google Street View car was stopped and searched in France as the authorities wanted to check that Google had indeed stopped collecting Wi-Fi data as the company claimed.This was necessary since Google started collecting imagery in the country again, before the authorities had a chance to review the new hardware set...

27 August 2010
11:25 GMT

Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi – Franco German Stalemate

My forces are ready. My commanders, poor as they are, have their orders. I even hope to get some help from allies. And on September 2, when Nazi Germany declared war on Poland and begins its advance, I begin air raids over the Rhineland and launch attacks on two regions, at different points in the line, with my armor...

12 August 2010
19:01 GMT

Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi – Defending on Two Fronts

The main problem for France is the fact that they get attacked on two fronts when Germany decides to start the war, one in the center, very near Paris and one in the south, where the Italians take the lead. There's a third area which will see battle, the North of Africa, but it's not crucial to the defense ...

11 August 2010
18:01 GMT

Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi – How to Untangle a Command Structure

It seems that most countries in 1936 had no idea how to optimize the command chain for their armies. Germany has loads of infantry divisions that have nothing special about them attached directly to their army corps commanders and even to theater headquarters. Panzer commanders like Guderian are attached to slow infa...

10 August 2010
18:31 GMT

Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi – Judging the World as the French

Ever since the first Hearts of Iron my impulse was to play Germany. A quick look at the community shows that a lot of players tend to do this. Not because we actually would like the Nazi Third Reich to actually win World War II in real life (well, a minority might want that) but because the losing side always present...

9 August 2010
19:51 GMT

French Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Google in Keyword Trademark Lawsuit

Google has won a long-standing lawsuit brought against the company by luxury goods manufacturer Louis Vuitton and other companies for trademark infringement. These companies claimed that enabling others to bid on keywords trademarked by them is infringing and a French court initially agreed. Now, after the case was a...

14 July 2010
06:59 GMT

Galaxy Naos and Teos to Replace Galaxy Spica in France

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is reportedly getting ready to replace its i5700 Galaxy Spica Android-based mobile phone with two new devices, dubbed Samsung Galaxy Naos and Galaxy Teos. Both handsets are said to come to the market as variants of the Samsung i5800 handset, and both of them emerged into the w...

13 July 2010
03:45 GMT

Nexus One Hits France via SFR

Mountain View-based Internet company Google announced a few days ago that it would halt the online sales of Nexus One, the first (and only) handset running under Android to be sold online via the company's web store. While the device landed in the United States and Canada like this, it can be purchased in the U...

19 May 2010
04:39 GMT

Apple Premieres Movies on Ireland, France iTunes Stores

Apple has announced the availability of movies from major labels on iTunes for two territories - Ireland, and France. U.S. Film studios mentioned in the report include 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Com...

30 April 2010
06:54 GMT

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Land at SFR on April 27

SFR and Palm, Inc. recently unveiled plans to launch the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus phones on the market in France on April 27. According to the duo, the two handsets powered by the Palm webOS platform will be put on sale at that date via the carrier's online store, and are expected to hit all SFR stores ...

21 April 2010
06:55 GMT

Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Headed for France on SFR

Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm recently confirmed plans to have its Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus devices available for purchase in France before the end of April. The two handsets are set to make an appearance in the country on the airwaves of SFR, Paul Ghent, Palm's vice president of European sales, to...

16 April 2010
05:17 GMT


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