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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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The hacker credited with pulling off the most damaging hack against Twitter to date, which resulted in the leak of thousands of confidential corporate documents, was arrested by authorities in France. However, the Frenchman was questioned about an earlier attack involving unauthorized access to several high profile T... |
25 March 2010
11:06 GMT |
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A case watched closely by online advertisers worldwide came to a conclusion today, as the European Court of Justice found that Google didn't infringe on other companies' rights by allowing competitors to bid on trademarked keywords. The court, however, left it to individual countries to decide on the matter... |
23 March 2010
07:32 GMT |
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Waze, the crowd sourcing navigation service launched last year, has just announced that mobile phone users in Germany and France can now benefit from the features of their free turn-by-turn GPS app. According to the company, handset owners in these countries will enjoy access to a comprehensive set of German and Fre... |
11 March 2010
08:43 GMT |
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American cyclist Floyd Landis is wanted by French authorities in connection to a hacking incident at a national anti-doping laboratory. The rider denies any involvement in the case and says that the evidence against him is fabricated.Floyd Landis, who rode as Lance Armstrong's teammate when he won all Tour de Fr... |
16 February 2010
10:31 GMT |
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France seems rather confused about the whole Internet thing and it doesn't look like it has any idea of how to handle all the changes and new challenges it brings. On the one hand, it seems determined to put a stop to the horrible file-sharing plague that has taken over the country's Internet users much lik... |
16 January 2010
07:38 GMT |
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Recently, France Telecom’s deputy CEO, Stéphane Richard, seemingly confirmed Apple’s plans of releasing a tablet computer in a radio interview. As it turns out, “A few comments taken out of context, then interpreted into English” was what sparked the flame, Orange PR machine tells paidC... |
12 January 2010
06:47 GMT |
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France has been pushing forward with its plan to protect rights holders even at the expense of its citizens’ freedom online. Despite numerous setbacks, the so-called "three-strikes law" was supposed to go in effect starting January 1, 2010. This has been met with another delay as the law has failed to receive the ap... |
11 January 2010
10:43 GMT |
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An Orange France executive has revealed Apple's plans for introducing a tablet in a radio interview by Jean-Pierre Elkabbach Monday morning. Admittedly, the interviewer seems to have subtly slipped the “term” tablet when addressing the question, while Stéphane Richard was already breathing in ... |
11 January 2010
10:37 GMT |
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France is once again leading the way with a new proposal to advance the state of the Internet after the very popular, and apparently delayed, 'three strikes' law. A report presented to the French officials suggests a great way of helping the misfortune news publishers and the music industry, which just can... |
7 January 2010
11:27 GMT |
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A French appeals court has overrun a previous decision by a lower court and found against Google in a lawsuit involving the Google Suggest feature. The judge ordered the search engine to remove a term which he believed was libelous against the Centre National Privé de Formation a Distance (CNFDI), the organiz... |
7 January 2010
04:24 GMT |
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The Wii proved that a new gaming gadget can take on the Xbox and PlayStation console families, and while it sold great and has several outstanding titles, Nintendo's main console doesn't quite fit in the crowd. A “Wii game” is something that almost implies a less than serious nature for the game... |
6 January 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Last year, the Internet began to be seen as a basic human right and some countries have instituted legal means of guaranteeing that the vast majority of their citizens have access to a quality Internet connection. Other countries, though, are going the other way, hindering their citizen's web use and in some ca... |
4 January 2010
05:21 GMT |
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With the latest iteration of the Google Books settlement, it looked like the company was finally in the clear and able to focus on the product instead of lawsuits but this, unfortunately, isn't the case. While it may have quieted critics in the US, elsewhere, especially in Europe, there are plenty of people mor... |
18 December 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Mobile phone maker Motorola has recently unveiled to the world its second handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the Motorola DROID, which has been launched across Europe as the Motorola MILESTONE. The new device is the first one to sport the Eclair flavor of the platform (Android 2.0), and has b... |
2 December 2009
07:17 GMT |
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European officials and lawmakers don't really like big US companies, though most often than not their actions are justified. eBay has now been ordered to pay a €1.7 million fine for allegedly failing to prevent its users from selling products from the luxury goods manufacturer Moët Hennessy Louis Vui... |
30 November 2009
12:08 GMT |
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Most of the controversy surrounding Google Books has been quieting down lately, but it's not all smooth sailing now that a revised settlement has been agreed upon. While the copyright issues regarding orphan books have been addressed, European countries are still very much against the idea that the task of pres... |
30 November 2009
10:25 GMT |
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Apple has opened the first of a series of stores planned for Paris, which includes a location in Montpellier, and one store near the Garnier opera house, which Apple hopes to open by the summer of 2010. The first store is located in the Carrousel du Louvre. Present at the time of the opening was none other than the r... |
6 November 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Acer Liquid, the first Android device delivered to the market by computer maker Acer, was officially unveiled a few weeks ago, and is reported to come to France sometime in December with Android 1.6 on board. There are little changes Acer has made to the operating system on its Acer Liquid handset, but this might be ... |
2 November 2009
06:15 GMT |
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A 32-year-old man working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near the French-Swiss border, was detained under accusations of terrorism last week, when it was proven that he was entertaining links with the renowned terrorist organization al-Qaeda. The man, who is of Algerian descent, was working on an experiment insi... |
13 October 2009
05:05 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced about two weeks ago the launch of its first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, and it seems that the device is set to come to the market in France sometime at the beginning of November. The handset was announced to come before the end of... |
2 October 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson's second Xperia device that will run under Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system seems to be set for a launch on the market in November this year. The handset is reportedly heading for France during that month, and is expected to reach the country at a price tag of €600 without a co... |
18 September 2009
02:48 GMT |
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One of the hottest mobile phones currently available on the market and running under the Google Android operating system is the Samsung Galaxy i7500. Although it is the first (and only) such device the South Korean mobile phone maker launched, it is poised to attract a lot of users on its side, and it seems that it m... |
2 September 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Google Books is about to score another victory, this time in France. It looks like when the search giant sets its sights on something nothing will stand in its way, be it publishers, competitors and even national pride. After four years of resistance the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) is very close to ... |
19 August 2009
03:35 GMT |
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LG's GD910 has been unveiled to the world as the first 3G touch watch phone ever. Indeed, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics did a great job at packing all the capabilities of a 3G-enabled phone within a watch case, and now the device is available for purchase in France via Orange. The price of the w... |
8 August 2009
04:17 GMT |
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A number of captains, sailing their ships in the crowded waters of the English Channel on Monday night, signaled to the coastguard services in France and the United Kingdom, saying that they noticed warning flares in the night sky. The lights, they reported, were either white or bright green, and they urged authoriti... |
16 June 2009
08:42 GMT |
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It would appear that French prison guards and relevant authorities have no sense of their own preservation, or of that of the civilian population. This was demonstrated only recently, when they announced plans to retrofit 200 prisoners with bicycles, and run a Tour de France of their own, outside the famous annual co... |
26 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The first mobile phone running under the Google Android operating system coming from the South Korean handset maker Samsung, the already announced Samsung i7500, is now reported to be on its way to get launched in France via Bouygues Telecom as the Samsung Galaxy. Although Samsung announced that the phone would becom... |
20 May 2009
04:23 GMT |
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The Spanish Environment Ministry has announced only recently that the Pyrenee mountains, which are located at the border between France and Spain, have lost more than 90 percent of their ice during the 20th century, and that, if the current global warming trend continues, the remaining 10 percent of ice could disappe... |
25 February 2009
06:56 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the source exclusively covering news and information on Apple's retail initiatives worldwide, reports that France is getting two new Apple stores this year. One of the upcoming French stores had previously been reported as planned. The second, however, comes as a surprise, the source points out.&l... |
23 February 2009
10:17 GMT |
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A private company prospecting the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in order to plot a course for a new underwater gas pipe between Algeria and Italy has accidentally come across the Danton French battleship, which was sunk by the German navy during the First World War, in 1917. Reportedly, the ship still has numerous ... |
19 February 2009
06:49 GMT |
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Finding extraterrestrial intelligence has been one of humankind's most long-standing dreams, dating apparently several thousands of years back, when various figures resembling modern astronauts were drawn on pyramid and temple walls by priests or artists. In modern times, telescopes have been believed to be the ... |
12 February 2009
09:13 GMT |
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There was no warning of the catastrophe. In early January 1709, the worst cold spell to hit Europe in 500 years reigned down unexpectedly on people and animals, bringing about devastation. Throughout the continent, from Norway to Italy and from Romania to France, rivers froze, seas caught ice, animals died in their b... |
7 February 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Officials from the French space agency CNES announced on Wednesday that a thorough reassessment of the budget for the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission was in order, amidst fears that constraints might affect the 2016 mission, at a time changes would not be possible. The experts advocate the necessity of a... |
31 January 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Tequila, the world-famous drink made from the agave plant, originates in Mexico for more than 400 years, and has since gained an international reputation for its flavor and unique taste. But now, a new study conducted by researchers at the North Carolina State University (NCS) shows that the way in which the drink is... |
13 January 2009
08:33 GMT |
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Poland not to veto any proposed climate deals that may result from the European Union summit, which will end today in Gdansk, Poland. The problem with any deals is the fact that many of the newest EU members, states that were part of the Soviet Union, including Romania, Bulgaria... |
12 December 2008
03:49 GMT |
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The French Senate, one of the two bodies which must approve a bill before it can become law, has just passed a measure aimed at banning “persistent pirates” from using the Internet. The measure was passed with an overwhelming majority. There were 297 votes for it and only 15 votes against it.The idea is t... |
7 November 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Over the last few years, Ethiopia was hit by several drought waves, which relentlessly crippled the nation's electricity production, seeing how most regions are powered up by hydroelectric power plants. That's why national authorities recently inked a deal with the French company Vergent, which is to begin ... |
22 October 2008
10:23 GMT |
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Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the popular BlackBerry smartphones, announced the upcoming availability of BlackBerry Bold 9000 in Luxembourg and France. In Luxembourg, the new BlackBerry will be offered via TELE2TANGO, the small country's second largest mobile carrier, starting September 9,... |
4 September 2008
09:51 GMT |
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Google's supremacy on the search engines market is guaranteed for a long while from now on. The case of France, which is one of the most devoted markets to Google's search engine, supports this affirmation. A study provided by comScore reveals that, in May, 82% of the French Internet users conducted their s... |
15 July 2008
09:25 GMT |
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Orange and BIC, the company best known for stationery products, lighters and razors, have partnered to bring a new affordable mobile phone, simply named the "BIC phone." Presented as a basic handset that's "100% ready to go," the BIC phone comes packed just like a razor and includes a SIM card, 60 free minutes ... |
14 July 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Rumors concerning a potential expansion of Google Street View in Europe have been circulating on the web for some time now, but the Mountain View-based company hasn't made it clear yet if it considers such an expansion or not. However, Google Street View cars are occasionally spotted in Europe, which obviously s... |
12 May 2008
08:06 GMT |
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