Stuffed grape pesticides!

The investigation by several environmental associations, and made public this week, is disturbing. The five NGOs have, in fact, analyzed 124 samples of grapes sold in supermarkets in France, Italy, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands.

Result: 123 of the 124 samples contained pesticide! Nearly 5% of them exceeded even the new maximum residue limits (MRL), legal limits it is in principle prohibited to exceed. Among the substances found: neurotoxic pesticides, suspected to be carcinogenic and to be "endocrine disruptors", whose effects on male fertility have been found.

And in France? Besides the fact that 100% of 25 samples were contaminated, near a cluster of two pesticides contained 10 or more. With an astonishing record: 16 herbicides in a single sample of grapes bought! Worse yet, pesticides and prohibited from use in the European Union were also found in grapes sold in France. Including endosulfan, persistent organic pollutants (POPs), where the damage is felt for years on the environment. Or an insecticide, the bromopropylate discovered in a cluster of Italian origin and is permitted for over a year.

For his part, François Veillerette, president of the Movement for the law and respect for future generations (MDRGF), the NGO who coordinated the study for France, calls on supermarket chains to "apply the standards more demanding" than those provided by law.

Chrome Google is preparing a second after its launch offensive flash

To attract more users, both pre-install its browser on computers manufacturers ... This is the initiative that now wishes to take Google to support the development of its browser Chrome unveiled in September.

"We will certainly enter into distribution agreements," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of Google in charge of product development, in an interview with timesonline. "We will work in collaboration with OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer - or computer manufacturer) to deliver them to their computers preinstalled with Google."

The Mountain View firm sounds by poker coup launched by Microsoft in the 90s. Given the success of the Netscape browser, Bill Gates had decided to risposte launching in turn its Internet Explorer browser in 1995 in its Windows 95 operating system and all versions. Advantage of its near-monopoly in the OS market, Internet Explorer has gradually eroded market share to Netscape, eventually dominate the world of browsers.

A final version Windows delivered early 2009

And Google does not stop there. Sundar Pichai also states that should go Chrome final version on Windows, abandoning its status as a "beta", from next January. A milling dedicated to Mac OS X and Linux is also being prepared. It should be introduced in the first half of 2009. What conquer almost all computers around the world ...

As for Microsoft, it does not seem to fear this new competition. John Curran, head of UK Windows, timesonline explains that "the world of browsers is sufficiently competitive, ultimately, users end up choosing what is good for them." He added "In any case, the United Kingdom is Internet Explorer that won the".

And indeed very Chrome will have to do to win the followers of IE, Firefox or Safari. According to a study by XiTi Monitor, the browser in the Mountain View company posted a visiting European average of 1.03% on September 30. This share was estimated at 1.59% after its release (which dates back to September 3).

Google Chrome rose and the fifth largest browsers in terms of number of visits, behind Safari (2.4%), Opera (4.8%), and the two indétrônables Firefox (31%) and Internet Explorer (60.2 %).

Dutch police investigate bought a baby

The story began in April. A couple of Dutch, 26 years each, pus married a year ago, answered an ad on the Internet. A Belgian mother 24 years and his 22-year offer to sell their second child. The Dutch couple, who can not have children, reportedly paid 5,000 to 10,000 euros for the child, according to Dutch media.

The Belgian couple had decided not to keep the baby because of financial problems, prosecutors said in Ghent, Belgium. The pregnancy was at an advanced stage, "abortion was no longer possible and parents came into contact via the Internet with a couple who wanted a child."

The Dutch couple says that the child was adopted. But prosecutors confirmed that a payment was made without specifying the amount.

The baby's mother had submitted on July 3 to motherhood with the health insurance card of the Netherlands. The latter reportedly said the day after the birth of the child for mayor of Ghent.

Ghent prosecutors opened an investigation against the Belgian couple for "assumption of children", ie the award to a woman whose child she is not the mother, crime punishable by five years in prison in Belgium.

Dutch side, the floor of Zwolle, north-east of the Netherlands, will also order a police investigation.

Sanctioned by the courts, Wizzgo suspend its online video

Tuesday severely condemned by the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris for illegally copied programs of several television channels, Wizzgo decided Wednesday to suspend its video service online.

Tuesday, TGI Paris ruled that the company had committed "acts of infringement by reproducing and communicating to the public, without authorization, programs produced and broadcast by the channels M6, W9, TF1 and NT1 and sentenced to pay nearly half a million euros in damages to the group M6, a conviction that could increase once TF1 and NT1 have assessed their injury.

"It appears that beyond a decision in principle which now prohibits the use of a VCR dematerialized, the ruling makes clear the will to put an end to Wizzgo", reacted Wednesday one of the founders of Wizzgo, Cut-Jerome Rousseau.

"Amazed" by "the exceptional importance of conviction" that has been imposed, he concludes that "in these circumstances, Wizzgo was forced to suspend today's video service online.

Accused of piracy by its detractors, on the contrary Wizzgo believes that "by refusing the natural evolution of conventional VCR in the digital environment, this decision will unfortunately result in concrete blowing on the embers of illegal downloading."

The company, which has already garnered 25,000 supporters on the petition it launched, "therefore solemnly appeals to the authorities that built the legal and regulatory framework that would allow 400,000 French households that have already adopted the service to continue to benefit while paying the beneficiaries. "

Fuzz exonerated - Internet fee - EUROPEEAN

The bloggers and other creators of Web 2.0 sites can sleep on both ears. A ruling in their favor was made recently. The case dates back to March 2008. At the time, she was "distraught" the French web. Remember: blogger Eric Dupin, was sentenced for having revealed on his website Fuzz.fr small alcove secrets for a French actor, namely Olivier Martinez. 8 months ago, the blogger was convicted of invasion of privacy. A few days ago, boom, the Court of Appeal finally exonerated Eric Dupin. Senior magistraits considered that the site editor but was not simply host. Indeed, Fuzz.fr is powered by information from other media. According to lawyers blogger, this decision is consistent with the Act on Confidence in the Digital Economy. Instead, it has what people worry about privacy. For now, Olivier Martinez has not yet decided whether it will be filled in Cassation.

Wizzgo launched an online petition to save his digital video recorder

Convinced of unfair competition, trademark infringement and has seen its services as "unlawful and constitute infringements of copyright and neighboring rights", Wizzgo had been forced to no longer offer registration emissions France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5, TF1 and NT1.

Not to mention that last August, the same court had prohibited the same company to provide Internet programs channels M6 and W9.

Today, to save his digital video recorder, Wizzgo has launched an online petition entitled: Petition to government for the right to private copy with a VCR online.

During his appearance before the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, Wizzgo had argued that its use of video online falls under the right to private copying prepared by the Intellectual Property Code. But the court rejected this argument from the publisher: "The private copying exception does not apply to a company which provides copies to others, the copier and the user is not the same person [ ...]".

This petition therefore request that copies be extended to private records online, with the main arguments: "Because I have paid the fee for private copying to my iPod or on an external hard drive and that I must be able to copy my TV "," Because I would like to register for free programs of public channels for which I pay the fee "or" Because it is in line with changing technologies and practices, simply. "

Digital divide north-south: Europeans do not deliver

The Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade denounced the "promises" not required by the EU, the World Bank and major IT groups to reduce the digital divide north-south, in an interview published by Liberation.

"We spent a lot of money in travel and conferences, but funding is too low, slow to come or are not honored, it must stop chasing promises," said Wade, saying "angry "In this interview published at the end of the first international conference on Digital Solidarity, held in Lyon (center-east).

"All these conferences, that's enough, the World Bank had promised us $ 1 billion (780 million euros) for digital, they are still waiting," he said.

"Seventeen countries participated (in the Global Digital Solidarity Fund launched in 2005 at the initiative of Senegal, ie) through contributions amounting to 300 000 per year, but apart from France, nobody contributed in the European Union. Too few countries, and almost any company, responded to our call, "he adds.

Objective: creation of clusters of massive retraining PC

"Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft, ie) realized that Africa was a large digital market and we had promised software education for our teachers," says Wade.

However, "digital is vital for our countries to the extent it is a powerful lever for transverse solve all the problems of development," said the Senegalese president. He believes that "urgent create massive chains of computer recycling for the southern countries", with the aim of providing "500 million computers in five years, including 500 000 from Europe" .

Companies in the sector "must help us collect computers and could, for example, finance transportation," he suggests.

The Global Digital Solidarity has 28 founding members, including 18 states like France and Senegal. It has funded since 2005 a score of projects with a total of 900 000.