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 Depuis quelques semaines, le site Chocolatiers.pro s’est dévoilé sur la toile ! Cet espace d’information et de partage sur le thème du chocolat va permettre aux internautes d’en apprendre un peu plus sur l’histoire du chocolat, ses origines et son expansion, mais également sur sa fabrication, sa production et ses bienfaits.
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Andrew Yates, Chief Executive at Artesian Solutions, a provider of web based market intelligence and surveillance software, outlines his thoughts on why news corporations charging for news content can actually be a good thing. A new storm is emerging within the media and digital industries after Rupert Murdoch’s very public announcement that his News Corporation intends to charge for online newspaper content. After posting record losses of $203 million in the last quarter, Murdoch is about to embark on one of the gutsiest moves in the history of news content and search by charging for online news content. Many analysts have backed Murdoch’s controversial plans to revolutionise digital content, arguing that media content costs money to package and distribute, so why shouldn’t there be a cost to the consumer especially in light of dwindling advertising revenues as the Corporate switch their dollars from traditional media to Google and others. But can this actually work, when many consumers searching for news have grown up believing that pretty much anything on the web should be free? For all the doubters that believe Murdoch’s plans are lacking substance, history remembers that this isn’t the first time Murdoch has created a paradigm shift within the media sector. The launch of subscription based television Sky back in 1989, was initially met with scepticism and resistance. However, within its first year Sky had one million paying customers. Murdoch was able to win consumers over by providing unique, premium content, such as sports and movies and provided subscribers with advanced technology through Sky’s set-top boxes. This approach revolutionised television and who’s to say history can’t repeat itself when Murdoch adopts a similar model online. One of the main arguments against Murdoch’s plans is that it will vastly reduce the number of visitors to the News Corporation’s sites and people will migrate to the free news sites such as the BBC or Guardian. However, with newspaper revenues rapidly depleting, surely it is better to have one thousand paying subscribers to newspaper’s website, than it is five million non paying readers. Murdoch is trying to ensure by charging for news content that the people who create the news - journalists and publishers - get a source of revenue that is not just from advertising and wrestle some of their hard earned cash back from the aggregators. Furthermore, his argument for charging for content is based around ‘quality’ and this is a commodity that people are prepared to pay for. Additionally, we pay for a printed copy of our favourite newspaper, so why not an online copy. The natural progression by charging for content is that through targeted information and the learned behaviours of the subscribers, newspapers will be able to build a 24 hour, 7 days a week relationship (rather than once in the morning) and therefore tailor content to the demands of those paying for the service. Surely, this will be good for the consumer. Consumers today have grown up believing search and content should be free, from general search engines, social networking sites, online newspapers, email accounts to various downloading programmes. Any time we are asked to pay for content online, the consumer inevitably closes the page and tries to find it for free. However, in order to have a choice of what you want to read and when you want to read it, you have to pay, and this is what Rupert Murdoch is trying to introduce. The media tycoon is committed to providing high quality content, just like he did with Sky television, and it inevitably looks like the business man’s brave decision could be correct once again. It just may take a little time to win people over.
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Super speed flash drive leaves other USBs in its dust at the Ferrari Maserati racing day
25 August 2009 – London, UK – BlockMaster (www.blockmastersecurity.com) a leading provider of secure removable data devices, today launches SafeStick SuperSonic, which is 5x faster than any other device in the market, enabling users to transfer files and information securely in just a few seconds. SafeStick SuperSonic was put through its paces at the Ferrari Maserati Racing Day in Sweden on August 22nd, where BlockMaster zoomed around the track at speeds of up to 200 mph in the Maserati MC12. SuperSonic was tagged on the fastest supercars in the world to mark the release of BlockMaster’s technological invention, which takes USB speeds to the max and AES256 hardware encryption further than it has ever gone before.
SafeStick SuperSonic revs up to 23Mbyte/s for write and 33Mbyte/s for read, providing lightning speed transfer of files. This move is designed to support the huge growth in rich media files, such as images and videos, being transferred onto USB flash drives for business use. It only takes between nine and 30 seconds to load, jetting ahead of competitive devices, which take up to a minute to load every time they are plugged in.
SuperSonic is aggressively priced at £65 for a 4GB stick and £115 for an 8GB stick and available immediately. It comes with all the security of a standard SafeStick, including:
- Instantly secure portable data with always-on automatic hardware AES 256 CBC encryption
- Easy setup, flexible self-service deployment for larger organisations
- Tough and built to last metal exterior with epoxy potted tamper safe components inside
- Fastest start-up times and the best flash storage components
- Lock down if left behind using a adjustable timer lock The device can be easily managed through SafeConsole, a web based management solution for managing, auditing, pushing files to, resetting passwords, and applying custom policies to all of an organisation’s SafeSticks wherever they are used around the world.
To get your hands on a 4GB SuperSonic SafeStick, please tweet #SuperSonic as many times as you like. You will be contacted at the start of September if you are one of the five lucky winners.
Alternatively if you’d like to get your hands on a 4GB or 8GB review unit, please contact " target="_blank"><a href="mailto:blockmaster@rocketcomms.net">blockmaster@rocketcomms.net</a>.
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Les Champagnes Duval Leroy affirment leur personnalité au travers d'une nouvelle expression visuelle créée par Dragon Rouge.
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