Digital piracy

Digital piracy is used as a pretext by Russian police to attack NGOs.

TECH 24

By Francis Pisani

Digital piracy is used as a pretext by Russian police to raid environmental and human rights groups. They used to have the support of Microsoft which, after a story was published in The New York Times, has decided to change its policy...

Other topics: Google Instant gives you answers before you finish asking your question. GMail's Priority Inbox classifies your mails automatically according to their importance (and you can train it).

The pick of the week, Ghostery.com, helps you fight sites that gather information about you without telling you.

And don't miss a very funny video on the weakness of the iPad (as compared to a traditional newspaper) when you use it as a fly-swat.

14/05/2012 - TECH 24

Ready... set... power. Africa 2.0 powered by the sun.

A California-start-up is hoping to harness the power of the sun to energize Africa's burgeoning cell phone market. The ReadySet from Fenix is an affordable new charging station with an equally innovative business model. Plus, the phenomenon behind Kickstarter, the hugely successful site for creative professionals to find millions of financial supporters for their projects.

30/04/2012 - TECH 24

Inside Apple's mysterious corporate culture

'Inside Apple' is a new book that purportedly reveals some of the management secrets behind the tech company's remarkable success over the past 20 years. Author Adam Lashinky describes a truly distinctive corporate culture that emphasizes discipline, costs and creativity. But even as it racks up one success after another, can the company avoid the inevitable pitfalls ahead?

23/04/2012 - TECH 24

French elections in the age of Twitter

Twitter users around the world defied the French government's ban on publishing exit polls and preliminary results from Sunday's first round presidential election. Drawing on the spirit of Charles de Gaulle's coded broadcasts from London during WWII, the hashtag 'radiolondres' became the forum to distribute coded messages Sunday with the results.

09/04/2012 - TECH 24

Digital Russia

Although Moscow may no longer have the geopolitical influence that it had during the cold war, Russia is increasingly becoming a global tech powerhouse. In this special edition of Tech 24, FRANCE 24's Rebecca Bowring reports from Moscow on the growing prowess of Russian tech firms.

02/04/2012 - TECH 24

France's presidential election goes digital

The last French voters went to the polls in 2007 to elect their president, the Internet played an inconsequential role. Today, the situation is totally different. Voters across the country are participating via micro-blogs, social networks and search engines prompting the leading campaigns to develop comprehensive online strategies.

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