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After the madness of the Netbook, here come from the Internet Tablet. This is reduced to a computer touch screen, in color, which can surf the Internet, play games, watch movies, listen to music, reading newspapers and books. The Apple iPad, which will be marketed in April, "will revitalize the market for tablet PCs, which could reach for the equipment alone, 12 billion dollars in 2014," says research firm Strategy Analytics.

On the PC market, which continues to grow in units at a frantic pace but stagnant in value, a revolutionary new product is an opportunity of choice for manufacturers. As with every change in technology, new players could emerge, as was the case with the netbook, which has allowed the rise of Taiwan's Asus and Acer.

Since 2010, he could sell 10.5 million tablets of the Internet, said Gartner.Alone, Apple could sell 4 to 6 million units iPad, believes his side firm GfK. The firm's apple is not alone in this ball of suitors. The French Archos hopes a return to grace with his tablet PC equipped with operating system Windows 7.

In late March, just before placing on the market iPad in the U.S., Sony could make a stretched version of its portable game console PSP foothold in the niche of Internet tablets, said recently the Wall Street Journal.

HP, the world's number one PC, plans soon to launch his magic slate. Presented earlier this year by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Slate HP recalls the Apple iPad. "We continue to finalize our product. We expect to launch Slate around the summer, "says Eric Cador, the boss of HP's PC division in Europe.His tablet use "operating system Windows 7," warns one from HP.

Cooperation with the content

One way to respond in advance to the ambitions of Google with Chrome operating system OS, which should be used this year for large touch screens. Meanwhile, Slate is the most innovative product promised by HP's PC division this year. And Phil McKinney, a charge of HP's research, says that in three years it will be possible to launch an "Internet Tablet flexible.

For its part, the director general of Taiwan's Asus is also planning to enter the market for Internet Tablet "provided to establish cooperation with publishers of content in music, video games and movies.This ambition is shared by other manufacturers reported.

For Internet Tablet "might cannibalize existing products such as netbooks, digital media books and mobile devices to surf the Web," suggests one expert from Strategy Analytics. It will also be a way to renew the genre, for the Tablet PC, launched some ten years, never really took off.

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The aerospace supplier Zodiac Aerospace publishes Monday sales down sharply for the first half shifted 2009/2010. In this period, group revenues fell 12.8% to 966.1 million euros against 1.1 billion a year earlier. The Aircraft Systems Segment is the most affected with a decline in turnover from 25.7% to 219.6 million euros due to lower sales in the aviation business.

For group management, however, these results are consistent with expectations. "Despite the economic crisis affects, as expected, with a few months later the entire aviation industry suppliers, the activity of Zodiac Aerospace resists the first half," said a statement.

Signs of improvement have also been detected in the second quarter, when revenues decline by 10.6% was less marked than in the first quarter (-14.9%) guaranteed cash advance . The Group therefore maintains its goal of operating profitability of 8% on the basis of an average euro / dollar of 1.50.

For 2010/2011, Zodiac placed on an improvement "sensitive" to the economic situation, thanks to a recovery in air traffic and the intentions of deliveries of major manufacturers. Management expects a net profit whose development will be consistent with current operating income.

On Monday at the Paris Stock Exchange, the shares closed down 2.04%, to 33.865 euros in a market decline of 0.93%.

Google prefers to resign rather than submit. Two months after revealing that massive computer attacks were conducted from China against its infrastructure, the American would be safe "99.9%" to abandon its Chinese search engine, reported the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal this weekend. According to an anonymous source quoted by the British newspaper, a closure plan Google.cn, has already been developed. Only the execution date is unknown. Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that an outcome would be found "quickly".

Asked on Monday, a spokesman for Google said that discussions with the Chinese authorities were not broken. But they seem to be at an impasse.Google, which has complied with the demands of Chinese censors in its entry into the country four years ago, agreeing to serve the political or pornographic content, wants more today affect its results. Opposite, China reminds him that its laws must be respected, otherwise to "pay the price." Any other choice would be "unfriendly and irresponsible," warned Friday the Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong.

Uncertainty about other Google products

If Google decides to close its Chinese search engine, but the consequences should be above all symbolic. In January, Google had thus ensured that its financial results in the country were "immaterial" (600 million dollars in 2009, according to an estimate by Morgan Stanley).In this sector, it is far outstripped by Baidu, which has a market share of 58%, whose share increased by 3.2% Tuesday on rumors of departure from its competitor. "The Internet market in China will continue to grow rapidly and the impact will not be too big," assured the minister Li Yizhong.

A withdrawal could instead be casting doubts on the future of other Google products, including mobile phones Android, China being the most dynamic market in the world. The impact on freedom of expression is not clear. The approximately 400 million Internet users in the country, wishing to continue using the engine will go through the U.S. version of the site may be blocked. China carries indeed very strict filtering on Western sites most popular, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, owned by Google.

The index futures are predicting a slight opening up U.S. markets already after three consecutive sessions in green. Thursday, S & P 500 closed at its highest since 17 months.

Investors seemed reassured by the latest statistics. The U.S. trade deficit fell to 37.29 billion dollars from 39.9 billion in January. For specialists Barclays Exchange, "it is a pleasant surprise to the extent that economists were expecting a deficit of 41 billion dollars." Other good news side of the labor market "listings weekly unemployment fell to 462,000 from 469,000 the previous week.

On Wall Street will be sitting under the sign consumer with the publication of sales information for the month of February and the preliminary estimate of consumer confidence.Business inventories for the month of January will be published in late afternoon.

Shortly before the opening, futures on Nasdaq 100 and Standard & Poor's 500 advanced 0.01% respectively at 1925.50 points from 0.06% to 1151.30 points.

On the side of values, the CEO of Citigroup has pledged a return to profitability of the bank. The state could get rid of all of its shares within twelve months. The title of Citigroup rose 30% since the beginning of the month and by 20% since the stock market Monday.

For several sessions throughout the banking sector enjoys a renewed interest from investors. On Thursday, he was also concerned by the failure of talks in the U.S. Senate to reform the financial system.After several months of effort, Senator Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has not succeeded in concluding an agreement between Republicans and Democrats on this bill to reform the banking system.

In the energy sector, Devon Energy, a specialist in the production of oil will sell at BP Plc for seven billion dollars of assets located in Brazil, Azerbaijan and the Gulf of Mexico.

Note also the manufacturer of semiconductor National Semi-conductor announced after the close of the NYSE, a profit of 53.2 million, or 22 cents a share against 18 cents expected by analysts' consensus. Turnover was 361.9 million against 348.6 million expected by analysts.

Like the Paris markets, U.S. stock markets opened in green on Friday, supported by the employment figures less bad than expected. The United States has in fact lost 36,000 jobs in February than in January and the unemployment rate the country has remained stable at 9.7% this month, according to the official report on employment released on Friday, while analysts expected a decline. The Dow Jones advance of 0.36% at 10,482 points, the S & P 500 rose 0.46% to 1128 points and the Nasdaq's 0.46% to 2303 points.

U.S. investors are reassured by the Prime Minister's announcement that China has promised a 8% growth for China this year.Thursday, Wall Street closed higher on a comfortable, supported by bearings recommendations.

In addition to the employment figures U.S., those of consumer credit in January, will be published in 21 hours.

As for currencies, the euro fell sharply Friday against a dollar backed by the release of employment figures in the United States, and reassuring the operators on the strength of the recovery of the world's largest economy now payday loans .

The company announced Wednesday it had granted Bausch & Lomb the exclusive worldwide rights of NCX 116, treatment of glaucoma and ocular hypertension, for a total of up to $ 169.5 million.

In exchange, investors reacted immediately: the NicOx shares rose almost 6%. Rebelotte Thursday with unehausse of 5.7%. Thus, actions cotent at closing 5.92 euros. The bar is close to EUR 6.

However, the exchange price is still below its levels there are still four months (the title was worth € 7.9) or June 2009 (it was over 10 euros) … or all of its first steps on the Paris stock exchange (the record stands at 39 euros). It was late 1999.

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With Twitter, the communication is passed in real time. With Shazam, the iPhone has become a machine to recognize the music. German Aka-Aki opened the madness of mobile location based social networks. These services are transforming our lives for several months have been identified, there are one or two years, the Forum Netexplorateur. Founded in 2008 by Martine and Thierry Bidegain Happe, it seeks to identify innovations that can have a significant impact on the uses digital economy or society. The third edition, including Le Figaro is a partner, meets Thursday and Friday to the Senate in Paris. It is an opportunity to set new standards in the "socio-digital revolution" underway.

The winners of the 2010 edition were selected from more than 440 projects emerging. They are part of a new digital world where the Internet becomes ubiquitous.The URL can not be visited more but found himself. Many objects become key input into an ecosystem where real and not real live. Databases and servers are scattered, software and outsourced services, terminal dematerialized. The interface for mobile augmented reality Sixth Sense allows to browse the Internet with a virtual screen projected by a minicam, dial a phone number in the palm of his hand or view a video on a newspaper article. Accessible from anywhere, this new Internet makes the user knowing. With mobile browser layar augmented reality, any building or environment is an opportunity to unwind "layers of virtual information.Augmented with TAT ID, the user can display a variety of virtual cards and virtual social networking profiles around her face, free to the caller to download this information.

Freeing the user of the computer

This ecosystem is emerging as new human-machine interfaces capable of freeing, ultimately, the user of the computer or its smartphone free business cards . The aircraft of the future will respond to a voice command, gesture or brain. The French HiLabs has already begun to deploy an intelligent window on the windows of merchants Grenoble: responding to displacement of people, she then called by a movie, the way to interact with one giant touch screen (Eyelights).

On the Internet also should be contacted individually to the consumer.Social networks like Facebook and Twitter is why a "hunting ground" ideal marker there conversations on Internet brand and integrate it with an ad campaign that takes account of these opinions (People Powered Ads).

In this new digital world order, and environmental organizations are impacted first. The technology can learn to change and therefore it is the creed of Source Map, which shows the carbon footprint of a product or a food or Mobile Lucas, who turns the mobile phone Minilab analysis medical use and particularly to distinguish true and false cases of malaria.

Similarly, the Better Place project relies heavily on intelligence network, able to indicate to drivers of electric cars recharging station nearest, then manage the transaction load and billing.At work, it calls for transparency on the powers of his future employer to decide to change. What improve individual productivity or collective, as the founder of the website Get a Great Boss. In parallel, microtâches can be relocated and create microjobs for solidarity: the draft Work Give an iPhone application developed by Samasource, which proposes to perform computing tasks mechanical ( "tag" a video detailing card, test application) by refugees from Dadaab camp in Kenya. Initiatives that, once industrialized are likely to reverse the tide.

Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has denied reports published by Spanish newspaper AS that he wanted to buy the Spanish club Real Madrid for the sum of one billion euros. In a statement released by the official WAM news agency, a source close to the sheik, said he wanted to "[focus] now all his efforts and attention on Manchester City to assure him a place among the elite clubs of the United Kingdom" .

It is true that such transaction is impractical. And for two reasons. Initially, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan was to get rid of Manchester City, which is the current owner, one person can not have two clubs at once, according to UEFA rules.

Second, it proves to be much more complicated to solve. Real Madrid had to change its constitution and become a sports company.A development which requires the approval of … "socios". Contrary to most Spanish clubs, Real Madrid, like FC Barcelona is an association "nonprofit" that belongs to its members that are other than the supporters club.

327 million euros of debt accumulated

For now, Real Madrid continued to accumulate debts, which reached this year, 327 million. And nothing says recall that last summer, the Madrid club has paid a quick one, Brazilian Kaka (65 million euros), the French Karim Benzema (35 million euros) and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo (94 million euros). In total, the club Castilian spent last summer, the tidy sum of 250 million euros.It is club football that generates the most revenue in the world with revenues of 365.8 million euros.

Although he denied the report, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan keeps an eye on Real Madrid. The UAE dignitary "rightly appreciates the experience of Real Madrid and he is a big supporter of the twinning agreement signed in 2005 between the Spanish club and the club Al-Jazira in Abu Dhabi which he chairs.

After rising 2.4% in September, spending on household consumption of manufactured goods posted a growth of 1.1% in October according to figures released Tuesday by the INSEE. Spending on durable goods are still progressing (+1.3%) after acceleration in September (+5.1%). This was due to car purchases very dynamic (+10.2%), while in October "households slowed on these purchases," says the National Institute of Statistics.

In contrast, they increased their spending on equipment housing (+2.2% after +0.7% in September), each item of equipment (furniture, electrical goods, electronics and informatics) contributing to this acceleration.

The new floating balances boosted purchases in textiles. According to INSEE, purchases of textiles and leather rose 2.6% after a month of September already dynamic (+2.9%).Other manufactured goods (pharmaceuticals, publishing, crafts, perfume, etc..) Also displayed a slight increase in October (+0.3% after +0.4% in September).