The former mayor of Cannes was charged for the case of the "Relais de la Reine", a residential hotel on the Croisette, which could have been transformed in a building of apartments after the agreement of the city hall…

At the MIPCOM (International market of audiovisual programmes, in Cannes until October 6th), Jean-Claude Courdy noted that television already dreams about its future on the Net…

Do you know the grid? Nowadays, it represents the Internet of the future. It is a network of the future that IBM will contribute to build in Great Britain and the Netherlands providing data storage equipments. The Financial Times, in an article "IBM joins push to construct next-generation internet "explains that the system will be easier to use and will be millions of times more powerful than the current Internet.

Aboard the Uunet, he wants to beat Mike Golding's record for the solo world tour in the opposite way. It is the most difficult event for which he will represent the French Riviera…

The Monegasque operator, now in partnership with Cegetel, will ensure the establishment as well as the running of a GSM network in Kosovo which will use the 377, the international code of Monaco.

These crisis create the conditions of a risky "technologic break" for large European countries and particularly for France in the sphere of the broadband Internet.

Par cette acquisition, la société phare de Sophia Antipolis se renforce sur le marché américain et étoffe sa gamme de solutions internationales de voyages d'entreprises.

"The housing market calms down" says the daily paper La Tribune which publishes a brief report about the real estate situation. Thus, the last survey on the situation of the FNAIM (National federation of real estate agents) shows a decrease of the market. The number of transactions, new and old accommodations included, increases by only 1.8% over the first six months of the year with an expectation of an increase by 1.5% for the year 2001.

The Sophia Antipolis Foundation, which organized the first meetings on innovative architecture last week at the Mediathel in Sophia, hopes to perpetuate this colloquium. Thus, they hope to create an architecture spring colloquium as soon as next year.

A great acknowledgement for Hervé de Place, the director of the airport of Nice Côte d'Azur: he has been elected president of the ALFA-ACI. The Association of French tongue airports is composed of 70 airports. For the most of them they are French airports. But you also find Brussels, Geneva, Montreal, Tunis, Casablanca, etc. The association works with around ten labour commissions which meet regularly.

With this new acquisition, the leading company in Sophia Antipolis gets stronger on the American market and broadens its range of international solutions of company's trips.

The cross-border cooperation between the Alpes-Maritimes and Liguria hardly gets better. It has been realized once again during the debate on national planning organised in Menton on Tuesday May 23rd by the Cross-border Operational Mission. Participants, especially professionals in facilities and urban planning, who come from the Alpes-Maritimes and from Liguria have realized that the national planning order which will set the future of the Alpes-Maritimes for the coming years, has been prepared without taking what was going on in Italy into account.

Failed ! None of the fifteen candidates to the global or partial takeover of AOM-Air Liberté has been authorized by the two judicial administrators in charge of studying conditions of this takeover. According to Gilles Baronnie and Beaudoin Libert, none of files they received has sufficient financial guarantees.

The growing threats against the telecommunication and information technology sectors have to be considered according to the drawbacks entailed by delays in these sectors and which create problems on the overall of the economy.In the long run, there is no doubt that these two sectors will be dynamic again and will spread on other sectors. But when?

After the philosophy cafés, the web cafés? A first meeting for Net addicts is planned on Friday March 17th at the "Farfala". It is the occasion to break the isolation for the free lance professionals of the Net…

"Le marché du logement retrouve la raison" titre le quotidien La Tribune qui publie un mini dossier sur la conjoncture immobilière. Ainsi, la dernière étude de conjoncture de la FNAIM (Fédération nationale des agents immobiliers) fait état d'une inflexion du marché. Le nombre des transactions, neuf et ancien compris, n'augmente plus que de 1,8% sur les six premiers mois de l'année avec une prévision d'augmentation de 1,5% sur l'année 2001.

It is a revolutionary solution to allow you to find all your files stored on your hard disks, servers, CD Roms, DVD or others. It is perfect to find some information on Sophianet.com!

It is a premiere for the "pay per view" on the Internet which will be done on Tuesday, July 17th in the evening thanks to the technology of Castify Networks, the start-up launched by doctors graduated at the Eurécom Institute. It concerns the broadcasting of Elton John's concert on the Net.

The venture-capital market isn't empty, even if it is more difficult to raise funds now. Thus Europe Technologies succeeded its first fund raising worth 45 million francs from several investors including the SPEF (Popular Banks), the fund of venture capital of Axa and Odyssée Ventures. This start-up of Sophia (not to confuse with Esterel Technologies) which was created in 1996 and employs about thirty people.

It is the company Mecaplast funded by Charles Manni which was awarded on Thursday July 12th the Grand Prix Monaco Business Awards at the Sporting Club of Monte Carlo. The innovation prize was awarded to BG Communication (a centre for the repairing of mobiles), company created by Olivier Bouteleux and the industry prize was awarded to 3X Engineering of Stanislas Boulet d'Auria. The Monaco Business Awards, for which it is the third edition, are organized by the Monegasque Employers' Federation.