Vivendi, which has conducted the Télériviera experimentation during two years, has sworn to come back and offer, with AOL, an Internet solution through the cable. That's done today...

3i, the European leader of capital investment, has bet on the start-up from the region of Nice specialized in the publishing of software for football professionals and sports medias.

The French Riviera start-up, Right Vision, European leader of Internet Appliances Servers, and Belgacom France, specialist operator of company telecommunications, announced a partnership to answer the specific needs of global Internet management for small and medium-sized companies and industries. 'All in Net' is a package solution, which links the technology of the Eye-box One of Right Vision with the network and services of Belgacom France.

Initialement annoncée au 5 avril, la réunion exceptionnelle du Comité d'Entreprise des deux compagnies aériennes AOM et Air Liberté a été reportée au lundi 9 avril. Une réunion d'importance pour les salariés des deux filiales françaises de SAirGroup après la décision de la holding suisse, décision annoncée en début de semaine, de couper le robinet financier d'ici deux mois. Marc Rochet, nouveau patron des deux compagnies fusionnées avait, dans la foulée, laissé augurer des coupes sombres, tandis que certains évoquaient la possibilité d'un dépôt de bilan des deux sociétés.

La pénurie de locaux d'entreprises reste d'actualité sur Sophia Antipolis, notamment pour les bureaux dans les centres d'affaires. En témoignent les difficultés que rencontre actuellement une consultante en stratégie pour s'installer dans la technopole. ' Je me heurte à une pénurie de petits locaux dans les centres d'affaires', note cette consultante qui recherche un bureau pour, dans un premier temps, y travailler à deux personnes à partir de juillet. ' Certains prix pratiqués sont très élevés.

The start-up from Sophia Antipolis has signed an agreement with Alcatel Space. It will provides to them the technologie which allows to diffuse contents on the Net through the satellite. A key element for Skybridge.

The 'people from Nice who are leaving on the other side of the world', gathered in the Henri and Carmen Cauvin and gaston Franco's association, have their site now : /www.lou-nissart.com">www.lou-nissart.comwhich has been inaugurated on Monday November 22nd. An inauguration with some symbolic connexions.

A new evidence of the buoyant spirit that has been allowed by the liberalization of telecommunication, a supplementary operator should set up in Nice soon. LTI Télécom, a start-up set up in the Rhône, intends to open an agency in Nice by April. Specialized in the discount of telecommunications used by SMEs, the company works like a central purchasing unit and offers discounts on national long distance tariffs, for mobiles or wireline telephones. They come from the Lyon region where they count 1.300 customers.

The A8 motorway is more expansive since this morning, Monday April 2nd, 5 o'clock. Within the annual revaluation, Escota's tariffs increase of 2.5 % on average (2.46 % exactly). At the toll, it will cost 8 francs instead of 7.5 francs before for Nice-Antibes (Sophia) or Cannes-Antibes (Sophia); 15.5 francs instead of 15 francs before for Cannes-Nice. At the gate of the Turbie, the tariff also increases of 50 centimes from 10.5 to 11 francs. There is no raise, however, for the tolls of Cagnes-sur-mer and Saint Isidore.

The coming of Pierre Guérin at the head of Façonnable marks a new step for this company created in 1950 in Nice and which has become, with a turnover of 1.85 billion francs in 2000, one of the leaders of sophisticated sportswear. The 'family' management provided by the founders, Jean-Pierre Benaym and Arthur Goldberg, is substituted by a more 'professional' management. Pierre Guérin, 48, graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris and from the I.S.A.

There wasn't only large groups of the French Riviera which were at the big GSM congress in Cannes. Two smallest companies of Sophia, linked to cartography technologies (they are more important because they enable to set up networks substructures in a more optimal way) had a stand at the exhibition: Geoimageand Istar.Here is another famous contributor from Sophia, even if it keeps discreet on the research park: the ETSI (European institute of telecommunication standards).

The lack of business premises is still a problem in Sophia Antipolis, particularly for offices in business centers. Difficulties experienced by a strategy consultant to set up in the research park evidence the situation. 'There's a lack of small-sized premises in business centers', says this consultant who is seeking an office for two people, as a first stage, to work there from July. 'Some prices are very expensive. Thus, in the Green Side business center, they offered me 11 m2 for 6.000 francs before tax per month !

Be careful! Misappropriation of grey matter! Here is a new testimony about the recruitment consultancy's practices in their search of computer scientists, which are not always fair play.

Le petit déjeuner du Club des Dirigeants de l'Arénas aura lieu le jeudi 5 avril, à 8h30, au restaurant d'entreprise de l'Arénas. Un invité d'honneur pour cette réunion : Christian Poujardieu, directeur d'IBM La Gaude qui viendra débattre avec les chefs d'entreprises de l'Arénas des technologies qui seront au service de l'homme dans 5, 10 ou 20 ans.

Le CARMA et le CREMSI organisent jeudi 12 avril à l'ESSI, Sophia Antipolis, une journée d'information technique pour les entreprises spécialisées et les laboratoires de recherche.

'It won't be Canal +'s festival in Cannes, but Cannes' Festival on Canal+', Michel Denisot said ironically on Tuesday. The manager of the TV channel for which you need a decoder commented at the MIP TV in Cannes the decision not to broadcast its fetish programme 'Nulle part ailleurs' on the Croisette for the next Film Festival. Set up on the beach in front of the Martinez, Canal+'s podium with its 'Guignols' has been one of the biggest public attraction of the Festival for a few years.

' Ce ne sera plus le festival de Canal + à Cannes, mais le Festival de Cannes sur Canal +' a ironisé mardi Michel Denisot. Le responsable de la chaîne cryptée commentait ainsi au MIPTV de Cannes la décision de ne plus faire descendre son émission fétiche 'Nulle part ailleurs' sur la Croisette pour le prochain Festival du Film. Installé sur la plage face au Martinez, le podium de Canal + avec ses Guignols constituait l'une des grandes attractions publiques du Festival depuis quelques années.

Because of the first ballot, the result was to expect: Bernard Brochand, the new RPR mayor of Cannes was elected deputy of the 8th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes with as a subsitute deputy, David Lisnard. Bernard Brochand achieved 65.09% of the votes before Gilles Cima (UDF) with 34.91% last Sunday April 1st, at the second ballot. The abstention rate was a bit higher compared to the first ballot: 65% against 63.13%.

A delegation of eleven leader companies in the sector of digital television and multimedia is looking for partnerships with companies of the French Riviera.

In its report made public on Wednesday, the revenue court also put the blame on France Telecom in a few lines, for the way the historic operator lead its strategy on the Internet. The revenue court criticized a late general public offer in 1995 and the slow reform concerning tariffs. However, the report estimates that the new tariffs of December 1997 and the acceleration given on the Internet since have enabled to get its aim right and to make of Wanadoo a dynamic access provider.