There is something new in the crisis that is currently disrupting the second French air group. The resignation of Alexandre Couvelaire, president of the supervisory board of the three companies AOM, Air Liberté and Air Littoral is expected very soon whereas a new president in the direction should be appointed on Thursday February 15th , according to the Trade Unions and he should replace Paul Reutlinger who has resigned about ten days ago. For this position, the name of Marc Rochet was announced.

Cannes International Film Festival (May 9th-20th 2001) has found another president of the Jury: Liv Ullman, Ingmar Bergman's favourite actress will succeed Luc Besson for the presidency of the most famous jury in the world. Liv Ullman will take over Jodie Foster, the American actress and film director who was supposed to fulfill this task but she renounced ten days ago, 'with death in the soul', because of a last-minute shooting.

'Many companies are interested in ailing start-ups of the new economy because they allow them to gain time.'

IBM accentuates its bet on Linux to make up for lost time compared to Sun Microsytems in the field of servers. That's what emerges from a Reuters' article on the Linux World Expo show in New-York, a dispatch covered by Boursoramaunder the title /www.boursorama.com/international/detail_societes_intern.phtml?news=350503"> 'IBM pense que Linux est prêt pour le grand monde'.

In Lefigaro.com, there is a special report on /www.lefigaro.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=figArticle&cid=FIGH4OKNXIC&live=true&Site=true&gCurChannel=ZZZXG1K648C&gCurRubrique=&gCurSubRubrique="> 'Le boom des solos',a phenomenon that is getting a greater importance. The ones we called before 'independent workers' knew how to break their with new technologies. ' Not that long ago, the independent worker had a negative image linked to years of unemployment.

Attention virus! Une nouvelle 'épidémie', semblable à celle d''I love you', a touché les services de courriers électroniques des Etats-Unis et de l'Australie via le logiciel de messagerie Outlook. Cette nouvelle menace se présente sous la forme d'une photo de la belle Anna Kournikova, une star du tennis russe très populaire sur les sites Internet sportifs. La photo arrive dans un fichier attaché intitulé 'AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs'. Si vous ouvrez, le fichier est renvoyé automatiquement à tous les contacts de votre carnet d'adresse.

The Think Tank Summit focused on the big evolutions in progress. The 'point of view' of Jean-Marie Messier, Vivendi International's manager was specially expected.

Du nouveau dans la crise qui secoue actuellement le second pôle français aérien. La démission d'Alexandre Couvelaire, président du conseil de surveillance des trois sociétés AOM, Air Liberté et Air Littoral, est attendue incessamment. Tandis que, selon les syndicats, un nouveau président du directoire devrait être nommé jeudi 15 février pour remplacer Paul Reutlinger qui a démissionné il y a une dizaine de jours. Pour ce poste, le nom de Marc Rochet a été avancé.

Caution virus ! A new 'epidemic', just like the 'I love you' one, has touched the electronic mail services in the United-States and in Australia via the Outlook message software. This new threat is presented in the form of a picture of the beautiful Anna Kournikova, a Russian tennis star very famous on sport Internet site. The picture comes in an attached file entitled 'AnnaKournikova'. If you open it, the file is automatically send to all the contacts you have in your address book.

We can say it straight away : /www.nakednews.com">Nakednewsis of a very bad form. The address is going through the whole research centre since last week and is the example of the excesses of the Web in the competition for the audience. The concept of the website is crude : the announcer of the TV news like CNN (there is a possibility to choose among four young women), is stripping as the news go by, to end up the news completely naked.This obviously gives a vision of the news that doesn't fail to shock according to the news of the day.

A very controversial scoop on the site /www.leparisien.fr/home/info/permanent/article.htm?themeid=515&articleid=5495408"> www.leparisien.com: the publication of Alfred Sirven's agenda. Thus, seven pages of the agenda have been revealed as soon as Wednesday on the site, even before the publication of the whole agenda in the paper edition of Le Parisien on Thursday February 8th. That's a way to arrive before everybody and to use the synergies between the Net and traditional newspapers.

The great British prize for the best event abroad has been awarded to the launching of the new Opel Corsa in Cannes. Cannes was the town in which took place a great automobile launching operation which 12.000 people took part to at the Palais des Festivals and the Espace Riviera. Such an event, organized by the Maritz company collaborating with the LSO International Agency and the HP:ICM company, has been amply rewarded last week by the Incentive Travel and Meeting Association.The I.T.M.A.

In le Figaro, a file which is defining the stakes of the electronic marketplaces ( /www.lefigaro.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=figArticle&cid=FIGH2YB8MIC&live=true&Site=true&gCurChannel=ZZZXG1K648C&gCurRubrique=&gCurSubRubrique="> 'Marketplace : la 3ème révolution industrielle ?'). As for Catherine Dufrène, the author of the article, this revolution, which concerns business between companies, will bring considerable upheavals in the world economy.

'Tomorrow, more and more things will be available on Internet, but if nobody deals with the delivery, the whole thing risks to remain virtual': this is the new message that La Poste wants to pass on, especially during the next commercials that will be shown from February 23rd on TV.

On Monday February 12th, 6.00 pm, the Milia in Cannes, which represents a real resonance chamber of the multimedia industry, will pass on the San Francisco Court of Appeals decision which will be available on the Internet site /www.ce9.uscourts.gov"> www.ce9.uscourts.gov.

The decision of justice wasn't very significant. The music exchange website can go on. The Court of Appeals of San Francisco, on Monday evening, didn't order the website's closure. However, it won't have the possibility to supply music files free of charge (the previous decision allowed more freedom to Napster). This was until the conclusion of the trial that opposes Napster to the American Association of the phonographic industry, the powerful RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). On the days preceding the decision, the website was absolutely busy.

Met@I06.net started in May 2000, and it will be over on Tuesday February 20th 2001, at 5.00 PM, at the head office of the BPCA (Banque Populaire de la Côte d'Azur)in Nice, 457 promenade des anglais. This operation, that benefited from the financial support of the Conseil Général and the DRIRE consisted in helping concretely to install Internet in eleven small and medium-sized companies of the Alpes Maritimes.

La rumeur se fait de plus en plus lancinante : eBay, le géant américain de la vente aux enchères est prêt à racheter IBazar, le leader français en ce domaine pour 100 millions d'euros. Un nouveau regroupement qui concerne tout particulièrement Aucland, le site de vente aux enchères créé à Sophia Antipolis par Fabrice Grinda et Sacha Fosse-Parisis, site appartenant désormais en plein à Europ@web.

Une décision de justice mi-figue, mi-raisin pour Napster. Le site d'échange de musique peut continuer. La cour d'appel de San Francisco, lundi soir, n'a pas ordonné la fermeture du site. Mais en revanche, il n'aura plus la possibilité de distribuer gratuitement des fichiers musicaux (le précédent jugement lui laissait une plus grande latitude). Cela jusqu'à la conclusion du procès qui l'oppose à l'association américaine de l'industrie phonographique, la puissante RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).

The Project Management Institute France-Sud chapter, opened last year, has set up a dense program of conferences and technical sessions on the problems of project managers.