Leader mondial pour les logiciels permettant le déploiement de services dans les réseaux de télécommunications mobiles, fixes et Internet, Ulticom s'était installé l'an dernier à Sophia Antipolis. La société, côtée au Nasdaq a son siège à Mount Laurel, dans le New-Jersey, et un établissement à Dallas, au Texas. En ouvrant un centre de développement et de support au cœur de la première technopole française, Ulticom cherchait à renforcer sa présence européenne. Une stratégie qui s'est révélée payante. Ulticom Europe a donc grandi.

Viviance is a Swiss company settled in Sophia Antipolis which launches on the Scandinavian market. Specialized in the field of online educative engineering solutions, the company recently took the control of the Danish firm Feldborg Multimedia in Copenhagen which was made a subsidiary under the name of Viviance new education Nordic. The subsidiary will become one of the competence centers of the group for research and development of 3D solutions and virtual reality.

An association and an electronic forum were implemented to gather together all those who, at 45 years old, say they still have 40 years to live. RV on Nov. 16.

Right Vision presented in the Networld Interop 2000, which took place in Paris from Nov.7 to 9, Eye-Box One 2.0 and Eye-Box PRO, its server dedicated to '.com' and ISP. With the second version of Eye-Box One, a server dedicated to SMF, to agencies networks and to telecom operators, the French Riviera start-up specialized in the market of appliances Internet servers tried to enrich its internet global solution.

The Silicon Sentier, Ceram, Tocamak, Sun will be at the 11th meeting of the club launched by Fondation Sophia Antipolis, the meeting will take place at Ceram, on Nov. 13 at 6:00 pm.

The entrance into information Society will bring possibilities completely new. Distance is over. Opportunities will be opened for small and middle-sized firms (SMF).

The new edition of the IST 2000 (Information Society Technologies) is taking place in Nice Acropolis. A program of virtual visits has been made with Flashvisit, a company specialized in software for pictures 360°0. For further information click on IST 2000 home page.

During the IST 2000, the European Commission launched the project Gigabit European Academic Network of research and education network interconnections.

The bad weather of Nov. 6 provoked a slowdown at the Nice airport. From 40 flights a day, the traffic collapsed to only 6.And the bad weather also disturbed the arrivals for the IST 2000 (Information Society Technologies) meeting which began that day, on Nov.6 in Nice Acropolis. Thus the French Minister of research Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, who should have arrived from Paris in the morning for the opening session could not come. But NTIC magic, he could open the meeting…thanks to video-conference.

Property business is booming in Paris. The Parisian lawyers recently put a figure to the increase which occurred between the first and the second trimester 2000, 14.1%. For the whole year 2000, the average increase of prices should reach about 16%. This trend is a Parisian specificity because the rest of the country is experimenting a slowdown. The French Riviera follows the Parisian trend. The weakness of stocks and the pressure of demand provoked a price taking-off. In luxury property business, some professional workers talk about a 30 to 50% increase!

Patrick Andrieu, 47, new editorial staff manager of the group, he replaces Hubert Perrin, who will work in the communication management at the Regional council.

Thierry Martin, the former CAD manager (Côte d'Azur Développment), is launching in writing. He will dedicate his first novel 'Simon' (Ed. Du Ricochet), on Nov. 18 from 3:00 pm at Librairie Masséna, 55, rue Gioffredo in Nice. He firstly studied literature before turning to economy.He lives in Marseille where he has been implicated since 1995 in the project Euroméditerranée. In 'Simon', he tells the story of a child whose mother left away and who lives alone with his father in La Balme mountains. After having come to Paris, the injured child found happiness in the countryside…

Live jobs. The Telecom Valley recently experimented the use of the Internet to mass recruitment. Respublica.fr has launched the Live Chat 'emploi' (job). On the web, on Wednesday, November 8, from 8:00 to 10:00 pm, the unemployed people who are looking for a job will be able to discuss in live with recruiters. For the occasion, Respublica has begun a partnership with StepStone, which is at the same time a partner of the Ceram for the job site of the trade school. A first chat job to which the CEOs of Société Générale (a French bank), Cégétel and CS were invited to take a part in.

The demand to enter the European Council made by the principality after two years of procedure will be examined on Nov. 20 and 21 by the permanent Commission of the parliamentarian assembly of the Council of Europe, in Brussels. Nothing is less sure whereas at the beginning, the adhesion did not seem to cause any problem. A first juridical report made at the beginning of the year 1999 by two judges of the European Court of Human Rights had imposed a condition: the abandon of majority list votes.

Right Vision a présenté en avant-première au Networld Interop 2000 qui avait lieu du 7 au 9 novembre à Paris, Eye-Box One 2.0 et Eye-Box PRO, son serveur destiné aux dotcoms et ISP. Avec la seconde version de Eye-Box One, serveur destiné aux PME-PMI, aux grands comptes à réseaux d'agences et aux opérateurs de télécommunications, la start-up azuréenne spécialisée dans le marché des serveurs Internet appliances a cherché à enrichir sa solution Internet globale.

Monaco va-t-il pouvoir être admis au Conseil de l'Europe. La demande faite par la Principauté, après une longue procédure de deux années, va être examinée les 20 et 21 novembre par la Commission permanente de l'assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l'Europe, à Bruxelles. Rien pourtant n'est plus sûr aujourd'hui alors qu'au départ il semblait que l'adhésion ne poserait pas de problème.

Oublions le site 'admifrance.gouv.fr'. Mais saluons sa V2, sa nouvelle version /www.service-public.fr"> www.service-public.frqu'il sera bien utile de conserver dans ses signets ou favoris. Ce nouveau portail internet de l'administration française a été conçu comme le point d'entrée dans ses services et sur le Web public. Il regroupe une masse gigantesque de formulaires, d'informations, de textes de lois et d'ouverture vers d'autres sites administratifs français et européens.

Thierry Martin, dont les Niçois se souviennent en tant qu'ancien directeur de CAD (Côte d'Azur Développement), côté écriture. Le spécialiste de l'aménagement du territoire est aussi écrivain. Il signera son premier roman 'Simon' (Editions du Ricochet), le samedi 18 novembre à partir de 15 heures à la Librairie Masséna 55, rue Gioffredo à Nice. Un retour aux sources par ailleurs.

Un bel exemple de site d'e-commerce dédié à la haute-couture remarqué par Toutsurlacom.com: la version 2 du site /www.chanel.com">www.chanel.comlancée début novembre. L'agence B2L, qui l'a réalisée, avait à charge de mettre l'esprit Chanel sur Internet.

Entre information et propagande, quelle est la bonne communication pour les compagnies aériennes ? Ce thème de la communication est au centre du IXème Airlines Forum qui a lieu au Carlton de Cannes du 9 au 10 novembre. Ce rendez-vous traditionnel des responsables du monde de l'aérien (plus d'une centaine de dirigeants de compagnies aériennes et de sociétés travaillant pour l'aviation commerciale) est marqué jeudi 9 novembre par l'intervention de Paul Reutlinger, le président du second groupe aérien français avec AOM, Air Liberté et Air Littoral.