''The change from Windows to Microsoft.net is as important as the change from DOS to Windows 10 years ago'.This is what Bill Gates said, on June 22nd in Redmond while he was showing his new operating system. This system will abandon the PC universe to enter into the Internet one.Microsoft definitely wants the Web to become the most important element of its whole development. The main idea is to use the Internet for the software marketing.
Autre grand rendez-vous du Grimaldi Forum lié aux nouvelles technologies , /www.commsliveeurope.com">Commslive Europe 2000qui aura lieu du 14 au 16 novembre 2000. Il est annoncé comme le principal événement commercial paneuropéen en matière de télécommunications.Il réunira les opérateurs de télécommunications, les opérateurs de réseaux alternatifs, les fournisseurs de services, des vendeurs de haute technologie ainsi que les décideurs en matière commerciale en provenance de l’Europe entière (voir le communiqué de présentation).
Il s'agit d'un nouveau salon qui se consacre exclusivement au marché méditerranéen des ISP, les Internet Service Providers. Le /www.monnetexpo.com/index.html">MONNET, Monaco Net Showaura lieu du 20 au 22 septembre au Grimaldi Forum. Organisé par la société monégasque SABI, cette manifestation consistera en une série de conférences et en une exposition. MONNET s'adresse aux fournisseurs de software, de hardware et de services pour l’industrie des ISP du bassin méditerranéen.
Voici le communiqué de présentation de CommsLive Europe 2000. Les intertitres sont de la rédaction.Infrastructure et e-commerceCommsLive.Europe, le premier événement commercial annuel en Europe à traiter pleinement des besoins du marché des télécommunications, se tiendra à Monaco du 14 au 16 novembre 2000.
Two firms were awarded by the Monaco Business Awards that were given on June 29th in Monaco. Meat Trading International which deals with 80,000 tons of meat a year worldwide for an 1,8 billion franc sales volume (exports from the Netherlands, South America, USA, Europe, and imports towards Italy and Spain, via Monaco). Meat Trading International was awarded for having settled a tracing system via the Web. The system allows to find the origin, the producer and all the data about the slaughtering of any piece of meat.
Jean-Claude Guibal, Mayor and Deputy of Menton, Patrick Césari, Mayor of Roquebrune-Cap Martin and Gérard Spinelli, Mayor of Beausoleil will present on August 30th at 10:30 a.m. in Menton at Villa Serena, the new local initiative platform, the three towns have launched together.The local initiative platforms are structures which were created in 1987. Their aim is to favor the settlement of very small craft industry, commercial or industrial or even services firms thanks to a financial support and pieces of advice.
For its fourth edition, the festival is partner with 'Tatoo'. More fun. But in spite of this element, will the FIMM (International Festival of Military Music) which will take place in Nice from Sept 7 to 10, be able to justify the engaged expenses (about 2 million francs for the 2000 edition). Does it generate economic consequences at least as important as expenses? In Nice people wonder. To give some answer elements, some Ceram students (Sophia Antipolis trade school) will be in charge to estimate the economic consequences of the event.
ViaNice.fr is from now on accessible from cellular phones WAP. Whereas WAP services remain rare, the Nice local information newspaper has decided to play WAP by creating 'wapanice.com'. From one's WAP cellular phone, it is possible to consult the daily weather report, the schedule of cinemas in Nice, the dates of concerts, shows, exhibitions, events, meetings in Nice. It is the first local site in France which has a WAP content updated daily.
Almost a 5 billion franc turnover! This is what the Monegasque industry reached in 1999 in activities like cosmetic, pharmacology, chemistry, electronic components manufacturing, etc…Right in the middle of the town, over a territory covering less than 200 hectares (half of the city of Cannes). The Principality wants to continue the works of this industrial development which was built essentially from Fontvieille.
The cross-border economy is starting slowly. But it is progressing directly on the ground, with the Franco-Italian Day of Agribusiness that took place on Thursday, March16th in the Palais Européen in Menton. Organized by the Union of the firms on the French Riviera, the Unione Industriale della Provincia di Cuneo and the Unione Industriale degli Industriali della Provincia di Imperia (the three professional associations had signed an agreement in 1998), this day allowed the agribusiness Italian producers to get in touch with the mass marketing leaders on the French Riviera.
The Monaco civil court demanded the sale by auction of the Monacan agency Merrill Lynch business, settled in the Principality since 1980. The agency was at the heart of several disputes for some years. A Greek businessman, Dimitri Mefalopoulos, is asking 10 million francs for sums that might have been invested without his knowledge by a financial adviser of the bank. In Paris two Italian businessmen have them lodged a complaint against the bank for the illegal practice of banking and illegal practice in the Monaco Stock-Exchange.
