Businessweek published their top 100 of the most performing technological enterprises.
Apple reaches an excellent 4th rank, and the first for US enterprises.
The first and only French enterprise, Cap Gemini, ranks 73rd.
It's been a hard job for the commission mixte paritaire [a coordinating commission between the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat, the two French houses of Parliament] to elaborate a final draft of the DADVSI law.
The 3 socialist MPs actually left the Commission, when they learnt "upon their arrival in session of the 55 amendments toughening the Sénat bill".
If the text is now ready for a vote in the Assemblée nationale, we still have no details about its content, apart for the maintained request for interoperability, that a dedicated commission should examine.
Tens of readers let us know
the Apple Store was closed all around the world.
Looks much more like a huge breakdown than the arrival of new iPods or MacPro.
Perhaps those are to come tomorrow?
Pil sent us a scan from the magazine "La correspondance de l'enseigne", a specialized publication for people working in the commercial property business.
There you can read the following:
For the time being, Apple renounced to open an Apple Center [ie, an Apple Store] in Paris. The firm had found a wonderful building rue Scribe, near Hausmann. Yet the obstacle between Steve Jobs and our minister for Culture is that the Macintosh inventor refused to open the iTunes files to anyone.
We'll take advantage of this information to break our own rule and give you a few more hints about this Apple Store story.
Apple had actually found a very nice building Rue Scribe in Paris. Yet this is not recent. They've been struggling for months with the "bâtiments de France" [specialized in patrimonial issues] about the building authorization, as this is a protected building, like many others in this area. And the proposed transformations were not accepted (1). The recent global licence system voted by our Assemblée nationale also despleased Cupertino.
Apple seem to be upset by the fact they can't modify the building and reportedly abandoned the project. But they're currently looking for another building, as Apple France must move to Paris.
(1) Reminds us of the problems Steve Jobs had when he wanted his house demolished in order to have it rebuilt : he wasn't allowed to.
This year again, Apple is involved in the "Short Movies" festival "Off Courts" that will take place in Trouville (Normandy, France) in September (1st-9th). (
http://www.apple.com/fr/hotnews/articles/offcourts/)
Due to the “Podcast fever”, all short movies selected for this competition can be downloaded from iTMS:
http://phobos.apple.com.
According to rumors, AMD could release much ahead than originally scheduled the
Threading Hardware technology (as soon as July 24th).
The TH technology allows the OS and non multicore optimized applications to consider multicore CPU as a single but faster CPU.
This is of course a dream for developers who will not have to spend too much time in programming application to take advantages of multicore CPU (currently 2 cores, but 4 by the end of the year).
But it is also the only way for AMD to catch Intel back in the current CPU performance race, Core Duo CPUs from Santa Clara’s Giant being faster than the freshly released K8 architecture from the Texan company.
Despite this marketing claim, one will have to see what the real benefit for applications is, and how it can vary from one application to another.
