Category: france | 法國 | 프랑스 | フランス
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Outlook for Mac + more
Use Outlook for Mac? Don’t upgrade to El Capitan | The Inquirer – yet. It looks like the Microsoft dev team for Outlook for Mac have more work and testing ahead of themselves. Read our lips, no more EU roaming charges* | The Register – surely this would be pre-dictated on their network footprint? Would this mean…
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Age of Ultron + more things
Age of Ultron The latest trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron looks like a CGI feast for the retinas. Age of Ultron is part of the Marvel arc planned out for the next few years. The main protagonist Ultron was originally created by Tony Stark and then went ‘Skynet’ which is where the Age…
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DuPont plastic & more news
DuPont plastic counterfeited Chinese “counterfeit” DuPont plastic prompted Aston Martin’s giant recall – Surely physical testing would have shown that the counterfeit Dupont plastic product wasn’t to spec? It makes me wonder about the inbound quality control at Aston Martin on materials. It makes sense that counterfeiters would go after a brand like DuPont plastic.…
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Novartis & more news
Novartis Novartis slashing thousands more jobs in global reorganization, shifting many to India – FiercePharma – Novartis moving jobs from Switzerland to India as a bet that it will improve margins and the work will be of equivalent standard. The challenge for Novartis is the amount of intellectual property walking out between the ears of…
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Roaringwild + more news
Roaringwild ROARINGWILD ONLINE STORE – Roaringwild is a Shenzhen-based streetwear brand. Roaringwild is part of a wider domestic streetwear eco-system including Shanghai label Colorbaner. Although it is streetwear, it is a world away from the collage and naturalistic handwriting style. Instead it takes a minimal futuristic approach. There are references Roaringwild pieces to Dieter Rams…
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Systeme D
According to Foreign Policy, the D in Systeme D comes from the French word débrouillard which is used to describe people who are ingenious or resourceful. In the Francophone companies being resourceful means operating outside of proscribed government regulation and bootstrap entrepreneurship hence, systeme D. Back in France, this might have been applied to people…
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Microsoft IE + other news
Microsoft IE It is hard to explain how dominant Microsoft IE or Internet Explorer was for online access. For years Microsoft IE was the tip of a range of technologies that integrated with online experiences that sustained Windows dominance. I was a late adapter to online banking since for years my bank required the use…
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Curb on charges + other news
Vodafone FT.com – Vodafone slams curb on rates – The curb on rates is complex. I agree with Vodafone that consumers would not like to pay to receive calls as well as paying to make them – this would bring the UK more in line with the US experience. However, I can understand why a…
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Yahoo Found + more news
Yahoo Found Advertising Age has a case study of the Yahoo Found campaign that ran in London.The Yahoo Found campaign was interesting because it used the environment as an interaction with the poster executions to give it an experiential feel. The Yahoo Found campaign reasonated for a long time with consumers and we took found…