- Agency for the Creation of Companies (APCE): http://www.ance.asso.frMore figures and particularly more advice for the creation, take-over, and transfer of companies. There is an exhaustive agenda of events, competitions, trainings…and technical information for hiring of employees for example.

More than 2 500 specialists in networks administration systems are expected at Nice-Acropolis from May 7th to 10th for an international forum gathering all the famous companies in the sector.

For the first time, the Paca ousted the Ile de France for the number of jobs created or supported by foreign investments in 2000. It is the "Sophia and Rousset effect".

Will it be finally possible to settle the problem of delays for air flights? In Nice French Riviera, the problem of air traffic controllers is often mentioned to explain arrivals and departures which are sometimes very late compared to scheduled times. This cause should partly be eliminated with the opening of a new sophisticated air control centre in Aix-en-Provence. This centre, built by the State with the intermediary of the DGAC (General Management of Civil air force) was inaugurated on Friday January 26th.

Electronic paper manufactured by new age printing plants which would allow to create high tech newspapers with video displaying and which could be downloaded by Internet from wireless links ! That's what technology can do, according to Transfer.net which quotes scientists declarations from Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies' laboratories) and from the E Ink company. The latter say that they will actually be able to print "electronic paper" rolls soon.

The telecom manufacturer on the Riviera has stopped the activities of its research and development center of Nice-Arénas and transfers its call center from Sophia to Ireland.

Une première : en 2000, la Paca a détrôné l'Ile de France pour le nombre d'emplois créés ou maintenus par les investissements étrangers. L'effet Sophia et le Rousset.

You have to keep Direct-way by Uunet, a guide of professional websites on the Internet, in your bookmarks or in your favourites. Totally dedicated to the company, it deals with five main themes: management, marketing, company's rights, industries and information technology. In each of these sections, you can find a daily news, links to practical services on the Internet, journalists' surveys on different themes, and articles written by experts. It is a real mine of information!

Secretaries are not the only ones to use it even if the website is called super-secretaire.com. This specialized portal, dedicated to secretaryship obviously targets secretaries and assistants. It selects the best websites which can interest them for their job. However, it also provides practical information, tips, tricks, standard letters, contracts, reports, which can be useful for all.

Et de 10 pour Grand Large Voyages, le groupe niçois de Jany Bousquet! Il a inauguré sa dixième agence fin avril à Valbonne. Une agence un peu différente des autres car, située à proximité de la technopole, elle vise une clientèle à la fois d'affaires et de tourisme et en tout cas très internationale ((une bonne moitié de d'étrangers travaillant à Sophia Antipolis parmi les clients accueillis lors du premier mois de fonctionnement).

The lack of accommodation offer to sell as to rent is threatening the economic development. This is the title of an article by Michel Bovas, published in La Tribune of November 29th 2000 and untitled "The French Riviera can't find accommodation anymore for its new comers". Estate agencies in Antibes, area close to Sophia Antipolis, put "Nothing to rent" on their windows.

SK Group, une start-up sophipolitaine en vedette dans Le Monde Interactif. L'article est daté du 30 avril 2001 sous le titre "SK Group prévient les collisions sur les chantiers". Créé par un ancien élève de l'ESSI (Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques) de Sophia Antipolis, Séverin Kezeu, SK Group a mis au point des systèmes d'informatique embarquée (capteurs reliés à un ordinateur central) permettant de donner de l'intelligence dans les véhicules.

SK Group, une start-up sophipolitaine en vedette dans Le Monde Interactif. L'article est daté du 30 avril 2001 sous le titre "SK Group prévient les collisions sur les chantiers". Créé par un ancien élève de l'ESSI (Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques) de Sophia Antipolis, Séverin Kezeu, SK Group a mis au point des systèmes d'informatique embarquée (capteurs reliés à un ordinateur central) permettant de donner de l'intelligence dans les véhicules.

Du papier électronique fabriqué dans des imprimeries new age qui permettrait de créer des journaux high tech affichant également de la vidéo et que l'on téléchargerait par Internet à partir de liaisons sans fil ! C'est désormais à portée de technologie, ainsi que le signale Transfert.net qui reprend les déclarations de scientifiques des Bell Labs (les laboratoires de Lucent Technologies) et de la société E Ink. Ces derniers affirment en effet qu’on pourra bientôt imprimer des rouleaux de "papier électronique".

Plus de 2.500 spécialistes des systèmes d'administration de réseaux sont attendus à Nice-Acropolis du 7 au 10 mai pour un forum international rassemblant tous les grands du secteur.

When will there be real hospital in Cannes and its basin ? Although the medical profession and equipments are very good, it is not the case for premises which have been subjected to a project of complete renovation for the last twenty years. A project which keeps on making no headway.

Forget the “admifrance.gouv.fr” website but welcome its V2, its new version www…. , which will be useful to keep in your bookmarks. This new Internet portal of the French administration was designed as the entry point to its services and on the public Web. It gathers a gigantic mass of forms, information, laws, and links to other French and European administrative websites.

The case of call for tenders is passed before the Administrative Court and the government Commissioner has noticed three cancellation points. The judgement is expected as well.

The Monaco World Summit takes place on Thursday and Friday April 26th and 27th at the « Sporting d’Hiver » of the principality on the theme of the economic crime and the organised transnational criminality. Two famous contributors will be there: the judge Eric Halphen, who makes the headlines in the press with the case of council housing in Paris and the accusation of the President of the Republic; Michel Hunault, reporter of the law on the dirty money laundering.

That's done ! Two or three months ago, the member-mayor of Villeneuve Loubet said that he would willingly commit himself in the battle for the municipal elections of Cannes under the RPF colours (Rassemblement pour la France).