L’exposition européenne IST 2000 a fait le point sur les technologies de l’ultra petit, en proposant notamment conférences et démonstrations sur ce thème. Avec un enjeu : l'ordinateur quantique.

La Fondation Sophia Antipolis et le Club Sophia Start-up, organisent avec Completel et Asperserve un petit-déjeuner sur le thème : 'Les technologies haut débit : quelles applications concrètes pour votre entreprise ?' Ce petit-déjeuner aura lieu le lundi 20 novembre 2000 à 8 h 30 au Grand Hôtel Mercure du Sophia Country Club (3350, route des Dolines, 06901 - Sophia Antipolis ).Programme :- 8 h 30 - Accueil par Pierre Laffitte, sénateur des Alpes-Maritimes et président de la Fondation Sophia-Antipolis ainsi que par Guy Gensollen, directeur régional Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur de Complet

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' Monaco indépendant ? Ni les Monégasques ni la France n'y ont intérêt. De peur de casser cette tirelire…Le Nouvel Observateurrevient, dans son édition du 9 novembre, sur le bras de fer entre Monaco et la France. Il publie un reportage sur le thème de /www.nouvelobs.com/economie/eco1_1.html"> 'Monaco : la ville dont le PDG est un prince'. Un reportage qui décrit, -avec toujours ce regard parisien sur le sud un peu horripilant-, Monaco S.A., le premier employeur de la région avec Sophia Antipolis.

La première réunion pour l'association 'Créer une deuxième vie professionnelle'. Lancée début octobre, cette association a pour but d'aider les cadres de plus de 45 ans qui se sentent à l'étroit dans leurs fonctions, à réaliser un projet personnel auquel ils auraient longtemps rêvé (la barrière d'âge étant plus indicative qu'impérative). La réunion aura lieu jeudi 16 novembre, à 18 heures, à Sophia Antipolis. Pour les personnes intéressées, s'inscrire par e-mail à info@deuxiemevie.org, le lieu précis de la réunion leur étant communiqué ensuite par retour d'e-mail).

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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.