Rachida Dati s’est déclarée favorable aux mesures proposées par la commission chargée de réviser l’ordonnance de 45, relative à la justice des mineurs, et notamment à l’idée de ramener à 12 ans l’âge auquel pourront être appliquées des sanctions pénales, dont éventuellement une mise en détention dans le cas d’un crime.

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L’Affaire des affaires sera un des albums incontournables de janvier 2009. Et pour cause, tout ce qui parle de près ou loin l’Affaire Clearstream est décortiqué par la presse, la classe politique sans oublier les adeptes du “tous pourris”. Surtout que cette adaptation en bande dessinée de la vie du journaliste d’investigation Denis Robert est chapeautée directement par l’intéressé, aidé au scénario par Yan Lindingre.

Les éditions Dargaud viennent de mettre en ligne les 6 premières pages du premier volet qui en comptera 200, dessinées par Laurent Astier, auteur d’Aven et Cellule Poison. On y découvre un Jacques Chirac à 200 à l’heure – ça nous change – et des personnalités clefs de l’affaire Clearstream comme un Dominique de Villepin taillé au couteau ou un Nicolas Sarkozy surexcité – là, ça change pas. À en croire ces premières pages et la fameuse phrase du “croc de boucher” lancée par le ministre de l’Intérieur d’alors, le scénario risque d’être ponctué d’anecdotes, en plus d’un aspect pédagogique mis en avant par l’éditeur. Les auteurs devraient ainsi s’étendre sur les arcanes des banques offshores ou des paradis fiscaux.

Avec son côté thriller politique, L’Affaire des affaires devrait autant séduire les amateurs de polar que les passionnés de BD reportage. À moins que ce ne soit les fans de Jean-Jacques Beineix, persuadés d’y voir là une suite à la mémorable Affaire du siècle.




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20-Word Description

8coupons.com is the next generation of coupons. You can text yourself great deals for big savings in NYC.

CEO’s Pitch

8coupons is a fun and easy way to save time, money, and trees by getting the best, up-to-the-minute deals on your cell phone (e-mail, iPhone, facebook, and anywhere else you want it). So instead of having to spend time looking for deals and cool new places to try around NYC, you can either subscribe to 8coupons’ weekly “Top 8″ emails or sign up to get deals alerts from your favorite restaurants, shops, spas, and even Broadway shows! Users can redeem an 8coupons deal by simply showing their phone (text coupon) to the cashier. For local business owners, 8coupons is an efficient and affordable way to a) get the word out about your store or restaurant and b) get new customers in the door to try out your product or service.

Mashable’s Take

Mobile coupons are an interesting idea that seems to fill an obvious need. Cutting out coupons from the newspaper is time consuming (and lots of people don’t read the print edition), and using Internet coupons requires you to find and print a deal before leaving the house.

However, the concept hasn’t really taken off. Cellfire is probably the biggest name in the space, but their focus is mostly on big national retailers. 8Coupons, available only in New York City for now, offers a hyper-local approach to mobile coupons that could be a bit more viable.

The site features a variety of coupons for local NYC businesses in different categories like food, entertainment, and beauty & spa. Those coupons can then either be printed out, saved to your 8Coupons account, or sent via SMS directly to your cell phone. You can then show the SMS message to the retailers who will in turn accept the deal. Advertisers pay 8Coupons $8.88 per day to list their coupons on the site, with the idea being that the discounts will drive more customers to their business.

As a customer, if you’re not in NYC, 8Coupons probably isn’t going to do much for you. But it’s a simple and interesting business idea that could easily be duplicated in any market – and one that actually makes money. The looming competitor in the space is phones with GPS capabilities, where coupons and promotions can be delivered on a hyper-local basis. But we’re still likely a few years away from those devices being as mainstream as SMS.

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We don't get out too often (blogger skin burns easily); the closest to the great outdoors we come is squinting longingly through windows gone opaque thanks to lack of cleaning. We'd nearly resigned ourselves to a life lived of dim illumination, but now have new hope thanks to Winboni, an award-winning prototype robot from four mechanical engineering students at Michigan State University. The 5 x 5-inch bot uses a fan to stick to the window (not unlike like Takara Tomy's wall-climbing AeroSpider, makes a great gift), and relies on two AA batteries to motor itself around the window, scrubbing all the while. We definitely like the concept and its promise of extra light for our dwellings, but until this thing can find a way to get from one pane to the next without us having to get out of our chairs we'll sadly have to keep squinting through the grime.

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When a company called EMG Technology filed a patent lawsuit against Apple last week over “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet,” it had the stench of a patent troll. The suit was filed a month after the patent was issued in the Eastern District of Texas, known as troll country among patent attorneys because the courts there tend to rule favorably for patent owners.

EMG Technology is based in Los Angeles, and appears to have been formed solely for the purpose of filing this lawsuit. One of the inventors named on the patent and EMG “managing member” Elliot Gottfurcht is a Los Angeles real estate developer. Apple, of course, is also based in California.

Then there are the actual claims of patent No. 7,441,196. With the help of M-CAM, an underwriter of patent insurance, I uncovered some patents (listed below) that pre-date EMG’s and that might be considered prior art. Apple’s lawyers should take a look at them. Some of them are even owned by Apple. Others are owned by IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and Sun Microsystems.

Before we get to those, what about EMG’s patent? The claims in that patent describe the ability to manipulate, zoom, scroll, and view Web content on devices other than a laptop. But the central and primary claim has to do with a way to convert HTML Web pages into XML data that can then be displayed partially on different devices, including mobile phones.

I’m no lawyer or patent expert, but my initial reaction was that these seem like overly broad claims (they cover everything from TVs to Web appliances to cell phones) with lots of precedents. It is very difficult to display an entire Webpage on a small screen, so engineers have figured out various ways to display parts of those pages.

EMG does not specify in its suit which of the patent’s 76 claims it thinks Apple is infringing on. But in the press release announcing the lawsuit, EMG’s lawyer highlights the claims covering “the display of Internet content reformatted from HTML to XML on mobile devices” and “technology for manipulating a region of the screen for zooming and scrolling.”

I asked M-CAM to run EMG’s patent through its Patently Obvious database, which compares claims across millions of patents. And they came up with 250 instances of possible prior art not mentioned in the EMG patent. When an inventor files a patent, he is required to list all other patents you are aware of that could have an impact on your claims. One way to get a patent application past an overworked patent examiner is to list a ton of related prior art, but omit the critical ones that could invalidate the patent.

One key patent omitted by EMG is No 6,535,896: “Systems, methods and computer program products for tailoring web page content in hypertext markup language format for display within pervasive computing devices using extensible markup language tools.” It is owned by IBM and was filed on January 29, 1999, which is prior to the November 15, 1999 date that is applicable for the EMG patent. The abstract for the IBM patent describes what it does this way:

Content portions of a requested Web page are converted to an XML format and then modified using an XML content-tailoring tool. Other content portions of the Web page are masked so as to be “hidden” and are, thus, not converted to XML format. The masked portions of the Web page are then unmasked, combined with the modified content portions, and transmitted to a client device for display therewithin.

That sounds very similar to parts of the first claim of the EMG patent:

1. A method of navigating the Internet, comprising: displaying on-line content accessed via the Internet, the on-line content reformatted from a webpage in a hypertext markup language (HTML) format into an extensible markup language (XML) format to generate a sister site, . . . navigation options to change between layers of the simplified navigation interface from general to more specific in each deeper layer; receiving a user selection of one of the navigation options; forwarding the selected navigation option across the internet to a server providing the simplified navigation interface; receiving a next deeper navigation layer of the simplified navigation interface corresponding to the selected navigation option

How did EMG’s patent get approved by the U.S. Patent Office? This just illustrates a bigger problem with the patent system. Since the budget of the Patent Office, which is derived from filing and maintenance fees, is tied directly to how many patents it approves, it has an economic incentive to approve as many as possible. This system needs to be changed. (Anyone in on Obama’s team reading this?).

Below are some other prior art that Apple’s lawyers might want to take a look at (and some quaint patent art that accompanied EMG’s filing).

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