Acer Japon réduit de 5000 yen (42€) le prix de l’Aspire One et propose désormais son UMPC avec deux nouvelles couleur : rose et “golden brown”. La compétition est rude sur ce marché en plein essor : sachez qu’au Japon, les netbooks et UMPC à moins de 50 000 yen (425€) ont représenté 24% des ventes d’ordinateurs portables en 2008. Un record qui fait comprendre que la liste de ces produits ne cesse de s’allonger.

For past two years, I have been pointing towards a subtle but important shift that has started to take place - the globalization of the Internet. Thanks to a broadband boom in Europe, Asia and in new emerging economies such as Brazil and China, we are seeing the Internet traffic shift away from its historic US centricity. The trend was confirmed by our friends at Telegeography who have put together a clever Internet Map of the world.

They point out that in 1999, 91 percent of Asia and 70 percent of African Internet capacity connected to the US. In 2008, only 54 percent of Asian countries’ international Internet capacity connects to the US, while only 6 percent of African countries bandwidth connects to the US, as Europe has become more of an Internet hub for Africa. According to their study, the International Internet capacity grew at a compounded annual rate of 57 percent between 2002 and 2008. In 2008, international Internet bandwidth rose 62 percent over 2007 as backbone operators continued to upgrade their networks to meet rising traffic requirements.

Telegeography says the most annual growth was on optical cables that connected to Latin America and South Asia, which increased 119 percent and 112 percent, respectively, between 2007 and 2008. “The declining share of traffic routed via the U.S. actually reflects a healthy trend in the development of the global Internet,” said TeleGeography Research Director, Alan Mauldin.

My long standing belief is that today’s network patters are like trade route patters of the Industrial age, and mirror the economic shifts in our societies.

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Garnet Rogers performs at the Rose Garden Coffeehouse in Mansfield, Mass., Nov. 15, 2008, Video by Stephen Ide

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The Penn State senior who plays the Nittany Lion mascot will miss the Rose Bowl after being suspended for violating team rules.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/13396?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Canada%27s+PM+clings+on+to+power+as+parliament+suspendedch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Canada+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CNorth+America+Travelc6=Suzanne+Goldenbergc7=2008_12_05c8=1129183c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Canadac13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FCanada" width="1" height="1" //divpCanada's prime minister managed to head off the fall of his conservative minority government and cling to power yesterday after engineering the suspension of parliament./ppThe extraordinary decision by Canada's governor general, Michaeuml;lle Jean, to grant Stephen Harper's request to suspend parliament saved him from a confidence vote set for Monday that he was almost certain to lose. It also spares Canadians from going to the polls again, just weeks after elections in October./ppBut the reprieve for Harper takes Canada into uncharted constitutional territory and creates a political vacuum at a time of global economic crisis. It is also temporary. Parliament will resume in the new year and the government is due to introduce its budget on January 27./ppIn attempt to shore up his political prospects in the interim, Harper told reporters in Ottawa yesterday that his budget would include measures to help the economy, and that he would try to regain the confidence of the opposition. "Obviously we have to do some trust-building," he said./ppYesterday's decision brought angry protests from the opposition Liberal and New Democratic parties, which had called on Jean to refuse the prime minister's request to prorogue parliament. They accused her of disregarding the will of the majority in parliament. /ppCanada's crisis was provoked last week when Harper introduced an economic plan that included no stimulus measures but called for a three-year ban on strikes by civil servants and the abolition of public financing for political parties. The Liberal party leader, Steacute;phane Dion, accusing Harper of seeking to politicise the economic crisis, formed a coalition with the leftwing New Democratic party. The two also secured support from the separatist Bloc Queacute;beacute;cois to bring down the government. /ppAlthough Harper retreated on both measures, the opposition refused to back off, raising a political skirmish to yesterday's crisis proportions./ppDonna Dasko, one of Canada's best-known pollsters, said the move to scrap public financing was the tipping point for an opposition that had been demoralised by Harper's re-election. "It was so provocative," she said. "It was purely an effort to take away the modest public support that the political parties have."/ppAs tensions rose, Harper appeared on national television on Wednesday night vowing to block a coalition from coming to power. "Canada's government will use every legal means to protect our democracy, to protect our economy," he said./ppHe said his opponents were undemocratic and accused Dion of being allied with Queacute;beacute;cois separatists. Harper used the word "separatist" four times in the five-minute address./ppSpeaking after Jean's decision, the NDP leader, Jack Layton, said his party would vote down the government in January./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/canada"Canada/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mq-CanhNnXhxaw8dOmh7uwCUw-4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/mq-CanhNnXhxaw8dOmh7uwCUw-4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/28602?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Morrisons+triumphs+over+Tesco+with+sales+leapch=Businessc3=The+Guardianc4=Morrisons+%28Business%29%2CTesco+%28Business%29%2CSupermarkets+%28business%29%2CBusinessc5=Business+Marketsc6=Richard+Wrayc7=2008_12_05c8=1129226c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Morrisonsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FMorrisons" width="1" height="1" //divpMorrisons, Britain's fourth-biggest supermarket chain, yesterday announced a better than expected 8.1% leap in third-quarter sales, in stark contrast to the poor performance of bitter rival Tesco./ppThe company, also one of the UK's largest food manufacturers, has successfully attracted cost-conscious shoppers with "Price Crunch" deals such as its pound;4 Sunday roast lunch offer. 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Tesco reported its worst sales figures for a decade and a half this week./ppRecent data from TNS showed that Tesco grew the least among the big four supermarkets during October. Its market share is estimated to have dropped 0.4 percentage points to 31.3% as a result of the success of Morrisons and discount retailers./ppBradford-based Morrisons, meanwhile, said Christmas will be "hard-fought" as it announced that sales in stores that have been open for at least a year increased 8.1% in the 13 weeks to November 2. The City had been expecting a rise of about 7.1%./ppMorrisons has been particularly successful in attracting "value" shoppers, including a quarter of a million taking up its cut-price Sunday lunch offer./ppMorrisons' results were in contrast to those of Tesco, which said this week that like-for-like sales, excluding petrol, rose 2% in the past three months - half the growth achieved in the previous quarter. Tesco's chief executive Sir Terry Leahy was uncharacteristically downbeat, saying that while he was pleased with progress "we are also realistic - the current economic climate and the strain this is putting on consumers everywhere is something that all businesses are feeling, including ours."/ppRetailers across Britain are hoping that the Bank of England's one-point reduction in interest rates announced yesterday will help support consumer confidence and see off the threat of one of the worst Christmas trading periods in a generation./pp"We all know how tough it is for the consumer," Morrisons finance director Richard Pennycook said yesterday of the rate reduction. "Any incremental steps that can help ease that situation must be positive."/ppHowever, shares in Morrisons dropped as much as 5% after it announced plans to spend pound;223m on buying 38 Co-op stores, which the chain is selling as part of its move to gain regulatory approval for its pound;1.6bn acquisition of Somerfield's 800 stores announced in the summer./ppAnalysts said the price looked steep. The retail team at investment bank JP Morgan pointed out that Morrisons sold 117 former Safeway stores to Somerfield four years ago for pound;260m. It is now paying 86% of that for just 43% of the retail space./ppThe deal also means that Morrisons will be suspending its share-buyback programme, having spent pound;145.4m of a planned pound;1bn over two years. Provided it does not make any more acquisitions, the company may return pound;500m next year./ppPhilip Dorgan, analyst at Seymour Pierce, said the third-quarter results were good "but they are history. At first sight, we don't like the acquisition and next year Morrisons could face the heady brew of falling like-for-like sales, falling margins and a struggle to integrate a costly acquisition."/ppHe said the 38 stores have an average size of 13,000sq ft (1200sq metres) and the full cost of the deal is equivalent to pound;642 a square foot - which, when compared with Morrisons' own enterprise value per square foot of pound;729, "doesn't look that good a price, especially when you consider that the acquired stores are around one third of Morrisons' average store size"./ph2The promotions/h2pstrongSeptember/strong Five energy-efficient light bulbs for 50p; fish supper meal deal for pound;4./ppstrongOctober/strong Family roast chicken meal deal for pound;4. /ppstrongNovember/strong Bonfire party meal deal for pound;4; Sunday brunch meal deal for pound;4. /ppstrongDecember/strong Christmas price crunch offers will include 42-inch LCD TV for pound;449, buy one get one free on Cadbury's selection boxes and two for pound;4 on Cadbury's Roses and Heroes./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/morrisons"Morrisons/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/tesco"Tesco/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/supermarkets"Supermarkets/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/g_IedA3uQGrJu1prqOc_C60Ls6I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/g_IedA3uQGrJu1prqOc_C60Ls6I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/7527?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+US+retail+sales+figures+confirm+bleak+outlook+for+consumersch=Businessc3=guardian.co.ukc4=US+economy+%28Business%29%2CWal-Mart%2CBusiness%2CUS+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Markets%2CUS+Economyc6=Dan+Milmoc7=2008_12_04c8=1129049c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=US+economyc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FUS+economy" width="1" height="1" //divpThe US consumer is in full-scale retreat, retailers confirmed today, as dire sales figures confirmed a bleak outlook for the peak shopping season./ppMajor retailers such as Macy's, Abercrombie Fitch and GAP reported sales declines of more than 10% in November. Retail figures are a bellwether for the US economy with consumer spending accounting for more than two-thirds of economic activity. Shops hoped that Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year, would jump-start consumer outlay but industry experts were downbeat./pp"The American consumer is a train wreck," said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz Associates, a New York-based retail consultancy. "We don't know when it is going to get good but I think the worst is yet to come. The results are terrible and will continue to be terrible."/ppShopperTrak, a retail monitoring firm, said total sales at US retailers rose 1% during the Black Friday weekend but analysts believe much of that gain will have been stoked by deep discounts and will hit profits. Black Friday earns it moniker from the fact that most retailers move into an annual profit in the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas./ppA leading retail trade group said the decline in November sales hit every section of the industry, affecting performances at previously robust sectors such as bargain stores and drugs outlets. The International Council of Shopping Centers, which represents stores including GAP and JCPenney, said sales at 37 major retailers fell 2.7% over November ndash; the worst start to the holiday season in 35 years - and is forecasting an overall dip of 1% in the final two months of the year./ppRetailers said the late timing of the Thanksgiving holiday of this year had also dented November figures, with more sales pushed into December as a result. However, the ICSC said it added up to two percentage points to the sales decline, which still left sales in a deficit overall./pp "We have never seen anything as weak as this. It is simply the recession and it is really taking its toll on consumer spending. And it is not just discretionary spending. It is across the board, with every segment showing a decline," said Michael Niemira, chief economist at the ICSC./ppThe best performer today was Wal-Mart, which beat expectations with a 3.4% sales rise at stores that had been open more than a year. The world's largest retailer added some gloss to the ICSC's figures. Without Wal-Mart's contribution, November sales would have fallen 7.7%./ppThe worst performers among individual retailers included Limited Brands, owner of the Victoria's Secret lingerie stores, which saw a 12% fall in like-for-like sales. Target, a close Wal-Mart competitor, posted a 10.4% decline and Abercrombie Fitch, the clothing retailer, said sales fell 28% as it refused to join competitors in aggressive discounting./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/useconomy"US economy/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/walmart"Wal-Mart/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/JpBtvUkQ5ZTESTmlfI-91Y9arD4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/JpBtvUkQ5ZTESTmlfI-91Y9arD4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

On the December 3 broadcast of The War Room, co-host Rose Tennent read from an article about Deborah Lawrence, an artist who submitted an ornament for the White House Christmas tree celebrating, among other things, Rep. Jim McDermott's (D-WA) support for a resolution to impeach President Bush. Tennent read a quote from the article in which Lawrence said of the attention surrounding her ornament: "It took on a life of its own, obviously. In a way, I'm speechless." Tennent responded: "Good, stay that way. Don't talk," to which co-host Jim Quinn added, "That's right, don't talk. Shut up, bitch."

According to The Washington Post, first lady Laura Bush "asked members of Congress to pick local painters" to decorate ornaments for the White House Christmas tree. McDermott "contacted a local arts organization, which asked Lawrence, a collage artist, to create the local entry."

Media Matters for America has documented that Quinn previously introduced a segment on Sen. Hillary Clinton by playing Elton John's "The Bitch is Back." Additionally, on October 7, Quinn asserted that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, whom he referred to as "the Queen Bee," "hated" Clinton "because she didn't want Hillary to be the most important woman in Washington," adding, "I'm sorry, but it seems to be the nature -- I shouldn't say the nature of all women -- but it seems to be a trait that flows through, for whatever reasons, the gender, if you will." Quinn has also stated that to feminists, even "a childless feminist who looks like a Bulgarian weightlifter in drag" can be a "real woman," and has repeatedly referred to the National Organization for Women as "the national organization for whores."

Talkers Magazine lists Quinn & Rose among its "Heavy Hundred," which it describes as the "100 most important radio talk show hosts in America." According to the show's website, it airs on 18 radio stations and XM Satellite Radio.

From the December 3 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose:

QUINN: She needs something --

TENNENT: She sounds frightening.

QUINN: -- to become gainfully employed somewhere doing something for her fellow man besides this.

TENNENT: Argh. Yup, that's right. So, anyway, so she thought that she was making a very brave statement -- turns out that the White House has decided that, "You know what, don't think that's appropriate, we're not gonna hang it on the Christmas tree." So, but you know what? They have a luncheon -- I didn't know this -- for all of the artists, then -- a Christmas luncheon. Guess what? She jumped on the plane and flew to D.C. -- D.C. to go to the luncheon.

QUINN: Oh yeah --.

TENNENT: Yeah, she's there.

QUINN: She's there for the free meal.

TENNENT: Can you believe it?

QUINN: She's probably homeless and lives out of a shopping cart.

TENNENT: I just think that's a shame -- that's a shame.

QUINN: Well, you know --

TENNENT: Well, she said -- oh, she said, "An artist doesn't always get this kind of attention." This is the artist speaking.

QUINN: Yeah, 'cause they're hardly ever that stupid.

TENNENT: Plus, like, you're weird. Like, now I'm starting to think that there's something really wrong with you. That's the attention you're getting right now, sweetie. She said, "It took on a life of its own, obviously. In a way, I'm speechless." Good, stay that way. Don't talk.

QUINN: That's right, don't talk. Shut up, bitch.

TENNENT: She said, "It's disappointing that I won't get to see it on the tree." And did you think you would?

QUINN: Yeah, you know, I'll tell you what. There's -- there's always Photoshop. You know, you could take a picture of it and --

TENNENT: She's an artist. She can figure all of that out, right?

QUIINN: Sure. Take a picture of the White House tree, put your little ball on it --

TENNENT: Yeah.

QUIINN: -- put it up on the morning of December 25th -- you know, the winter solstice celebration -- and I'm sure you'll have a great time with it.

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