The New York Times has an interesting article on French Presiden Nicolas Sarkozy’s approach to economic policy. The publication writes: “In a major speech outlining the next phase of his economic plans, the president vowed to make good on his campaign promises to adopt business-friendly policies to allow French companies to compete better in the world, even if the changes upset those clinging to France’s generous welfare system and strong job protection. But he also echoed themes sounded by predecessors, saying that the free market was an illusion and that France should not be shy about having the government defend French interests from foreign marauders.”
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In a different article, AFP reports that “[l]eading Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology. DoCoMo entered the tieup as Japan’s internal affairs ministry refused to award WiMAX rights directly to existing operators of third-generation mobile services in a bid to encourage new market entrants.
AFP also writes that, according to the Estonian foreign ministry, “[t]ech-savvy Baltic state Estonia is to open an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, joining the likes of Sweden and the Maldives.”
Reuters points out that the government said on Thursday “[a]bout 146,000 people using a U.S. government jobs Web site had their personal information stolen by hackers who broke into computers at Monster Worldwide Inc. […] The theft on the USAjobs.gov site, which has about 2 million users, was part of a hacking operation apparently run out of Ukraine that Monster disclosed last week,” according to Peter Graves, a spokesman for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.