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27 Mar 2013From lending your house to sharing contacts, more and more sharing networks are developing – and some are proving to be very bankable. Accommodation: CouchSurfing and AirBnB: 2 different approaches Offering travellers bargain-price accommodation in private homes is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional accommodation, and the current market leaders are CouchSurfing and AirBnB. CouchSurfing [...]
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26 Mar 2013Based on peer-to-peer sharing of resources, the sharing economy, or collaborative consumption, is also finding its way into the workplace. Streamlining and cost-cutting oblige The sharing of time, goods and services in the B2B environment is proof of the spread of the sharing economy or collaborative consumption. In terms of work organisation, a growing trend [...]
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25 Mar 2013With collaborative consumption, objects, knowledge and skills are loaned, hired or exchanged via new technologies and networks. A new economic model? Widely considered as a revolutionary trend, the sharing economy, also called collaborative consumption, represents a major shift in the way people consume: ownership is no longer the be-all-and-end-all – it’s not even necessary anymore. [...]
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2 Oct 2012After Asia Pacific in 2011, IPv4 addresses have all but run out in Europe too. Some requests still being granted To solve the IPv4 address shortage which was publicly announced in mid-September, an “emergency” block of 16.7 million addresses are to be allocated. But these addresses will not be nearly enough to cater for the [...]
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24 Sep 2012A smart building features an intelligent network of electronic devices designed to monitor and control the mechanical and electronics of the building, and the related costs. Building management system (BMS) and home automation Mickael Sigda, an expert on green buildings, describes a smart building as “A building that can regulate and measure its own performance.” [...]
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22 May 2012Creation, science, marketing: crowdsourcing applications are a source of innovation, exchange and knowledge. Creation and resale of content on the planetary scale Wikipedia, based on the voluntary, unpaid writing of articles, is one of the most significant examples in the unpaid contribution domain. 410 million hits per month, 17 million articles –including 1 million in [...]
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2 May 2012Based on the Internet and its social networks, crowdsourcing helps locate resources outside companies. Refining the definition of crowdsourcing In a recent article published on the website Le cercle Les échos entitled “Le crowdsourcing, mot barbare, concept fondateur” Dominique Turcq defines crowdsourcing as “the means to search the Internet for resources relevant to work, innovation [...]
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24 Jan 2012Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft with its Bing browser will be adopting IPv6 next June. The new protocol becomes official “One small step for mankind, one giant step for the internet”: this sums up the impact of 6 June 2012 rather well. The shortage of IPv4 addresses, which was officially announced a year ago, has [...]
Econocom is currently a European provider of services for integrating and financing digital solutions. With its complementary areas of expertise (distribution , leasing , services and telecoms), Econocom assists businesses in transforming their IT systems and managing digital projects. Operating in 18 countries, Econocom Group employs 3,700 people and posted revenue of €1,538 million.
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