France takes on Google in scanning race

Article Abstract:

French president Jacques Chirac responded to Google's announcement in the year 2004 about its intention to scan millions of library books from collections at the universities of Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Oxford and the public library in New York. Hence, in his statement issued on 16th march, 2005 he asked his government to come up with proposals to accelerate the dissemination of French and other European works on the Internet.

General services, Government domestic functions, Research & Development, Scientific Research and Development Services, Research & Development NEC, United States, Research institutes, Science and technology policy, Company systems management, Information management, Information services, Information services industry, Chirac, Jacques, Google Inc.

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France and Japan lock horns in battle to host research react

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France, a representative of European Union (EU), and Japan contest their rights to host the US $5-billion ITER fusion experiment, which is world's largest planned scientific project. The ITER reactor aims to reproduce the thermonuclear fusion to sustain a power output comparable to the power required in future fusion-based power stations.

Japan, Science & research, Research, Science experiments (Education), Nuclear reactors, Science experiments

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France purges space programme in bid to survive budget crisis

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The effect of reduced budget and funding on all the space programmes conducted by the French government is discussed. The reducing funds have led the French space agency to cancel its NetLander Mars mission.

Financial management, Science, Space & Tech-Total Govt, Space Research and Technology, Finance, Company financing, Space programs

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