Word: activia
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...France and later as vice president of marketing for its Internet unit in the U.S. He left Big Blue in 1999, returning to France to take the job of CEO of @Viso, an Internet incubator formed by Vivendi and Japan?s Softbank. Now he is CEO of ActiVia Networks, an Internet infrastructure start-up in Sophia Antipolis, the high-tech center near Nice...
...ActiVia - whose technology stems from the biggest Internet project at INRIA, a publicly funded computer science research lab - makes the hardware and software add-ons that network operators need to better handle multimedia applications for big corporate customers. Communications infrastructure firms like Acti-Via are one of the strengths of France?s tech sector. Another French strength: optics and microelectromechanical systems (mems), machines too small to see with the human eye, used for industrial purposes like wireless network equipment. These kinds of French tech companies have global potential, says Sven Lingjaerde, head of the European Tech Tour Association, but only...