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Coldplay start the summer season of concerts at the Nikaïa with their Mylo Xyloto tour.

Mylo Xylotois pronounced as in "my-low zy-le-toe" lead singer Chris Martin eventually explained what the title means after keeping quite about it for some time.

"Music comes from a place we don't know. It sort of comes through the fingers and toes. So we came up with the idea of, what if you had musical digits, like xylo toes. Mylo is just a great name. For anything."

Full program of the 2012 Nice Jazz Festival is now out.

In 2011, the City of Nice took over the organisation of the Nice Jazz Festival, an international event and oldest European jazz festival (first edition 1948). The festival left the original venue in Cimiez to and moved to the heart of town. Of the five evenings, over 30 000 people attended, a record since 2003.

Lady Gaga to play in Nice on Thursday the 4th October 2012

Work will begin later this year on a new transport hub for Nice to be completed in 2015.

Gares & Connexions, the SNCF's new business unit is working in partnership with the Nice local authorities to provide a living and service area in Nice town centre and turn the future Nice-Thiers railway station into a large hub connecting several different modes of transport. The station is to be renovated with environmentally responsible architecture, offering new services and a high level of comfort to the residents of Nice and passengers using the Côte d'Azur railway.

Nvidia has officially moved into Nice's technology park, Sophia Antipolis, generating a new wave of hiring with thirty-seven new engineering positions to be filled in their Research & Development Centre in the French Riviera. The Sophia Antipolis office will will be focusing on the development of high-performance communication engines for mobile products. According to Nvidia, their unique system architecture enables the highest user throughput and advanced modem features with the smallest footprints and the lowest costs.

One of the most important European jazz festivals with over 500 musicians and 75 concerts. Inspired by the great American jazz performances, this international jazz festival is one of a kind.

It's an open secret. Madonna is expected to tour this summer in France. Probably in August. Probably in Paris and Nice. The Nice date will probably be on 21st August, on the lawn of Charles Ehrmann stadium. But all is not finalised, the capital of the Riviera is always in competition with Lyon to win this date with the Queen of Pop.

It seemed that Madonna was to spend two months on the Riviera to prepare for her new world tour. The deal was almost signed. But at the last moment, her producer backed down, the star has apparently chosen to go to train elsewhere, probably Israel.

This morning, Nice Airport unveiled a plan to build a third terminal by 2018 next to and to the west of the existing terminal 2.

Terminal 3 is intended to be able to handle 4 million passengers per year. The aim of the new terminal is to reduce the turnaround time by limiting the time that aircraft are parked on the ground by connecting them directly to the new terminal. The turnaround time could well drop to 25 minutes and allow low-cost aircraft to increase the number of flights they operate.

The work should last a year and a half at a cost of around 80 million euros.

Nice will be the first city in France to enable motorists to find available parking spaces using their mobile.

This summer, in Nice, available car parking spaces on the street can be found using your mobile. The first location to benefit from this will be the Notre-Dame region in Nice. The first sensors have already been installed in the pavement in Raimbaldi Boulevard. After the Notre-Dame, the sensors will be installed throughout the city.

Rumours of a new marina to be constructed next to Nice airport. Locals object.