Verizon Communications Inc is looking at ways to modify its $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo Inc's core internet business after the technology company disclosed a second massive data breach, sources told Reuters on Thursday. Yahoo Inc shares fell almost 5 percent after the breach of data belonging to more than 1 billion users was disclosed, following another large hack reported in September. V...

Amazon today announced that Amazon Prime Video is now available to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe including Costa Rica. Customers around the world can now enjoy popular new original series and award-winning Amazon Original Series like The Man in the High Castle, Transparent, Mozart in the Jungle, Tumble Leaf and more. Customers can sign up for a Prime Vide...

The first sign of a problem appeared in December 2014, when a fissure in the northern side of the Irazu, Volcano started to buckle the land where 84 telecommunication towers for television, radio and private communication are set. The cracks that continued to appear in 2015 were of around a meter and a half wide (5 feet) and 90 centimeters (35 inches)deep; now, new cracks atop of the volcano an...

Obnis App Costa Rica Private Transportation - Cab service Costa Rican company Obnis launched today their application, a competition of UBER. Obnis was created as an alternative in the private transportation sector, and in order to give clients a “Test drive” of their service they will be offering free trips for all new users for a limited time and with some restrictions. Over 4,000 users...

Costa Rica has come a long way when it comes to the creation and development of medical devices. Going in a period of 15 years from designing devices class I (disposable devices such as catheters), to class III devices (those that are placed inside the human body). Five of the ten main cardiovascular companies in the world and 6 out of 20 most reputable enterprises of medical devices in the wor...

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT) in conjunction with Aprender Haciendo (Learn Doing), has announced that Costa Rica will host the 14th edition of the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) 2017. “More than 3 thousand people from 55 different countries will come to our country to participate, it is a very big event” said Alejandra Sanchez from Aprender Haciendo. According...

(EFE).- Facebook has developed a tool to adapt to a tougher regime of internet censorship in China in order to gain entry into markets in the country, The New York Times reported late Wednesday. The software, which Facebook has so far only tested internally, will enable user entries to be censored before they appear on the feeds in order to comply with Chinese laws, said the newspaper, citing e...

(Reuters) - Swiss scientists have helped monkeys with spinal cord injuries regain control of non-functioning limbs in research which might one day lead to paralyzed people being able to walk again. The scientists, who treated the monkeys with a neuroprosthetic interface that acted as a wireless bridge between the brain and spine, say they have started small feasibility studies in humans to tria...

Facebook has agreed to suspend sharing personal data from WhatsApp in the UK for ads and product development, following an investigation by the UK privacy regulator. Facebook Britain’s Information Commissioner said already in August, shortly after Facebook announced the change in WhastApp's privacy policy, that it would investigate the matter. ICO Elizabeth Denham said she had concerns "tha...

By Wendy Anders Viogaz bio-digester in the Barra Honda National Park in Nicoya, Costa Rica. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s ‘Technology Review’, awarded Joaquín Víquez, manager of the Heredia, Costa Rica-based Viogaz company its young innovators in Central America award. The contest, which is held in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank, recognized six o...

Costa Rica’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), released the names of the winners of the national Clodomiro Picado Twight Science and Technology Awards 2016. These awards are given to those Costa Ricans that carry out and make public an investigation that contributes with the information and knowledge of that area. Costa Rican microbiologist Marie Claire Arrieta ...

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc <FB.O> shares tumbled 7 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday as the world's largest online social media network warned that revenue growth would slow this quarter, offsetting strong earnings that handily beat Wall Street estimates. The slip reflected doubts among investors that the company can continue its runaway success, even as it reported strong mobile ...

Tokyo, Oct 31 — The parents of a Japanese boy who was killed in a road accident caused by a driver who was busy playing Pokemon GO have urged for measures to stop the use of the gaming app while driving, says a report in Japanese daily Asahi Monday. UseKöl video game, Facebook Nine-year-old Keita Noritake was killed last Wednesday after he was run over by a truck whose driver was distracted...

Scientists in Brazil are preparing to release millions of factory-bred mosquitoes in an attempt to wipe out their distant cousins that carry tropical diseases. The insects' method: have sex and then die. British firm Oxitec says its genetically modified mosquitoes will swarm in among ordinary species such as Aedes aegypti, the insect that carries feared diseases such as Zika, dengue, yellow fev...

The three mobile phone operators in Costa Rica will offer as of midnight November 11 the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 plus. Kölbi, Movistar and Claro confirmed the date to national newspaper La Nacion, although prices or plans have not been released as of yet. Some stores in Costa Rica have been selling the iPhone 7 since the end of September at a reported price of close to $1,300.00.(In the U....

There's still no official date on when the new MacBook Pro will be available in Costa Rica. (EFE).- The latest version of Apple Inc.'s MacBook Pro features a fingerprint sensor and a multi-touch retina display above the keyboard, among other features, the company said Thursday. Apple unveiled the first big changes to its flagship notebook in two years during an event headed by CEO Tim Cook ...

Press Release / For the first time in Costa Rica, entrepreneurs, bloggers, journalists, designers, developers, consultants, digital media professionals, technology experts and educators, and many others, will be able to attend a WordCamp, an event that will gather all users of Word Press, the most popular content management system in the world. The activity is scheduled to take place November 5...

Costa Rican Alicia Chong Rodríguez is a graduate student at MIT in the program of Integrated Design and Management, she is a co-founder of the startup company named Bloomer Tech (named after women’s rights advocate Amelia Bloomer), which is developing a bra with built-in sensors that monitor heart activity and communicate to a smartphone application via Bluetooth. She came up with the idea as s...

Google transit is now including Costa Rica's train stops, routes and schedules to make it easier to use this method of transportation. This was made possible by the joint efforts of Google, Costa Rica’s Train Institute (INCOFER), and the company Bus.cr. The tool Google Transit is part of the app Google Maps and it’s designed with the purpose of making information available to users that need...

(Reuters) - Hackers unleashed a complex attack on the internet through common devices like webcams and digital recorders and cut access to some of the world's best known websites on Friday, a stunning breach of global internet stability. The attacks struck Twitter, Paypal, Spotify and other customers of an infrastructure company in New Hampshire called Dyn, which acts as a switchboard for inter...

(BUSINESS WIRE) // Amazon introduced Amazon Music Unlimited as an alternative to other online music services such as Spotify and Apple Music. Amazon Music Unlimited is an on-demand music service that redefines music streaming by putting a catalog of tens of millions of songs and thousands of hand-curated playlists and personalized stations not just at the tips of your fingers, but also on the tip ...

The Costa Rica Expo IT-COMM, formerly Expo-Telecom, is scheduled for November 3 and 4 at the Real Intercontinental Hotel; this is the seventh edition of the event which has consolidated as one of the most important in the area of telecommunications in the Central America region. This event explores the new trends on Information and Communication Technology, from artificial intelligence, softwar...

Costa Rica hosted the sixth Freedom Online Conference on the future of the Coalition which gathered 30 governments working to advance Internet freedom and security, the respect of privacy and data transparency. The Conference was held October 17th and 18th, Costa Rica is the current Freedom Online Conference Chair. “Internet is a very powerful knowledge tool, and it must have all the condit...

By Wendy Anders Changes proposed by the Costa Rican telecom regulatory agency (Sutel) in Internet pricing that would eliminate postpaid Internet plans and charge per download fees is under criticism by the Costa Rican Professional Journalists Association (Colegio de Periodistas or Colper). “The move would be a step back in access to information,” said the association recently to Informa-Tico...

(EFE).- Samsung Electronics estimates that it will lose 3.5 trillion won ($3.1 billion) in operating profits over the next six months due to the withdrawal of the Galaxy Note 7. Samsung calculated that the impact of the sales halt will amount to 2.5 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in the fourth quarter of this year, from October to December, and around one trillion won ($880 million) for the quarte...

“El Camino del Usekol” or The Road of the Usekol is a video game created by Costa Rican developers as part of their cultural products brand Juego Ditso which through video-games and table games hopes to introduce users to legends, mythology and tales of indigenous Costa Rican communities. This video-game is a strategy and adventure game within the Role-Playing Genre, in which players take o...

When it comes to technology we sometimes think we’ve seen it all, “everything has been invented already”, right? Well this statement is far from reality; every day technology innovations surprise us, and this will continue to wherever imagination can take us. How about a T.V. screen that’s invisible when you are not using it? Yes, this is already in the making, by Panasonic. The company present...

By Wendy Anders Costa Rica’s telecommunications regulator, the Superintendency of Telecommunications (Sutel), has proposed new practices to increase competition among phone and Internet providers. The proposal, which is open for a 10-day public consultation period, includes a greater opening of international telephone services, internet plans, international roaming, and telecommunications tr...

China’s decommissioned Tiangong-1 space station will likely fall to Earth late next year in an apparently unscheduled retirement. Launched in 2011, the small prototype space station was abandoned in 2013 at the end of its life span. Now, however, Chinese officials have announced that the space station will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere sometime late next year. The uncertainty about the exact date ...

By Wendy Anders Amy Schumer, U.S. comedian, in a recent Facebook post asks, "How did I know he should be the next president? He bought me a futon and grabbed my pussy." Female comedian superstar Amy Schumer knocked electronic dance music DJ, Armin van Buuren, off the list to become the most dangerous celebrity to search for online, according to Intel Security. Comedian and actress Amy Sc...

“Connected Public Spaces” is an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Telecommunications and Technolgy the National Telecommunication Fund (FONATEL) and several municipalities that are looking to provide of free internet to the inhabitants of the 72 Costa Rican counties through Wi-Fi networks placed in main parks. The total investment of this project is of about $32 million USD, which should b...

(Photo Credit: Ruth Garita/ OCM) “DesplazaTEC” is the name of the app created by Alexander Chaves a student of a Masters in Computer Sciences at the Costa Rican Institute of Technology (TEC). This application serves as a guide within the TEC campus for blind people or population with low sight problems by informing them through voice system of any hazards they can find ahead (stairs, obstacles...

(EFE).- South Korean giant Samsung Electronics said Thursday it is going to examine the mobile phone that caught fire aboard a US plane and forced its evacuation, to check if it is one of the replacement Galaxy Note 7 phones. A day after a smartphone caught fire aboard a Southwest Airlines plane at the Louisville international airport in Kentucky, US, a statement by the company said until the d...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5  -- Apple enthusiasts quickly exhausted stock of a scented candle designed to smell like a new Mac computer. The "New Mac Candle" created by Twelve South, an online retailer specializing in Apple accessories, sold out from their online store within 24 hours. According to the product description, the $24 candle was Hand Poured in Charleston, SC using 100 percent Soy Wax and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rykmwn0SMWU By Julia Love (Reuters) - Google’s product launch on Tuesday was as much a jab at Apple Inc’s iPhone as a sales pitch for its new Pixel phones, with executives from the Mountain View internet search company taking shots at their competitor at every turn. But any gains Google makes with the $649 Pixel, billed as completely designed in-house, may com...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has completed the transition to a new governance model, ending the U.S. government's control over the Internet authority, reported Telecompaper today. The United States Department of Commerce and its National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) confirmed their management contract expired 30 September, leaving I...

NexTVNews/ Pay TV operator Tigo Star (Millicom) announced the launch of its TV Everywhere service Tigo Play in Costa Rica. The platform includes movies, sports and series. It is available through PCs and mobile devices. According to information from its website, the service includes content from Fox Play, HBO GO, ESPN Play, Sony, AXN, Cinemax GO, Lifetime Play, A&E Play and Discovery Kids Play...

EFE- At least 56% of Latin Americans are connected to the internet, 10% more than the world average despite the lack of technological infrastructure, reveled the study “Uses of the Internet in Latin America” presented September 29th in Panama City. The investigation, with an error margin of less than 2.5%, according to its director Venezuelan Carlos Jiménez, told EFE, this study was done throu...

EFE-Investigators from Costa Rica’s Technological Institute (TEC) are developing an app that will identify the different tree species and will aid with scientific research, tourism and tree conservation. The TEC informed through a press release that the application, named “eFlora” will be in test phase during the next six months and is expected to be available to the public in 2017 in Apple and...

CHINA TECHNOLOGY Anbot robot, from Facebook. Beijing, Sept. 26 — Shenzhen International Airport in southern China, one of the country's busiest airports, has employed robots to patrol one of its terminals, making it one of the first public places in China to do so. According to the official People's Daily, the Anbot robots are oval-shaped and resemble the Star Wars 'R2D2' robot or the Da...