Bogota, Apr 11 (EFE).- Mexicans taking a look at their Twitter accounts this Monday will find a visual novelty on their timeline - a brief advertising video. Welcome to First View, a new Twitter platform for advertisers that guarantees a brand's promotional video the top spot on the user's timeline for 24 hours. According to Guilherme Ribenboim, vice president of Twitter for Latin America, t...

Wikimedia Commons Cap-Net UNDP News Release - The Central American Network of Engineering Institutions (REDICA), along with the University of Costa Rica (UCR), the Euro-American Consortium and the British Embassy in Costa Rica, have been interested in the development of applied research on gasification from biomass waste from the cultivation of pineapple in Costa Rica.   The project...

After more than one year in public development and millions of downloads, Vivaldi today released the first major release of its pioneering desktop browser: Vivaldi 1.0. Vivaldi speed dial and side panel While other browsers strip down their offerings, Vivaldi adds features and powerful personalization options to help the web’s most demanding users increase their productivity and efficiency....

Android Auto Android Auto, a standard for automobile/smartphone integration developed by tech giant Google, is now available to drivers in Costa Rica. This technology standard allows drivers with devices powered by the Android mobile operating system to connect them to the dashboard head units to their cars for the purpose of controlling functions such as GPS navigation with Google Maps, tr...

New quick-action gesture iPhone 6s Austin, Texas, Mar 31 (EFE).- The FBI has agreed to unlock two Apple devices belonging to a pair of teenage murder suspects in Arkansas, the prosecutor in the case said. The bureau is providing that assistance after the Justice Department said Monday it had gained access to the iPhone used by one of the shooters in last December's San Bernardino, Californi...

Source: Mozilla ASUNCION, MAR 31 (EFE). — Aguaratata, the Guarani version of Mozilla's Firefox browser, will be unveiled in Paraguay next week at Asuncion National University, the Language Policy Secretariat said Thursday. Aguaratata Firefox in Guarani took two years to develop and will be presented to the public on Monday. The Aguaratata browser will be an important tool for spe...

Waco Mammoth Museum - Photo By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 3.0 Washington, Mar 29 (EFE).- Archaeologists have found a mammoth skull and two tusk fragments in a sand pit in northeastern Oklahoma, media reports said. The Oklahoma Archeological Survey, or OAS, identified the animal as a Columbian mammoth, one of the last species of that giant mammal to inhabit both North America and Central Ameri...

New quick-action gesture iPhone 6s San Francisco, Mar 28 (EFE).- The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that the FBI had accessed the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack last December and will not need the help of Apple to unblock the device. "The FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone a...

Wikimedia Commons Aparecida, Brazil, Mar 28 (EFE).- Brazilian researchers have improved the delivery of a medication to fight Alzheimer's by using a nanofiber to regulate the compound's release, allowing long-term action in the fight against the disease. The project is being led by doctoral student Geisa Salles and professor Anderson Lobo, coordinator of Vale do Paraiba University's Researc...

Pixabay Commons Washington, Mar 24 (EFE).- U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday announced an investigation of seven Iranian hackers, who have been charged with attacking the U.S. financial system and a small dam in New York at the behest of the government in Tehran. "The attacks were relentless, systematic and widespread," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a press conference...

(Apple press photo) Cupertino, California, Mar 21 (EFE).- Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook vowed Monday that his company would not shirk its responsibility to protect its users' privacy, calling it an issue that affects everyone. "We did not expect to be in this position, at odds with our own government. But we believe strongly that we have a responsibility to help you protect your data and protect ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons SHENZHEN, China, March 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 3.15 Gala hosted by China's nationwide TV network CCTV this year, white hat hackers demonstrated how they could utilize vulnerabilities to remotely hijack an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), sparking a debate among consumers about and focusing their attention on the security of smart devices. According to media repo...

Franklin Chang, Ad Astra Rocket Company San Jose, March 2016. Aiming to put Costa Rica on the world map of aerospace industry, a group of 25 companies in sectors such as electronics, metalworking and specialized services came together to create the Costa Rica Aerospace Cluster (CRAC). This group seeks to position the country as a solution provider for the international aerospace industry. T...

Stem cells. Wikimedia Commons (PRWEB) MARCH 18, 2016 - Bioscience Americas, LLC (http://www.bioscienceamericas.com), a leading international developer of autologous stem cell therapy centers for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, is pleased to announce that its lead scientific researcher, Dr. Anand Srivastava, has been invited to speak at the Fifth Annual European Biosimilar Conference to be ...

Jurassic footprints. Source: Wikimedia Commons Bogota, Mar 15 (EFE).- A team of scientists headed by geologist Herman Bermudez working on the Colombian island of Gorgonilla, in the Pacific, has found fragments of the meteorite that 66 million years ago caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, sources close to the investigation said Tuesday. "(We have) evidence of the impact of the meteorite,...

(Courtesy/WhatsApp) (VOA) Popular messaging app WhatsApp is reportedly in a battle over encryption with the U.S. Government similar to the one involving Apple. According to The New York Times, a federal judge has approved the monitoring of messages made via the Facebook-owned app in a criminal investigation, but end-to-end encryption makes it difficult. Some officials want to see the com...

Source: AmoLatina.com AmoLatina.com Press Release - International dating service AmoLatina has boosted the ambition of helping members meet their ideal match by answering the most important question in online dating – whether singles are seeking flirty chat or serious romance. AmoLatina, which brings singles across the world together with matches in Latin America, always aims to make it easier...

The stunning Huawei Mate 8 Three of the most desired smartphones in the world will be available for purchase in Costa Rica by the end of this month. According to technology journalist Johnny Castro of business daily La Republica, the three devices are the Huawei Mate 8, the Samsung S7 and the long-awaited, ultra-coveted Apple iPhone 5SE. Samsung S7 With a 5.1 or 5.5-inch screen (the largest ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end transport networking solutions, today announced that Red Centroamericana de Telecomunicaciones (REDCA), a provider of carrier neutral telecommunications services in Central America, has deployed the Coriant® hiT 7300 Multi-Haul Transport Platform to cost-efficiently scale its regional transport network and supp...

By Carol Blair Vaughn John Ward Flickr Commons The Godfather of Email Has Died Ray Tomlinson, known worldwide as the inventor of email, has died of a reported heart attack at the age of 74.  Tomlinson leaves behind a wife and two children – but more famously – a method for all of us living outside our home countries to communicate with each other any time, day or night: email.   ...

Dr Franklin Chang-Diaz Earlier today, President of Costa Rica Luis Guillermo Solis opened the United Nations Workshop on Human Space Technology, a five-day international workshop on human space technology that will take place in  San José until March 11th.   Keynote speeches were delivered by Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz, CEO of the Ad Astra Rocket Company and Hall of Fame NASA astronaut...

Source: SpaceX Twitter Washington, Mar 5 (EFE).- U.S. private aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched a commercial communications satellite into orbit but later failed to land the rocket that carried it on a drone ship at sea. The SES-9 satellite, owned by Luxembourg-based communications satellite operator SES, entered into orbit at 6:35 p.m. local time Friday after being launched by...

sh2-106 region. Wikimedia Commons Berlin, Mar 3 (EFE).- The European Southern Observatory's VLT telescope in Paranal, Chile, has captured images of an enormous ruby-colored gas cloud with giant imbedded stars whose origin remains a mystery to astronomers. The image, released by the ESO at its headquarters in Garching, Germany, shows in detail the massive nebulae where the giants were born. ...

Pixabay Public Domain Widener University Press Release - The lush, coffee-producing landscape of Costa Rica has been a destination for Widener University students and faculty to conduct research and participate in learning experiences for a decade, but the university now has a permanent hub in the Central American country to call home. The university has purchased a four-bedroom villa outfi...

Flickr Commons Sao Paulo, Mar 1 (EFE).- The vice president of Facebook for Latin America was arrested here Tuesday for repeated non-compliance with court orders, Brazil's Federal Police said. Diego Dzodan, an Argentine citizen, was arrested in Sao Paulo on a warrant handed down by a judge in the northeastern state of Sergipe. Judge Marcel Maia Montalvao ruled that the executive failed to...

Zika is spread by the Aedes aegyptie mosquito (Wikimedia Commons) Santiago, Feb 29 (EFE).- With an unusual mixture of organic ingredients that "were not in its plans," the Chilean company Grupo Avance says it has discovered an innovative formula that acts as a repellent of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the Zika virus, dengue fever and other diseases. "We got to this by merging seve...

Source: Oral-B At the recent GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, Oral-B unveiled its latest innovation that sets a new oral care standard: Oral-B GENIUS, the first of its kind and Oral-B’s most intelligent brushing system available to-date.   With this new smart toothbrush, dental tourists who return home after getting procedures in Costa Rica can closely follow the ...

An Uber driver in Bogota. Wikimedia Common6 Uber, the personal transportation solution centered on the use of a mobile app, recently announced a new service in Costa Rica. Despite its controversial illegal status, and despite being the recipient of a Presidential warning, Uber continues to operate and expand across Costa Rica. The new Uber feature is called uberXL, and it aims to attract pa...

File photo BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Tackling digital literacy and ensuring that locally relevant content and services are available will be key to connecting the estimated 363 million citizens in Latin America and the Caribbean that are covered by mobile broadband networks but not yet connected. According to a series of new reports commissioned by GSMA’s Connected Society and pr...

Source: Telefonica Barcelona, February 22, 2016.- Telefónica presented at Mobile World Congress 2016 (MWC) a pioneering and unique initiative in the world of television that integrates interactivity and the social component in its video offering. The service known as Social TV allows the user to interact with other people directly on their TV screen. At MWC Telefónica has added the innovati...

"Stephen Curry 2" by Keith Allison from Owings Mills, USA - Stephen Curry. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons MEXICO CITY, Feb. 16, 2016 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Binbit, one of the leading companies in distribution of mobile entertainment content in the world, today announced a new multiyear partnership that will provide the league’s growing fan base acros...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Feb 20 (EFE).- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is calling on U.S. consumers to boycott Apple's products until the tech company unlocks an iPhone used by one of the perpetrators of the December 2015 San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack, which left 14 dead. Trump was referring to Apple's refusal to comply with a court order secured ...

WirelessDevNet.com Press Release - ICT professionals and government policy makers wanting to present their strategies for progressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals at the IFIP World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2016 have two weeks to submit their papers and demo proposals for review. March 1st 2016 is the deadline for submissions, with the event scheduled to be held...

President Chinchilla Listens to Minister Cruz MEXICO CITY, Feb. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and GBM Corporation, a leading IT integration company in the Central American and Caribbean region, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the use of IBM's Watson cognitive computing capabilities in Latin America. GBM has created a new company, Cognitiva, for this purpose in ...

(Apple press photo) "The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand," read the opening paragraph of an open letter posted by Apple CEO, Tim Cook on Tuesday. Apple computers is resisting a U.S. government order to unlock its encrypted ...

Wikimedia Commons According to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, which we all learned in school as a way of understanding how gravity works, bodies moving through space are affected by deformation, or warping.  Amazingly, last Thursday a team of scientists announced that they had recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light years away, thereby providing scientific pro...

Flickr Commons Although Costa Rica has adopted a very proactive stance in terms of promoting wireless data networks as a means to bridge the digital divide, the current Long Term Evolution (LTE) strategy is one of the most deficient in the world. According to the State of LTE report published by the developers of the crowdsourced OpenSignal mobile app in February, the LTE spectrum in Costa ...

Flickr Commons The next time you access your Netflix account in Costa Rica, you may be surprised to find out that you are streaming a movie or a television series you've never heard of. Unless you share your Netflix login credentials with someone else, someone may have illegally purchased your password for as low as $0.25. A recent article by Jacob Brogan of online news magazine Slate.com d...

Ana Helena Chacon Echeverria, Vice President of the Republic of Costa Rica witnessed the signing of the document. Source: Cisco Cisco Press Release - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 11 February 2016 – In order to exchange information and share best practices to support the digital agenda for Costa Rica, the Telecommunications Vice Ministry, a specialized unit from MICITT (Ministerio de Ciencia Tecnología...

By Mar Centenera Buenos Aires, Feb 8 (EFE).- The Aedes aegypti mosquito is considered "a perfect virus-spreading machine" by scientists at Argentina's Center for Plagues and Insecticides Research, or Cipein, which studies the insect's preferences and phobias to fight it and contain dengue, Zika and Chikunguña epidemics. Females of the species, able to lay an average of 100 to 300 eggs, bite ...