Pixabay Commons ORLANDO, FL. (PRWEB) November 23, 2015 - PandaLabs, the laboratory of Panda Security, warns its latest quarterly report, that there has been a wave of cyberattacks where the security and information of various governments has been compromised. Additionally, the report lists the malware infection rates around the world, and Costa Rica shows a rate that is higher than the global ...

Wikimedia Commons Sitting down to get x-rays taken is one of the dental procedures that most patients are familiar with. The use of radiography in dentistry dates back to the 20th century, and it helps dental health professionals determine the type of treatment a patient needs; in many cases, these x-ray images can also be used for forensic purposes in case a missing person needs to be identif...

Oxford Dictionary By Carol Blair Vaughn Oxford Dictionary has announced its Word of The Year for 2015 – and SURPRISE!! – It’s not a word at all! This year’s word is the emoji “Face with Tears of Joy”, which was found to be used by more folks than any other emoji worldwide.  It turns out that Costa Rica has sent the most emoji art in the world in 2015, in our digital communication, accord...

Supporters of President Maduro rally in Caracas EFE/AGENCIA VENEZOLANA DE NOTICIAS/ Caracas, Nov 19 (EFE).- The Venezuelan government on Thursday delivered a protest note to the United States after the publication of documents showing that the National Security Agency spied on employees of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA. The note was delivered to the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embass...

Pixabay Commons New York, Nov 16 (EFE).- A Salvadoran citizen is on the list of the 10 cybercriminals most wanted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The fugitive, identified as Carlos Enrique Perez Melara, 35, is charged with hacking the private communications of hundreds and even thousands of victims, according to the FBI. Perez Melara ran a Web site that offered customers a w...

Guadalajara, Mexico, Nov 14 (EFE).- The total protection of data is almost unattainable in the digital age, and at times we are unaware of how defenseless we really are, experts from a number of countries agreed here at the Outsource2LAC forum, organized by the Inter-American Development Bank, or IDB. "Expectations of privacy are truly minimal," partly because "people are disconnected from the ...

Lasink technology COLOMBES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oberthur Technologies (OT), a leading global provider of embedded security software products, services and solutions today announced that its cutting-edge Lasink™ solution has been selected by Costa Rica, through a multi-year contract to provide highly secure national ID cards. With the aim of providing its citizens with enhanced security...

Wikimedia Commons Lima, Nov 12 (EFE).- University researchers in Peru have invented a device aimed at leveraging plants' potential as a clean and renewable energy source to provide electricity to an impoverished Amazon community. The "plant lamp," as the invention is known, is a project by researchers at Lima's University of Engineering and Technology that generates two hours of light per d...

Wikiemdia Commons Washington, Nov 11 (EFE).- U.S. astronomers have spotted what seems to be the most distant object ever detected in the Solar System, a dwarf planet located three times farther from the Sun than Pluto and designated V774104 by the scientists. The distant object is between 500 and 1,000 km (310 to 620 mi.) in diameter and its orbit will not be able to be determined for anoth...

ALMA instrument array in Atacama, Chile Santiago, Nov 11 (EFE).- The ALMA observatory, located in the middle of northern Chile's Atacama desert, announced that it will join with other telescopes around the planet to create a telescope as large as the Earth which will be able to spot objects just 10 cm (4 in.) wide on the Moon. In a statement, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...

Source: Apple One of the most popular wearable computing devices in the market will soon be worn on the wrists of iPhone users in Costa Rica who can afford them. The Apple Watch will start selling in Costa Rica later this month, specifically on November 20th, at stores operated by official distributor iCon. The Apple Watch models that will be sold in Costa Rica include the sport versions of...

Cuevana Montevideo, Nov 3 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Uruguay's Anti-Piracy Association has sued Cuevana, an Argentine Web site that allows users to watch television series and movies for free, to prevent access to its content in Uruguay. "The rest of the world can do whatever they think is necessary, but in Uruguay it shouldn't be accessible," the association's pre...

ISS. Source: Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 7 (EFE).- Two astronauts of the U.S. space agency NASA successfully completed almost eight hours of "high-flying plumbing" while on a spacewalk to make repairs on the International Space Station, or ISS. NASA officials reported Friday that ISS commander Scott Kelly and colleague Kjell Lindgren worked exactly seven hours and 48 minutes outside t...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Nov 5 (EFE).- The atmosphere of Mars could have disappeared billions of years ago as a result of the solar wind, which hits the planet with great strength, a situation that would explain how it lost the water that once covered its northern hemisphere, NASA reported Thursday. New information gathered by NASA's MAVEN probe, which is orbiting the Red Planet, indic...

Example of laser projection keyboard. Source: Flickr Commons Tokyo, Nov 5 (EFE).- Japan's NEC Corporation introduced software Thursday that will allow a virtual keyboard to be displayed on a person's arm and work in tandem with an eyeglass computer and a "smartwatch," an innovation aimed at freeing doctors and other professionals from the need to use cumbersome hardware. The software allows...

Pixabay Public Domain By Alejandro Rincon Moreno Cancun, Mexico, Nov 3 (EFE).- The Internet of Everything has been introduced to 10 percent of the Latin American public, and - although this is a relatively low percentage - it represents a "great advance," a Cisco executive said here Tuesday. "We still don't have that massive use that we would like, but - although it's complicated to find...

Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Nov 3 (EFE).- Argentine Health Minister Daniel Gollan said Wednesday that his Twitter account was hacked after several tweets were posted there warning about the alleged dangers for the public health system if the opposition candidate wins the presidential runoff election. "The 12 new radiation therapy centers for cancer treatment will continue moving forward...

Wikimedia Commons Madrid, Oct 28 (EFE).- An object can levitate or move without anything touching it using acoustic holograms created by experts from Britain's Bristol and Sussex universities led by Spaniard Asier Marzo, an article in the journal Nature Communications said. Marzo told EFE that the study proved that the hologram principle also applies to sound because "ultimately both light ...

A Kidnapper’s Favorite Currency: Bitcoin On October 22nd, 2015, Hong Kong tycoon Wong Kwan (known as Wong Yuk-Kwan to his family) was released from captivity after his family reportedly paid the kidnappers $13 million in Bitcoin – a far cry from the $70 million the kidnappers had requested. Kwan is the chairman of Pearl Oriental Oil, and had been in captivity for 38 days. He was in rough sha...

Source: Evernote Bogota, Oct 30 (EFE).- Now boasting 150 million users worldwide, 15 million of them in Latin America, productivity app Evernote has seen rapid growth by offering smartphone users an easy-to-use and effective tool for uploading data and organizing and accessing it across various devices. Honduran Luis Samra, who has headed private company Evernote's Latin America division si...

Source: Ginger Software BOSTON, Oct. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginger keyboard, the leading mobile keyboard and writing enhancement app, announced today that it received Google Play Editor's Choice Award. The Google Play Editor's Choice award is given to apps chosen for their quality, user interface, long-term popularity and innovation. Ginger is one of the few, hand-selected, keyboard apps ...

SoftonITG San Jose, Costa Rica (PRWEB) October 27, 2015 - As seen on a special news report, a technology and software development firm located in San Jose, Costa Rica, announced today that the Company has launched its location-based transportation App, CETATI. Thanks to Appsr, there is a global disruption growing within the public transportation industry. SoftonITG launches transport App CE...

Source: myBulova.com New York, Oct 24 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- The watch used by the commander of the Apollo 15 space mission was sold at a highly competitive auction for $1,625,000, U.S. media reported. Commander Dave Scott used a Bulova Chronograph during that 1971 lunar landing, the ninth manned mission of the United States' Apollo program and fourth to land o...

By Carolina Ruiz Vega In Costa Rica, video surveillance systems are key security factors for any home or business because they keep an  eye on the owner’s assets, ensure a close monitoring of critical processes or events, and protect people who live or work in that space. How can you keep hackers from accessing security camera systems? Victor Merino, Director of Pelco by Schneider Electric f...

g-star.com Pharrell Williams, the Grammy-winning artist behind that infectious tune “Happy”, is challenging all of us to join him in a campaign to stop throwing plastic products – especially bottles – into the ocean. Marine debris is killing our oceans, and we can join with Pharrell’s “RAW for the Ocean” project to bring that crime against Mother Nature to a halt. Plastic pollution in the o...

Havana, Oct 20 (EFE).- The "Paquete," a peculiar system for the private, informal airing of audiovisual content in Cuba, does not threaten state television but will rather serve as a "catalyst" for its renovation and updating, according to a commentary posted Tuesday on government Web site Cubadebate. El Paquete de la Semana (The Weekly Package) has become something most Cuban households can't ...

Washington, Oct 19 (EFE). - Facebook will notify its users if it has "a strong suspicion" that its accounts are being hacked by "state-sponsored actors," the company's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said. The notification, which will appear when the user tries to access the social network, will be worded as follows: ""We believe your Facebook account and your other online accounts may be th...

Ceiba Software & Arts, a video game development studio based in Costa Rica, will release a new title on the Steam distribution platform on October 22nd. The game is described by developers as follows: Voxel Blast is a game where you control a spaceship traveling across complex 3D environments to fight enemies in cages set to trap them with you. Navigate as fast as you can through the level ...

Paris, Oct 17 (EFE).- The European project Venomics has succeeded in creating the largest database of toxins in history after analyzing 203 species of poisonous animals, which will in turn help develop new medicines. The pharmaceutical applications being worked on are chiefly focused on cardiovascular diseases, obesity and diabetes, leaders of the project told a press conference in Paris. Th...

Chain Games Press Release. San Jose, Costa Rica – October 15th 2015 - Chain Games has today launched first two game titles: Fancy Roulette and Fancy Slots. Chain Games enables casino operators to offer new high definition HTML5 games to their players by adding just one line of HTML code to their site. Either embedding the games to their site with an IFRAME or directly linking to the games, the cas...

Houston, TEXAS (PRWEB) October 15, 2015 -- Element Blue™, an end-to-end provider of technology hardware, software and services to advance energy and utilities, healthcare, transportation, public sector, and manufacturing industries will be attending the 35th Annual GITEX Technology Week Conference in Dubai, UAE. GITEX, the third largest technology event in the world, has grown to be one of the mos...

(Americas Cardroom Press Release) San Jose, Costa Rica – October 12th, 2015 – It was déjà vu for online poker players at Americas Cardroom this weekend as another $1 million guaranteed winner was crowned in the online poker site’s $5 Million Guaranteed promotion. Online poker player A1phad0ggg has taken the third Million Dollar Sunday title since Americas Cardroom launched its $5 Million Guarantee...

At a recent conference held by the American Dental Association, one of the most respected dentistry organizations in the world, implant technology was determined to be the most important technological advance of the last four decades. Dental implants are the most sensible treatment for lost teeth. In the past, removable dentures were among the most common solutions that dentists offered to pati...

Wikimedia Commons By Valentina Bastias Atias Santiago, Oct 10 (EFE).- Argentina's Geronimo Villanueva, one of the scientists behind a recently released study confirming the existence of water on Mars, is enthusiastic about the possibility of discovering life on the red planet. "In recent years, the study of (Mars) has been revived thanks to the discovery of liquid water in large quantiti...

Source: Hugh Jackman Instagram Mexico City, Oct 9 (EFE).- Australian actor Hugh Jackman, currently in Mexico City promoting his latest film, "Pan," finally had his dream of savoring the best tacos in the capital come true after asking for the advice of his followers on Twitter. "Best tacos in La Marquesa, Mex!!! Gracias ladies (sic)," he posted on his Instagram account together with a photo...

Mexico City, Oct 7 (EFE).- A 24-year-old Mexican man who posed as a drug trafficker on Facebook, posting photographs and threatening messages, was arrested and is being held at a maximum-security prison, officials said. Martin Juarez Campos, who called himself "El M Juarez" in online posts, claimed to be a member of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, one of the most powerful and violent crimi...

Source: Microsoft New York, Oct 6 (EFE).- Microsoft on Tuesday announced the launching of the "ultimate laptop," its first such computer, calling it the "thinnest, most powerful PC ever created." The Surface Book, with a 12-hour battery life, will go on sale Oct. 26 from $1,499, top officials at the tech giant said at a presentation of new products in New York. "It's the first laptop we'...

Upper Desk cabinet mount in the kitchen HUGHESVILLE, PA (PRWEB) October 05, 2015 - Matthew Fidler (MBA ‘99) never dreamed that a series of events that began during a fishing trip in Costa Rica would eventually translate into reeling in a deal with one of the world’s largest retailers—Sam’s Club. “Every year, my father and I go on a fishing trip together. In 2013, my dad brought along Rod Ph...

Pixabay Commons San Francisco, Oct 3 (EFE).- A group of hackers that calls itself README dumped on the Internet the personal data of more than 2 million users of the San Francisco-based Patreon crowdfunding Web site, the company reported Saturday. The crowdfunding site, founded in 2013 by musician Jack Conte and digital developer Sam Yam, collects funds from donors to help artists finance t...

Wikimedia Commons Mexico City, Oct 2 (EFE).- Microsoft Corporation CEO Satya Nadella said here during a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto that the technology giant would invest around $1 billion to promote digital education and inclusion in the Latin American country. During Thursday's meeting at the Los Pinos presidential residence, Nadella said the investment would be carr...