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Tropical storm Bud has now developed into a hurricane. NASA satellites observed that the atmospheric formation already has a very distinct eye, which is characteristic for all intense storms. The storm is currently southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.Investigators at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) say that the fo... |
26 May 2012
07:06 GMT |
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The site of the Grupo Salinas was taken down with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack after the company’s chairman Ricardo Salinas Pliego posted a message on Twitter in which he revealed that the first presidential debate would not be broadcasted.
According to Vanguardia, Salinas refused to allow the... |
3 May 2012
10:59 GMT |
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“Hacked system. The POPE is not welcome, out out!!!!!” read the message posted by Anonymous Hispano on the defaced sites of the Archdiocese of Mexico and the one of the Institute of Communication and Philosophy. CyberHaber informs that the data breaches represented a form of protest against Pope Benedict... |
23 March 2012
03:41 GMT |
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Lumia 800, the first Windows Phone handset from Finnish handset vendor Nokia, is expected to become available for purchase in Mexico in the not too distant future. Telcel, the largest wireless carrier in the country, has put the smartphone on the front page of their catalog, which shows that it is getting ready to la... |
8 March 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers gained access to some emails from Mexico’s mining industry which revealed that the government is trying to manipulate everyone into thinking that coal mining and similar projects don’t affect climate change.
According to Censored News, the emails show that mining companies don’t r... |
17 February 2012
10:00 GMT |
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After operations against the drug lords from the Zetas cartel were postponed, Anonymous Mexico turned its attention to other problems such as the anti-piracy law currently proposed by the country’s government.
According to RT, the sites of the Senate and the Interior Ministry were temporarily taken offline as ... |
30 January 2012
05:58 GMT |
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The website belonging to Mexico’s "Accion National" political party was breached by the local Anonymous group and hackers from Sector 404.
As a result of the breach, personal information belonging to more than 150 mayors and deputies was published online, including names, titles, addresses and phone numbers.
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20 December 2011
10:39 GMT |
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A rich country's trash is a poor nation's treasure. Mexico is definitely not an exception to this rule, since the wellbeing of its financially-challenged inhabitants is threatened by no-longer needed lead batteries imported from the US.
Mexico has increased the number of imported batteries while also scali... |
9 December 2011
03:28 GMT |
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The companies operating in the food industry are pressured to come up with healthier, more nutritious food. Pepsi Co wants to face this challenge, while helping Mexican farmers improve their farming techniques. A sustainable agricultural sector provides a win-win situation, both for the stakeholders behind this strat... |
28 November 2011
08:59 GMT |
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Throughout late October, Mexico has been plagued by floods, especially in its southeastern areas. Authorities say that a number of rivers eventually got so engorged that they filled the surrounding landscape, causing considerable damage. The American space agency is helping Mexican authorities by providing them with ... |
25 October 2011
01:20 GMT |
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Google has revealed an interesting new tour of Mexico's biggest landmarks, historical or otherwise, for Google Earth. You can check out famous sites such as Chichén-Itzá, but also any of the more than one hundred museums.
"Through Google Earth, you can virtually visit 416 locations across Mexico, ... |
21 October 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Twitter is a great way of spreading information, people can tweet something within seconds of seeing it and, in minutes, thousands will see the tweet and retweet it themselves. But Twitter is just as good at spreading false information as it is at accurate one.
Most people know this and, most of the times, it'... |
6 September 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Call of Juarez: The Cartel was announced a few weeks ago and even if we don't know any concrete details about it, Mexican officials are already pushing to ban the game developed by Techland and set to be published by Ubisoft.
Call of Juarez: The Cartel is set to continue in Techland's pretty popular West... |
23 February 2011
03:05 GMT |
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This April, a 7.2-magnitude El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake struck Mexico and the American Southwest, in what was one of the largest tremors to hit the area in more than a century. Studies of the event now indicate that the quake may have boosted seismic risks for Southern California.
At this point, the area is at ris... |
17 December 2010
02:39 GMT |
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The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16) takes place this year in Cancun, Mexico, and the country is apparently taking its role as a host seriously. During a recent meeting, it pledged to take major strides forward in its fight against global warming. The country has been working on unilaterally redu... |
6 December 2010
03:57 GMT |
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A new study carried out by the University of Texas in Austin, concluded that in modern Mexico, there is a strong social inequality based on skin color.People might believe that in contemporary Mexico, every one is the same and there is no prejudice based on race or on skin color, but according to this new study, Mexi... |
7 October 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Preliminary reports presented at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society showed that even though the BP oil spill's financial and personal tolls for humans were devastating, damage is quite limited for the environment.Take seafood for example: until now, chemical testing on hasn't yet turned... |
25 August 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that their latest investigations of the border areas between Mexico and the United States show that the planet's crust is still deforming in the area. They say that this is a direct consequence of the 7.2-magnitude earthq... |
6 August 2010
04:31 GMT |
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The fact that the Americas were heavily populated long before European settlers came along is no longer a secret to anyone. Amerindians ruled over North America, while the central and southern parts of the continent were controlled by amazing civilizations, such as the Maya, Inca and Aztecs. These people built impres... |
5 August 2010
03:54 GMT |
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According to a new report, it would appear that at least one tenth of the Mexican population will attempt to find shelter and refuge in the United States in the near future. Experts say that global warming is bound to have devastating effects in the country, in the sense that it will cause a large portion of all crop... |
27 July 2010
03:58 GMT |
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One of the most frustrating elements of Red Dead Redemption are those missions that take the horse away from the player in order to ask him to drive around using the carriage, meaning that players will be attacked on the road and that they will have to take out a respectable number of enemies while the vehicle lu... |
28 June 2010
16:41 GMT |
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You'd think that Mexican authorities have bigger problems on their hands than people using Twitter to report police checkpoints put up to deter drunk driving. It might also seem like regulating social networks may not be the best way of stopping kidnappings and drug trade. Then again, doing something that could ... |
4 February 2010
11:43 GMT |
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Sunyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm, Inc. and wireless carrier Telcel announced on Thursday the upcoming launch of the Palm Pre smartphone in Mexico. According to the duo, starting with November 27, mobile phone users in the country will be able to enjoy the capabilities of the first Palm webOS-based handset, whi... |
13 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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TomTom, a provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, has announced that the TomTom app for iPhone navigation is available for immediate download via Apple’s iTunes App Store. A total of 18 apps are available for regions including Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, Australia, Eastern Europe (and lots more), with... |
26 October 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Google Maps has grown considerably since it was first introduced and has become one of the search giant's most important and well-known products. The list of features and information that has been added is practically endless – if you happen to live in some of the more developed parts of the world that is.... |
20 August 2009
09:38 GMT |
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Apple has announced the launch of its famous iTunes Store in Mexico, citing an incredible selection of Mexican and international music from all the major labels and hundreds of independent labels. iTunes musical content is available in iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding... |
5 August 2009
02:33 GMT |
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As further evidence of the fact that the US healthcare system needs a thorough reform, a new study recently published in the journal Medical Care shows that nearly one million Californian residents sought professional medical healthcare in Mexico in 2001, preferring the so-called “lower standards” to thei... |
27 May 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced recently the launch of its 5800 Comes With Music concept on the Mexican market through America Movil's Telcel subsidiary. The new offer combines the Comes With Music service with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the first touchscreen device coming from the phone maker, and i... |
4 May 2009
05:58 GMT |
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The swine flu pandemic, which has recently taken the world by surprise with more than 130 people dying in Mexico and the United States, can no longer be contained, a top United Nations World Health Organization announced a few days ago. This means that nations are now forced to fend for themselves, and should focus o... |
28 April 2009
04:17 GMT |
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MetroPCS Communications, Inc. announced on Wednesday that it would offer its users unlimited calling to select locations in Mexico for $3 a month. The company, which already offers unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless communications services, plans to allow its users to make unlimited calls to over 200 l... |
23 April 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Two rare and endangered jaguars have made their appearance over the past week in two different locations across the Americas, in Arizona and Mexico, respectively. This is excellent news for animal rights activists, who feared that the large felines no longer existed in the US at all. The American jaguar has been capt... |
23 February 2009
03:00 GMT |
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The city of Tlacotalpan, in Mexico, was on Sunday the scene of a chaotic bull-run, as part of a week of religious manifestations, which is celebrated nationwide every year. But, as opposed to the Spanish version of the run, where a pack of bulls is only released on closely-confined streets, and then rounded up pretty... |
3 February 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Officers from the Police Department in the Mexican city of Guadalupe, near Monterrey, are accused of spray-painting four youngsters, aged 14 to 16, who were captured while doing graffiti on the town's public property. Allegedly, the policemen spray-painted their hair, shoes and buttocks, as a lesson against pick... |
16 January 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Tequila, the world-famous drink made from the agave plant, originates in Mexico for more than 400 years, and has since gained an international reputation for its flavor and unique taste. But now, a new study conducted by researchers at the North Carolina State University (NCS) shows that the way in which the drink is... |
13 January 2009
08:33 GMT |
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A quick look on Mexico's sidewalks reveals at least 70 blobs of chewing gum per square yard, meaning that the concrete is virtually covered with the stuff. This is becoming a large problem for city authorities worldwide actually, which say that park benches, city malls and schools are all targeted, and they have... |
8 January 2009
04:15 GMT |
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The Chinese mobile developer TechFaith has fully developed its PC CDMA phone and it decided to launch it first in Latin America, more specifically Mexico. This is the first mobile of its kind, mainly due to the touchscreen and Windows Mobile OS, which have never equipped such a handset before.The Mexican market choic... |
22 December 2008
11:09 GMT |
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Metamphetamine (crystal meth) is one of the most addictive drugs out there today, specifically engineered to offer long-lasting highs, and to cost less than heroin and cocaine. For a very long time, Mexico has been the largest supplier for the US market, but now crackdowns on cartels and tighter border controls force... |
2 December 2008
07:30 GMT |
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Piracy is a very big problem these days, not only for the PC but also for any other game platform out there. Although most of the pirates choose to unveil their work on the Internet, some people prefer selling it in different kinds of markets or establishments.Such was the case up until recently with the Mexican... |
12 November 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Iusacell, the only full-CDMA mobile carrier from Mexico, announced that it now provides roaming services across China, just in time for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games that will debut on the 8th of August. The services are offered together with Aicent, Inc., a California-based company, which deployed its C... |
6 August 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Not long after the unveiling of the C600 clamshell, Pantech has announced another new handset that will be available in Mexico. This time it's a smartphone, namely the Pantech Duo 810. Like the C600, Pantech Duo will be offered by Telcel, the largest Mexican mobile operator, being added to its already large line... |
28 July 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Pantech, the third largest South Korean handset manufacturer (Samsung and LG are the first two), has recently announced the upcoming release of a new mobile phone named Pantech C600. The C600 is a clamshell that doesn't bring too many advanced features but it can still be considered a nice phone. The handset... |
23 July 2008
08:23 GMT |
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Telcel, the largest mobile carrier in Mexico, has announced the commercial launching of its 3G network in several Mexican cities, along with the unveiling of the prices for Apple's new iPhone 3G. Telcel is the only carrier to offer the iPhone 3G in Mexico and it will release it on Friday, July 11 - at the same... |
8 July 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Research in Motion together with Iusacell, the third largest Mexican mobile operator, have recently announced the availability of BlackBerry Curve 8330 for the Mexican market. The newest smartphone from the Curve series, BlackBerry 8330 is both highly-featured and stylish and is a perfect handset for Iusacell's ... |
7 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Palm's lightest and smallest smartphone, the Centro, will be soon available in Mexico, via Telecel and Movistar, the country's largest mobile operators. There are no exact details about how soon means "soon", but Mexican mobile users will have the exclusive chance to buy the Centro in a new color, namely bl... |
5 April 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Apple continues to spread the iPhone craze all over the world, and it looks like Mexico will be among the countries to get the sleek handset in the near future. According to the on-line edition of El Universal, an important Mexican newspaper, the iPhone will be available in the North American country starting June 20... |
30 March 2008
11:07 GMT |
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One of the most familiar dinosaur images is that of the veggie horned rhino called ceratopsid dinosaur. A new member has been added to this gallery: a Mexican species with large neck frill and three giant horns that lived on a lush beach environment 72 Ma ago (in the Late Cretaceous). The species was found in Coahuil... |
28 March 2008
05:34 GMT |
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I know Eva Longoria in a bikini is usually a treat for most of you out there - but I must admit I feel slightly envious, huddled up in front of my computer on a cold winter's day, looking at Eva topping up her tan looking better than Posh or Lindsay Lohan ever looked in those hideous orange fake tans that they s... |
18 February 2008
09:39 GMT |
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The launch of the Mexican YouTube homepage on the 11th of October 2007 was highly successful and is currently under a lot of attention from the local media firms that want to broaden their offer to the public.Reuters reports that Exa Tv, an entertainment cable channel has signed a deal with Google's video sharin... |
16 January 2008
06:35 GMT |
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I must confess, it sort of pains me to look at these Kate Moss topless pictures. First of all, because, well, it's not like there's anything about her boobs, weird nipples and overall battered appearance that we haven't seen before, and then, there's just the simple fact that no one seems to react... |
4 December 2007
04:41 GMT |
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Think on an invention that is a wrapping sheet, spoon, plate, and food, all at the same time, which can be eaten accompanying almost any other dish. This is the tortilla, a corn muffin and Mexico's base aliment. Corn is believed to have started being cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago, and sustained gre... |
6 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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