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Apple is preparing to deploy iPhone 4S in several new territories this month, and one of them is Brazil, where carrier Claro has posted a promotional page confirming the December 16th launch date.Claro advertises the new device (Google-translated) mentioning the more powerful A5 chip and iOS 5, “the world&rsquo... |
2 December 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Everyone known that forests act like giant sponges for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), snatching the dangerous greenhouse gas from the air, and storing it in trees' leaves. What was not know was how the chemical was distributed among the forests, but a new study recently figured this out as well. A number of s... |
1 June 2011
08:56 GMT |
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Unlike their more modern descendants, early marsupials were living in large social groups, a study of a mass grave containing fossilized remains of early marsupials indicates. The work sheds some more light on the behavior of animals that lived millions of years ago.The particular creatures that were discovered in th... |
9 May 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Sony accuses George Hotz in court filings of intentionally rendering two submitted hard drives non-functional and then leaving the country for South America.At the beginning of this year Sony filed a complaint against iPod and PS3 hacker George "geohot" Hotz claiming violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act... |
25 March 2011
08:15 GMT |
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Experts announce the discovery of a never-before-seen species of dinosaurs that roamed in South American more than 230 million years ago, when the giant lizards were barely beginning to develop and assume dominance over all ecosystems. The finding was made by a collaboration of geologists and paleontologists based in... |
14 January 2011
07:04 GMT |
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Yesterday evening, on Sunday, January 2, a large earthquake shook the grounds near the city of Temuco, in Chile. The tremor had an intensity of 7.1 degrees of magnitude of the Richter scale.The devastation struck at 3:20 EST (2020 GMT), but thus far no official reports on casualties or material damages have been made... |
3 January 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Millions of years ago, strolling through South America meant more than just hacking our way through a rainforest, and avoiding the dangers that lurked within, it meant having to avoid terror birds.These large creatures, averaging at around 7 feet (2.12 meters) in height, were terrestrial, having lost their ability to... |
19 August 2010
06:59 GMT |
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In a series of new genetic investigations, experts demonstrate that kangaroos and other marsupials did not evolve in Antarctica, as previously thought. It would appear that the animals actually appeared in South America, and that they still exist there today. Marsupials stand out from other species through the fact t... |
28 July 2010
06:04 GMT |
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A long-forgotten South American civilization could hold the key to improve the agricultural practices of today. Between 700 and 1,000 years ago, this group produced a series of structures, and performed a number of landscape modifications that saw what were once considered to be barren wastelands turned into soils su... |
13 April 2010
05:06 GMT |
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A recent estimation published by Frost & Sullivan and Colibria shows that the mobile social networking is expected to register a great increase in Latin America and Africa within the following several years. By 2015, the area should have a number of around 527 million users, marking a ten-fold increase compared to t... |
19 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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In a new survey of the sediment crust located at the mouth of the Amazon, geologists from Brazil's national oil company Petrobras have determined that the age of the transcontinental river is of about 11 million years old. While, at the beginning, the river looked somewhat different from today, its present shape... |
8 July 2009
06:10 GMT |
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We sometimes take consoles for granted, as, although we can find them in the three big territories where gaming is fully developed – Japan, North America and Europe –, we sometimes forget that regions such as Latin America have been deprived of official support for consoles, regardless of the manufacturer... |
23 February 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Meet the Goliath bird eating spider, also known as the birdeater (Theraphosa blondi), a member of the tarantula family. Despite its name, it finds it pretty hard to hunt down birds, but was observed to trap and eat fully-grown mice with relative ease, which is impressive for a spider of its size. According to natural... |
21 February 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant company, announced today that it would deploy what we can call a "solar network" for Digicel, a leading Caribbean mobile operator, in Suriname.Ericsson will provide a solar-powered site solution for Suriname's remote areas that have limited access to electricity. Th... |
2 July 2008
05:57 GMT |
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LG KF240, part of LG's KF fashion-oriented line-up of handsets, is now available in South America - in Brazil, more exactly. The handset was first announced in February, and Brazil is the first country where it can be bought. The KF240 is a mid to low-end device with multimedia-centered features. The handset ... |
23 June 2008
09:37 GMT |
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LG announced today, during an event held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, the upcoming availability of the high-end LG Secret mobile phone for select markets in South America. And while users might expect us to talk about the first Secret handset, the KF750 model, LG is actually releasing a Secret named KF755.The difference bet... |
12 June 2008
14:16 GMT |
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