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The largest credit card recall effort in Germany's history is underway after an undisclosed payment processor in Spain was breached. Affected individuals are currently being notified and they will be reimbursed if they suffered any losses.The warning about the dangerous situation came from both Visa and Masterca... |
20 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Telefonica has announced today that it will carry in Spain the new Palm Pre smartphone running under the webOS platform starting with October 14, only a week from now on. According to the carrier, the price tag for the Pre will range from free to 219 Euros, depending on the price plan customers will opt for. Moreover... |
7 October 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Researchers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Institut Catala de Paleontologia (ICP) believe they may have found a new genus of hominid primate, in the els Hostalets de Pierola, l'Anoia region. The fossil, which displays some very interesting characteristics, is described in the most recent issue of the s... |
2 June 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Over the years, Peruvian lakes have shown archaeologists that the traces of pollution they contain were not generated only by modern-day industrial activities, but also by mining done by the Spanish, the Incas, and several other populations on these territories before them. A number of lakes around Peru have importan... |
19 May 2009
21:01 GMT |
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It seems that users now have the chance to get their hands on yet another high-end mobile phone, this time the Nokia N97, and Spain is again the fortunate country to have it first, as the handset has just been made available for pre-order today (Spanish mobile phone users were also the first to purchase the Google An... |
4 May 2009
04:58 GMT |
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HTC Magic, the second mobile phone in the world to run under the Google Android operating system, is already available for purchase online for Vodafone's customers who live in Spain. The move was somehow unexpected, as most of us were looking at the UK site for the launch, yet it seems that the Spanish can now g... |
28 April 2009
02:10 GMT |
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An American judge is soon expected to decide on the faith of what some term the largest treasure to have ever been recovered from the ocean depths. Last year, the Odyssey Marine Exploration company found something off the coast of Portugal that made the Spanish government tremble with excitement – a long-forgot... |
25 March 2009
10:42 GMT |
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The Spanish Environment Ministry has announced only recently that the Pyrenee mountains, which are located at the border between France and Spain, have lost more than 90 percent of their ice during the 20th century, and that, if the current global warming trend continues, the remaining 10 percent of ice could disappe... |
25 February 2009
06:56 GMT |
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The reign of Elizabeth I of England (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603), other than helping the UK get past one of its major historical challenges, namely the battle against the Spanish Armada, also introduced some of the most important innovations in naval warfare. According to the latest scientific studies, ... |
23 February 2009
03:32 GMT |
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The world's City of Culture (Cidade da Cultura), currently under construction in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, is the most complex architectural design in history. The decade-long work, scheduled to be finished in 2012, represents the culmination of our design capabilities as far as buildings and build... |
21 February 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Vodafone and Research In Motion released the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on the Spanish market for the carrier's customers. The handset comes with a next-generation processor (512 MHz), a great hi-resolution display, as well as with a nice set of features meant to allow users to always stay connected with their office... |
10 February 2009
06:12 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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Astronomers managed to establish just recently that the Q0957+561 quasar, also called the twin quasar, doesn't owe its intermittent brightness to possible attractions from celestial bodies around. Instead, the unusual glow comes from the region itself, located approximately 9 billion light-years away from Earth,... |
30 January 2009
13:31 GMT |
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This last past weekend, I got on a flight to Madrid, Spain, which is where one of Europe’s biggest dance events, Sensation White, took place. For those not in the know, this is a major event that originated in the Netherlands in 2000, and which, for five years, was held exclusively for the people in Amsterdam. ... |
26 November 2008
15:50 GMT |
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Greenpeace (GP) activists protested on Thursday in front of the Garona nuclear power plant, in Spain, chaining themselves to the entrance gate. The environmental organization is trying to get the newly-elected Socialist government to deny the renewed permit request the plant put forward. The facility is old, GP repre... |
21 November 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The same day we informed you about the existence of a pink BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220, Research in Motion and Telefonica announced the upcoming availability of the respective smartphone in Spain. Obviously, the Pearl Flip 8220 will be sold through Telefonica's Movistar – the largest Spanish mobile car... |
6 October 2008
10:59 GMT |
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Research In Motion and Vodafone Spain have recently announced the availability of the new BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone for Spanish mobile users. The handset should be on sale as of now, for prices starting at 189 Euros (276 USD), with a contract agreement for 18 months and a "25 Mas" monthly plan. The first a... |
10 September 2008
06:54 GMT |
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Ericsson, together with Telecinco and Boomerang TV, announced the availability of Formula One live content for all the Spanish mobile TV users. From now on, Formula One (F1) fans in Spain will be able to view the races of this season on their mobile phones, thanks to Ericsson and HyC, the Spanish company that Ericss... |
15 July 2008
12:21 GMT |
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RIM and Orange Spain have recently announced the upcoming release of BlackBerry Pearl 8120 in pink, for all the Spanish ladies in need of a new smartphone. One of Pearl 8120's highlights is the Wi-Fi connectivity, which makes it compatible with Orange Spain's "Unico Empresas" UMA based service. This allow... |
26 June 2008
12:08 GMT |
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Starting July 1st, Spain residents looking to acquire an iPod (or other media players) will be forced to pay a special anti-piracy tax because of the gadgets' abilities to record, copy or store audio and video files. Billboard.biz is reporting that the "digital canon" tax has arrived 18 months after its schedule... |
25 June 2008
17:21 GMT |
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In a piece of news showing that Motorola is doing better business with its networking division than with its handset branch, the American company announced that it had helped Telefónica, the largest mobile carrier in Spain, to improve its GSM network and services across the European country. Thanks to Motorola'... |
25 June 2008
03:58 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone will soon be released in Spain, one of Europe's largest mobile markets, via Movistar, which unveiled the iPhone's arrival on its official website. The Movistar webpage announcing the iPhone is now removed, but according to Apple Weblog Spain, there were almost 25,000 users who "signed" t... |
2 June 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Five members reportedly from the D.O.M. Team hacking group got busted in Spain as part of an investigation of the local police, FOXNews.com informed today. According to the report, two of the suspects were minors, aged 16. "The others are 19 or 20," the same publication adds. It seems like the group of websites attac... |
19 May 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Nokia seems to be passing through a "white fever" as it has recently unveiled a white version of N78, the Nseries handset first announced at the beginning of February, during MWC 2008. Found on Nokia's official Spanish website (at this address), the white N78 comes after another two Nseries phones were spott... |
5 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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Doñana National Park is located in southwestern Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River. It was created in 1969, initially having a surface of 37,000 hectares. In 1978, the park was augmented to 50,720 hectares, to which 26,540 hectares of protected areas, located at its periphery, are added.The park is in a co... |
9 April 2008
10:09 GMT |
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Breasts are part of a woman's femininity. But genes are not the same for all women. And if a woman is not satisfied by the way her breasts look, but cannot undergo surgery, here comes an innovating solution brought by the Spanish Teleno Moda Intima company. It is a miracle bra that increases by two cups the size... |
2 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. Canary Islands are just the peak of mountain forming submarine volcanoes located in the mid-ridge of the Atlantic ocean. They emerged from the sea 20 million years ago. In some places, the lava is still hot and at 20 cm (8 in) underground, the earth has a temperature of 140o C. 2. The indigenous people of the Cana... |
29 January 2008
15:36 GMT |
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I must admit that even if I heard of hundreds or maybe thousands of hack attacks, I've never saw such a powerful one that may affect everyone of us without even knowing. Security company SecureWorks today informed that a new variant of Zbot, an old and dangerous malware, is used by the hackers to compromise cons... |
13 December 2007
03:40 GMT |
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After the company recently launched its Italian portal, AOL continues its expansion in Europe and rolls out the Spanish version of the website which offers the same functions as the main page. The company already announced that AOL wants to evolve into the European market, aiming to release no less than 14 versions o... |
19 September 2007
06:38 GMT |
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Pirates…wild…bloody barbarians. This is how the Vikings were seen by their contemporaneous southern Europeans, who during the 9th and 10th centuries suffered their pillaging expeditions. Still, these Northern people also left a rich culture and a developed trade network till Persia and discovered America 500 years be... |
13 August 2007
13:56 GMT |
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The Spanish Police has detained a man under the suspicion of having created and spread a mobile phone virus. They say that more than 115, 000 mobile phones have been affected by the application.The 28-year-old man is currently under arrest in Valencia after a seven month investigation has managed to gather proofs on... |
25 June 2007
04:15 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo managed to open a new center in Barcelona, Spain, in a move meant to expand its advertising platform to European users. It seems like the new office will offer Yahoo's products to customers for UK, France, Spain, Italy and Germany. According to mad.co.uk, the center is especially addr... |
4 June 2007
10:44 GMT |
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Vodafone Spain need to expand and modernize their WCDMA/HSPA radio access network, so they chose Ericsson to do this and signed a three-year contract with the Swedish company, which is known world-wide as a leading supplier of communications networks. According to the contract, Ericsson will improve Vodafone Spain�... |
1 June 2007
09:09 GMT |
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Google's YouTube is now aiming to attract the young segment of users after the video service made a partnership with the Spanish television channel Cuatro. The agreement will cause the creation of a new YouTube page that will bring new video content for the users looking for more Spanish content. At this time, t... |
29 March 2007
10:03 GMT |
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