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Argentina to use technology to avoid soccer violence
12:54 pm By Maegan La Mala · Argentina|Sports|Tech · Comments Off
15 Oct 2007
Soccer matches are frequently the scene of violent brawls, dangerous stampedes and knock-down, drag-out battles between warring fans. Argentina is looking to avoid these incidents during its soccer games by employing a high-tech way of filtering out troublemakers:
The system, which will go into effect at the beginning of 2009, will be based on biometrics, which allows recognition of individuals based on their physical characteristics, and the principal element will be fingerprints.The first step will be to create a registration system for fans in which everyone who wants to enter stadiums will have to sign up, including concession vendors, soccer team employees, journalists and even police. Personal and professional information will have to be given, as well as a photo, a signature and a fingerprint.
Kajeet Cell Phones : So Far a Good Option for Padres and Kids
5:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Family|Shopping|Tech|Telecomm · Comments Off
20 Sep 2007
Thankfully my 10 year isn’t one of those kids, the kind that are up your ass to have what all her friends have. Most of her fifth grade friends do have cell phones, used to communicate with their parents as they walk home from school alone. But I still pick my daughter up, so the need wasn’t there. However when offered the chance to review Kajeet, a new cell phone service for kids, I jumped at the chance. I wanted to see what the hype was about and if indeed I did have control of how my daughter would use it. I was pleasantly surprised. My daughter loved the cute characters that are used as the phone’s spokespeople and promptly decorated her LG 225 camera phone with stickers of big headed alien looking creatures she knew by name. I loved the fact that I could control not only who my daughter called but how calls were payed for.
Virus attacking computers in Latin America and Spain
6:53 pm By Maegan La Mala · Internet|Latin America|Tech · Comments Off
14 Sep 2007
The computer virus, as Maegan told us a few months ago, is alive and well — and living in Latin America. An aggressive “Trojan” virus is sweeping across the region, being passed from computer through MSN Messenger.
Internet users in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Spain are potential victims of a virus that acts through MSN instant messaging service. Once it has infected the computer, the malicious code attempts to trick the user’s contacts into downloading the virus, automatically sending messages in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
According to Spain’s 20 Minutos, some of the messages being sent to MSN users are “jajajaja recuerda cuando tuviste el pelo asi”, “Esta es la foto nuestra que voy a poner en MySpace” or “Wanna see the pics from my vacation?”
Once installed, the virus, called Win32/SdBot, lets the malicious code’s sender take control of the victim’s computer.
Via / 20 Minutos
Feliz Cumpleaños Computer Virus!
19 Jul 2007
Many, myself included, would rather be celebrating its death but alas the computer virus turns 25 years old this year. Sadly this is one thing that doesn’t look likely to get weaker as it ages. In fact, given the fact that everything and everyone is connected, it’s only getting stronger. Where does the story begin? With an adolescent urge to prank.
A tech-savvy 9th grader named Richard Skrenta got an Apple II for Christmas. Over the following few months he began cooking up ways to trick his friends using the machine. “I had been playing jokes on schoolmates by altering copies of pirated games to self-destruct after a number of plays,” Skrenta once told the tech news site Security Focus. “I’d give out a new game, they’d get hooked, but then the game would stop working with a snickering comment from me on the screen.”
Movies, en tu idioma, translated by you
4:16 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Internet|language|Media|Tech · Comments Off
5 Jul 2007Crowdsourcing — getting things done with the help of the general public — has been a buzz phrase for a while now. An interesting project called dotSUB lets you get videos and movies en tu idioma — whichever language that might be — and participate in helping translate the clips, too.
A good example of how this works is this clip of a Superman comic, which users have translated into many different languages, from Croatian to Swedish to Russian. Check out these two versions in the languages of Latin America, Portuguese and Spanish:
Spanish:
Portuguese:
Pretty cool!
Via / dotSUB.com
Brazil leads Latin America in Internet use
1:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Internet|Latin America|Marketing|Tech · Comments Off
19 Jun 2007
Brazil, Latin America’s largest country, is also the most connected, according to a recent study published by eMarketer. Brazilians are online en masse in numbers that are expected to double between now and 2011, as more and more people get broadband connections.
According to the report Brazil is the country with the third most broadband connections in the Americas, following the United States and Canada.
EMarketer also points out that while high-speed internet connections are still inaccessible to most people because of cost, Brazil leads large Spanish-speaking Latin markets Mexico and Argentina in terms of the number of people connected.
Via / eMarketer
Movies made on cell phones get recognition
1:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Movies|Spain|Tech · Comments Off
16 Apr 2007
In this age of accessible technology, just about anybody can make a movie, even if you don’t have a camera — just use your cell phone. Spain will be the first country to honor movies made on cell phones with the first ever festival for films made with this medium this June, the Movil Film Fest:
The event, introduced in Barcelona as a part of the Internet Global Congress 2007, welcomes any type of short film made with a cell phone with a maximum duration of one minute, according to the festival’s director, Alberto Tognazzi.
Four awards will be given to the outstanding mobile shorts, in the categories of Best Short, Best Sequence Shot and Best Photography. The four awards will be voted on by the public via text message, and judging will be helped along by several prominent Spanish filmmakers.
Via / 20 Minutos
An Apple a Day is Bad for the Environment?
2:05 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Environment|Health|Tech · 2 Comments
31 Jan 2007
I’m not a huge trend follower. When it comes to how I spend my money, for clothes or tech gear, I look for function over form. But even I have my weaknesses and a few years ago I wanted to be one of those hip, beautiful people I saw plastered on city streets and on television ads and in order to do that I needed to have an ipod, so I got one. Now comes the iphone, and my oh so stylish and computer savvy friends swear by their Apple computers. A recent article posted on AlterNet questions the environmental policies of the mega tech company.
In December of 2006, Greenpeace released a report ranking the overall environmental policy of major technology companies. Dell was at the top but Apple found itself at the bottom. While top companies like Dell and Nokia have made great strides to eliminate the most toxic chemicals from their products and offer strong recycling programs, Apple has not.
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