Spain´s Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce will oblige TV sets from 21 inches up to integrate high definition tuners by a Royal Decree. The decree is in the preparation phase.
This Decree will also incorporate the standards for HDTV in Spain according to Francisco Ros, general secretary for Telecommunications and the Information Society.
Currently, some TV [...]
Spain´s digital switchover will take place on April 2 rather than the originally timetabled April 3. Switchover will affect some 30 million people. The autonomous region of Madrid, with 6 million people, will switch off analogue signals today, March 10.
Also today, the last analogue transmitters will progressively start switching off their transmissions. The national government´s [...]
Collaborative cybercrime investigation results in three arrests, more pending
Personal and financial data compromised from massive cyber attack impacting nearly 13 million unique IP addresses, 50 percent of Fortune 1000 companies
Preliminary damages estimated to be in the millions of dollars
According to IT security firms Panda Security and Defence Intelligence, the Mariposa botnet, a massive network of [...]
Canal+ Spain will inaugurate its first 3-D transmissions this year, hoping to become the country´s first TV channel in offering this new technology.
3-D content will be accessible through the iPlus box, the advanced terminal of Sogecable´s pay-TV operator Digital+ which also allows HDTV reception.
Starting in the first half of this year Canal+ Spain will begin [...]
The February announcement of Microsoft´s Windows Phone 7 Series software at a mobile phone industry conference in Barcelona, Spain, clearly shows the company´s overhaul of its not-so-well-excepted Mobile phone software; marking its move to try and “move beyond the PC metaphor of icons on a desktop,” as user interface expert Joe Belfiore put it.
Keeping in [...]
Santiago Dominguez Olveira, deputy mayor of Vigo, Spain, just opened a WiMax network that serves public spaces and municipal facilities in Case Vello and other parts of the city. There will now be a total of 14 points with Internet access in Vigo.
Implemented through Plan E, the network has a budget of 750,000 euros and [...]
During the Mobile World Congress, Motorola announced the launch of MILESTONE in Spain. The device will be available SIM-free starting from the end of March — meaning they still have to find a carrier partner. Pricing was not unveiled, though.
You already know what’s inside the MILESTONE, but it’s worth repeating, nonetheless: it comes with a [...]
Android was slowly adopted by most phone makers when it first launched. It took a while for the bugs to be worked out of the first handset that ran the android OS, but today Android is gaining traction in the smartphone market. There are more handsets being unveiled every day running Android making it one [...]