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Sony threatens to stop selling DVDs in Spain
Blaming illegal file sharing and streaming, Sony Pictures is hinting that they may stop selling DVDs in Spain.
In reality this appears to be just posturing, perhaps intended to put pressure on the Spanish government to criminalize all illegal copying.…
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Renault-Nissan in deal with Spain’s Acciona for electric cars
Automakers Renault and Nissan signed a deal with Spanish energy and infrastructure group Acciona on Tuesday to market electric cars in the country, the three companies announced.
Under the agreement signed in Madrid, Acciona will set up a network of…
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Inaugurates the ALBA Synchrotron radiation lab
On Monday, the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the President of the Regional Government of Catalonia, José Montilla, and the Minister for Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, inaugurated the ALBA Synchrotron radiation laboratory; the largest science infrastructure…
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Spain mandates HDTV tuners
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…
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Spain enters last phase of switchover
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.…
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Massive botnet shutdown by Guardia Civil
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…
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Canal+ Spain goes for 3-D
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+…
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 – the slick new smartphone software
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…
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WiMax To Be Launched By City Council In Spain
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…
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Motorola MILESTONE hitting Spain at the end of March
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.…
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Software translates foreign text from camera phone images
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…
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Dell Mini 5 Android tablet shows off in Spain
The Dell Mini 5 tablet looks like an oversized smartphone, and kind of acts like one too. It has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (which is the same CPU powering the Google Nexus One phone), and runs the Google Android…
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First new mobiles of 2010 revealed by Sony Ericsson and Samsung
SMALLER, slimmer, speedier and still touch-friendly, the first mobile phones of 2010 sneaked out before the official launch of Mobile World Congress in Spain yesterday.
Sony Ericsson revealed three new smartphones, including two mini Google phones, while Samsung launched the…
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Cruise photos intact after camera hauled from seabed
A trawlerman is trying to trace the owner of a digital camera after it was hauled from the Atlantic seabed in his nets with the photos still intact.
Benito Estevez believes the camera was dropped overboard from the QM2 cruise…
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Spain’s Telefonica considers charging Google
Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use.
Speaking Monday at a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao, President Cesar Alierta said companies like Google use a…
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Nissan to slash production at Spanish plant
Japanese carmaker Nissan said Saturday its Avila plant in Spain will keep running at less than 50 percent capacity for at least three years, as unions said it was planning to lay off half the factory staff.
The Avila plant…
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Vodafone brings Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 to Spain
Vodafone has launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 smartphone on the Spanish market. The device will be commercially available in Spain from 8 February.
The smartphone will be exclusively available in the Vodafone network during the first three months following…
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Spain Due to Receive 3 LNG Tankers Tomorrow
The three ships Spain is scheduled to receive, Empresa Naviera Elcano SA’s Castillo De Villalba, BW Shipping Group’s LNG River Orashi, and Knutsen OAS Shipping AS’s Sestao Knutsen, can carry 419,271 cubic meters of LNG, equivalent to two days of…
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January car sales up
Spanish car sales rose 18.1 percent in January compared with the same month of last year, but will fall in the second half of 2010 as government subsidies fade away, car makers´ association ANFAC said Monday.
The sales increase followed…
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Spain Proposes A400M Aircraft Deal
Spain has proposed that buyer nations of the Airbus A400 military transport plane pay 2.6 billion euros (1.63 billion pounds) of cost overruns on the delayed project, newspaper El Pais said on Thursday, citing a defence ministry letter.
Airbus and…