Tag archive: Chile

Racking up over one million views on YouTube in approximately two weeks, photographer Kien Lam created a time-lapse video (embedded below) comprised of 6,237 photographs documenting his year long trip around the world. Lam quit his job as a securities finance analyst at Blackrock during August 2010 and decided to spend 2011 visiting 17 different countries over a period of 343 days. To start the journey, Lam packed up his Panasonic Lumix GF-1… Read More

After a rash of bad PR last month, Google has put some effort into restoring its depleted public karma with a project aimed to help victims of Saturday’s earthquake in Chile. Google Person Finder helps separated loved ones find each other by allowing Chileans to enter or request information about people following the quake. Like a mini Facebook, each entry offers the name, address and other details about a person, a picture on some entries,… Read More

Internet search giant Google has released its 2008 End-of-Year Zeitgeist, noting what was hot worldwide in Internet searches for the year. Unlike search engines like AOL and Yahoo who base their end-of-year summaries mostly on the frequency of terms—hence allowing Britney Spears to rule the search engine listings for years on end—Google bases its Zeitgeist both on frequency and on the novelty of terms. In other words,… Read More

If the streets seems remarkably clear of pedestrian traffic and loiterers the last few days, we may have found the reason:. Blizzard Entertainment reports that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich Kin sold more than 2.8 million copies during its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game to date. Many of those sales were fulfillments of pre-orders stemming from months of anticipatory hype surrounding the title,… Read More

Folks who thought eBay's online payment service PayPal was already pretty ubiquitous might be in for a little shock: the service is expanding its global reach by rolling out fully localized sites in Mexico, Singapore, and Hong Kong, as well as adding nine new languages to its primary Web site, including Danish, NOrwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Bahasa Indonesian. The additions bring the… Read More

Apple has announced an exchange program for the ultra-compact USB power adapters that have been sold with the popular iPhone 3G in several countries. Although Apple has received no reports of injuries from the adapters, the company says the power adapter's metal prongs can break off and remain in a power outlet under certain conditions, creating a risk of electric shock. The adapters have been sold with every iPhone 3G in the U.S.,… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack for its popular World of Warcraft massively online multiplayer role-playing game will land at North American retailers November 13. Folks in other markets won't have to wait very long to get their hands on the game, though: Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia are also scheduled to get the expansion pack the 13th, with Australia, New Zealand,… Read More

In another market expansion for the Apple iPhone, América Móvil has announced (PDF) it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to its Latin American markets later in 2008. Like Vodafone's announcement earlier this week that it would be bringing the iPhone to a swath of new European markets, the release contains no other information, including the financial terms of the deal or whether America Movil will… Read More

VeriSign, the company which manages the popular .com and .net top-level domains, has announced that it will raise prices for registering and renewing in the .com and .net spaces beginning October 15, 2007. Wholesale prices for .com domains will go up 10 percent to $6.42, while wholesale prices for .net domains will go up 10 percent to $3.85. In all probability, these increases will be passed along to domain owners directly by their… Read More

Bringing computing to schools, educators, and students in developing nations has been a bit of a cause célèbre in technology circles the last few years, with much of the attention being focused on Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child effort and comments by some industry leader poo-pooing the idea. Major players like Intel and AMD have announced plans to get into the game; in the meantime, the OLPC project has… Read More

The online video landscape shifted subtly today with two separate announcements. First, Britain's BBC has inked a deal to distribute excerpts of its news and entertainment programming via Internet video sharing site YouTube, while upcoming Internet television service Joost has signed a deal with Canada's JumpTV to being a variety of “ethnic” programming to its service. First up, the BBC and YouTube have entered into… Read More

Internet giant Google can be accused of having its head in the clouds—or, given a recent partnership with NASA, perhaps in the stratosphere or low Earth orbit—taking on major projects just because they're, well, there. Now word comes that Google has signed on with a group of 19 universities and national labs to assist with the planning, operation, and data management for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).… Read More

Verizon Wireless and Universal Music Group are now offering Verizon Wireless customers more than 60 tunes from Jimi Hendrix. Verizon Wireless customers can also download full-track songs through Verizon's V CAST music service. Verizon Wireless customers with TXT Messaging-capable phones can get the exclusive music by sending the TXT Message “JIMI” to 7575. Once received, customers will get a reply message that will ask… Read More

From the company's press release: AT&T Wireless today announced the recent expansion of its international text messaging (SMS) services, permitting delivery of text messages between Mexican and North American users. The service helps build a communications bridge across the border that supports business development with Mexico´s primary trading partner and links the more than 10 million Mexicans living in the United States with… Read More