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Mexican Classrooms Go Hi-Tech
 Duncan Kennedy
Ping ping, beep beep, tap tap. What would you think those noises are? A new video game? A children's toy, perhaps? Or even some exotic musical instrument? Well, in some ways, you would be right about all three. In fact, it is the sound of the new digital education system being used in Mexico.
Alaska Air Group Introduces Spanish-Language Check-In Kiosks
 PRNewswire
Bilingual airport kiosks introduced this month by Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air will allow customers to check in for flights, confirm seating assignments and receive boarding passes in English or Spanish.
Mexico May Ban Xbox Game of Border War
 Louie Gilot
Officials at the office of Chihuahua Gov. José Reyes Baeza, said they were investigating where the game - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, or GRAW2 - is being sold in Juárez and elsewhere in the state. Officials are also looking into which companies are distributing the game in Mexico.
Bill Gates Backs Immigration Reform on Mexico Trip
 Reuters
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man, said this week that the United States should reform its immigration laws and give more flexibility to higher-skilled foreign workers.
New Business Models? Dial S for Skype.
 Hillary Woolley
Free Internet phone service was always likely to change the world - but until recently we had no idea how. A little more than a year after eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion, the service has become a business tool on a surprising scale.
Refrigerator Will Toss You Can of Beer
 Estes Thompson
When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
Vonage Lowers Global Calling Charges After Loss Of Verizon Patents Case
 W. David Gardner
Seeking to reassure customers that its service remains solid in the wake of a devastating jury decision, Vonage dropped its international calling rates on Monday to a penny-a-minute for calls to several countries.
Major Anti-Piracy Raids in Mexico
 bizcommunity.com
During the past two weeks, authorities from the Mexican Attorney General’s office, the Public Security Group (PGR) from Mexico State and local police forces have intensified their anti-piracy enforcement operations resulting in significant seizures at various locations.
U.S. Battles Mexican Insurgents In New Xbox Game
 Associated Press
As a civil war rages out of control in Mexico, an elite U.S. Army unit is called in to quell the violence before it seeps across the border from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso. It's a frightening and fictional scenario played out in the latest Tom Clancy video game for the Xbox 360 console.
Sunday's Daylight Saving May Cause Problems
 cbs4.com
Most computers probably were programmed to believe that daylight-saving time begins the first Sunday in April and ends the final Sunday in October. Those rules, in place for two decades, were overturned by a 2005 U.S. law that extended daylight-saving time by three weeks in the spring and one week in the autumn.
Mexico Launches Crime Database in Drug Fight
 Tomas Sarmiento
Mexico, battling violent drug gangs, launched its first central crime database Wednesday to help chaotic police forces that can hardly trace stolen cars and struggle to identify suspects. President Felipe Calderón said the database will be an essential tool in the fight against powerful cartels who run drugs though Mexico to the United States.
Time Change a ‘Mini-Y2K’ in Tech Terms
 Steve Lohr
Two years ago, when Congress passed a law to extend daylight saving time by a month, the move seemed a harmless step that would let the nation burn a little less fossil fuel and enjoy a bit more sunshine.
Mexico Media Giant Ventures into Gambling
 Ioan Grillo
Mexican media conglomerate Televisa, better known for its Spanish-language soap operas and its stable of pop stars, said Thursday it plans a big expansion in a new, potentially lucrative business: gambling.
New Weapon in Web War Over Piracy
 Brad Stone & Miguel Helft
As media companies struggle to reclaim control over their movies, television shows and music in a world of online file-sharing software, they have found an ally in software of another kind. The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.
Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software
 John Rice
It's basically a problem of technological sovereignty, a problem of ideology Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire - Microsoft Corp. - by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.
Driver’s License Emerges as Crime-Fighting Tool, but Privacy Advocates Worry
 Adam Liptak
On the second floor of a state office building in Boston, upstairs from a food court, three facial-recognition specialists are revolutionizing American law enforcement. They work for the Massachusetts motor vehicles department.
U.S. Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy
 Barrie Mckenna
A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize.
Low-Tech Cupid
 Alfredo Corchado
For 17 years, the Cowboy Cupid has prided himself in a keen ability to pair lonely American men with Mexican women. Now, the man who calls himself America's premier matchmaker is fighting a nemesis that, just like love, knows no borders: the Internet.
US Navy Counters Terrorists with Dolphins
 Xinhuanet
The U.S. Navy wants to take as many as 30 Atlantic Bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions from their training tanks in San Diego, Calif., to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor near Seattle, Wash. Their mission: to detect and apprehend hostile swimmers or scuba divers.
Virus Risk Rises with Gadget Use
 Jonathan Roeder
Online security specialists say that as Mexican consumers increasingly use high-tech gadgets such as smartphones, Palm Pilots and Blackberries, the threat from viruses and hackers is increasing at a similar pace.
Mexican Drug Killers Turn to YouTube
 Hector Tobar
For months, video artists and videographers of varying skill have been peppering the Internet with a gruesome cavalcade of images: A woman slain in the cab of a pickup truck, an alleged Mafia hit man being tortured and executed, an assassinated singer's body splayed on a coroner's table.
Virtually Delicious
 PVNN
An entertaining virtual menu on a television screen mounted right in the wall outside of one of the most popular restaurants in Puerto Vallarta, Daiquiri Dick's, offers a sneak peek of what the chefs are preparing for your dining pleasure.
Rubik's Revolution Unveiled at This Year's American International Toy Fair 
 Medialink
Since the Rubik's Cube was introduced in 1980, it has sold nearly 300 million pieces and has become an obsession, not to mention a pop icon, recently making appearances in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" and a number of products' commercials.
Learn to Spot Common Scams
 PayPal.com
Scams work because people fall for them. Protect yourself from identity theft – and from thieves stealing your money. Learn about common scams and what you need to remember to avoid being a victim.
Pirated Vista Dirt Cheap on Latin American Streets
 Reuters
Days after a beaming Bill Gates unveiled his much-vaunted Windows Vista software at a retail price of $US400 for the premium version, Latin American street vendors are hawking pirate copies for under $US10.
Cellphones Silent as Mexico's Biggest Network Fails
 Associated Press
Millions of Mexicans had their cellphone conversations put on hold for much of Tuesday after a wireless network belonging to the world's third richest man, tycoon Carlos Slim, temporarily crashed.
Seen & Heard
 GPS World
From Mexico equipping 200,000 illegal immigrants with GPS tracking devices, to pork-transport trucks in Taiwan having GPS tracking devices to prevent diseased pork from being sent to feed-processing plants, GPS becomes more of a part of our everyday lives.
Mexico's Telmex Launches Television Via Internet
 Reuters
Mexican phone company Telmex has launched a platform that offers television via the Internet which for the moment is free but will turn into a cash generator in the future.
Top 10 Mp3 Sunglasses
 Sunglasses Hut
What kind of people take the most interest in MP3 Sunglasses? People who enjoy listening to music, even when they are moving. With MP3 sunglasses, you don't have to bother about cords.
Explore Mexican Baja Online
 Associated Press
Head south of San Diego into Mexico's Baja California on your next vacation and discover a warm, sunny world of beaches and deserts, hot new resorts and historic villages, and plenty of places to just relax and forget about winter.
YouTube Plans Revenue Sharing with Users
 Paul Haven
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said Saturday that his wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users. Hurley said one of the major proposed innovations is a way to allow users to be paid for content.
Net Phone Calls Can Save Some Consumers Money
 Kathy Kristof
When Marlene Johansing moved to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, her phone bills became one of her biggest everyday expenses. Keeping connected back home to California by phone, even sparingly, cost $250 to $300 a month. But last year she discovered voice-over-Internet protocol.
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