Ecuador: Guayaquil City Hall Mayor to gift 20.000+ Samsung Galaxy Tab3 7.0 to high school graduates.

Ecuador: Guayaquil City Hall Mayor to gift 20.000 +  Samsung Galaxy Tab3   7.0 to high school graduates.

Mayor Jaime Nebot signed on Tuesday a contract for the acquisition of more than 20.000 tablets Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, which will be given to all high school graduates who graduate in Guayaquil,Ecuador, in the period 2013-2014.

This is a contract for more than 3 million $ 900,000 between the council and the company Intellicom, which will deliver the tablets until January 2014.

According to Mayor Nebot, this City Hall  program will be permanent from next year.

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Explore the Galapagos Islands with Google Maps and watch some 360 degree Street View. Video.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Explore the Galapagos Islands with Google Maps and watch some 360 degree Street View. Video.



In partnership with the Directorate of the Galapagos National Park, The Charles Darwin Foundation, and Catlin Seaview Survey, we traveled to the archipelago to collect 360-degree Street View imagery. 

Scroll down all the way on this page to watch the 360 degree view and also just put on your mouse arrow on every picture of the Galapagos sea animals and they will have some motion.

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Infomatrix2013: Verònica and Tatiana Benalcazar Vayas, two Ecuadorian sisters on the cusp of the global robotics. Won the Gold medal.

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Infomatrix2013: Two Ecuadorian sisters on the cusp of the global robotics. Won the Gold medal.

Prototype Vitrectomy is the national apparatus constructed with parts that will restore sight.

 Veronica and Tatiana Benalcázar Vayas are the creators of the first national prototype eye surgery robotics won the world Infomatrix 2013, in Romania. This is not the only awards of the two cotacacheñas. Twenty gold medals, trophies and diplomas reward their talent and imagination.

An aluminum sheet to which are attached three screens liquid similar to a smart phone buttons and keypads cover cables, air hoses, valves, sensors, motors and filters to irrigate ablate tissue or blood clots that impeding the vision of patients with retinopathy.

 So looks like the prototype with Veronica and Tatiana Benalcázar won the gold medal at the World Infomatrix 2013, held in Bucharest, Romania in May 2013.

Veronica, most of them, that the idea of ​​participating in this competition came in December 2011, when an ad on the internet found out the biggest event programming projects worldwide.

Then started the adventure of these sisters. The first step was to think about creating national technology that provides a service, a contribution and innovate. So brainstorm invaded these brilliant minds and winning 11 races in local, national and international robotics, in which they have participated together and  individually.

Luis Benalcázar, his father, who is dedicated to the maintenance of ophthalmic equipment told them the need to have an apparatus to remove the vitreous humor of the eye patients, ie when the opaque fluid for some reason (eg bleeding) must perform an operation known as a vitrectomy, wherein the surgeon removes the mood vitreous clouding the eye and replaces it with a saline solution.

The next step was to acquire fat medical science books, understand the anatomy of the human eye, diseases that invade and how to make the vitectromia or surgery to remove the eye opacities.

This was no easy task, says Tatiana 24 years. The younger sister that medical science books are expensive and are almost always written in English. They acknowledge the support of all members of his family. From his grandparents Arthur and Rosa Gomez Benalcázar who inspired them since childhood, his parents, uncles, cousins ​​and even his best friends and academics.

Once you understand how the human eye. The challenge was to get the elements that compose its prototype eye surgery. This machine is built with readily available items that can be replaced easily in case of failure. So the device is cheaper and efficient.

Hard work and little sleep were the tone for the sisters for two months. On February 22 at the University of the Americas (UDLA) presented the Prototype Vitrectomy in the VI Latin American Contest Computing Project.

That the Scientific Community Technological Continent gave them the gold medal and 2013 to be internationally accredited representatives of Latin America in the category Hardware Control in the Event: The International Computer Project Competition INFORMATRIX 2013, in Romania, Bucharest, from 16 to 20 May at Universitatea De Sud-Est Europei Lumina.

Best programming projects in one place.

The International Informatics Project Competition "Infomatrix 2013" is a competition that features the best in IT projects in the world. This meeting, organized by Lumina Educational Institutions, the Ministry of National Education, seeks to develop the imagination and creativity of young people in the field of technological innovation.

With accreditation to participate in global competition, began a new adventure: seeking funding to cover travel expenses. Along with his mother, and a folder of applications, beat several doors of public and private but received no response.

Navigating social networks Evolutionary found, a service created for young Ecuadorian they learn, participate, solve doubts, proposed and seize every opportunity, programs and services dedicated to them. Evolutionary directed them to seek help at the National Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT).

They were supported by the program "Financial Aid", which is a complement to other scholarship programs that have SENESCYT. This program aims to financially support students, teachers, researchers and professionals to cover the cost of items related to their higher education, training, retraining, professional training and / or research to strengthen their capacities.

Although the feat did not end there because in less than two months had to change 70% of the prototype due to air transport regulations limiting the weight and volume of the luggage. For this new developed electronic cards, designed new systems to a voltage 220V and a new compressed air system. So a few days before traveling to the city of Bucharest managed the new prototype.

The first prototype of Vitrectomy 'made in' Ecuador.

The Prototype is a prototype Vitrectomy eye surgery that removes the vitreous (gel that fills the eye socket) when it is cloudy and prevents the visibility of the individual. This device cleans opacities; allows removing blood clots, treat infections and other diseases.

The technique involves inserting quirúgica human eyeball within the cannula to place saline irrigation, replacing the cloudy vitreous. A fiber optic light illuminates the retina and vitrectomy tip blade cuts with a small diseased tissue.

Through software and hardware designed by sisters cotacacheñas, the physician performing the intervention can control fiber optic light that illuminates the eye socket; irrigation cannula maintaining intraocular pressure in the eye moisture, and the instrument which cuts and removes the vitreous.

Air turbulence

Getting to Bucharest, Romania, was laborious for sisters Veronica and Tatiana Benalcázar. The prototype traveled completely unarmed eye surgery. They had four suitcases accommodate transformers, electronics, screwdrivers, computer equipment and spare parts for your project Vitrectomy.

The team, which takes three weeks in arm, was calibrated and tested in just two days in Bucharest for Tatiana and Veronica Benalcázar will compete. In 2013 Infomatrix clashed with 45 countries and 249 projects in the categories: Programming, Computer Art, Hardware Control, and Robotics Short Movie. Exposing your project was conducted in English.

Despite the troubles, on 20 May at the National Palatul to Copilor, Ecuador was declared champion of the category Hardware Control. The judges felt the winning one gold medal for research, wit, difficulty, usefulness and originality of the project Vitrectomy Prototype.

So Benalcázar Vayas sisters impressed the judges. The team, made with few economic resources readily available materials, software and hardware designed and developed by them myself, was awarded the highest award in programming world.

These sisters cotacacheñas, representing Latin America in global competition programming Ecuador name placed on Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Georgia, Malaysia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, which were also finalists.

First Circuit ...

A hippo toy was the first thing Veronica and Tatiana disarmed. Knowing why emitted a sound like a buzzer motivated them, but that was not the first time the research instintito invaded them. Ayda Vayas, his mother, proudly boasts that they disarmed their toys to see that they had inside, arming puzzles, legos and creating new toys.

Both grew up in Cotacachi. There playing with tools, scraps of fabric, leather and wood workshops in sewing, carpentry and mechanical Benalcázar his grandparents Arthur and Rosa Gomez. In those places experienced at an early age, the rewarding feeling of building something for themselves. Such emotion is similar to that feel now, when after many attempts, an electronic card works. Veronica explains that the electronic card is like the brain of your robot Arturito (named after his grandfather and preceptor), sensors are the eyes and the chassis is the body of this and other prototypes that have earned with his 'nursemaid' once robotics competitions at local, national and global levels.

Veronica studied Electrical Engineering at the Salesian University. She admits that the numbers were always his passion. At 17, he discovered his love of wires and circuits after completing a bachelor's degree in Physical-Mathematical received at par Electricity practical option in Ambato Association. The older sister Benalcázar Vayas family Arturito think late 2009. The robot has two wheels for mobility and hundreds of cables that allow follow defined routes and move on schedule. This underwent several transformations (arrangement of sensors, new design change control board and programming) until 2011, when he won first place in the Robotics Intersedes ENIR Ecuador.

In the same year, both sisters worked on two robots creditor who made the first and second place in the International Robotics Intercon (Peru) 2011 in the category line follower robot dexterity, fully completing the track. These robots have wheels, cables and electronic cards that allow programming.

The mill was inherited from his parents, both engineers. And in the scraps of fabric from her grandmother dressmaker discovered their taste for design. They also love mathematics, physics, languages, art, painting, crafts and graphic design.

Veronica and Tatiana have it hard to be women in the world of robotics. "Our greatest sin is to gain the skills, some participants are macho and we close the doors because our robots are the fastest skill of Ecuador". Veronica and Tatiana share different tasks such as: design, implementation and programming electronic cards.

Source: educacionsuperior

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Ecuador: El Samsung Galaxy S4 llega con Movistar a $449 más IVA y Plan Smart 105. Video.

Ecuador: El Samsung Galaxy S4 llega con Movistar a $449 más IVA y Plan Smart 105.
Francisco De Jesús

• Sistema operativo Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean).
• Pantalla de 5 pulgadas SuperAMOLED.
• Resolución 1080p (1920x1080 píxeles) Full HD.
• Densidad de píxeles de 441 ppp.
• Corning Gorilla Glass 3.
• Procesador Exynos 5 Octa (4 núcleos @ 1.6 GHz + 4 núcleos @ 1.2 GHz).
• GPU PowerVR SGX 544 (3 núcleos).
• 2 GB de memoria RAM LPDDR3.
• Memoria interna de 16 GB, 32 GB o 64 GB.
• Ranura para tarjetas MicroSD de hasta 64 GB.
• Cámara trasera de 13 mpx.
• Cámara frontal de 2 mpx.
• Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac.
• Bluetooth 4.0.
• Soporte NFC.
• Soporte GPS.
• Batería de 2.500 mAh.
• Peso de 130 gramos.
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Precio y disponibilidad

Los clientes de Movistar en Ecuador podrán adquirir el GALAXY S4 desde la segunda quincena de mayo por USD 449 más impuestos, en un Plan Smart 105.

Detalles importantes

• La versión que llegará al Ecuador será, obviamente, la que cuenta con el procesador Exynos 5 Octa, pues la versión con el procesar Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 es LTE.
• Telefónica, el quinto mayor operador de telefonía móvil en el mundo, lanzará el GALAXY S4 en simultaneo en España, Reino Unido, Alemania, Irlanda, República Checa, Brasil, Chile, Perú, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panamá, Ecuador, Uruguay, México, Venezuela, Nicaragua y Colombia.
• El S4 incorpora la primera pantalla del mundo Super AMOLED Full HD de 5 pulgadas de tamaño y densidad de 441 ppi.
• El Samsung GALAXY S4 también utiliza el nuevo Corning Gorilla Glass® 3. Es decir, está muy difícil que se rompa. ¡Enserio!.
• La funcionalidad de la cámara también permite 12 modos de disparo, incluyendo ‘Drama Shot‘, que permite ver una acción a modo de time-lapse, y ‘Sound & Shot‘, que permite incorporar sonido y voz a una imagen.
• Con la función ‘Group Play‘, los usuarios podrán disfrutar de música, fotos, documentos y juegos con los amigos que les rodean, incluso sin necesidad de Wi-Fi ni cobertura.
• Su opción ‘Share Music’ permite tener una misma canción que se reproduce en múltiples teléfonos de forma sincronizada para crear el mejor ambiente de fiesta.
• Y quizás una de las características que más sorprendió son las funciones para controlar el teléfono con la mirada y gestos: Samsung Smart Scroll, Samsung Smart Pause, Air Gesture y Air View.
• Para finalizar, no se olviden del S Translator, un traductor que funciona incluso fuera de línea.

NOTA DE PRENSA

Movistar y Samsung, juntos en el lanzamiento global del nuevo Galaxy S4

• Este dispositivo es la siguiente y renovada generación del exitoso GALAXY S3, el smartphone más vendido del mundo.
• Permite controlar el equipo a través de gestos y mirada.
• Los clientes de Movistar en Ecuador podrán adquirir el GALAXY S4 desde la segunda quincena de mayo por USD 449, en un Plan Smart 105.

Guayaquil, 26 de abril de 2013.– Telefónica Movistar y Samsung Electronics refuerzan su alianza para presentar el nuevo smartphone GALAXY S4, a través de los canales globales de Telefónica. Telefónica, el quinto mayor operador de telefonía móvil del mundo, con redes en toda Europa y Latinoamérica, lanzará el nuevo Samsung GALAXY S4 en España, Reino Unido, Alemania, Irlanda, República Checa, Brasil, Chile, Perú, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panamá, Ecuador, Uruguay, México, Venezuela, Nicaragua y Colombia.

El pasado mes de marzo, Samsung anunció la llegada del GALAXY S4. El nuevo dispositivo incorpora tecnología nueva como la cámara dual, un innovador scroll inteligente y el traductor S Translator. Movistar ha puesto altas expectativas en el éxito del GALAXY S4, la siguiente generación del exitoso GALAXY S3, que continúa siendo el smartphone más vendido del mundo.

“La insuperable experiencia de usuario del Samsung S4 ayudará a dar un gran paso  adelante en la categoría de Smartphone de alta gama. Los clientes de Movistar, O2 y Vivo podrán disfrutar pronto de una propuesta de valor diferente en Internet móvil. Estamos encantados de asociarnos con Samsung para que nuestros canales globales lleven al mercado esta experiencia con los mejores servicios y tarifas. Vivimos un proceso de cambio en el paradigma de nuestra industria y con el S4 damos la bienvenida a otras alternativas”, comentó Marieta Rivero Bermejo, directora Global de Terminales de Telefónica Recursos Globales.

Los clientes de Movistar podrán adquirir este teléfono a USD 449 más impuestos, dentro de nPlan Smart 105.

Características del Samsung GALAXY S4

El S4 incorpora la primera pantalla del mundo Super AMOLED Full HD, para mostrar los mejores momentos de la vida en imágenes. Su tamaño de 5 pulgadas con 441ppi logran una calidad de visualización impresionante. El Samsung GALAXY S4 también utiliza el nuevo Corning Gorilla Glass® 3*, por lo que es un compañero de viaje duradero para todas las aventuras de la vida.

Equipado con una cámara trasera de 13 megapíxeles, el Galaxy S4 también cuenta con una función de Dual Cámara que permite el uso simultáneo de ambas cámaras delantera y trasera. La funcionalidad de la cámara también permite 12 modos de disparo, incluyendo ‘Drama Shot‘, que permite ver una acción a modo de time-lapse, y ‘Sound & Shot‘, que permite incorporar sonido y voz a una imagen para que los momentos especiales se capturen en la forma más pura imaginable, tal y como sucedieron.

Con la función ‘Group Play‘, los usuarios podrán disfrutar de música, fotos, documentos y juegos con los amigos que les rodean, incluso sin necesidad de Wi-Fi ni cobertura. Esta innovadora característica permite a los usuarios conectarse directamente con otras personas para compartir, jugar y crear conjuntamente contenidos y entretenimiento al instante. Su opción ‘Share Music’ permite tener una misma canción que se reproduce en múltiples teléfonos de forma sincronizada para crear el mejor ambiente de fiesta.

“Samsung Smart Pause’ permite controlar la pantalla simplemente dependiendo de cómo mire el usuario. Al ver un vídeo, se detendría cuando se mira hacia otra parte, y vuelve a reproducirse cuando miramos de nuevo a la pantalla. ‘Air View‘ permite a los usuarios desplazarse con sus dedos para previsualizar el contenido de un correo electrónico, de S Planner, revisar la galería de imágenes o de vídeos sin tener que abrirlos. Incluso permite tener una vista ampliada en el navegador de Internet o un número de teléfono guardado en la marcación rápida en el teclado sin tener que abrirlos. Y con ‘Gesture Air‘, se puede cambiar la pista de música, desplazarse hacia arriba y hacia abajo por una página web, o aceptar una llamada con un movimiento de la mano.

Para el contenido multimedia e información más detallada, por favor, visitewww.movistar.com.ec y www.samsungmobilepress.com.

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Ecuador to launch its first satellite today.The Pegasus.Video.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Ecuador will enter the list of Space Nations with placing the Pegasus satellite into orbit

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 Beginning this Thursday night and the dawn of Friday, Ecuador will form part of a privileged group in the United Nations—the Space Faring Nations—as soon as it puts in orbit its first satellite constructed completely in the country and by Ecuadorian hands. 

The launch of the first satellite, named Ecuadorian Spaceship Pegasus 01 (NEE-01Pegaso) and constructed by the Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency (EXA, Spanish acronym), is scheduled for 11:13 PM local time, this Thursday (04:13 GMT Friday) from the Jiuquan cosmodrome, in China.

This event, of the utmost importance for Ecuador, will be transmitted between 10:30 PM and 11:30 PM on national television and radio channels, and via internet on the website:http://www.earthcam.com/world/ecuador/ecsa/, informó EXA.

During the transmission, one will be able to watch the launch of the Chinese rocket, LM2D (carrier of the satellite), and one can immediately observe through simulations and technical data how the satellite is put into orbit, explained cosmonaut Ronnie Nader Bello, leader of the project.

Náder will command the satellite’s flight operations from the Integrated Security Center ECU-911 in Samborondón, where President Rafael Correa is scheduled to arrive, as well as other State authorities to participate in the historic act.

The National Government, through the National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation (Senescyt), the Coordinate Ministry of Security, and the National Secretariat of Intelligence (Senain, Spanish acronym) have supported this project of the EXA agency.

The Pegasus has a cube form, 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters, with 75 centimeter panels and a weight of approximately 1.2 kilograms. It’s calculated to be in orbit until 2018, while the satellite NEE-02 Krysaor, whose launch is scheduled for next August from Russia, will be in orbit until 2025.

The cosmonaut from Guayaquil explains that Pegasus is the first nano-satellite capable of transmitting live video from space, as well as the first of its class to possess a shield capable of resisting solar flares. It’s also the first in its category to carry multiple, foldable solar panels. “It’s the only one in Latin America constructed without foreign help; it’s 100% Ecuadorian and, with pride, carries the phrase Hecho en Ecuador (Made in Ecuador) on its structure, he states. 

The satellite was constructed in secret for almost two years with the help of a 60 person team, everyone with at least a PhD in aerospace engineering and a budget of no less than a million dollars—the majority being state resources and a part from private capital.

Náder discloses that it took him at least a year of practice with the terrestrial station, Hermes-A, where he learned to fly more than a dozen satellites, to pass uncountable hours researching, experimenting, and finding errors, to carry out tens of calculations of more than 1,500 variables, to have steady hands to solder components smaller than 1 millimeter, and to have patience to build a printed circuit.

 “It took a lot of courage to construct battery banks capable of vaporizing a human being at the first error, to spend hours in a tower 20 meters above the ground, to climb hills on bicycle to do transmission tests, to have an almost demented imagination to find solutions that others would not even dare to imagine, more than 600 hours of tests, a year without sleeping well and, above all else, a lot of Ecuadorian coffee,” highlights the commander in a letter.

The effort, he says, has also included personal sacrifice, limiting family time, “but the prize exceeds that price many times over: We have created the first Ecuadorian satellite.”

For Náder, the feat of entering the list of Space Faring Nations signified that the people have surpassed their adolescence and become adults, because they understood that their survival and independence also depend on their presence in space.

The cosmonaut reveals that the name Pegasus comes from the Greek myth of the flying horse on which the hero, Perseus, gained freedom and progress for his people, but, furthermore, he tells of another more personal reason for having baptized the satellite with that name. 

He explains that, as a child, after his mother put him to bed, she would put on a series of animated shows, whose protagonist was Pegasus. “One fine day, they didn’t play the program anymore and I landed here. Years after, when I was 13, again looking at the stars, I dreamed of constructing my own space ship and I swore that, if I achieved it one day, that ship would be called Pegasus.” 40 years later that dream came true for Náder, who said, convinced, that Ecuadorians are capable of achieving many great things. 

About EXA

The Ecuadorian Civil Space Agency EXA was founded on November 1st, 2007, in Guayaquil, as an independent, civil organization to administer and carry out the Ecuadorian Civil Space Program, and to develop scientific research in the fields of planet sciences and space sciences.

EXA counts on the endorsement of the Ecuadorian State, through the Ecuadorian Air Force, with which it maintains a narrow relationship.

The Agency operates through its Division of Planetary Sciences, the first and only observatories of ultraviolet radiation in Ecuador, located in Guayaquil and Quito and, through the National Radiation Monitor of UV, reports the levels of ultraviolet radiation that arrive to these cities in real time, thereby providing protection. 

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http://pegaso.exa.ec/index-en.html

http://www.andes.info.ec/es/node/16032

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Ecuador: The Samsung Galaxy SIV (S4) might arrive in May.

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Francisco De Jesùs.

Ecuador: The Samsung Galaxy SIV (S4) might arrive in May. Will be available with 327 operators in 155 countries.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be available in black and white colors in 155 countries  with 327 operators since April. To Ecuador South America might arrive in May probably with Telefònica Movistar who launched the Galaxy S3 last year.

The Galaxy S4 has a 5 inch Super Amoled Full HD resolution with a density of  441 pixels per inch, weights 130 grams. It is 7,9 millimeters thick. With a 13 mpxls  rear camera and a 2 mpxls front camera. 2GB of RAM with storage options of 16, 32 and 64 GB, expandables with Micros SD cards.

The CPU chip comes in two versions depending of the region: an Exynos 5 Octa of 8 cores or a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro.

Samsung showed the Smart Scroll function at the Radio City Music Hall event: the content moves forward automatically if the user  tilts the device toward up or down. The Smart Pause function allows to stop automatically a video if the user stops watching it.

Improvements on the ChatOn app with video calls up to 3 persons with Dual Camera support.

SVoice Drive special interface for drivers. And Air View which allows to make some functions on the device approaching a finger but touch-less.

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