Ecuador: The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 quad-core arrives with Movistar.

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Ecuador: The Samsung Galaxy Note 2 quad-core arrives with Movistar.

The Galaxy Note 2. O was presented as  the Smartphone which has been described as "a new category 'of electronic devices.

The Note 2.0 comes in two different sizes, 10.1 and 5.5 inches. The first, with the standard size of a tablet and the second, in the low ground remains to be covered between tablets and smartphones.

5.5 inch SuperAMOLED display, resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. Memory 16, 32 or 64 GB (expandable with micro SD card), a quad-core processor at 1600 GHz and Jelly Bean OS, the latest version of the popular Google Android. All this powered by a battery of 3,100 mAh, much more durable than the previous model.

Note The design is very similar to the Galaxy S3, (the Note is a little bigger) also have another similarity, both are available in black and white colors.

Despite its size (for a phone), the Galaxy Note has a thickness of only 9.4 mm. And is equipped, as the previous model, with a stylus that can perform many functions 'extra' that facilitate the use of the device.

With the combination of touch commands and pointer S Pen can achieve a new level in terms of multitasking, keeping several applications open at once and moving easily from one to the other.

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Ecuadorian AirForce launches UAV (drones) made in the country, to monitor natural disasters.

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The Phoenix prototype. The aircraft has 5.5 meter wingspan. It can reach 15,000 feet and 140 miles per hour.

Ecuadorian AirForce launches UAV (drones) made in the country, to monitor natural disasters.

When the alarm sounds at the airport Chachoan in Ambato, the UAV-0 of the Center for Research and Development of the Ecuadorian Air Force (Cidfae) and is ready to take off on a mission of 20 minutes in the air,the UAV (by 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicle') UAVs are operating through autopilots, and flight tested Cidfae aircraft designed and built in the country.

The aim is to provide a communication tool to monitor natural disasters. On a track of 1 800 meters, Captain Victor Enriquez oversees the UAV mission-0: rising to 300 meters and automatic pass.

The captain explained that this prototype, 4, 40 meters, wingspan is on track to achieve takeoff, flight and landing autonomously. So far, only the navigation, which can reach up to an hour-automatic.

On the track, the electronics engineer Uwe Nickelsen pilot serves as a platform for controlling the movement of the UAV-0 in air. "The task of a pilot takeoff platform is secure and prevent the aircraft from danger on the ground."

Colonel Edgar Jaramillo, Cidfae director, said that the aircraft is also controlled by the 'shelter', a mobile station with three consoles. One of them is the system of guidance, navigation and control, which oversees the projected flight. According to Jaramillo, this monitoring can ensure the survival of the ship and the fulfillment of the mission in the air.

In another console can display the aircraft payload, ie equipment. Captain Enriquez says the idea is that the Cidfae prototype aircraft has available for national service: engineers provide the platform and the client is the one who appoints the load.

 For example, one could use the aircraft to transmit real-time images of the volcano Tungurahua conditions. In the 'shelter' is also one antenna pointing system that follows the aircraft to always remain linked.

When the UAV-0 fulfills its mission, the UAV prepares Phoenix. Captain Enriquez says that this prototype was born by the need for larger aircraft and higher lifting weights. The UAV-0 weighs 15 kilograms and the Phoenix, 25 kg.

 Colonel Jaramillo adds that this aircraft was the first drone in Latin America after its first flight in 1998, changed its aerodynamics and increased new aircraft concept. Now the Phoenix, with 5.5 meter wingspan, has greater stability to land on short runways, as it has vortex generators, such as the Airbus.

After 20 minutes of flight, the Phoenix landed. Jaramillo says his sprained wing allows slower landing on short runways.

Its top speed reaches 140 mph and can fly up to 15,000 feet. Like the UAV-0 two-hour autonomy is achieved only in navigation. When the two aircraft complete their mission, the central tower of the airport Chachoan communicates nationally Izamba the area is clear.

 The military is removed from the track and continue with their work in the shop. The lieutenant Miguel Baca is an aeronautical engineer and led the construction of the prototype Falcon, which will span 11 meters and a weight of 50 kg lift.

It is hoped that this aircraft can fly autonomously 10 hours and reach 18,000 feet. Like the other two prototypes, the Falcon is carbon fiber and will be ready in February 2013. In Cidfae is also the country's first airship

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The Condor is 36 meters and is about to fly. Later this year, the airship will be available. Does your utility? could be located in a disaster area to build a telecommunications network in place.

You could also install a camera to check an area affected nationwide. Colonel Jaramillo adds that Condor UAV prototypes and can also work together. "With the scope of the airship (150 km) could extend the travel of unmanned aircraft to operate as a repeater antenna".

 Captain Enriquez says his autonomy can achieve 12 hour flight. On a tour of the Cidfae, the Defense Minister Miguel Carvajal, congratulated the team of researchers from the Centre and motivated him to accelerate final renders, as the country needs to prototypes that can support natural disaster in the country. Captain Enriquez says the Cidfae is a "prototyping center", which will assess the needs of customers and provide theoretical and practical training for mass production in the country.

Source: Diario EL Comercio Ecuador

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Ecuador to launch its first satellite "Pegasus". Students desks will become spaceships.

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Ecuador to launch its first satellite "Pegasus". Students desks will become spaceships.

Students from the Nuevo Mundo High School, Guayaquil-Ecuador, observe the replica.

The desks will become spaceships. And from the classroom may experience what feels an astronaut in space. It's not science fiction.

Pegasus, the first satellite built 100% in Ecuador, will challenge the magic of Hollywood and become a direct window to see Earth from the classroom. How will he do?

A beep makes the ears tingle. Followed by another scream, similar to a fax. Disturbingly, almost unbearable. The first is a morse code hiding his name and that of their creators. The other conveys the image of a winged horse, surrounded by the tricolor  (Ecuador flag)

The NEE-01 Pegasus is a nanosatellite. It measures 10 by 10 inches, has a cube and weighs just 1.2 kilograms. In April 2011, after 1000 hours of testing, the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency (EXA) concluded assembly.

This November 20 will be launched into space on board and take a video camera to broadcast live from orbit. In space, Pegasus will star Asteria program, a space platform dedicated to education. Send two signals: the first will contain questions of science and technology.

The second image. These signals are decoded by receptadas and Hermes-A earth station installed by EXA in Guayaquil. And over the Internet will reach young children and school and college. If a student answers the question successfully access the camera Pegaso and see the planet from space live, as the astronauts from NASA.

"We want to create a generation of Titans in engineering, you see, hear, have contact with the space and know that this is not Chinese or alien or otherworldly," says Ronnie Nader, EXA COO. To execute this mission, EXA outlined a pilot. New World Colleges (Guayaquil), Academia Cotopaxi (Quito) and Rosa de Jesus Cordero (Cuenca) will be the first to see and apply information from Pegasus to their curricula. Then join other campuses.

The system will be similar to the 'A satellite classroom', applied since 2009. Through this group of children had access, in real time, American satellites NOAA-15, NOAA-17, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19. They orbit the Earth every 90 minutes. They fly more than 800 miles high, reporting more than 30 climate variables. Margot Solberg's second grade teacher at the Academia Cotopaxi. Her students are between 7 and 8 years and meteorologists are small, able to download and analyze weather images.

"It's convenient. Between 2009 and 2010 we obtained data from a drought and the children learned to anticipate this kind of phenomenon and take precautions. " The graphics are captured by NOAA satellites. Then fetched by the Hermes A-Minotaur station, capable of connecting to the Internet permanently outer space. "We were the first to make that connection. Innocently thought that earth stations already existed, like in the movies.

 But there was no such thing, it was just another Hollywood glamor, "says Nader. Deputy Minister of Telecommunications of the Information Society, Ricardo Quiroga, says the country is preparing to support the millions of downloads of the curious who want to look out the window of Pegasus. "4 or 5 years ago the country had just over 1000 miles of fiber optics.

Today we have over 12,000. That puts us in fiber optic capacity to assume the technological challenge that emit this signal mean video, live, to everyone ". At 22:00 on 20 November Pegaso take off from a Russian base.

Travel in a former nuclear missile, along with other 24 satellites of 11 nationalities. The freight cost USD 500,000 and will be funded by the Government. Two days after the release of data sent. Astronaut Nader says the first sign will be the national anthem echoing in the cosmos.

"It will take about 100 minutes to circle the Earth ... 12:00 when will pass through Ecuador. "

The Pegaso countdown flashes on the EXA site. The Friday night missing 95 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 5 seconds ... According to projections EXA, 937 seconds after liftoff Pegaso be ejected into orbit. At 1500 seconds display their antennae, which measure about 45 centimeters. The orbit of the NEE-01 Pegasus reach 900 km and an inclination of 98 °. Its design is 50% aluminum and 50% titanium. EXA created a simulation chamber to test space environment, with temperatures between -198 (frozen air) and 30 degrees.

Source: Diaro El Comercio Ecuador

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London 2012: Alex Quiñonez from Ecuador run head to head with Usain Bolt, and he is in the 200 mts dash final.

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London 2012: Alex Quiñonez from Ecuador run head to head with Usain Bolt, and he is in the 200 mts dash final.

The Ecuadorian athlete Alex Quinonez Martinez made ​​history Wednesday in the London 2012 Olympic Games, becoming the only South American qualified for the final of the 200 meter dash.

The feet of Ecuadorian worn securely in the competition, reaching the finish line in 20 seconds and 37 hundredths behind Jamaican Usain Bolt (20s 18c) and the South African Jobodwana ASEAN (20s 27c) in the 'heat' 2 .

Very talkative, Alex said that the first thing after the competition will go out for food, because yesterday I ate very poorly.

By nerves showed a slight inconvenience in the output. He says he feels a great pressure on its responsibility to the country. He is convinced it is for a medal on Thursday at 14:55 when running the final against Usain Bolt, because all are equal competition.

A few hours of this semi-final competition, Ecuadorian Vice President Lenin Moreno called, which made ​​him more nervous, but he is in the final. Now I just want to talk to his mother, who from Esemeraldas with his family continued to thrill his performance of 20 seconds and 37 hundredths.

One of the two best third of getting evidence ticket to the finals and got Quinonez. The other was the Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre (20s 03c) in the 'heat' 1.

The athlete born in Esmeraldas, which turns 23 next Sunday, will be one of the eight competitors who will be Thursday in the final to be played from 14:55 to Ecuador.

Source: DiarioElUniverso Ecuador

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Canadian miner Kinross Gold Corp expects to sign a contract in Ecuador.

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Canadian miner Kinross Gold Corp expects to sign a contract in Ecuador.

Canadian miner Kinross Gold Corp expects to sign a contract in two months of operation for the project Fruta del Norte gold, after Ecuador undertook to amend the mining law, an executive said Thursday the company.

The company, listed in Toronto, signed a preliminary agreement with the Andean nation in December, but then asked for a renegotiation in an attempt to obtain better financial terms related to taxes and royalties.

"We have worked hard in recent weeks and hopefully reach an agreement," said Vice President of Kinross, Eduardo Flores, told Reuters, adding that he expects to sign the contract within two months.

The executive also said that the Government is committed to make changes to the country's Mining Act, which would obtain greater benefits from the project Kinross.

"The windfall tax should not apply as the company can not recover the capital investment. That's not part of the law, but according to preliminary discussions we have had, the Government would accept that," said Flores, in the part of a mining conference in Quito.

"The government wants to take a 70 percent windfall profits above a base price and for us that is completely unacceptable," said Flores.

The executive also said the government recently said he would like to become a member of the project and that the parties have been holding preliminary talks on the matter.

Ecuador does not have a significant mining industry, but President Rafael Correa left, an economist trained in the United States is trying to attract investment to exploit large deposits of copper, gold and silver, and to diversify its economy dependent on exports of oil.

However, Correa is seeking high profits of the mining and Kinross negotiations have taken much longer than originally planned.

"The profitability of this project would almost double if you were in Chile (...) but the gold is here," said Flores.

Correa signed in March, the first major mining contract with the China-owned firm Ecuacorriente to invest 1,400 billion in the Mirador copper project.

The government has said that agreements with Ecuacorriente and Kinross will be a model for future contracts that would allow Ecuador to develop its mining sector.


Source: ElUniversoEcuador

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