The Brazilian Composite Supplies Association (ABMACO) is leading the project that will culminate in the basis of the Latin American Association of Composite Materials , in 2012. The meetings to define the details with the new entity will take place within the first half of November, in São Paulo.

The start-up of ALMACO was set up two weeks ago, in Chile, by the composites manufacturer Fibrovent.

M-PESA is a platform designed to supply a quick, safe and simple way to transfer money from individual to individual and is really a valuable service in emerging economies where there is little or no existing banking infrastructure outside the major cities. It is now obtainable in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Afghanistan and Fiji and boasts over 16 million customers.

VimpelCom, Russia's second biggest cellular operator, has signed a deal to acquire most with the assets of Weather Investments, the investment vehicle that controls Egyptian telco, Orascom Telecom, and Italian operator, Wind Italy.

The $6.6 billion offer, which will create the world's fifth largest cellular operator by subscribers, with a footprint in Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and Italy, will see VimpelCom take ownership of 51.7% of Orascom Telecom and 100% of Wind Italy.

 Profits of the Microsoft for the past 3 months of year 2010 were hardly changed, regardless of good sales of Office 2010 to companies and the fame of its Kinect controller. Net gain was $6.63bn (£4.18bn), down from $6.66bn in 2009.

In the latest salvo of the protracted legal battle, Nokia sued Apple in Britain, Germany along with the Netherlands, alleging that the U.S. technology organization utilized 13 of its patents, such as a fundamental touch-screen maneuver, without its permission. The court case filed by Nokia would be the newest claims for payments of royalty from its competitor Apple, the PC, laptop and gadget maker located in Cupertino, California, which entered the cell phone business in 2007 using the iPhone, a device that redefined the Smartphone.

“The Nokia inventions protected by these patents contain some which allow compelling consumer experiences,” said Paul Melin, a Nokia vice president in charge of intellectual property. Two of the patents that Nokia is claiming would be the familiar finger “wiping gesture” used to navigate content on the cell phone touch screen, and also the technology that allows use of the real-time services of the applications store.

CNN is changing the news experience for its audiences debuting a distinctive technology-driven worldwide marketing campaign. In order to launch CNN’s brand new week day night primetime fall into line within Asian countries, brought through News Stream commencing at 6:30 pm India time, the marketing campaign utilizes Augmented Reality technologies in order to animate CNN host Kristie Lu Strong.Utilizing image recognition as well as 3D graphics, this New Stream host seems on the pc display when the application is actually down loaded through world wide web.tonightoncnn.com/ar as well as triggered with a web cam. Users may then reveal their own experience via Facebook.

Lately, the requirement of power for Brazil is dramatically increasing due to rapidly growing in economic and financial. Thus, allocating and distributing restricted energy is really a crucial issue for Brazil. Within the meantime, Brazilian government not only actively develops alternative energy, but also searches for efficiently method to conserve energy to maximize restricted resource. Presently the most popular method to save energy and decrease carbon footprint is switching to high energy LED lighting from conventional lighting.

The independent newsheet "Mediafax" on Friday accused the Mozambican Minister of Transport and Communications, Paulo Zucula, of lying when, on Tuesday, he denied that there was any government instruction to suspend mobile telephone text messaging companies.

Problems with sending textual content messages were experienced by users of both cellular phone operators, M-Cel and Vodacom, as from Monday. Since last week's riots against price rises in Maputo were mobilizing via textual content message, there had been instantly suspicions that the authorities had shut down text messaging, in order to steer clear of any repetition.