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Friday, March 29, 2013

American Airlines is the largest airline in the world


The resulting group becomes the world's largest airline and also the largest in the United States, ahead of Delta, which merged with Western in 2008, and United Continental which gave the same pace in 2011. With an official request and finalized to buy more than 600 new aircraft, the combined airline will have a solid foundation for continued investment in technology, products and services. AMR Corp. the parent of American Airlines, filed for Chapter 11 of the Law onBankruptcy U.S. in November 2011, and the merger was approved Wednesday by thebankruptcy court in New York under Judge Sean Lane . The merged company, which will be called American Airlines, will be a 2% larger than the current number one, United Continental Holdings, in terms of traffic, as the number of passenger miles worldwide. The new American will offer more than 6,700 daily flights to 336 destinations in 56 countries. And it is expected that the combined company will maintain all hubs currently offered by American Airlines and U.S. Airways, which will result in more travel options for customers. An American-US Airways would have combined revenues of U.S. $ 39,000 million,according to figures available for 2012. Something to overtake United Continental,which had sales of about 37,000 million. The market capitalization of the new group will exceed U.S. $ 10,000 million, and its value will be close to 11,000 million dollars .

Google Glass l Preview 8 thousand people

Eight thousand technology enthusiasts who won the competition, they have the chance 'to wear a preview of the brand new' Google glasses', the glasses-pc reality 'that increased the company' Mountain View is to market. It will cost $ 1,500 and will be able to collect only three cities' USA: New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The glasses should hit the market later this year or early 2014, will be produced in Silicon Valley.

In the face of North Korean threats, U.S. sends nuclear aircraft to Seoul


The planes covered a distance of over 10,460 kilometers from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to South Korea and back to the  United States , said the U.S. military command in Seoul. The bombers, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads launched munitions harmless in a South Korean training camp on a mission to demonstrate the ability to losEstados Kingdom s "to carry out long distance attacks rapidly and accurately" and commitment " defend the Republic of Korea " and extending deterrence in the Asia Pacific region, "the statement added. Tensions on the Korean peninsula rose sharply since the third nuclear test conducted by North Korea in February , followed by new sanctions by the UN and joint military exercises with Seoul and Washington, to which North Korea responded by suspending the ceasefire agreement fire with its southern neighbor that ended the Korean War in 1953 and numerous threats of attacks. On Tuesday, North Korea cut off the only military telephone with South Korea  and discussed the possibility of starting a war "at any time". Nevertheless, hundreds of South Koreans were esteb Thursday to work on common industrial park located in the c ity border of Kaesong, North Korea. Some 400 South Korean border this morning passed without major problems, said a Defense Ministry spokeswoman in Seoul. Through such communication is regulated military, among other things, the South Korean traffic at the plant. Analysts believe that  Pyongyang  wants to maintain its activity for now, as it is animportant source of foreign exchange for the country and employs many North Koreans. In the complex, operating some 120 South Korean companies. 

Teenager sells his app to Yahoo! by millions


Briton Nick D'Aloisio 17 became one of the youngest billionaires in the world technology to sell its mobile app Summly  to Yahoo! by a sum that could reach $ 30 million. Summly , that summarizes texts to phones, was developed in 2011 by D'Aloisio at age 15. Today his company has already raised $ 1.5 million.  "At 15 years old, Nick D'Aloisio created  Summly  app at home in London. This began with an acumen, we live in a world of constant information and we need new ways to simplify how to find the stories that are important to us, a glance, "said  Yahoo! The California firm said "Nick and the team Summly  joining  Yahoo!  in the coming weeks. "  The agreement includes a position for D'Aloisio in the company's offices in London, where he will work full time and study at night to complete their training. The purchase is part of the renewal strategyMarissa Mayer dump Yahoo! for the company to smartphones. A few weeks ago, took social recommendation tool Jybe.

JAPAN | Two years after the earthquake The ghost towns left Fukushima seen by Google Street View


Google has started to show through the function 'Street view', which displays streets and highways through its mapping service, pictures of Namie, which remains evacuated Japanese people since 2011 because of its proximity to the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant. Google Street View has shown shocking images of devastation that Namie lived in March 2011: abandoned houses, shops and restaurants closed, grassy fields and brush. Equipped with Google camera vehicles in Namie began filming this month, at the invitation of Mayor Tamotsu Baba, whose sadness over the fate of his people corresponds to the fear that the rest of the world is forgetting Fukushima. The U.S. Internet giant led, through the main thoroughfares of the town, the car equipped with cameras that used to portray the 360-degree views of "Street View" for two weeks. For residents of towns and villages near the nuclear plant, the crisis is far from over. About 160,000 people fled the area, 21,000 of them in Namie, are still living in temporary accommodation. Namie is within the 20-kilometer perimeter path around the nuclear plant where access is prohibited and was completely evacuated after the onset of the crisis at the plant. The mayor of the municipality, Tamotsu Baba, personally asked Google to photograph the people for their plight not be forgotten and that its inhabitants had a way of seeing the new pictures of your city, which can not know whether return someday. "We hope that these images of 'Street View' show clearly what caused the great East Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster," Baba said in a statement posted on the blog of Google Japan. The images can be seen today on Google maps to activate the 'Street view' show houses and infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami that hit the city hard and nearby nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011. The photographs, which are also appreciated boats were swept inland, are a testimony to the hard situation of the people, which were not able to carry out reconstruction work for over two years. The images of 'Street view' reveal much of Namie, located north of the plant, and its reach south side show to a point 391 prefectural road located just 2.6 miles from the enclosure that houses the nuclear plant.

Three divers left without Internet to millions of users


The Egyptian coastguard arrested three divers when an important cut internet cableunder the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Alexandria, which has caused service outages in several nations, as published by the newspaper Al AhramThe divers were arrested on Wednesday on board a fishing boat, beach front Shatby Alexandrian. The Egyptian Telecommunication Company (CET) has confirmed that a major maritime Internet cable was cut, which has influenced the performance of the network in Egypt and other countriesThe CET is now seeking alternatives for the service to run smoothly until repaired the damaged cable, which could be ready by the third week of April . This is the third cable Internet shipping cut in the last five days in Egypt, says the newspaper said.