Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Scientists at the National Agrarian University have created the World’s first “test-tube” alpaca embryo in an attempt to protect the South American camelid’s biodiversity and improve its productivity by controlling reproduction. The three-year study was led by the Agrarian University’s Center for Investigation and Education on the Transfer of Embryos, Ciete, with support from Peru’s Agriculture Ministry and six other institutions, including the Canada’s Bioniche Life Sciences, daily El Comercio reported.
According to the daily, alpacas reproductive characteristics have limited other assisted reproductive technology like artificial insemination while in vitro fertilization, IVF, has proved to be an alternative to control reproduction.
IVF is the procedure where eggs from the female are fertilized by sperm from the male outside the female womb. “The next phase is the transfer of the embryos to the female recipient,” said the head of Ciete, Giselle Gamarra. “With that we could have the first breed in vitro.” (more…)
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Peruvian police have arrested a 20-year-old computer science student accused of hacking into the websites of three Peruvian newspapers in early January. According to daily Correo, Diego Luis Bardales, alias Sdm, is suspected of leading a campaign against Peru’s media calling for authorities to release Cyber Alexis, the alias of César Alexis Atoche, 23, who was arrested a week earlier. Atoche is accused of, among other things, siphoning some $833,000 in online fraud.
The sites of daily Ojo and daily Correo were temporarily shut down on Jan. 7 after a hacker called Sdm posted messages calling for authorities to “free Cyber Alexis” and “you protect the streets, leave the net to us.” The hacker, turned cracker, also erased the text of daily Expreso’s web page, leaving it blank.
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Three Peruvian newspapers have been targeted by supporters of “Cyber Alexis,” the alleged alias of César Alexis Atoche who was arrested by police on Dec. 30. A hacker called Sdm, of the Dark Mafia Group, posted messages on daily Ojo and daily Correo calling for authorities to “free Cyber Alexis.” Sdm added, “you protect the streets, leave the net to us.”
Hackers also erased the text of daily Expresos web page, leaving it blank. Expreso told Radio Programas radio they will need a day to recover their information.
The campaign against Peru’s media comes a week after 23-year-old Atoche was arrested in Lima’s Carabayllo district. Atoche is suspected of siphoning some $833,000 in online fraud and hacking into the Chilean Housing Ministry and Interior Ministry pages in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is allegedly part of “Cyber Destroyers,” a group of 20 hackers turned “crackers.”
This isn’t the first time the Dark Mafia Group has targeted media. In August 2007, the group hacked into daily El Día, a regional Chilean newspaper.
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Police say they have captured a notorious Peruvian hacker who allegedly turned “cracker” by siphoning some $833,000 from unsuspecting banking customers through online fraud. César Alexis Atoche Paredes, 23, alias “Cyber Alexis,” was arrested in Lima’s Carabayllo district by the Investigative Division for High Tech Crimes on Dec.30, police said.
Cyber Alexis made a name for himself in December 2005, when he hacked into the Chilean National Emergency Office’s Web page, forcing the site to shut down, and garnering international headlines. He reportedly left anti-Chilean messages and posted nationalistic claims to ocean territory, seafood and pisco grape. (more…)
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori’s shrill protest cry in court Monday of “I am innocent!” (¡Soy inocente!) has quickly been converted into a download-able ring tone sweeping the Spanish language Internet. “Dance of the Chinaman,” Fujimori’s enigmatic campaign song from his fraud-riddled re-election campaign in 2000 serves as the background music.
Spanish King Juan Carlos’ recent invocation to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to shut up (Por qué no te callas?) is thrown in for emphasis.
Fujimori, 69, is charged with, among other things, authorizing the Colina group death squad to kill nine students and a professor in 1992 at La Cantuta University, and 15 people, including an eight-year-old boy, in a tenement in Lima’s Barrios Altos district in 1991. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
In court on Wednesday, Fujimori denied knowing of the death squad’s existence and maintained that he was never close friends with his shadowy spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, saying that their relationship was purely “hierarchical.”
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Peruvians are paying at least 40 percent more for Internet service than their neighbors in Chile, Colombia, and Argentina, according to a report. The “Cisco Barometer of Broadband in Chile, 2005-2010” report says Internet connections between 256 kilobytes and one megabyte cost US$67.52 in Peru, US$39.95 in Chile, US$34.09 in Colombia, and US$16.57 in Argentina.
Compared with international prices, Peru also ranks among the highest for Internet services. A report released in July 2007 by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says 10 of its 30 member countries pay less than US$20 per month for a 256 kilobyte connection. Sweden pays the least, at US$10.79, and Mexico pays the most, at US$52.36. The United States pays US$15.93.
There is little competition among Internet providers in Peru. Telefónica del Perú - a subsidiary of the Spanish telecommunications giant of the same name – provides 90.9 percent of Internet service according to daily newspaper Correo. The next four biggest companies provide less than seven percent combined.
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