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Spain's interior ministry confirmed Saturday that two men arrested by French police were believed responsible for a fatal bombing at Madrid airport in December 2006 by the Basque separatist group ETA. via The Tocqueville Connection

“We agreed on a symbolic figure, an amount I'm not going to reveal”

BOGOTA, Colombia : The director of the latest Spanish adaptation of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, "Love and other Demons," is hoping for a better reception than the English-language "Love in the Time of ... via International Herald Tribune

“The demo gives a first glimpse to a possible future solution”

Intel on Monday demonstrated technology that could make it possible someday for a mobile Internet device to switch between a Wi-Fi and WiMax network without any disruption in service. via Imaging Magazine

“These companies are united in a deep philosophical way around an operating system, with a group of industry leaders who are sharing technology to create a new operating system for handsets”

By COLLEEN BARRY BARCELONA, Spain - The race is on: A consortium of 32 companies has joined a classic battle for primacy with their demonstration of mobile phones to compete with devices that will run Google ... via North County Times

“Digital predistortion has become a very important way to increase the linear efficiency of power amplifiers”

Xilinx Inc. is demonstrating a digital pre-distortion based reference design based on its Virtex range of FPGAs and XtremeDSPs that is optimized for Freescale Semiconductor's LDMOS power amplifiers at this ... via DesignLines

“This integration allows our consumers the ability to use the innovative search technologies, which have made Google almost synonymous with Internet search”

BARCELONA, Spain - Google and Nokia _ the world's most popular search engine and largest cell phone maker respectively _ said Tuesday that Google's search engine will be incorporated into the Nokia Search ... via The Times

“Our vision for the Xperia X1 is to deliver a seamless blend of mobile web communication and multimedia entertainment within a distinctive design”

A pair of stalwarts in the battle against Microsoft's entry into the mobile phone business appear to be hedging their bets: One, Sony Ericsson has just expanded its product portfolio to include a Windows ... via Palm Boulevard

“Above this (price level), there is a clear conflict with the single market which I am not prepared to tolerate”

By Niclas Mika

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - Mobile phone operators must act before July 1 to avoid the European Union imposing lower prices for texting or surfing the Web via mobile phones when abroad, the bloc's top telecoms regulator said on Monday.

Sending a text message or downloading data in another country should not be substantially more expensive than at home, Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding told reporters at the Mobile World Congress.

"Higher roaming charges abroad must be justified by additional costs of operators. If not, they will have to disappear," she said. Read more

“The thing about sharing is about control for the user. I want to decide how my stuff gets shared and by who”

Nokia Corp. unveiled four new multimedia mobile phones on Monday including successors to two of its bestselling models. via MarketWatch

“In the case of the X1, Microsoft gives us an opportunity to build on”

By COLLEEN BARRY The Associated Press Sunday, February 10, 2008; 6:19 PM BARCELONA, Spain -- Sony Ericsson on Sunday announced a new premium handset aimed at capturing the Web convergence market, blending ... via The Washington Post

A jeans maker sued a private transportation company Thursday, complaining that its failure to take British actress Sienna Miller from England to New Jersey spoiled her planned appearance in an advertisement.

Pepe Jeans, a Barcelona, Spain-based corporation that designs, manufacturers and sells men's and women's clothing, demanded $160,000 for what it paid for the flight and other unspecified costs from Jet Set Private Air Service LLC, which has offices in Los Angeles.

Jet Set was supposed to carry Miller, who starred in 'Alfie' in 2004, from London to Teterboro, N.J., for an Oct. 7 photo shoot in New York, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Read more

“We're all connected to this. It's a picture of a man at the end of a line.”

British photographer Tim Hetherington has won the prestigious World Press Photo Award for 2007 with a picture of an exhausted US soldier inside a bunker in Afghanistan, organisers said Friday. via Raw Story

Britain has apologized to six men close to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for mistakenly detaining them on suspicion of terrorism at London's Gatwick Airport. via CANOE

Pakistani immigrant Rafqat Ali, 27, center, poses with two room mates who didn't want to give their names, in their apartment in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Feb. via The South Mississippi Sun Herald

“The patient needs to be adequately counseled, and withdraw from immunosuppressants that may be deleterious to the baby within sufficient of becoming pregnant to avoid any interference during the first 12 weeks of gestation”

A new study documents malformations seen in an infant born to a kidney transplant recipient who had taken mycophenolate mofetil , a widely used immunosuppressant available commercially as Cellcept . via Blackwell Publishing Press Release

Turmoil in the U.S. markets might accomplish what Sovereign Bancorp's dissident shareholders couldn't - derail an outright purchase by Spain's largest bank. via WHP-TV Harrisburg

MADRID, Spain : A Spanish judge indicted 40 members of the Rwandan military Wednesday on charges of terrorism and genocide, accusing them of mass killings of civilians after seizing power in the wake of the ... via International Herald Tribune

The planned new line-up consists of three different advanced GSM technologies; GPRS , EDGE and HSDPA . via PR-inside.com