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Internet Users Age 6-14 in Brazil Spend 60 Percent of their Online Time on Entertainment and Communication Sites

By Guest PostJuly 9, 20102 commentsCulture, Technologyalex banks, brazil, Comscore, digital world, Entertainment, instant messengers, latin america, online population, Social networking

Sao Paulo, Brazil – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released (June 30) a study of online behavior among 6-14 year-old consumers in Brazil, a recent addition to comScore’s demographic segmentation capabilities in the market.

The study found that Internet users 6-14 years of age accounted for 12 percent of the total online population in Brazil in May 2010, spending the majority of their time on Entertainment, Instant Messengers and Social Networking sites.

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Goooal! World Cup of Tech Competitors Score in Warsaw

By Guest PostJuly 6, 20104 commentsTechnologybrazil, christian piechnick, daniella bal, dice, England, germany-argentina, Holland, ignatius lopez, imagine cup, it, jasper baljeu, Johannesburg, jon perera, kieron ekron, malissa, malta, olympics, poland, royal bafokeng stadium, simulacrum, South Africa, stefan lia, vuvuzela, warsaw, wearth, world cup, world cup of technology

*As their favorite soccer teams battle to win the World Cup in South Africa, students from across the globe are in Warsaw, Poland, to find out who will win the World Cup of technology.*

WARSAW, Poland – July 6, 2010 – Just weeks after catching a World Cup soccer game in their home country, two students from South Africa brought 40,000 football fans with them to Warsaw, Poland, for the “World Cup of technology.”

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Holland 2 Brazil 1

By PravdaJuly 3, 2010Sportsbrazil, dutch, felipe melo, ghana, Holland, juan, júlio césar, kaka, luis fabiano, nelson mandela bay, Netherlands, robinho, sneijder, stekelenburg, timothy bancroft-hinchey, uruguay, world cup

You lose a lot due to stupidity, but when it comes to an accumulation of collective idiocy, we reach a critical mass and exponential results which we saw in Nelson Mandela Bay, where Brazil left the World Cup very early (for a 5-times-champion) simply because its players once again were convinced the game was in the bag.

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UN Predicts Global Rise of Food Prices

By Guest PostJune 27, 20103 commentsEconomyafrica, agricultural products, agronews, asian farmers, biofuel, brazil, bric, canada, Chicago, China, coarse grains, dairy products, developing countries, eastern europe, fao, food and agriculture organization, food colonization, food consumption, grain traders, India, oecd, organization for economic cooperation and development, russia, the philippines, ukraine, un, united states, us midwest, vitally salnik, Wall Street Journal, western europe, wheat

In the next ten years, prices for agricultural products in the world will grow in real terms by 15-40%, say experts from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. The reason for it is the increasing demand for food in developing countries and production of biofuels.

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Rise in Global Temperatures and Extinction of the Lizards

By Guest PostMay 29, 20101 commentEnvironmentaaas, andrew sugden, barry sinervo, brazil, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, carlos frederico duarte rocha, chamaeleonidae, department of ecology and evolutionary biology, donald miles, extinction, fausto méndez-de-la-cruz, furcifer lateralis, global climate change, google earth, google scholar, ignacio de la riva, jack sites, lizards, Madagascar, Mexico, mexico climate-warming, santa cruz, sceloporus lizard, Science, united states, university of california

For many lizards, global climate change is a matter of life and death.

After decades of surveying Sceloporus lizard populations in Mexico, an international research team has found that rising temperatures have driven 12 percent of the country’s lizard populations to extinction.

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„Cracolandia“

By ShamsMay 21, 20101 commentCulturebrazil, cosmopolitan city, crackland, cracolandia, Reuters, sao paulo

or Crackland – a land for the cracks, or (a) land of the cracks.

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Internet Users Age 6-14 in Brazil Spend 60 Percent of their Online Time on Entertainment and Communication Sites

Goooal! World Cup of Tech Competitors Score in Warsaw

Holland 2 Brazil 1

UN Predicts Global Rise of Food Prices

Rise in Global Temperatures and Extinction of the Lizards

„Cracolandia“