Cuba presented the new version of the NOVA operational system, based on Linux, as part of its strategy to migrate to free software. At the presentation made at the 2011 Informatics Fair, the deputy rector of the University of Computer Sciences (UCI), Héctor Rodríguez, affirmed that NOVA is a very promising system for businesses, because it is adaptable to the needs of clients and offers greater informatics security.
Read MoreShrimp production in Cuba decreased from 4,323 tons in 2006 to only 3,100 tons last year, Amado Posada, director of the Business Group for Shrimp Development, announced. According to the specialist, the crisis in this sector is due to technological violations, organizational problems, corruption, instability in supplies and deterioration of the productive infrastructure.
Read MoreThe first move was the government buy out of Telcom’s (Italy) minority share of the Cuban Telecomunications Co. ETECSA. The second was to unblock access on the island to the most well known Cuban blog internationally, Generation Y, put out by Yoani Sanchez.
Read MoreState housing construction decreased 7.5 per cent in 2010 as compared to the figure planned by the government, while the private sector reported an increase of 158 per cent, according to the report “Housing: Selected Indicators. January-December 2010” of the National Office of Statistics (ONE). The island’s government, which has a housing deficit of more than half a million units, hopes to build 43,000 homes this year.
Read MoreThe 20th International Book Fair of Cuba will be inaugurated today at the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress in the Cuban capital, the local press reported. This year the event is dedicated to the cultures of the peoples of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and to the bicentennial of the first independence of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Read MoreThe 14th International Convention and Fair Informática 2011 is taking place this week through Friday in the Cuban capital. The event is held at the Havana Convention Center and the nearby PABEXPO fairgrounds under the slogan “Converging technologies: integration and independence”, with the objective to promote the scientific advances, new technologies and new features of the sector. (10 photos)
Read MoreThe opening to the private farmer sector in 2008 made it possible to begin the recovery of pineapple production in the central province of Ciego de Avila, known in Cuba for the traditional cultivation of that fruit. The pineapple harvest dropped from more than 30,000 tons in 1991 to a bit over 200 tons in 2006.
Read MoreThe fiber optic cable that will link Cuba with Venezuela has just arrived in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba. Cuba is now five months away from considerably faster telecommunications and Internet capability, touted to be 3,000 times greater than present.
Read More“There is no political obstacle” for the Cuban government that prevents the development of telecommunications on the island, which would open access to the Internet for all of society’s actors, Deputy Minister of Informatics and Communications Jorge Luis Perdomo affirmed in a conference during the Informatics 2011 event being held in this capital.
Read MoreSpecialists from the Centre for the Development of El Salvador Mountain, in the eastern province of Guantánamo, are introducing new technologies in the cultivation of coconut, whose production has nose-dived in the last 20 years, the local press reported. The aim is to raise the results in coconut plantations through a management that is “more sustainable based on the use of local resources and adapted to the specific conditions of each area,” said Albaro Blanco Imbert, researcher with that scientific center.
Read More