Florida

Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches.

That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings.

Last year a San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed 600 potential jurors after several acknowledged going online to research the criminal case before them.

Business traveler Mike Monroe no longer rummages through his bag at the airline counter fishing for his flight ticket or confirmation number.

The consultant from Lakeland, Fla., has gone paperless, thanks to Continental Airlines' electronic boarding passes. Once he checks in online, the carrier e-mails a bar code to his phone. That code is scanned at security checkpoints and gates instead of a boarding pass. "It takes away a lot of annoyances."

Location-finding applications that give iPhone users information about weather, restaurants or traffic are fine. But if they give information to third parties for targeted advertising, the deal is off.

That's the message Apple sent to developers this week. The computer giant posted a message on its Developer Connection blog encouraging its partners to use the core location framework, but only for programs that provide "beneficial information," such as the weather forecast or where to find ATMs.

Back to the Drawing Board

Washington reanudará en las próximas horas los vuelos militares para trasladar a los haitianos gravemente heridos por el terremoto -algunos de ellos con heridas, golpes en la cabeza y espalda, y amputaciones - a hospitales estadounidenses. La misión humanitaria fue suspendida hace cinco días tras las quejas del Estado de Florida de que sus centros hospitalarios estaban desbordados, informa The New York Times en su edición digital.

Last year, the government promised $10.5 billion in funds for high-speed rail development and the first state to receive some of that money is Florida.  Tomorrow, President Obama will be awarding $2.5 billion to the state to jump-start the first phase of their train system that will run from Orlando to Tampa.

La justicia guatemalteca ha ordenado la detención del ex presidente Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) después de que la fiscalía de Miami (Florida, Estados Unidos) solicitara hace dos semanas al Gobierno de Guatemala su extradición por un presunto delito de lavado de dinero.

Flanked by a coterie of gadgets in a private suite at the USA's biggest consumer electronics show, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers might seem like the proverbial fish out of water.

Yet the leader of the computer-networking giant had delivered a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show [and] was outlining its consumer plans.

It's all part of Cisco's audacious gambit to plunge into new markets, spend billions to snap up companies and partner with others, despite a sour economy.

En las últimas semanas ha nevado en Sevilla y en Florida. Todo el hemisferio norte está sumido en un frío extremo acompañado de lluvias abundantes. ¿Todo? No. Mientras las agencias de meteorología de Occidente bucean en sus archivos en busca de precedentes tan fríos, Groenlandia y Alaska pasan un invierno extremadamente suave.

Odyssey recurrirá la decisión del juez ante la la Corte de Apelaciones. Según una orden firmada por el juez Steven D. Merryday del distrito federal de Tampa (Florida), la empresa deberá devolver las 500.000 monedas de plata y oro (que equivalen a 17 toneladas del tesoro) en un plazo de diez días. La decisión de la empresa de recurrir esta orden retrasará la resolución final del caso.