Dominican News

Bootleg software may crumple companies' credit rating

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:38:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The country's leading credit bureau, Data Credito, announced that it will receive from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) new information which can be used to rank credit risk in the businesses which don't have legal software licenses.

Dominican Telecom serves up technology to more than 2,100 youngsters

Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:18:00 GMT
SANTO DOMINGO. - More than 2,100 youngsters from the country's 32 provinces will participate in the second stage of the “Technological Entrepreneurial Youth Training Program" (JUVENTEC), of the Dominican Telecom Institute (Indotel) in alliance with the Technological Institute of the Americas (ITLA) and the Technical Professional Training Institute (INFOTEP).

Over 9 million phone numbers in use in DR, telecom chief says

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:46:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- In the Dominican Republic, a country of 9.5

AT&T stops selling iPhones online in NYC

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:09:00 GMT
New York.- AT&T has stopped selling iPhones to New Yorkers from its Web site, for unclear reasons.

Social networks take over the world; Dominicans are no exception

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:55:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The social networking phenomenon is taking over the world country by country and the Dominican Republic is no an exception, with Facebook and Hi5 in its top 10 of most visited websites.According to Vincenzo Cosenza, the

Google releases experimental phone to employees

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:11:00 GMT

Dominican Republic's ruling party braces for stampede of candidates

Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:05:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- Today's jump by deputy for La Vega province (central) from the ruling PLD party may signal a stampede by other potential candidates to the opposition PRD prior to the May 16 elections, marked by the change in Santiago, where senior PLD leader Gilberto Serrulle did the same on Sunday to compete for the mayoral post.

AES Dominicana power plants get ISO certification

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:19:00 GMT
Santo Domingo. - The power plants AES Andres and Dominican Power Partners (AES Los Mina) recently certified their Integrated Management System of Quality and Environment for Electricity Generation from Natural Gas, in adherence to the norms ISO 9001:2008 and 14001:2004 respectively.

The elimination of paper among Customs' new advances

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:42:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- Customs director Rafael Camilo Sunday announced the entity's Integral Management System (Siga), which eliminates paper in the import process.

New area code 849 begins February 15 in Dominican Republic

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:07:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- The new area code 849 goes into effect

Orange Dominicana to launch 3G network in February

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:44:00 GMT
Santo Domingo.- 3G services will finally be introduced by Dominican mobile network

Dominican, American set high speed record for radio control airplanes

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:03:00 GMT
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Dominican Axel Haché and the American David Shulman made history by entering the Guinness Book of World Records, when their radio control airplane flew at 542 kilometers per hour at the Hobbyland runway on January 18, breaking the previous 395 kilometers-per-hour mark.

NASA radar studies Haiti, Dominican Republic quake faults

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:33:00 GMT
PASADENA, Calif. -- In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America.