BlackBerry Z3 goes on pre-order, specs finally detailed

The BlackBerry Z3 which was officially announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past February alongside the Q20 is now available for pre-order in Indonesia through local carriers Indosat and XL. The device will be launched (and probably shipped as well) on May 13 in Jakarta. Aside from the standard Z3 there will also be a Jakarta Edition, which will have the name of the Indonesian capital engraved on its back...

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Call me! A German satellite and Internet company wants answers from the NSA

The small-scale Stellar communications company in Germany is reeling from revelations that it may have been hacked by GCHQ and the NSA. DW travels to the Cologne suburb of Hürth to try and find out why. Christian Steffen was next in line at an automated car wash in Hürth, Germany, when he received a call from the weekly magazine, "Der Spiegel." Over the next 30 minutes he was informed that, according to documents seen by the magazine, his satellite...

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Asosiasi: Investasi Foxconn di Indonesia Tidak Serius

Asosiasi Pengusaha Indonesia (Apindo) memperingatkan Pemerintah Indonesia agar tidak terlalu berharap banyak atas niatan pemasok produk elektronik terbesar dunia Foxconn mendirikan pabrik perakitan di Tanah Air. “Perusahaan telah lama berdiskusi dengan pemerintah kita selama beberapa tahun. Namun belum ada ketegasan untuk kata sepakat. Tampaknya, perusahaan tidak serius tentang rencananya untuk berinvestasi di negara ini,” kata Sofjan Wanandi,...

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Space lander Philae wakes from deep sleep

After over two years in hibernation, the Philae lander woke up from hibernation to start the next phase of an ambitious mission to land on a comet and potentially look billions of years into the past. On March 2, 2004, the lander robot Philae and Rosetta space probe were fastened to an Ariane 5 rocket and launched into space to - eventually - study the comet 67P/Tschurjumow-Gerasimenko, the most ambitious mission ever undertaken by the European...

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Cina Genjot Militerisasi Luar Angkasa

Cina tidak lagi berbasa-basi soal ambisinya merangsek ke luar angkasa. Presiden Xi Jinping mendorong militerisasi antariksa dengan menggabungkan militer dan dinas luar angkasa negeri itu. Cina untuk pertama kalinya mengungkap motif militer di balik program luar angkasanya yang ambisius. Dalam kunjungan ke markas Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat di Beijing, Xi mendesak penggabungan Angkatan Udara dengan dinas luar angkasa, "dan meningkatkan kapasitas...

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Listrik Murah Terangi Pelosok Afrika

Mobisol yang bermarkas di Berlin menyediakan listrik di lokasi-lokasi yang sebelumnya tidak terjangkau. Dengan menggabungkan teknologi ponsel dan generator tenaga surya, startup ini punya target besar. Produk-produk Mobisol tidak diproduksi di Berlin. Bengkel di ibukota Jerman hanya dipakai untuk menguji coba ide-ide baru. Seluruh panel surya dan baterai dibeli di Cina dan dikirim langsung ke Afrika. Produk terpenting Mobisol dibuat oleh perusahaan...

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Culture of Indonesia

Identification. The Republic of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, has 203 million people living on nearly one thousand permanently settled islands. Some two-to-three hundred ethnic groups with their own languages and dialects range in population from the Javanese (about 70 million) and Sundanese (about 30 million) on Java, to peoples numbering in the thousands on remote islands. The nature of Indonesian national culture...

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