The contract of the “century”, as some want to call it, in which EADS and Northrop Grumman will produce 179 tankers for the U.S. Air Force, has not only been flowers and roses. The Pentagon’s decision of choosing an European consortium has produced severe rashes at Washington. The last one to complain has been Jim McNerney, Boeing’s CEO. According to the general opinion of the federal government and the American aircraft industry, the contract, worth 40 billion dollars, should have been assigned to a company from the U.S.

McNerney assured that their offer was much more capable to be performed, presented less risks and reduced cost. Boeing will appeal to the Congress of the U.S. because of some “irregularities” on the Pentagon’s decision.

Boeing’s complains are somehow understandable. This is not only one of the greatest contracts in the history of aircraft industry, including a significant amount of money, but it also positions EADS as the irrefutable leader of the worldwide aircraft industry. Boeing, Pentagon’s favorite until now, the contract is a severe disadvantage. After the competition between the european Airbus A380 and Boeing’s equivalent, the North American company is under serious problems.

Via | El País

Patrick, blogger of MarlexSystems, has recently launched Zona Beta, a forum community of varied topics in which you can exchange opinions and other content. As such a special occasion, they are giving away 3 Rapidshare Premium Accounts to the best members of the community.

The contest is due April 7th and the prizes are 1 Rapidshare account (for 6 months) for the 1st position, and 2 Rapidshare accounts (for 1 month) to the 2nd and 3rd positions, 1 each. The most transparent fact of the contest is that the selection of the winners is based on a ‘Karma’ system, that allows the entire community to choose the best posts and users.

You can sign up here, and read the rules at MarlexSystems (in Spanish).

My name is Antonio Bustamante, and I’m an 18 year old Spanish student and blogger. Since I launched Tecnobot a while ago, originally in Spanish, I’ve seen that a lot of you guys are actually English speakers. Never had any English comments on my blog (except one or two isolated opinions), but statistics don’t lie: more and more visitors come from English-speaking countries. So… I decided to launch an English version of Tecnobot! That means that every single post published in Tecnobot from now on will be naturally translated into English, so you English-speaking geeks can also enjoy my posts.

I’ve been studying and speaking English since I was a tiny geek, but I’m not a native English-speaker. If you see any myztakes around the blog, please, you are welcome to send me feedback. The content in the posts is oriented to people from Australia, UK, US, Canada, and every other single English-speaking country in the world, so I’ll try to internationalize posts as much as possible.

I feel this is a huge step for Tecnobot. It’s been growing since I created it and I realized that now is the moment to make it worldwide. Other languages are planned for the future, but that’s not entirely planned. Just some vague ideas in my brain

So, I hope you enjoy it! Tutorials and other varied creations will also be published in English, so expect huge contents in Tecnobot EN.

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