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Mexico is looking to break South African hearts on Friday when the World Cup spectacular kicks-off with the much-awaited match between Bafana Bafana and the South American giants. Fresh from a victory over Italy, the Mexicans arrived in South Africa this past weekend.

MexicoMexico is one of Latin America’s strongest teams, ranked 17th in the world. This is their 13th World Cup appearance. They have never advanced past the quarter-final stage – they reached the last eight in 1970 and again in 1986 – both on Mexican soil.Now they have introduced a new breed of players for the 2010 tournament such as striker Carlos Vela who plays for Arsenal, while Barcelona’s Rafael Marquez will be key to “El Tri’s” campaign.

“It is the first time Mexico has so many players playing outside of Mexico in Europe. So that is very good, so they expect that this will and should be Mexico’s best ever showing at the World Cup finals because of the depth they have with the international players,” says Mexico’s left wing, Andrés Guardado.Star defender Rafael Marquez and striker Guillermo Franco’s have been declared fit for the opener against Bafana Bafana. News that no doubt will boost team morale.

Nokia N8-00Nokia reportedly will soon introduce its new mobile phone equipped with a camera 12 megapixel (MP) and the ability to record 720p HD video. The plan, the Finnish vendor will be introduced at the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, 15-18 February 2010.Hardwarezone, Friday (12/2/2010) launch, phone N8, which is also often called N8-00 will be supported by the Symbian operating system and has a touch screen technology with a 3.5-inch screen size.

However, until now the appearance of N8-00 has not ‘leaked’ on the Internet, only rumors about the camera specs are rampant.Nokia’s Ovi store is also rumored to have set up a video on demand service that can be submitted by the user N8-00. The appearance of this phone is predicted to boost sales of Nokia phones soared. After experiencing the ups and downs in the year 2009.

In the second quarter of 2009, Gartner noted, Nokia still dominates mobile phone sales to 105.4 million units during the second quarter. But, the market Nokia eroded approximately 3 percent compared to the previous year.At that time, the smartphone market, Nokia has not wavered over the two rivals Apple and RIM. of the total sales of 40.9 million smart phones Nokia sold 18.4 million units.