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This article examines the discourse of the social actors who operated within or through the Spanish patent institution during the nineteenth century. The artide's principal focus is the representation and conceptualisation of technological change in the social sites of invention and patenting activity. During the mid-nineteenth century, a discourse in support of mechanisation, industrial progress and intellectual property became dominant in this social environment. This discourse had an important techno-nationalistic component in a context of increasing economic globalisation, with its winners and losers, and the international technological competition displayed in colossal industrial exhibitions. Specifically, this article analyses the content of La Gaceta Industrial, a technical journal devoted largely to the world of invention and patents, and the explicit and implicit discourse of the technical and administrative documentation of patents granted in Spain during the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are a lot of services that can be accessed using a mobile phone by sending a premium short message (SMS premium). This article describes how the technology behind these contents and multimedia services works. The legislation about these services in Spain is currently being reviewed; the information about costs and basic functionality can be changed with the start up of the new law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relates the selection of lithic raw materials with technology in Spain. Study framework on the paleoeconomic traditions of hominid groups; Technological assemblages of Pleistocene levels; Correspondence between economic behavior and technological tradition; Factors explaining diachronic technical changes of levels.