For novice Internet users,  Google Reader, RSS feeds and other media tools may seem too foreign to tinker with. Feed Chronicle, "the collaborative newspaper" does all the work for you and arranges your story in a friendly, familiar format.

On Feed Chronicle news sources are determined by the user. The front page is displayed in a three column layout, with tabs for various news topics: World, US, Business, Technology, Entertainment, Sports, Science and Offbeat.

A simple homepage might seem like a suicide design plan for a news site, but plenty of Americans still prefer a simple and straightforward layout, such as Drudge Report. Drudge's dull design has been criticized for years, but the site attracts millions of readers each day and up to 7 billion each year.

Essentially, the  publishers of Feed Chronicle devised a personal version of Drudge Report and gave  more control to the reader. A customizable layout scheme allows each member to choose five different sources for each news segment of their online "paper".For a lighthearted, satirical source, you can choose the Onion.  Other news sources include:

• New York Times
• MSNBC
• Fox
• CNN
• The Onion
• Reuters

I was pleased by the two-step registration process, and within 10 minutes, I completed my custom "newspaper."

Here's my list of pros and cons for the beta version of Feed Chronicle.
Pros:

• Customizable news layout.
• Easy interface- which caters to its target market.
• Multiple news categories.

Cons:

• Lack of sources for certain sections, including sports and science.

There's still room for improvement, but I think the minds at launched Feed Chronicle may have found an ideal site for news junkies.

Xupera is working shoulder to shoulder with the Technological Component Centre in Cantabria on a project aimed at unveiling applications based on NFC technology (Near Field Communications), a standard backed up by Sony, Nokia and Phillips enabling safe wireless payments to be made.

In this way, Xupera will research the possibilities of near field communication technologies, which are numerous using a mobile phone, to such a point that the providers have joined forces to guarantee its fast implementation.

Vicente Ferrer has created the figure of ?Committed Company? in acknowledgement of companies who collaborate with its Integral Development Programme which is being carried out in Anantapur together with RDT/WDT.

Xupera has received this Committed Company Certificate which serves ?to highlight those companies who, like Xupera, have joined our project to eradicate the extreme poverty and marginalisation suffered by the inhabitants of Anantapur due to their status of dalits or untouchables?, in the words of those responsible for the Vicente Ferrer foundation.

At Xupera we are proud to form part of this solidarity network, making it possible to transform society into humanity.

Xupera has been awarded The CRC Gold Award for the Best Outhouse Operation in Customer Relations, in the Back Office category.

The CRC GOLD Awards are the result of the conclusions obtained in the Study of Excellence in Spanish Customer Call Centres, carried out yearly by the consulting company IZO System, with the collaboration of AEECCC (Spanish Association of Experts in Call Centres) and IFAES.

Xupera received the prize on the 7th and 8th of November last, at the 10th Call Centre + CRM Solutions exhibition. The CRC GOLD Awards acknowledge the quality ratings large Spanish companies offer in the management of customer relations, based on the results obtained in the Study of Excellence in Call Centres with Spanish Customers, carried out by IZO Systems annually and which is in its 8th year. This report assesses the quality rating large Spanish companies offer in the management of customer relations and is centred on Telecommunications (Fixed and Mobile Telephony), Financial Services, Banks, Energy, Insurance and Other Services.

19th December 2007, during the first General Meeting of Innobasque at the Technological Park in Zanudio, the entry of Eurobulegoa and in Innobasque. The two entities had already ratified the integration process at their respective board levels.

During its eleven years in action , of which Xupera is a member, has managed to convert itself in the Basque organisation bringing together the greatest number of companies geared to developing innovation in business management. The implication and the exchange of experiences between its member companies has been fundamental in the goal of bringing about better social, university and business environment cohesion and being more competitive. The Board of Directors of Cluster estimate that the integration in Innobasque is the best way forward to extend innovation and improve the management of Basque organisations.

So, from this date on Innobasque, Eurobulegoa and the will be, to all effects, a single organisation, joined too by Gipuzkoa Berritzen, with headquarters in Donosita-San Sebastián.

The integration of these four organisations responds to the strategies, announced by the President of Innobasque Pedro Luis Uriarte, of setting up an Agency of this nature and in addition through federation, partnership and cooperation and collaboration agreements.

Jose Luis Jiménez Brea, actual President of , will take on the General Management of Business Transformation at Innobasque, and Juan Tomás Hernani, Director of Eurobulegoa, will be in charge of International Project Management.

10th anniversary of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, Xupera formed an active part in the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation in Bilbao while also helping the celebration to be a success in another six cities.

The Vicente Ferrer Foundation wanted to celebrate its 10th Anniversary “with all those who had been at their side during the first decade”. We believe that it is important to convey our appreciation, because without the effort and commitment from all involved, the changes would have not been possible.

For this reason a 10th Anniversary Commemoration Event was organised in each city where the Foundation has a delegation and to which 135,000 Collaborators, Public Institutions and contributing companies; one of which was Xupera, were invited.