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- Dell launches Android smartphone; Inks China, Brazil carrier deals
- Dell has hatched its grand smartphone plan and it's focused on emerging markets. The company confirmed its plans to launch smartphones in China and Brazil. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Brazil, Dell Computer Corp., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Green shoots
- I would not hazard a guess about what's happening to the storied "green shoots" in the American or global economies. There are many economists and financial "experts" hazarding widely divergent guesses already. I will guess that green technology continues to have appeal in many nations. Green shoots...
- Tags: Brazil, Spain, Hydrogen, SWITZERLAND SOLAR Solar Panel Production, Oerlikon Solar, Spanish Project, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Brazilian Airline Automates Web Content Management, Drives Agility, and Reduces Costs
- Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes [Gol Intelligent Airlines] positions itself as the best option for people who appreciate quality air services for a good price. Gol has always taken advantage of the almost unlimited reach of the Internet, offering tickets online for the first time in...
- Tags: Brazil, Web, Web Content Management, Microsoft Corp., E-business, Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., Channel Management, Web Technology, Content Management, Portals, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
- Case studies 2009-07-21
- Greenpeace: running may be good for you, hurting the Earth
- Luxury product, big American retailers, greedy developing national leaders, resource exploitation. You can almost write the script. This time it's not soybeans or mahogany or mining. It's leather for running shoes from Nike, Adidas and their ilk. Greenpeace says consumers buying leather shoes from major manufacturers...
- Tags: Brazil, Greenpeace, Nike Inc., Adidas AG, Greenhouse Gas, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Prosegur Brasil Standardizes Operating Processes With Parent Company and Increases Transparency
- Prosegur Brasil is one of the world's largest private global security solutions companies and the leader in the domestic valuables transportation and private security markets. It was founded in 1976 in Madrid, where its headquarters are located, and it has operated in Brazil since 1981. The challenge was to increase...
- Tags: Brazil, Madrid, Oracle Corp., Prosegur Brasil, Transportation, Financial Accounting, Security, Finance
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Vitopel do Brasil Ltd. Integrates Operations and Streamlines Processes Through Single ERP System
- Vitopel do Brasil Ltda. wanted to implement a single system to prepare the company for growth, and centralize industrial and back-office processes in Argentina and Brazil and integrate sales, purchasing, human resources, industrial, administrative, and financial areas through a single enterprise resource planning system in Brazil Maua and Votorantim. The...
- Tags: Brazil, Oracle Corp., Financial, ERP System, ERP, Argentina, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- 356,800 green Linux workstations going to Brazil's schools
- Userful announced yesterday that it was, in concert with Brazil's ThinNetworks, rolling out over 350,000 Linux workstations in Brazil's schools. Userful employs unique desktop virtualization software to turn a single desktop PC into as many as 10 workstations. Like solutions from ThinComputing, users can simply add VGA cards...
- Tags: Brazil, Thin Client, Computer, Linux Workstation, Workstations, Productivity, Desktops, Linux, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Virtualization, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Lenovo confirms window shopping for acquisitions
- Lenovo on Thursday confirmed that it is talking to "independent third parties" about potential acquisitions and investments. In overseas trading Wednesday--Lenovo trades on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong--shares spiked 27 percent in heavy trading on various reports that the PC maker was going to pull the...
- Tags: Brazil, Acquisition, Lenovo Group Ltd., Window, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- A 'Social Silicon Valley'
- Brazilian Journalist Gilberto Dilmenstein has transformed Sao Paulo's Villa Madelena neighborhood from one filled with crime to one filled with learning.
- Tags: Sao Paulo, News, ina fried, microsoft, pc, south america, brazil, ibm, software, google, internet
- Videos 2008-08-27
- The Borders of Computing
- Exploring the Borders of Computing CNET News' Ina Fried sits down with Kara Tsuboi to discuss her special report on computing in Latin America.
- Tags: Borders Books & Music, Computing, News, kara tsuboi, ina fried, microsoft, brazil, columbia, south america, schools, art, civil war
- Videos 2008-08-26
- Photos: Inside Brazil's slums
- Paraisopolis, one of Brazil's slums, has a computer lab connected to a health clinic and community center. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Brazil, Photograph, Computer, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-08-26
- The Brazilian IT market will grow to $24 bln
- IDC predicts that the year 2008 will close with total spending on hardware, software, and services in Brazil at $23 bln, nearly equal to the $24 bln expected in the Spanish market. Northeast region of Brazil is the fastest growing region for IT investment in Brazil even though it is...
- Tags: Brazil, IT Investment, Region, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...
- Tags: Brazil, Appeal, South Africa, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Energy and food becoming global battlegrounds while high profile VC becomes lightning rod
- Energy. Food. Money. The nexus is fraught with political disagreement, high intensity accuations and lots of potential for profit, or disaster. All depends on who you listen to. If the era of cheap petroleum is truly and forever dead, then these battles shall only get more nasty,...
- Tags: Brazil, Food, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Photos: Brazil's homegrown PCs
- PC maker Positivo has the lion's share of Brazil's retail market, selling more than a million PCs last year. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Brazil, PC, Photograph, Desktops, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-17
- Snakes on a Plain...and Down the Avenue
- Seems Belem, Brazil, has a reptile problem. We're not talking about lawyers and politicians either, though these reptiles also slither on their bellies. These are the legless snakes who cannot speak with their forked tongues. And the Belemites are worried their city on a level plain at...
- Tags: Brazil, Greenpeace, Deforestation, Sugar, Government, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Oil field data loss just common theft
- Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men port security guards responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil. Way back when I was an industry analyst...
- Tags: Brazil, Data Loss, Data, Firewalls, GIS, Network Security, Security, Networking, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Top malware countries: Russia, China, US, Brazil, UK
- Russia now occupies number one spot on Sophos malware ranking list with 27.4% of malware, slightly ahead of China on 27%. Both leave the US trailing in third with 10.1%, Brazil on 6.6%, and the UK with 5.32%. by AM
- Tags: Brazil, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-23
- They slash, we all could burn
- Brazilian slash and burn farmers could be threatening the rest of the planet. That's the kernel of a report today from McLatchy newspapers. Though deforestation has decreased the past three years according to official stats, Brazil's government figures over 3800 square miles of tropical forest will...
- Tags: Brazil, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Agent 2.0 Document: text normalization documentation for Portuguese (Brazil) Lernout & Hauspie TTS3000 engine 2 (Windows)
- Text normalization documentation in Microsoft Word (.doc file) format for the Portuguese Brazil Lernout & Hauspie TTS3000 engine. Text normalization documentation describes how numbers, abbreviations, acronyms and idiomatics are identified and transformed into full text, based upon the context of a sentence. This is the text normalization documentation in Microsoft...
- Tags: Brazil, Agent, Microsoft Corp., Lernout & Hauspie, Normalization Documentation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Real Estate, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2007-08-22
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