Browsing Month June, 2011
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30 June 2011 at 19 : 57 PM
How can Brazil dazzle the global CIO?
What does Brazil IT need to do in order to dazzle CIOs as a destination for technology-based services? We asked Paul Smith, the global managing director of the offshore software development arm at recruitment group Harvey Nash, about what it takes for a country to be successful in a increasingly competitive global IT services market. ...
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30 June 2011 at 13 : 51 PM
Samba Tech: the story of a Brazilian market leader
Samba Tech is a Brazilian company focused on online video distribution. Its client portfolio includes iG, MTV, O Boticário, Playboy, and the top five TV networks in Brazil. The company really knows all about video content, but just a few years ago it was a small start-up in Belo Horizonte. IT Decisions talked to Pedro Filizzola, culture evangelist at ...
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29 June 2011 at 15 : 59 PM
Case study: Brazilian NGO fights digital divide
Public and private sector organizations are teaming up to bridge the digital exclusion experienced by millions of Brazilians. In the second instalment of a two-part article, digital inclusion specialist and coordinator for institutional relations at NGO Rede Marista de Solidariedade, Alexandre Siqueira Mesquita, talks about how the organization is ...
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29 June 2011 at 13 : 40 PM
Outsourcing: Brazil issues tackled head-to-head
IT Decisions has agreed to share relevant articles with our friends at Outsource magazine. They plan to publish some of our interviews in their magazine and we will carry some of their stories, whenever it's relevant to our respective readers. To start off this entente cordiale of outsourcing knowledge, we are featuring a head-to-head discussion between our ...
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28 June 2011 at 16 : 32 PM
Does Brazil have the IT security it needs?
Just eleven days ago, IT Decisions spoke with William Beer, director of OneSecurity at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and asked him about the risks of a cyber attack on Brazil. How prescient was that conversation? ...
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28 June 2011 at 16 : 16 PM
Digital inclusion in Brazil: a social right
Both government and society are now realizing the need to bridge the digital divide currently experienced by millions of Brazilians. Digital inclusion specialist and coordinator for institutional relations at NGO Rede Marista de Solidariedade, Alexandre Siqueira Mesquita, talks about the progress made so far in a two-part guest article for IT Decisions. ...
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27 June 2011 at 12 : 22 PM
LulzSec boat sails into the sunset
After causing chaos in Brazil last week with a serious of hacking attacks, it seems the LulzSec security group has disbanded and sailed their 'boat' off into the sunset unchallenged. ...
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27 June 2011 at 12 : 30 PM
Start the Week #17: Lulzsec strikes again
It's raining in São Paulo and the city sweepers are cleaning up after four million people hit the streets for the annual gay pride party yesterday. We had expected last week to be fairly quiet, because of the holiday, but Lulzsec came along and changed all that. The British government was also in town signing deals of science and technology cooperation ...
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27 June 2011 at 12 : 18 PM
2012 Olympics role for ITD CEO
The past few days have brought good news on the blogging front for IT Decisions CEO, Mark Hillary. ...
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24 June 2011 at 13 : 45 PM
Census bureau is latest victim of Brazil hacking wave
The Brazilian census bureau was the latest victim of cyber attacks which brought its website down following a string of similar attacks by activist hacker groups. ...
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