Browsing Month July, 2011
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28 July 2011 at 11 : 20 AM
One year to London 2012
Yesterday I made the official launch to my Olympic blogging efforts at the UK Consulate General in São Paulo. The British Consul General introduced the event, which included the deputy sports secretary for São Paulo, Gilberto do Carmo Nucci, and several former Olympic champions from Brazil. There was extensive coverage of the event on Twitter and I ...
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26 July 2011 at 19 : 08 PM
IT’s Brazil: The National Broadband Plan
Top politicians in Brazil have been repeatedly quoted as saying that conditions need to be created to lead Brazil into the knowledge economy recently, but are the fundamentals in place for that? The series IT's Brazil will examine the components of the government’s strategy around technology and in this first article, we cover the National Broadband ...
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26 July 2011 at 12 : 24 PM
TechMarketView on Brazil IT
IT Decisions recently met with Anthony Miller, managing partner of analyst firm TechMarketView, during a visit to Brazil. He recently published his observations on the IT supplier market in Brazil based on this latest visit and though the research is only for TMV subscribers, he shared it with us - on condition we didn't share too much of it here... ...
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25 July 2011 at 17 : 08 PM
Start the week #21: IT consumerization
It's time to start another week. But this week, we are all excited about the phenomenal response the new IT Decisions research network enjoyed. We had CIOs from sixteen different industries in Brazil contributing to the research last week focused on the consumerization of technology. ...
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25 July 2011 at 16 : 54 PM
Tablet prices in Brazil to drop by almost 40%, says minister
According to Brazilian communications minister Paulo Bernardo, a pool of manufacturers have already secured rights to produce tablets in Brazil under incentives that will lower device prices by up to 36%. ...
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22 July 2011 at 15 : 24 PM
Join ITD to mark ‘one year to London 2012′
As reported some time ago in IT Decisions, our CEO Mark Hillary is an official BT Storyteller - a blogger covering the London 2012 Olympic games. ...
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22 July 2011 at 14 : 17 PM
IT consumerization: challenge or opportunity?
Oxfam is an international non-profit leading aid and development charity organization working in 98 countries worldwide – including Brazil. The charity’s chief information officer Peter Ransom talked exclusively to IT Decisions around the launch of the IT Decisions Research Network about how he is tackling the IT consumerization challenge. ...
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21 July 2011 at 08 : 53 AM
Brazil must collaborate to deliver value
IT executives worldwide often hear about Brazil’s creative and collaborative workforce. But are companies really living to one of its key selling points? Knowledge and innovation consultant at Terra Forum Consulting Beto do Valle caught up with IT Decisions to share some of his perceptions around how Brazilian firms are nurturing skills and foster ing ...
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19 July 2011 at 04 : 45 AM
Facebook addicts can get fired in Brazil
The IT Decisions publishing director, Angelica Mari recently started a discussion on LinkedIn focused on the legality of employees using the Internet at work. She asked: "In Brazil, using the web for more than an hour for activities that are unrelated to work is considered as gross misconduct and can lead to justified dismissal. What is the legal ...
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18 July 2011 at 18 : 16 PM
The ITD Research Network is go!
A few weeks ago we announced the imminent launch of a new kind of research for IT chiefs in Brazil as part of an ongoing discussion about the role of the modern industry analyst. Today, the IT Decisions research network was born. ...
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