Browsing Month October, 2011
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31 October 2011 at 12 : 34 PM
State of Brazil IT: Outsourcing & contracting
With The Economist in Brazil this week focused on where Brazil is heading in the next decade, IT Decisions is commenting on a series of points raised during discussions in our LinkedIn forum. This chapter of our report State of Brazil IT examines the perceptions of outsourcing within the Brazilian IT community and comments on the issues that are ...
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25 October 2011 at 19 : 47 PM
Will Netflix succeed in Brazil?
Yesterday, movie streaming giant Netflix said that it lost 800,000 US subscribers in the quarter that has just ended - is there a danger that they may not succeed in Brazil? ...
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14 October 2011 at 14 : 24 PM
Should Brazilian IT professionals be chartered?
Many IT professionals in Brazil argue that the profession needs greater recognition, some kind of benchmark to demonstrate professionalism. The argument goes that professions such as doctors, lawyers, accountants, and surveyors all have their professional bodies and practitioners need to be registered - or they just can't work in the industry. ...
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13 October 2011 at 18 : 38 PM
Occupy Wall Street… then Brazil
The Arab spring may have been helped by social media, but the Occupy Wall Street movement has been entirely fuelled by social networks from the start. And now the movement is coming to Brazil with plans for 'Occupy Brazil' protests from Saturday the 15th. ...
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12 October 2011 at 15 : 06 PM
Brazil IT needs more foreigners
I have been browsing the discussion boards on LinkedIn recently, looking at what people in the Brazilian IT industry are saying they think is needed to improve things here. One online proposal caught my eye earlier today - invite more European IT professionals to come and work in Brazil. ...
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11 October 2011 at 15 : 43 PM
Translating IT content is no easy task
Kleber Pedroso is an experienced English translator and language coach for Brazilian IT professionals. In his latest guest post for IT Decisions, he comments on the difficulties involved in translating IT-related content into Brazilian Portuguese. ...
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7 October 2011 at 18 : 10 PM
Ada Lovelace and Brazil’s female IT pros
When I was studying computer science at college in the UK, one of the things I had to learn was how to write software in the programming language Ada. It’s quite hard compared to languages such as BASIC or C, the languages I was mainly using at the time. Ada is far more rigorous and doesn’t allow for the fast and loose coding I liked – especially ...
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6 October 2011 at 13 : 40 PM
In tribute: Steve Jobs
What more can be said about the Apple visionary Steve Jobs? Every magazine, journal, and blog has turned to the subject of his legacy today. Everyone knew his death was approaching as he resigned from Apple six weeks ago, unable to keep working as his battle with pancreatic cancer neared the end. But even with that expectation, it is still a shock to ...
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5 October 2011 at 06 : 49 AM
Brazil is digital now, but maybe it’s not obvious?
It's great to see US entrepreneurs coming down to Brazil and writing about the hi-tech economy in well-read media such as The Huffington Post - a title I write for myself - but it's not always so great when some of the facts are misrepresented or mistaken. So when I read Steve Rosenbaum's report from the Digital Age 2.0 conference in São Paulo last week ...
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4 October 2011 at 19 : 24 PM
BT Global to hire 250 in LatAm
British telecommunications giant BT Global Services announced a series of new investments in the Latin America region with an aggressive target to double their LatAm revenue within the next three years. ...
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