Browsing Tag dilma rousseff
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6 March 2012 at 20 : 08 PM
President Dilma inaugurates CeBIT 2012
President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated CeBIT, the largest IT fair in the world, alongside German Chancellor, Angela Merkel today in Hannover, Germany. The two leaders took a tour of Brazil's main pavilion at the event and also took time to visit the exhibition stands of some major German companies. ...
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30 December 2011 at 14 : 03 PM
BBC ranks Dilma most important woman of 2011
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has announced their list of the women who contributed the most to 2011 and Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff features as their most important woman for September 2011. The BBC said: ...
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17 August 2011 at 05 : 30 AM
IT’s Brazil: the technology skills gap
The Brazilian IT market has gone from strength to strength in the last few years. The sector is forecast to grow more than 10% in 2011, with revenues exceeding $182bn by year-end, up from $165.5bn generated in 2010, according to IT trade body Brasscom. However, does Brazil have enough people to cater for current and future demand? In the second ...
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4 August 2011 at 18 : 34 PM
Unions up in arms over Brazilian industrial policy
Workers' associations across a range of sectors including IT are not happy about the new Brazilian industrial policy launched earlier this week by president Dilma Rousseff, believing that tax cuts, aimed at stimulating industry sectors such as IT, will just be pocketed by company bosses. ...
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2 August 2011 at 20 : 16 PM
Brazilian industrial policy: what it means for IT
A series of measures announced today as part of the new Brazilian industrial policy will have a series of implications for the IT sector, including lower hiring costs. IT Decisions gives a summary of the Brasil Maior plan and what it means for the technology industry. ...
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1 July 2011 at 17 : 25 PM
Brazilian government remains under hacker siege
The personal email of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been hacked as well as the Twitter account of the former governor of the state of São Paulo, José Serra, in the latest development of what is Brazil's most severe wave of cyber attacks of its history. ...
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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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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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23 June 2011 at 19 : 13 PM
Brazil suffers its biggest cyber attack – yet
The service interruption of government websites and the disclosure of the supposedly personal data of top-ranking politicians claimed by hacking collective LulzSec is part of a string of cyber attacks that have taken place in Brazil in the last 48 hours. This is considered the largest cyber offensive in Brazilian history. ...
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8 June 2011 at 16 : 34 PM
Palocci out, Gov2.0 in: is Brazil changing?
The first thing I noticed this morning in the local press here in São Paulo was the news that president Dilma Rousseff had accepted the resignation of her chief of staff, Antonio Palocci. ...
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