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26 March 2013 at 15 : 10 PM
When Did You Last Switch Off Your Smartphone?
How often each day are you truly disconnected from the internet? If you have a smartphone then it's probably not very often at all. If you take a flight then it's likely you might have to endure several hours without social network updates - though many airlines are now offering wifi access on board leading to many inane Facebook updates saying little ...
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20 June 2012 at 13 : 19 PM
Economic nationalism: the way to go for Brazil?
The Brazilian government's measures such as the recent temporary tax breaks for car manufacturers and home appliances to maintain economic growth may signal the start of a new form of economic policy, according to specialists. Brazil’s upbeat economic performance slowed in the first quarter of this year, with GDP falling 0.35% in March, after activity ...
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20 June 2012 at 09 : 20 AM
Imagine if every resident of Mumbai had a car?
IT Decisions is in Rome this week at the Orange Business Live conference - an event packed full of CIOs and technology decision-makers from across the world. Professor Stéphane Garelli of IMD Business School and the University of Lausanne delivered one of the opening keynotes, describing the future of the world economy. One of the key points he made ...
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21 March 2012 at 18 : 05 PM
Team retention – culture eats strategy for lunch
Last week a group of international industry analysts visited São Paulo in Brazil and Bogotá in Colombia to explore how the customer experience company Teleperformance is operating in South America. In this video Gabriel Toscana, the Nearshore Division COO for Teleperformance, gives his views on retaining and motivating staff in South America and how ...
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28 September 2011 at 13 : 34 PM
Bringing crowd wisdom into Brazil’s classrooms
After our recent comment on how Brazilian educators need to embrace changes in technology if they want to succeed in preparing pupils for the twenty-first century, an old friend of IT Decisions got in touch with his own comment. George Bell is a human resources and organizational behavior expert from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a visiting lecturer at ...
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5 September 2011 at 13 : 03 PM
Entrepreneurship in Brazil: “still a lot to do”
Internet business pioneer Paulo Humberg talks to IT Decisions about his experience as an entrepreneur, his perception of the Brazilian e-commerce scene and his future predictions for the internet business in Brazil. ...
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3 August 2011 at 11 : 30 AM
‘Science without borders’ sending students overseas
Earlier this week, the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology announced a major new plan to grant scholarships to Brazilian students who want to study in foreign universities. ...
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23 June 2011 at 16 : 38 PM
UK sees close ties with Brazil tech as “priority”
As reported yesterday in IT Decisions, a British trade mission visited Brazil this week led by trade minister Lord Green - formerly the group chairman of HSBC - and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg. IT Decisions asked the British government about the UK and Brazil relationship. ...
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25 May 2011 at 19 : 41 PM
Brazilian academic gives a social media lesson
Renata Santiago is a professor at FAAP university in São Paulo, teaching social media and communications. She also teaches digital communications at SENAC and is a social media strategist at CDN Digital. ...
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23 May 2011 at 10 : 16 AM
At the coalface: Is Brazil IT ready for the post-PC era?
This is the third instalment of our At the Coalface series, where Brazilian IT professionals give their take on issues related to career development. Luciano Palma has worked in IT for 22 years, nine of which were at Microsoft Brazil, where he served as a technical evangelist until last year. He is now a lecturer for postgraduate courses around web ...
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