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A 'Social Silicon Valley'

Brazilian Journalist Gilberto Dilmenstein has transformed Sao Paulo's Villa Madelena neighborhood from one filled with crime to one filled with learning.

Tags: Sao Paulo, News, ina fried, microsoft, pc, south america, brazil, ibm, software, google, internet

Videos 2008-08-27

Parallel Processing Applied to the Design of Concrete Encased Grounding Electrodes

This work presents the authors' investigation regarding the application of parallel processing to the design of grounding systems, comprising concrete encased electrodes. The natural parallelism of the involved tasks and the large time-consuming characteristic of sequential processing for this kind of application justify the use of high performance computation. This...

Tags: Electrode, Sao Paulo, Parallel Processing

White papers 2007-12-01

Additional Resources

AMD's Extreme Makeover: What the new roadmaps reveal

Lost in all of the inaccurate commotion yesterday about AMD entering the netbook market were much broader changes in the company's product plans as it struggles to regain profitability and keep up with a deep-pocketed Intel. In the past year, AMD has announced plans to spin-off manufacturing, abandoned efforts to...

Tags: Platform, Plan, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, DDR3, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Survey: 88% of Mumbai's wireless networks easy to compromise

Deloitte's recently released Wireless Security Survey assessing Mumbai's -- India's financial capital -- state of security awareness in respect to wireless security, shows an ugly picture of insecure wireless networks in both, business, and residential districts. With Mumbai being the home of India's most important financial institutions, next to the...

Tags: Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-16

IBM expands cloud computing footprint

IBM on Wednesday said that it has opened four new cloud computing centers sprinkled around emerging markets. The latest additions give Big Blue 14 cloud computing centers. Specifically, IBM rolled out cloud computing centers in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bangalore, India; Seoul, Korea; and Hanoi, Vietnam. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Small Brazilian Businesses Get Big Help With Affordable Software + Services Solution

SupplySystems, based in São Paulo, Brazil, is a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in providing mobile and supply system technology solutions. SupplySystems recognized a need to serve the millions of individual entrepreneurs and small businesses that could not afford access to a national database that identifies high-risk customers. SupplySystems built...

Tags: Software, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management

Case studies 2008-09-01

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)

(Photos: Inside Brazil's slums)ProximityWhile North America tends to have affluent and poor areas of town, many countries don't work that way. You can walk along a canal of slums in S.E.Asia and hit the entrance to one of the wealthiest neighborhoods. They're not ten meters apart.Inclusão Digitalpost duplicadoInclusão DigitalParabéns pela...

Tags: Vertical industries, city name, slum, Paulo Perantunes, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Unique corporate service relies on good human nature

Last week I was on a call with Frank Hannigan, Managing Director of YouGetItBack.com, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of Ireland since Guinness. YouGetItBack is a lost and found company, the idea created in 2004, probably from a drunken...

Tags: phone, mobile, service, yougetitback, o2 bluebook, advertising & promotion, marketing, zack whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Banking Leader Updates Operating System for Enhanced Security and Productivity

Founded in 1943 and based in Sao Paulo, Banco Bradesco is the largest private bank in Brazil, with nearly 3,200 branches, 27,000 ATMs, and more than 51 million customer accounts. Banco Bradesco executives decided early on to migrate their highly mobile and widely distributed workforce from a largely Windows 98,...

Tags: Security, Operating System, Banking, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2008-06-01

Branding Solutions Provider Enhances Efficiency, Mobility With New Operating System

Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cstore/Brandsupply is a leading supplier of branded merchandise and branding solutions. To maintain its competitive edge, Cstore/Brandsupply upgraded to the Windows Vista Ultimate operating system. Now employees work more efficiently and with optimized security whether in the office or on the road, and use the...

Tags: Operating System, Mobility, Branding, Marketing

Case studies 2008-06-01

Edge systems need a dose of SOA, too

On the peripheries of every enterprise are the "edge" applications, databases, and systems. A repository here, an embedded system there, an open source database over there, distributed servers everywhere. Corporate wouldn't give us the budget, so we went ahead and jury-rigged this thing together anyway -- so there. These systems...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Rosado, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-05-28

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?Is "asset smart" the new term for "fabless"?Is the term "asset smart" another way of saying, "Fabless"? I mean, "Fabless" does have a negative connotation to it. "Asset Smart" sounds new and fresh and exciting. I like it !!! Perhaps it means...

Tags: Video cards, Semiconductors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., graphics, chip, Intel Corp., graphics chip, new roadmap, Puma, asset

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

AMD's new roadmap: Can it execute?

AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver. Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad-core chips and...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Asset Management, Manufacturing, Processors, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Federal University of Sao Paulo Upgrades and Saves With Extreme Networks Gigabit Ethernet Solution

The Federal University of Sao Paulo UNIFESP was running an obsolete Fiber Distributed Data Interface FDDI network that was continuously on the brink of crashing. Designed to serve just 200 users and connect only 46 computers, the system could no longer handle the demand generated by its 7,000 users, including...

Tags: Gigabit Ethernet, Extreme Networks, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking

Case studies 2008-04-01

Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?

Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?Schools / Books / LearningDoes anyone know if there is merit to saying that books are a better method of teaching than a computer?Cost of books? Perhaps a little respect for the written word should be implemented.Notes? Do you remember looking through that...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), e-book, digital-rights management, book publisher, Books, sales

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

RIP Ultimate Extras

RIP Ultimate ExtrasDon't forget...I know this article will make anti-MS headlines, but you shouldn't escape your responsibility to mention the 50+ features in Ultimate that are not in Home or not in Business when contrasted with each product.Home users, the 'Previous Versions/TimeMachine feature' and CompletePC are enough to justify the...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Games, English Version, RIP Ultimate Extras, DreamScene, language pack, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Ubuntu+8.04+%28Ubuntu+8.04+%29

Ubuntu+8.04+%28Ubuntu+8.04+%29What about KDE 4?How could you have missed KDE 4? That's a pretty big milestone right there... :(- John MusbachRE: Ubuntu 8.04 (Ubuntu 8.04 )I have tried all 3 alpha releases of Hardy Heron, and also the new alpha release of Fedora Core 9.I cannot even get a graphic screen...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

How Cisco Uses IP Telephony and Wireless Technologies in Brazilian Office

The Cisco Sao Paulo office has grown very rapidly, from less than 20 people in 1997 to 132 people today. Because of this expansion, the Cisco Workplace Resources group struggled with options for housing its employees. New workplace solutions needed to be implemented to improve flexibility and mobility, supported by...

Tags: Workplace, Telephony, Wireless Technology, IP Telephony, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless

Case studies 2007-12-12

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz: Consumers, not IT, driving markets

Sun is holding an Emerging Markets Summit on its Menlo Park, CA campus. CEO Jonathan Schwartz led off the event with this statement: "The Internet is the most powerful social utility the world has ever seen." The "social utility" phrase is part of Sun's new view of...

Tags: Phone, Information Technology, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-29