350,000 Linux deployment planned for Brazil
Blog However, ThinNetworks does claim to have installed 400,000 multi-terminal workstations around the world and said that with the Brazil rollout they expect to increase this to 800,000 by 2010. The Brazilian Government has ordered 350,000 low-cost PCs...
[February 20, 2009, 14:49]
Windows Embedded: Seeds of Hope for Student Developers?
Blog Back in 2003 when we all had travel budgets and that sort of thing, Microsoft would fly journalists out to locations like Brazil to cover the finals of its student developer competition which it calls the Imagine Cup.
[June 30, 2009, 9:34]
What has The Simpsons got to do with open source?
Blog We had one episode set in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, and while they were there we portrayed Rio as the home of kidnappers, pickpockets, shanty town slums, crippling poverty, rats and wild monkeys, and the tourism board of Brazil were furious with us...
[June 24, 2008, 18:08]
Social media's double edged sword
Blog Although both sides have their platform for airing their views and are using them, as a consequence George's article "Leaving the circus" is now the TOP talked about item relating to Ecademy over the past 30 days, according to Matthew Brazil of...
[August 1, 2008, 8:03]
Mobile Operators eyes Nigerian Banks uneaten pies in 2010.
Blog In Brazil with over 100,000 Banking agents and Kenya with over 12,000 agents. Working with a group of close to 20 Agent Network managers, Lemon Bank in Brazil has more than 6,000 Agent point Network without a single Bank Branch and it is more...
[January 4, 2010, 9:14]
Is the word "social" stigmatising Web 2.0?
Blog I have just had an interesting conversation with Matthew Brazil, MD of 6Consulting and an expert in social media monitoring, about some changes we've made to the WeCanDo.BIZ website this week. I've thought about it and the social web isn't social...
[September 10, 2008, 14:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Latin America is proving a fractious place at the moment, with Argentina in financial meltdown, Brazil and Uruguay looking decidedly dodgy and let's not even start on Colombia. Monday 29/07/2002 Which means that, in common with most of the world...
[August 5, 2002, 11:18]
ISO says no to OOXML appeals
Blog Appeals by South Africa, Brazil, India and Venezuela against the formal ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format have been shown the door. That's it, game over. OOXML is now an ISO standard - or at least it will be when it...
[August 16, 2008, 14:15]
YouTube goes international (apart from Germany)
Blog Launched on Tuesday at an event in Paris, the company announced that local versions of Youtube will now be available in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK. Google owned video sharing site Youtube has...
[June 19, 2007, 13:41]
Hotmail hodgepodge
Blog But Portuguese speakers get the option of saying whether they are from Brazil or Portugal. Am I the only one frustrated by the new ‘enhancements’ to Hotmail under Windows Live? I’m sure I’m not mentioning all the bizarre new functions, but here’s...
[November 11, 2007, 14:55]
Can code crunchers be GUI gurus too?
Blog But can this theorising towards graphical presentation be carried across to the world of business reporting tools as Actuate would have us believe - well, one would hope so if they have offices several major world markets (with the notable...
[December 8, 2008, 12:00]
Where the iPhone doesn't work
Blog Before I started my trip I spoke with Matthew Brazil of Socially Minded and suggested a good blog post would be how much a road trip like this could be improved with apps that tell me where I am, where the nearest restaurants are, what there is to...
[August 11, 2008, 9:31]
Twitter tweets its own death warrant
Blog Twitter fan and Socially Minded author Matthew Brazil writes in his latest blog: "How on earth do you lose so much information? Much has been made of Twitter's recent outages. But with today the worst day so far, Twitter could be about to find its...
[July 24, 2008, 16:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Expect to see multimedia presentations on the joys of living in Bulgaria -- or Brazil, seemingly the new epicenter for digital infection -- or perhaps a quick game of Galaxians to play while your data is expertly packaged up and dispatched to...
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So, the poor PR had to come back to Scoop with the sort of gentle brush-off that's normally reserved for enquiries about the MD's cocaine habit, the financial controller's prolonged holiday in Brazil, or the strange disparity between public and...
[April 23, 2004, 17:50]
Mobile Money : What African Banks need to Know (1)
Blog Lemon Bank in Brazil has more than 5,000 agents without a single Bank Branch, Banco Bradesco uses the post offices, Equity Bank in Kenya works with Nakumatt retail stores. Mobile phones can enable Banks and their existing and new customers to...
[June 24, 2009, 16:03]
Dell sponsors small business again
Blog The UK is a participant as is the US, Australia, Brazil, China, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain and the newest entrant which is India. Dell has called for entries to this year's Dell Small Business Excellence Awards, an...
[February 3, 2009, 15:55]
$100 laptop goes into production
Blog Once this testing phase is over, the next units to be manufactured in early 2007 will go to school children in Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria and Thailand. The first 1000 machines from the One Laptop per Child project have gone into production.
[November 23, 2006, 14:46]
Back to life...
Blog Mictrosoft is trying to steal CES, Apple IS stealing CES, Yahoo is making the right noises a year too late, open source is fulminating with intrigue and passion, Brazil is wondering how to cut off bits of the Internet while Asia is rather glad to...
[January 8, 2007, 16:19]
