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Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four. After the two-month appeal period, we now have four appeals — Brazil...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog The move has been welcomed, and is being followed by a more ambitious project in Venezuela, which will give out a million Classmate PCs, all running the local Canaima version of Debian. The Magelhaes (Magellan) initiative of the Portuguese...
[January 15, 2009, 15:03]
South America Elevation Maps: Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador
Downloads In alphabetical order they are: American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chile, Columbia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican...
[September 18, 2006, 8:00]
Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog Comment PS Why didn't any of you tell me I spelt "Venezuela" wrong in the headline? I just had my knuckles rapped by ZDNet editorial.
[January 15, 2009, 14:44]
Venezuela opts for Linux
News Venezuela is expected to save millions of dollars on Microsoft licence fees by migrating to Linux. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said this week that the country's public administration will switch to open source software over the next two years...
[December 31, 2004, 11:15]
Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog Comment To quote from Conz' link; "The UK government's ICT agency, British Educational Communications and Technology Association, suggested that schools could slash their total computer costs by up to 50 percent if they "stopped buying, operating and...
[January 16, 2009, 8:36]
Every child in Portugal and Venezuela will have open source
Blog Comment I think it is obvious that a lot of the reluctance to switch to Open Source systems is the typical "cover your rear end" syndrome. If you switch, and things don't work out for ANY reason, you may be perceived as having made a "bad decision...
[January 18, 2009, 16:30]
Radio Caracas Television Speeds Development, Lowers Costs, and Ensures Regulatory Compliance by Using IBM Rational Software
White Papers Founded in 1953, RCTV (Radio Caracas TeleVision) was the first commercial television station in the Venezuela. RCTV used a labor-intensive process to manage real-time scheduling, commercials, programming, and promotions.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Banco de Drogas Antineoplasicas (BADAN): Reliable Financial Reporting Enables Non-Profit Expansion
White Papers BADAN wanted to make antineoplastic medication (used to inhibit or prevent the development of tumors) more affordable for communities in Venezuela, but it realized that its IT systems and manual financial reporting processes were holding it back.
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
US immigration system: bordering on the ridiculous
Blog Comment I am American and my wife is from Venezuela.so I am very familiar with the racial profiling that occurs when crossing US Borders. US immigration has been a concern of mine for quite some time. This country is far from being the "land of the free".
[March 2, 2007, 22:24]
Making 800,000 Email Messages Per Month Safe and Spam-Free With Symantec
White Papers Radio Caracas TeleVision (RCTV), one of the mainstays of broadcast media in Venezuela, was battling with viruses, spam, and spyware contained in the 800,000 or more email messages it receives each month.
[January 18, 2008, 0:01]
South American bank switches to Linux
News Venezuela's Banco Mercantil has become one of the world's first major financial institutions to port its back-end infrastructure to Linux, the open source operating operating system that is built by volunteer programmers around the world...
[May 3, 2001, 16:06]
OOXML clears ISO voting
Blog Comment The Venezuela national body behaviour is very unusual and in ISO terms almost unheared of. To change from an approval vote to an disapproval vote after a BRM which solved a lot of issues is almost unheared of.
[March 30, 2008, 14:56]
Case Study: Pirelli
White Papers Pirelli's Tyre Sector has 22 factories and 20,000 employees in Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Turkey, The United States and Venezuela. Pirelli has a marketing network covering over 120 countries around the world.
[December 12, 2005, 23:00]
Florida Law Firm Ensures Its Data Is Available, Even if a Hurricane Strikes
White Papers Ruden McClosky is one of Florida's largest and most prominent law firms, providing a full range of legal services and business solutions across 10 Florida offices and one office in Venezuela. The director of IT decided to set up a secondary data...
[January 4, 2007, 17:43]
Squeezing Out Supply Chain and Logistics Efficiency for Manufacturers
White Papers This webcast will explain how mobility is being used to make a positive impact in manufacturing organizations today, leveraging and maximizing mobility in support of critical manufacturing concerns and processes including supply chain and...
[February 6, 2005, 23:00]
Castrol Brasil Ltda. Outsources Support for Users and Improves Service
White Papers Castrol Brasil Ltda.worked with MPL Corporate Software to centralize all procurement, sales, fixed assets, payables, accounting, taxes and instruction processes, enabling Castrol Brasil Ltda.to process more than 100 bills a day as well as provided...
[October 11, 2008, 1:01]
Mercenaries 2
Downloads Enter war-torn Venezuela and use rocket launchers, C4 and precision air strikes to annihilate bunkers, bases, radio towers, vehicles and cargo! BODY,TD {FONT-FAMILY:verdana,tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:9pt}H4 {FONT-FAMILY:verdana...
[September 1, 2008, 8:00]
Mercenaries 2
Downloads Enter war-torn Venezuela and use rocket launchers, C4 and precision air strikes to annihilate bunkers, bases, radio towers, vehicles and cargo! BODY,TD {FONT-FAMILY:verdana,tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;FONT-SIZE:9pt}H4 {FONT-FAMILY:verdana...
[September 1, 2008, 8:00]
Global Advisor
Downloads The new Global Advisor covers cultural etiquette for the following 61 countries: Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany...
[January 8, 2006, 7:00]
