Brazilian carrier Oi recently announced the start of a shared broadband Wi-Fi project in Rio de Janeiro. The Wi-Fi project will begin with about 150 hot spots in the Ipanema and Leblon neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, and the number of hot spots could...
Latin America's share of worldwide information technology spending is on the rise, according to research firm Gartner Inc. By the end of this year, IT spending in Latin America will equal 29% of the United States' total of U.S. $1.033 trillion in IT spending...
Contrary to what we might have once believed, the mobile phone is the vehicle that will become the basis of all convergent channels. Before, it was thought that this main vehicle would be the TV or even the computer, but the mobile phone has won this battle -- not only with its incredible growth in units but also because these small devices incorporate more tech features every day.
Costa Rica's telecom monopoly is coming to an end. The nation's telecommunications regulator Sutel has granted mobile operators Claro (Carlos Slim’s América Móvil) and Telefónica’s Movistar the mobile numbers they requested in August and September. Now, they are able to start operations in the...
Brazilian carrier Oi posted a 21% decrease in third quarter net profits from a year ago to $249 million. Net revenues dropped 1.9% over the same time frame to $4 billion, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, an indication of a company's...
América Móvil (AMX) saw its net profits drop 21% during the third quarter compared to the same period in 2010, which the carrier attributed to the exchange rate and lower interconnections fees. The company posted $1.4 billion of revenues in the quarter, buoyed by...
NII Holdings (NIHD) said it's planned 3G launches were on track. Nextel’s owner unveiled push-to-talk service on a W-CDMA platform in Peru last month. The 3G launch in Mexico and Brazil are still expected by the first half of 2012 with a soft launch...
Cloud, social, mobility and an explosion in information were pointed by Gartner as the new nexus of forces that are creating a necessity to look different to the business. The trends identified by consultant firm drive companies to re-invent themselves to become more focused...
Latin Americans like to communicate, especially Brazilians. That’s why social networks such as Facebook or Orkut have so many Brazilian subscribers. Another aspect – as well as consequence – is the growth of mobile devices embedded with access to social applications.
Pyramid Research noted in...
Sony announced that it would acquire Ericsson's 50% stake in their handset joint venture for $1.46 billion, ending a roller-coaster ride of a partnership that failed to make significant inroads into the device market despite the brand recognition of its parent companies. The venture...
Gartner's David Cearley started his press conference at this week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in São Paulo with the phrase: “The days of Windows domination are pretty much over.”
The consulting firm noted that since last year the installed base of mobile PCs and smartphones has exceeded...
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The future of mobile computing is context aware
Tablets ranked No. 1 as strategic technology
The days of Windows domination are over
Cloud, mobile, social and...
Media tablets ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2012. The ranking was announced by the consulting firm in Brazil at this week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in São Paulo.
Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on...
Virginia Rometty was elected the new president and CEO of IBM where she will succeed Samuel Palmisano on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano has been CEO since 2002, and will remain as chairman of the board, which is a position he has hendl since 2003....
Carlos Slim's America Movil is set to invest $10 billion in the Latin America region over coming years. During the ITU World Telecommunication in Genebra, Slim told Reuters that his empire needs to perform several important investments for fixed broadband access, but that it...
Context-aware computing is the method by which new experiences are constructed that blend information from mobile, social, digital and physical world sources. Gartner noted that this concept is a developing trend and crucial to follow in the shift to the mobile world.
Elia San Miguel,...
A recent IDC report on cloud computing showed that worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services exceeded $16 billion in 2009, and is forecast to increase at a compound annual rate of 27.4% to $55.5 billion in 2014. IDC noted that this growth is...
The first thing companies should do when planning to institute a mobile strategy is to prepare their websites for mobile access, explained Juan Adlercreutz, interactive marketing director at Coca-Cola, to RCR Wireless News.
Adlercreutz spoke at the recent at MMA Forum Latin America, which took place...
Emerging countries such as Brazil, India and China have been strategic for companies around the globe, specifically in the IT and telecoms sector. When presenting recent financial results, Latin American enterprises reported some interesting perspective on the region, including comments about the continued expansion...
As RCR Wireless News previously reported, Virgin Mobile has tapped Chile as its initial launch market for mobile virtual network operator services in Latin America. The company announced that it had signed an agreement with Telefónica’s Movistar operations in the country to launch service in...
Brazil is one of the top five countries in te world for mobile Internet usage, said Google's head of mobile advertising Peter Fernandez, during an interview with with RCR Wireless News at the recent MMA Forum Latin America.
Fernandez noted that in Brazil, 1.1 billion...
Most Internet access will increasingly be through mobile devices, a trend that will have a huge impact on mobile advertising, explained Gerd Leonhard, CEO of the Future Agency, during a video interview with RCR Wireless News. Leonhard was the keynote speaker at the recent...
Device manufacturer HTC and software giant Microsoft unveiled Brazil's first Windows Phone 7.5-powered device at a press conference in São Paulo. The device, dubbed the HTC Ultimate, will be offered through Brazilian operator Vivo.
“Brazil is a strategic country. We plan to sell 16 million...
Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry still leads in the enterprise market across Latin America region, but that position could be threatened by upcoming smartphones from Microsoft's partnership with Nokia.
“I am not optimistic for the consumer market, but among enterprises Microsoft/Nokia might gain market share...
