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Ask chief information officers about their enterprise resource planning system, and they will probably refer to it not as ERP, but as SAP, using the name of German enterprise software …

Nearly 9 in 10 Latin American companies recognize the growing importance of mobile technologies, and almost 70% plan to increase their spending on such technology, according to a recent Motorola …

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 …

RCR Wireless News is on hand to cover Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Brazil at this week in São Paulo. Be sure not to miss our stories. The future of mobile computing is context aware …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Six months after its launch in the United States and Canada, the Research In Motion unveiled its PlayBook tablet in Brazil. The company began rolling out the device across Latin …

Brazilian animal nutrition provider Tortuga has seen a strong response to its mobile initiatives that have helped the company better manage its daily operations. The company noted that its mobile …

The Colombian National Police is investing millions of dollars to modernize its radio communications system. The five-month update program has begun in the state of Cundinamarca, where an expected $4 …

Though most people know the importance of protecting their phones, research conducted by security vendor Eset showed that 80% of smartphone users do not have a security solution, or even …

As a mobile operator across 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific, Digicel Group Limited was facing a growth that its in-house CRM(customer relationship management) system could …

Over the next three years, the UK-based firm BT Global Services, part of BT Group plc, will double its business in Latin American countries. Although the company does not disclose …

Orange Business Services announced that it plans to increase the capacity of its Latin American network by 10 times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation is …

It still will take awhile before mobile payments really take off in Brazil. Since the beginning, carriers and banks haven’t agree on who should lead the process. Therefore, no successful …

Big Blue held its 5th IBM Forum in São Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25. During the event, company said that cloud computing and emergent markets are pillars of …

Speaking at the IBM Forum event in São Paulo, Don Tapscott, author of “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World,” said that due to the prevalence of the Internet, we are …

Emerging markets, such as Brazil, China and India, along with cloud-computing, analytics tools and solutions for a smart planet are IBM Corp.’s four main global initiatives. Big Blue believes that …

IBM Brazil highlighted innovation, collaboration integration and business intelligence during its IBM Forum event in Sao Paulo. “We are becoming more interconnected, with globally integrated enterprises in a smart and …

Two Brazilian vendors have formed a joint venture for a a cloud-computing company. Benner Systems, the third-largest domestic supplier of business management software, and TBA Group, a leading information technology …

Cloud-computing service providers should install their infrastructure close to their clients to mitigate risks, said Gartner VP Gene Phifer, adding that as cloud service providers deploy that strategy, they will …

Every company will adopt cloud computing in the near future, and even now a lot of enterprises don’t know it, but they are using some kind of cloud services. According …