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Posted by Tom Foremski - June 7, 2010 I'm spending this week in Brazil at a conference organized by the world's largest IT analyst firm Gartner, and sponsored by Brasscom, (Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication Companies) I spoke with Richard Matlus, senior VP of Outsourcing at Gartner. He said Brazil and other Latin American countries are becoming important in key sectors such as providing infrastructure outsourcing support services.
There's a Lot of IT in Brazil: Brasscom And The South American I
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto received a Ph.D degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 1995. He is the co-author of " Modern Information Retrieval. " In 1999 he co-founded Akwan Information Technologies, a search engine focused on Brazil. Google acquired the company in 2005. Here are some notes from our conversation: - We built a search engine funded by the salaries of professors, probably not a good idea but we quickly got a lot of traffic.
Interview: Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Head of Engineering at Google B
Posted by Tom Foremski - June 9, 2010 From San Francisco to Sao Paulo in Brazil took an astonishingly long time. I had to fly via Charlotte, NC. (Excellent ribs and free airport WiFi.) I then had a four hour wait at Rio de Janeiro for the flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil's business capital. It took me about 24 hours to get there.
Brazil Diary Day 1: It's A Long Way To Brazil... - SVW
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I recently attended The Creators Project in San Francisco, a globe-roaming two day free event that celebrates an eclectic mix of avant-garde music and arts installations, and attracted tens of thousands of people. It could have easily been re-named " The Curators Project" because of the superb collection of bands, artists, installations, and even food trucks -- all carefully selected by a small team of curators. (The Googleplex at night) The UK newspaper The Guardian, claims that Google's Android operating system is far less valuable than Google's revenues from Apple devices. Touching the screen on a tablet is different from using a laptop with a keyboard. Intel's market research shows that despite tired arms ('gorilla arms') users like to touch.
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