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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.
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HNS Communications Americas paid R$ 145.2 million (US $91.5 million) and was the first one to to win a satellite orbital position that would cover Brazil. The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) on Aug. 30 auctioned the four satellite orbital …
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While smartphones dominate the market and mobile broadband access is consolidated in developed countries, Brazil is still beginning its 3G experience – from carriers and suppliers as well as consumers. People are just starting to access the Internet through cellphones. In …
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While carriers and banks discuss mobile payment business models in Brazil, without anyone taking an m-payment leadership role, companies around the globe may launch initiatives that could deeply impact the space. “The recent launch of Google Wallet, the Android operating …
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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 expected to begin in October and will cover Brazil and …
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Claro, the Brazilian operator owned by Carlos Slim’s América Móvil (AMX), announced that it is updating its radio access network to be all Internet Protocol based by the end of the year. This strategy prepares Claro for the future launch …
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Panduit, a developer and provider of leading-edge solutions, announced it has expanded its Costa Rica unit to focus on high technology products. The company didn’t reveal how much had invested in the unit, but said it plans to add 500 …
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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 business model has been settled on for the m-payment space. …
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Colombia ended June with more than 46.147 million mobile-phone subscribers in mobile telephony, which is a small growth of 1.78% compared with March and corresponds to 100.2 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, says a report conducted by the Ministry of Information …
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Broadband in Colombia grew 91.1% between August 2010 and June 2011, according to a report by the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. The country jumped from 2.2 million broadband connections to 4.1 million. According to the ministry, this significant …
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How do you shop? Do you prefer to go to the mall or are you one of those people who buy everything through the Internet? A global survey from IBM Corp. with 30,000 people around the globe showed that when …
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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 its growth. Check below Don Tapscott: The age of networked …
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Cable & Wireless Panama is preparing to launch HSPA+ services next month in an attempt to serve the country’s growing demand for mobile broadband services. The service, which will be offered under the +Movil brand, will include nationwide coverage. Cable …
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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 currently living in the age of networked intelligence. Tapscott explained …
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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 the combination of these four sectors will drive its growth …
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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 connected world. And intelligence will be driven by business analytics, …
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It has been a competitive battle for the No. 2 position in Brazil’s mobile phone market. While Vivo has maintained its leadership position, the second position has been a long running dispute between Claro and TIM. What was a slim …
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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 conglomerate in Brazil, announced they created a joint venture called …
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After investing US$ 20 million to launch HSPA+ technology and begin to offer 4G services in Guayaquil, the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, Movistar has announced deployment of HSPA+ network in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito, allowing …
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The Brazilian army and Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) announced that they will test LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. The initiative, which includes Motorola’s investment of US $2 million, aims to present the possibilities and …
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Mexican carrier Telcel is preparing to launch LTE services in 2012. Currently, the America Movil-owned carrier is working on trials, with plans for a pilot project scheduled for the last quarter of the year. Deployment is likely to be in …
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The number of broadband access lines in Brazil could more than triple by 2020, and users could see significantly higher speeds if investments of R$ 144.6 billion by 2020 (US$ 90 billion) were made, according to the National Union of …
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Bolivian’s Control Authority and Social Control of Telecommunications and Transport (ATT) said it will make a ruling on the fees it will impose on the country’s largest carriers beginning next year. The ATT noted that the largest carrier will be …
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By 2014, Ecuador plans to have broadband increase significantly, with small and medium businesses (SMB) and major rural area connnect to broadband, as well as increased residential coverage by 2015, triple the number of connections to broadband by 2016 and …
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Facebook announced the opening of its office in Brazil, under the leadership of Alexandre Hohagen, who formerly was Google Inc.’s (GOOG) country manager for Latin America. Located in São Paulo, the office will support local businesses and organizations in Latam, …