BROWSING: CIO

Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and management. Pressured by chief financial officers to reduce the total cost of ownership and...

IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company's revenues by 2015, an increase of 5 percentage points from IBM's initial prediction of 25%. “Brazil is No. 2, behind China, in terms of...

Business application software provider Infor said it will relocate its headquarters from Alpharetta, Ga., to New York City by mid-2012. Infor CEO Charles Phillips said that 2011 has been a strong year for the company, with three consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, which...

As previously announced, Google is ending several services, such as its ambitious collaboration tool Wave, medical records engine Google Health, Twitter competitor Google Buzz, Wikipedia-like aggregate Knol and PC file-searching tool Google Desktop. This week, the Internet company sent e-mails to communicate its customers the...

Carlos Slim's América Móvil and AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telecommunications company by revenue, signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver enhanced communication services to multinational companies throughout Latin America and to so-called multilatinas around the world.

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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 giant SAP AG (NYSE: SAP). CIOs often use SAP as a synonym for ERP,...

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 Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MSI) survey of the region's purchasing decision makers. According to the study,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 America last month. “Brazil is very important to RIM; we have 37% of market...

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 operation, dubbed PedMobile, now accounts for 80% of its $564 million annual revenue stream,...

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 million of investments is to be spent. Further investments are expected in the country’s...

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 consider it necessary. "We see an increase in the attacks against mobile platform, especially...

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 not support. To meet this increase and be prepared for future demand growth, Digicel’s IT...

Corporate mobility, increased adoption of cloud computing and “green” IT are highlights of a recent survey from Accenture entitled: “Brazil Infrastructure Maturity X-Ray.”The survey, which was conducted in partnership with IDC, showed the maturity level of IT infrastructure management. Brazilians firms were touted to...

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 regional numbers, its current Latam revenue is estimated at $500 million. The company believes...

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 Chile, followed by Argentina,...

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. For that reason, we...