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Cloud computing apps are set to become much more popular by 2014, with Latin America and Asia-Pacific leading the way. Currently, large companies in emerging markets are the most aggressive adopters of cloud computing, while their European and U.S. counterparts …

Global travel technology company Sabre Holdings has selected HP Enterprise Services for a six-year infrastructure and applications services agreement worth $US 800 million. It is an extension of the companies’ 11-year relationship. Follow RCR Wireless News – Americas on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe to …

Eyeing the upcoming Fifa World Cup and Olympic Games, the U.S.-based location determination company TruePosition, Inc., said it is trying to establish business relationships with local government agencies to help provide reliable estimates of crowd sizes and to locate people quickly. …

Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaí have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local newspaper Jornal de Jundiaí first reported the situation on April 25. …

Boosted by the growth of smartphone use, mobile banking is on track to become as common as Internet banking in Brazil during the next five to seven years, industry analysts say. From 2010 to 2011, current mobile banking accounts grew …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data.  IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The announcements reinforce IBM’s growth strategy of seeking  business analytics and optimization opportunities. IBM is …

Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers (CIOs), according to Richard Edwards, a principal analyst at Ovum. …

Adobe Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ADBE) is moving to change its lifetime license model to a monthly subscription-based offering. Adobe launched the effort this week around the globe with Creative Cloud, a new way of providing its tools and services. It is …

If up to this year companies only investigated enterprise mobile solutions, 2012 might prove to be a milestone year for companies to finally include them in their IT strategy, Paulo Camara, mobility services manager at Ci&T, said in an exclusive …

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RCR Wireless News announced today that Jason Marcheck has joined its executive team as Managing Director for News, Insights and Analysis. Jason joins RCR Wireless News from Current Analysis where he served as a Principal Analyst and Director of Custom …

IT consumerization and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend are changing companies and as consequence, their IT departments. If a couple of years ago, a company’s chief information officer (CIO) was “the man” who decided all, current employees – and many high-level …

With high expectations, Level 3 plans to launch its content delivery network (CDN) solution in the Latin American market during second quarter this year. The global provider of IP-based communication services to business, content, government and wholesale customers forecasts that …

HP (NYSE: HPQ) knew it had to move toward offering public cloud computing if the company wanted to compete with major public cloud players such as Amazon and Google. In addition, HP recognized that it should build an integrated strategy to …

Mobile is a key pillar for the German enterprise software giant SAP’s future growth. SAP is relying on mobile platforms to reach its global strategy of 1 billion users for its solutions by 2015. Following this move, SAP announced on …

Mobile, cloud, social and information are the four pillars of what Gartner calls a “nexus force.” These topics will drive business in coming years, and both chief executives officers (CEOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) need to develop strategies focusing …

British American Tobacco has closed a $209 million deal with Deutsche Telekom’s IT subsidiary T-Systems. The seven-year contract focused on cloud computing offerings represents one of the largest cloud deals in T-Systems’ history. Over a two-year period, British American Tobacco …

Eyeing the growing range of connected devices, ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient have created a joint venture focused on delivering a secure and accessible environment for advanced services running on platforms such as tablets, smart-TVs, games consoles and smartphones. …

When it comes to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies, chief information officers (CIOs) tend to become resistant, mostly because of management and security issues. BYOD is a trend which sooner or later will catch up with many companies, so IT managers must …

The Brazilian holding company EBX Group,  owned by Brazil’s richest man Eike Batista, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have reached an agreement under which IBM will acquire a 20% stake in SIX Automação SA, an EBX Group subsidiary focused on industrial …

Brazil represents a key global priority and growth opportunity for Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). In recent years, the country’s Cisco subsidiary has been growing consistently, more than 20% each fiscal year. This could be enough to justify the company’s new investments …

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012. The two companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. …

América Móvil’s Claro Brazil has reduced the time it takes to add a new customer into the telecom operators’ base from 8-10 days to 2-3 days. This is a result of a change in business process management, through the implementation …

Mobility is a great enterprise tool for speeding up the decision-making process. Whether employees bring their own devices to the company (BYOD) or firms deliver them to their workforce, the ever-growing number of smartphone options and the recent explosion of …