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Qualcomm is looking to take advantage of Latin America’s relatively modest 3G penetration rates to boost its influence and revenues in the region. As part of this, Qualcomm said it was also looking to participate in the Brazilian semiconductors value chain …

Latin American telecoms are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure to support IPv6 as the supply of IPv4 addresses nears its end. For instance, mobile operator TIM has spent $740,000 on its networks in Brazil to prepare for the migration …

With Brazil growing into prosperity, is the country of the future finally arriving? Yes, say experts, but Brazil must make more progress to become more competitive.

Brazil’s information and communications technology market could reach U.S. $400 billion by 2022, according to Brasscom, thanks to several major factors boosting the country’s telecom transformation.

A consortium including Mexico’s TV Azteca and Total Play has won a $640 million auction deal to provide a fiber-optic network in Colombia.

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 …

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 …

Aiming for the enterprise market — and specifically for business, healthcare and education — Dell Inc. today unveiled the Latitude ST, its Windows 7 tablet. Weighing in at 1.8 pounds and sporting a 10.1-inch screen and two cameras, the Latitude …

Latin America’s share of worldwide information technology spending is on the rise, according to research firm Gartner Inc. By the end of this year, IT spending in Latin America will equal 29% of the United States’ total of U.S. $1.033 …

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 …

Sony announced that it would acquire Ericsson’s 50% stake in their handset joint venture for $1.46 billion, ending a roller-coaster ride of a partnership that failed to make significant inroads into the device market despite the brand recognition of its …

Gartner’s David Cearley started his press conference at this week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in São Paulo with the phrase: “The days of Windows domination are pretty much over.” The consulting firm noted that since last year the installed base of mobile …

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 …

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 …

Virginia Rometty was elected the new president and CEO of IBM where she will succeed Samuel Palmisano on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano has been CEO since 2002, and will remain as chairman of the board, which is a position he …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Across Latin America, smartphones and mobile broadband subscribers are growing at a high rate and have in turn driven the mobile strategies of wireless operators. Today, Brazil is No. 5 in the world in number of Internet users and is …

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 …

At the MMA Forum Latin America RCR Wireless News asked the question “what will the next wave of mobile marketing be?”. Check what specialists said in the video story about the event. >>Check all stories about MMA Forum in Latin …