Brazil on jpcercal.com

Companies and Social Networks

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:51:56 +0000

A survey carried out by Scup.Ideias showed the impact Brazilian companies experienced from social media, the study was based on Facebook and Twitter. The survey showed the use of social networks to reduce complaints filed with PROCON, as well as to maintain an image of companies’ commitment to consumers, based on their response time through social networks, which, believe me, is surprising, but disappointing.

Companies’ average response time is three hours, with 91% of the companies surveyed seeking to respond immediately when questioned by consumers, but when it comes to solving the problem they’re not so effective, and thus don’t meet expectations for their service.

Startups in Brazil

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:11:03 +0000

The dream of Brazil’s IT visionaries is closer to becoming reality, on April 15 a StartUp program created by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) was launched by the government, the call for applications from interested startups is on the Start-Up Brasil program’s website (2013 call for applications, now offline).

Around 30% of the competing startups will be international, applications open on April 25 and close on May 31, the results of this first stage will be released from June 25 on the CNPq website and in the Official Gazette of the Union.

Malware

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:04:09 +0000

Viruses are known for the damage they do to our computers, but this week a virus was reported that damages our bank accounts and also causes insecurity about using a tool that’s already part of many Brazilians’ daily lives, internet banking.

According to an analysis by the security site “Linha Defensiva”, the virus active in Brazil manipulates the “payment code line” of bank payment slips accessed on the internet, modifying the account’s numerical code and thus diverting payment to another account.

Smartphone prices will drop in Brazil

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:00:37 +0000

With the aim of making smartphones (which have internet connectivity among their functions) more accessible to lower-income groups, the Government approved a decree today that reduces the PIS and COFINS rates on these devices to zero. This measure will bring consumers a price reduction of up to 30% compared with imported devices, and only devices costing less than R$ 1,500.00 and manufactured in Brazil will qualify for the measure.

The price drop is expected next week, since an ordinance with the specifications of the mobile devices that will qualify for this measure still needs to be published.

Shortage of IT professionals in Brazil

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:39:17 +0000

Today IT professionals in Brazil face a broad job market with few qualified competitors. However, the areas with the fewest qualified professionals are network management, IP telephony and online security. This information comes from consultancy IDC, which expects a shortage of these professionals in Brazil’s job market. This year there is a shortage of around 40 thousand technology professionals, and for 2015 an increase to 117 thousand open positions is predicted.

PHPSC Conf 2010

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:44:47 +0000

The coordination team of the Santa Catarina State PHP Users Group – PHPSC – is holding the third edition of the event in Joinville/SC, in partnership with SOCIESC, during its computing programs’ academic week, on August 27 and 28, 2010, entitled: PHPSC Conf 2010.

The suggested topics cover the following areas:

PHP (version 5.3 and future versions, frameworks, development best practices, IDEs, integration with other languages, mobile);
Case studies of companies using PHP as a technological solution;
Agile development (scrum, XP and other related methodologies);
RIA (Javascript frameworks, Flex, Silverlight), CSS, HTML5;
How to contribute to the community and how to help fix and improve PHP;

Come join us at the event PHPSC Conf 2010.