latin america

SSH Signs Inffinix to Its Reseller Program in Mexico

Topix - Unix  Mon, 11/24/2008 - 07:25

SSH Communications Security Selects Inffinix to Offer and Support SSH Tectia to Enterprises and Businesses in Mexico and Latin America HELSINKI, Finland and WELLESLEY, Mass.


 

Expresso Livre: Community/Government Free Software Collaboration...

Linux Today  Mon, 11/10/2008 - 11:03

Free Software in Latin America: "This contrasts with the culture in the north which is traditionally about keeping information secret, guarding knowledge, spending millions of dollars on licensing and spending even more on patent lawyers who use the force of law to keep information and knowledge private."


 

Venezuela Acquires One Million Classmate Laptops in Deal With Po...

Linux Today  Tue, 10/07/2008 - 18:35

Free Software in Latin America: "The agreement includes the creation of a factory in Venezuela to build the computers.

The Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology, Socorro Hernandez, reported that Portugal will deliver 500,000 computers during the first and second quarter of 2009."


 

Free software history was made at CONSEGI

Linux Today  Mon, 10/06/2008 - 18:33

Free Software in Latin America: "CONSEGI 2008 was history being made — we spoke with people from the Latin American Free Software Foundation, public officials from Brazil to South Africa, free software activists struggling to convince their governments to adopt the path forged by Brazil and Venezuela.

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Brazil Begins Using the Open Document Format

Linux Today  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 02:37

Free Software in Latin America: "This quick action clearly shows how important the choice of ODF format is by the government.

It it is a show of respect to the country’s citizens, since the government won’t force them to buy a license in order to view information which is their right to have access to."


 

ISP Abaca Adds Spam Filtering

Topix - mac os x  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 08:15

Abaca Technology Corporation, an innovator in email protection and messaging security, and Terra, the largest Internet company in Latin America, announced today that Abaca has been selected as the sole ...


 

Dell Puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for Emerging Markets

Linux Today  Mon, 09/01/2008 - 07:02

Computerworld: "Dell unveiled this week two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe."


 

Brazil's love of Linux

Topix - Linux  Thu, 08/28/2008 - 06:20

Editors' note: This is part of a series exploring computing in Latin America . SAO PAULO, Brazil--Walk into the Ponto Frio electronics store here, which proudly displays a penguin-shaped logo, and you will find ...


 

Dell Puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for Emerging Markets

Ubuntu-News.net  Wed, 08/27/2008 - 14:30

Dell unveiled Wednesday two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.


 

Red Hat: Gateway to Open Source in Latin America

Linux Today  Wed, 08/13/2008 - 07:04

The Open Road: "I have a team of core Linux and JBoss engineers here in the countries in which we operate to provide local language and local understanding support.

We don't outsource support."