Neowin News Feed for: Brazil

Apple has lost iPhone naming rights in Brazil

Brad Sams — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:54:41 +0000

Apple has made the iPhone brand a household name but if you happen to live in Brazil, Apple will no longer be able to sell its phone under that moniker after a losing a battle in court. Read more...

Microsoft's January 29th event in Brazil is not about Surface

Brad Sams — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:42:42 +0000

Microsoft has sent out invitations in Brazil for an event on January 29 and the tagline is a "release that will surprise you," but Neowin has learned that they event has nothing to do with Surface. Read more...

The IPHONE is now on sale in Brazil, runs Android, trolls consumers

Brad Sams — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:40:42 +0000

In Brazil, a company called Gradient is now selling an Android device called the IPHONE and thanks to a trademark filing back in 2000, they are safe from any lawsuits. Read more...

Mozilla's Boot 2 Gecko mobile OS to show up first in Brazil

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:48:41 +0100

Mozilla has announced that the first smartphones running its upcoming open-source Boot 2 Gecko mobile operating system will go on sale in Brazil as soon as the end of this year. Read more...

Another iPhone 4 self-combusts, this time in Brazil

John Callaham — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:02:46 +0000

A new report out of Brazil claims that another iPhone 4 has started smoking on its own, a few days after another iPhone 4 reportedly did the same thing in Australia. Read more...

IFPI: 335 Internet cafés in Brazil raided

Slimy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:02:40 +0000

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In the second week of January, 600 police officers from 93 districts of the Special Operations Division in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo conducted more than 335 raids on internet cafÃ©s, resulting in the... Read more...

Brazil hosts web policy forum

Tom Warren — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:16:21 +0000

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More than 2,000 people who oversee the workings of the net around the world are gathering in Brazil. Policy makers, activists and officials are gathering in Rio de Janeiro for the second Internet Governance... Read more...

DRM loathing spreads around the world: next stop, Brazil

Slimy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:29:59 +0100

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In South America, the Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade at a Brazilian law school has joined forces with consumer group Idec to mount an anti-DRM campaign of its own. The group doesn't advocate an end... Read more...

Intel Ships Classmate PCs to Brazil, Mexico

Slimy — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:00:27 +0100

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Intel Corporation has beaten the "one laptop per child" program to the punch by shipping its Intel Classmate PCs in volume to Brazil and Mexico. The low-cost 1.3kg "classmate PC" laptop features a Intel Celeron... Read more...

Brazil Court Orders YouTube to Shut Down

Slimy — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:20:05 +0000

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Daniela Cicarelli and boyfriend Tato Malzoni have sex in shallow water on a public beach. The scene is filmed. Did I mention that Cicarelli is a model and Ronaldo's (the soccer player) ex-wife? So of... Read more...

Brazil judge orders Google to disclose users' data

Hurmoth — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:46:33 +0100

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A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of web search company Google to disclose the data of users of Google's social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography. Late Thursday,... Read more...

Google, Brazil Lock Horns Over Social Networking Data

Daylene — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:12:43 +0100

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Google's presence in Brazil might be threatened by a dispute with that government's law enforcement agency over user data. Brazil's public attorney has filed suit against Google demanding information on users of its social networking... Read more...

Palm to Manufacture Low-End Models in Brazil

configure — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:51:57 +0100

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The world leader in the handheld computer market, Palm, plans to announce on Tuesday that it will begin manufacturing low-priced models in Brazil, according to the company. A source close to the project who preferred... Read more...

Brazil to win by a silicon chip

aco — Thu, 30 May 2002 08:07:00 +0100

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Researchers at the University of Ulster made the claim after carrying out statistical analysis of every match that will take place in Japan and South Korea over the next month. A focus group... Read more...

Brazil to Install 4,000 Web Kiosks at Post Offices

me101 — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 11:56:03 +0000

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Brazil plans to set up 4,000 Internet "kiosks" in the country's post offices next year that will offer 10 minutes of free Web access to Brazilians looking to check their taxes or e-mail their congressman.... Read more...