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Brazil’s lucrative internet market is in Portuguese only

WiredLatinos found this great article about the Brazilian online market on TechCrunch. Great info, check it out!. Web adoption is growing faster in Latin America than anywhere on the planet, according to comScore. Its audience grew 23% over the last year, and currently makes up 8% of the global Web population. That’s larger than the Middle-East and Africa’s Web audiences combined, and almost half of North America’s Web population. But underneath those rosy top-line numbers, the Latin American Web market is a mess of contradictions and that has implications for Internet companies in both South... [Read the full story]

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Brazil’s lucrative internet market is in Portuguese only

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Verizon/Google Tablet is talk of the web

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It is all over the web: Verizon and Google are teaming up to produce a tablet available just in time to find it under your Christmas tree this winter. The rumored Stingray Verizon/Google tablet will be Motorola-built, powered by Nvidia and will run on Verizon’s new LTE 4G network. It is highly speculated that the new tablet will run the new generation of Google’s Gingerbread Android OS (version 3.0). The tablet is even rumored to feature some type of mobile TV. The tablet market is just getting warmed up. Other companies, like Samsung, Toshiba and HTC, are also preparing to... [Read the full story]

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Skype Mobile now on Verizon

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Skype mobile is now available on many of Verizon Wireless’ 3G Multimedia phones. The LG enV(R) TOUCH, LG Chocolate Touch(TM) and Samsung Reality(TM) join Verizon Wireless lineup of 3G Smartphones that already feature Skype mobile. Skype-to-Skype calls and chats are unlimited when initiated with Skype mobile from a Verizon Wireless phone with a data plan to any Skype users anywhere in the world. The calls run on Verizon allowing the app to work with traditional voice products, including Bluetooth(R) headsets. Skype mobile calls made to domestic landline and wireless numbers use minutes... [Read the full story]

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Apple sends out invites for September 1st event

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Today Apple sent out invitations for an event next Wednesday, September 1st. The event, which has become a tradition for the last several years, will be held at the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco. WiredLatinos.com does not know this first hand, as we were not invited. I don’t think it was intentional, as we are still a fairly new blog. But . . . Apple, if you’re reading this, we’d love to get invited and let all wired Latinos know what is going with you and your products. There are many rumors going on in all the tech blogs. These include rumors that Apple... [Read the full story]

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New flirting game launched on QuePasa.com

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Popular Latino social networking site, QuePasa.com (QP), today announced the launch of ‘SnapMeUp,’ a social flirting game developed by Viximo, a provider of virtual goods solutions and applications. ‘SnapMeUp’ allows QP playing members find fame and fortune by buying, selling and trading photos of their friends with other site members. Some will become tycoons by mastering the art of buy low/sell high and others will find validation as the hottest person on the market. “We’re excited about how the Quepasa audience is responding to ‘SnapMeUp’; while... [Read the full story]

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Dell Opens Green Store

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So it was all over the online tech blogs and magazines yesterday that Dell computers just opened a Green Store. We checked it out. And WiredLatinos admits, it is pretty cool and progressive and green. “At the heart of Dell’s green approach is the powerful idea that we can do MORE with less: less time, less waste, less energy, less money,” says their blurb. Awesome! All this is great. What we don’t understand, is why can’t they do exactly the same webpage in Spanish. We, Latinos, the bread and butter of future America, like green too. And, of course, I, as an American-Latina,... [Read the full story]

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Brazil’s lucrative internet market is in Portuguese only

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LATISM launches awards program for Latinos in Social Media

Once again, LATISM, Latinos in Social Media (LATISM), the largest organization of social media professionals of Hispanic origin, is leading the way. Today they have announced the launch of an annual awards program for excellence in Latino communications in California. The first awards ceremony — September 18...

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ADE and LISTA partner up for digital cause

Today, the Alliance for Digital Equality (ADE), a nonprofit organization that provides broadband solutions and broadband related services to underserved and un-served communities, and Latinos in Information Science and Technology Association (LISTA), the nation’s leading organization of Latino technology...

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Apple sends out invites for September 1st event

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Groupon-like sites flood Mexico and Latin America

As Groupon.com takes the nation by storm with their $25 Gap deal (with a value of $50) and breaks sales records with an $11 million sweep, other copycat sites are popping up world wide trying to capture this great idea’s luster. Mexico and Latin America, young and economically fertile, are just the areas. “The...

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