Indian financial technology company Polaris Software Labs is planning to expand operations in South and Central America, alongside other regions, through appointing a direct sales force or acquisitions, according to international press reports.

The reports did not give details of the focus of the company's expansion plans in the region or the budget available.

Polaris saw net profits of 3.68bn Indian rupees (US$78mn) for the quarter ended June 30, according to a report from Business Standard.

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The company is reportedly working on a cloud computing solution for rural and cooperative banks.

Polaris already has a physical presence in Chile.

The Brazilian division of Chilean vehicle leaser Rentaequipos Leasing (Relsa) has tapped Spanish IT consultancy firm Crystalis Consulting to implement a SAP (NYSE: SAP) business platform, Crystalis Consulting said in a statement.

Relsa's computing lead, Cristian del Canto, said the division implemented the solution to improve internal processes, the quality of available information, productivity and efficiency, among other areas.

Relsa Brazil has a presence in the states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Ceara and Bahia.

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Spanish IT wholesaler Afina has completed a round of product training sessions for South American channels, the company said in a statement.

The events, dubbed Workshop NetApp Essentials, were focused on products from US unified storage solutions provider NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP).

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Chilean IT industry association Acti will hold IT seminars for university students, the organization said in a statement.

The conferences will take place in Santiago starting on July 29, and are aimed at providing students with an overview of the local IT industry and also strengthening innovation.

The initiative is being supported by the Chilean government's innovation program Innova Chile, which is part of state development agency Corfo.

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Spanish systems integrator Indra has banked the Chilean national registry's US$300mn tender to supply updated ID cards and passports, Indra said in a statement.
The tender, initiated on February 14, 2008, will provide new national identification cards and passports with embedded contactless chips, which will include biometric information. The chips will also enable digital signatures and authentication.
During the first phase, support systems will be installed in 110 of the registry's offices, including all of those which process passport applications. Testing of the systems will be initiated in offices in Santiago, Valparaiso and Rancagua.
The second phase of the project, which will last one year, will feature the installation of the new technology in the 426 remaining offices. Indra will also provide system support and maintenance until the close of the contract in 10 years.
The contract includes the construction of two data centers and two document factories, which will remain under the ownership of the national registry when the contract comes to an end.
Indra will also provide systems and services to enable third parties to validate the ID cards.
The company's rivals for the contract, originally planned to be awarded in December 2009, were Sice, Sonda, Bundesdruckerei GMBH, Sagem Securite, Coasin and Siemens, though the latter two were disqualified because of failure to comply with tender rules.

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Karin Ebensperger .-

Language is the main cultural heritage we have. With it we can express the noblest thoughts and the lowest, identifies us as human beings. Allows reflection, exchange of concepts, the expression of moods, access to social life and culture. It allows us to know the history and philosophical and scientific theories, to understand our civilization. In short, people express ourselves with a mix of ancient sounds and symbols called language to internalize concepts and make them known.

That is why the historical period we are living, the so-called era of globalization and information technology is a major cultural challenge for humanity means including a number of new symbols and codes via the Internet, Twitter and social networks. It is a rapid change to stop for the time being a part of humanity, seniors and people with fewer resources to access to technology, outside the field of language, that is, with limited participation in the new society.

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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is focusing and investing heavily to offer cloud computing services to its clients in Latin America, company executives said during the software giant's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), which took place in Washington DC last week.

During fiscal year 2011, starting July 1, Microsoft will dedicate 36% of its Latin American investment to its regional partner network, mainly to train partners in cloud services, compared to approximately 5% of total investment in the region last fiscal year, the company's Latin America marketing and operations director Dinis Couto told BNamericas on the sidelines of the conference.

Couto said that approximately 2,000 partners in Latin America will be fully trained to start offering Microsoft's cloud services by the end of this fiscal year. Currently, roughly 500 partners across eight markets in the region are technically prepared to start offering cloud services.

The executive also said that some cloud services are now available in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago.

Microsoft's cloud services already include a range of enterprise products, from the recently launched Microsoft online services and Windows Azure to Windows Intune and Microsoft Dynamics CRM online.

"When we say that the cloud is the next big step in the industry's evolution, we really mean it," said Microsoft VP of sales, marketing and services for the region, Cesar Cernuda. "We believe that this new wave of innovation will further boost an already vibrant Latin America industry, and we are investing heavily to make this happen. We have increased our investment by 30% for the development of distribution channels, marketing and business opportunities with our more than 66,000 partners across the region," he said.

"By moving their infrastructure services to the cloud, companies have an access point to affordable products and services that allow them to stop worrying about expenses and IT management."

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Santiago along with other world cities such as London, Sydney, Barcelona and Buenos Aires celebrated on 30 June for the first time, the days of social media, event-driven benchmark Mashable Social Media in order to celebrate the revolution social networking communications.

It conducted a total of 633 meetings and meetups in 93 countries worldwide. In Chile, organized a big party at Bar Open Cultural Onaciu, which was broadcast on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Meetups, and achieved a high call, along with the presence of big brands with contests and awards including Enjoy, Paris, , LG, VTR and blog comunicaextend Extend Communications Agency.

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A few days ago, Congress approved the new "Law on Internet neutrality," but very few know what it is and what are the benefits to the users.

The text amends the General Law of Telecommunications,  because of it´s age, it didn´t related to the problems surrounding the Internet.

"Users will be entitled to obtain better information on their plans and companies should be transparent so the quality of service, specifying in a web that offer real rates," says the deputy Gonzalo Arenas (UDI), author of the bill.

In that sense, "the law will encourage competition between companies to offer a quality service," said Arenas.

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 That happend´s to everyone. That was the justification given on Friday, Steve Jobs, CEO and cofounder of Apple, for signal reception problems of its newly released iPhone 4. No euphemisms, Jobs said the smartphones of Nokia, Samsung, HTC and RIM (maker of BlackBerry) also had this little detail, that an Apple solution delivered free to their customers based.

The aforementioned mass rushed to respond to creative Jobs: "We haven´t received significant feedback from customers about any reduction in the signal for the Omnia II," said Hwan Kim, vice president of Samsung mobile communications, through a statement delivered yesterday.

"Based on years of experience in designing high-end handsets, Samsung mobile phones use an internal antenna that optimizes the quality of reception for any use with the phone in hand," added the executive.

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Imagine a world where people were doing or thinking in 140 characters and began the last phenomenon was the Internet. Jack Dorsey, creator of Twitter, now comes to the Entel Chile-Summit Square-with a device that aims to revolutionize the financial industry.

By Francisco Aravena F. Jack Dorsey twitter checks while on the phone and something catches his attention between the "trending topics" just when he's talking to a Chilean, see "Chile" ranked among the most frequently mentioned words at that time, worldwide, in Twitter. "Look, right now he's Chile", he notes the journalist of "Saturday" in the middle of the interview, he from somewhere in New York, his partner somewhere trying to evade the transmission vuvuzela Chile-party Spain

 Dorsey, a man who at age 33 is headed to the legend, and that when it comes to Chile to participate in the Entel Summit 2010 on 14th July in Santiago, also hosts "Saturday." Since its debut in 2006, Twitter has become a phenomenon as much or more explosive on the Internet and the advent of blogs, or Facebook. "It's a tool people use it as want," says Jack Dorsey whenever anyone asks anything about Twitter, and it is precisely the brevity and flexibility, response and Twitter, which is the basis of the phenomenon

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