Brazil

Brazil defies US, cozies up to Chinese tech on chip building

Foreign minister says it's not afraid of the 'big bad wolf' up north

Systems16 Apr 2023 | 31

US chip sanctions may push Brazil, others right into China's arms

Comment Hope you're all looking forward to another cold war

Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 27

No, Apple, you may not sell iPhones without chargers

Good for the environment? Bad for the customer, say Brazilian officials after fining iGiant, banning certain sales

Personal Tech06 Sep 2022 | 67

Ransomware attack shutters Brazilian courts. But did attackers breach the virtual machine divide?

Six-day outage predicted as rebuild commences from untouched backups

Security06 Nov 2020 | 6

Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones

Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?

Software06 Aug 2020 | 12

Bye, bye Brazil: Sage takes a multi-million dollar bath as it slips out of Latin America

British biz's foray 'has not fared well as it exits the market nursing substantial losses'

Software02 Mar 2020 | 5

The .amazon argy-bargy is STILL going on – and Uncle Sam has had enough with ICANN

Analysis Will Amazon finally get hold of its internet namesake?

Personal Tech04 Nov 2019 | 29

Amazon may finally get its hands on .amazon after world's DNS overseer loses patience

ICANN tired of delay tactics from Brazil and Peru

Legal12 Mar 2019 | 60

Never mind that naked selfie scandal... Brazil lights the, er, kindling, dot-Amazon saga roars back into life

Updated Seven-year battle could be finally coming to an end

Networks11 Feb 2019 | 28

Amazon tried to entice Latin American officials with $5m in Kindles, AWS credits for .amazon

Brazil, Peru snub cheap gifts, refuse to unblock dot-word

Legal25 Oct 2018 | 38

100,000 home routers recruited to spread Brazilian hacking scam

GhostDNS in the machine

Security02 Oct 2018 | 26

Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

Four years ago Brit taxpayers spent £65m doing her up

Security03 Jan 2018 | 134

Dot-Amazon spat latest: Brazil tells ICANN to go fsck itself, only 'govts control the internet'

Analysis Battle to block Bezos from gTLD slams into big biz

Legal27 Sep 2017 | 64

Brazilians waxed: Uni's Tor relay node booted after harvesting .onions

Researchers kicked off network for slurping hidden services en masse

Security25 Aug 2017 | 29

WhatsApp goes to Rio (again), but the battle is far from over

Supreme Court lifts block ahead of full hearing; government mulls service regulation

Legal21 Jul 2016 | 2

WhatsApp gets another Brazilian whack as magistrate blocks it again

Update National shut-down starts Tuesday, just in time for the Olympics

Legal20 Jul 2016 | 15

Judge gives Zuck a US$6 million Brazilian

Facebook funds frozen because WhatsApp won't hand over drug-lords' messages

Legal05 Jul 2016 | 24

Aluminum-wrapped robbers fail to foil bank

Brazilian blaggers unsuccessfully deploy metallic Hand of Glory

Bootnotes11 Apr 2016 | 45

Facebook's Latin America veep set free by appeals court

WhatsApp spat grinds on

Legal03 Mar 2016 | 8

Zuck gets a Brazilian whack: Top Facebook VP cuffed in WhatsApp privacy kerfuffle

Latin America exec refused to hand over natterers' natterings

Security01 Mar 2016 | 19

Brazil gets a WTF WhatsApp moment

Analysis Service taken offline because of one case; country erupts

Software17 Dec 2015 | 53

Brazil reverting to paper votes amid budget crisis

Electoral court waxes wroth after budget shaved

Legal02 Dec 2015 | 3

UK citizens will have to pay government to spy on them

IPB ISPs warn huge costs have to be passed on to customers

Legal11 Nov 2015 | 102

Brazilian prisoner nabbed with mobile up rear end

Also packing two chargers. Ouch

Bootnotes14 Oct 2015 | 27

Anthropology boffins solve 9,000-year-old headless body cold case

Oldest instance of human decapitation found – but a bit late to catch the killers

Science24 Sep 2015 | 35

'Facebook without sin' attracts 0.00006 times as many users as Facebook

News bytes Plus: Reddit grovel, Xbox groove, Mega man and more

Software06 Jul 2015 | 14

20-yr-old Brazilian births 100 banking trojans

Who cares about OPSEC with slack laws and busy cops?

Security02 Jul 2015 | 3

What is this river nonsense? Give .amazon to Bezos, says US Congress

US government tells ICANN to ignore government attempts at influence. Um…

Networks23 Jun 2015 | 50

A life of cybercrime, a caipirinha and a tan: Fraudsters love a Brazilian

School of Crooks in South America

Security20 Nov 2014 | 10

Brazil greenlights $200m internet cable to Europe in bid to outfox NSA

Only one problem: it won't make the slightest difference. And they know it

Networks30 Oct 2014 | 68

Samsung in Brazilian strip: Robbers snatch $6.3m in gear from plant

Armed thugs take unboxing to whole new level

Legal08 Jul 2014 | 10

Google kills its successful social network. Yes, we mean Orkut

Não, obrigado... a good time to bury bad news in Brazil and India

Networks30 Jun 2014 | 21

Brazilian president signs internet civil rights law

Marco Civil bill enshines 'net neutrality', 'privacy' as law

Networks23 Apr 2014 | 21

Rip up telco red-tape so they can take on Viber, WhatsApp, says Brazil

MWC 2014 Incumbents should be allowed to launch own OTT services

Legal27 Feb 2014 | 1

China, Brazil mourn loss of their $250m CBERS-3 satellite after fiery death

Rainforest-tracking bird crashes to Earth, oh well ... on to CBERS-4

Science10 Dec 2013 | 13

Hand over the goodies, Brazil tells Chocolate Factory

StreetView legal roadshow out for one more tour

Legal10 Nov 2013 | 11

Brazil makes it official: Gov email must be state-run and on-premises

NSA's influence waxes as President decrees we don't need no steeenking cloud

Legal07 Nov 2013 | 21

LG opts for a Brazilian, lobs out low-powered Firefox OS mobe Fireweb

First gadget to launch with version 1.1 of Moz's phone code

Personal Tech23 Oct 2013 | 2

Brazil whacks PRISM with secure email plan

President Tweets desire to protect against 'possible espionage'

Legal14 Oct 2013 | 13

Brazilians tear strip off NSA in wake of Snowden, mull anti-US-spook law

South Americans demand web privacy as PRISM journalist's Brazilian boyfriend held

Legal21 Aug 2013 | 92

Samsung faces Brazilian rap: Factory bods work '15hrs without break'

Staff stand all day without rest, officials claim in $110m sueball

On-Prem14 Aug 2013 | 29

Budweiser's bonkable Buddy Cup brings Facebook to the pub

Toast now, stalk later – no convo required

Personal Tech30 Apr 2013 | 16

The official iPhone actually runs Android - in Brazil

Apple left hurting by painful Brazilian procedure

Personal Tech14 Feb 2013 | 61

Amazon rainforest starts making phone calls

Trees get Gemalto radio tech, can ring the cops

Networks16 Jan 2013 | 20

Brazilian slammer guards nab mobe-smuggling CAT

Feline mule also packing saw blades and drill bits

Bootnotes07 Jan 2013 | 41

Brazilian-made 'iphone' runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Company claims 'exclusive right' to brand

Personal Tech21 Dec 2012 | 19

Amazon unzips its digital-only Brazilian, waves Kindles at Canada

Build warehouses in South America? We'll pass

Legal06 Dec 2012 | 5

Brazilians strip Google News bare: News barons decide to pull out

Google News 'presence' in Brazil is 'small'

Legal23 Oct 2012 | 15

Intel spreads $40 million investment love to 10 companies

From Silicon Valley to Bollywood

On-Prem02 Oct 2012 |

Google axes YouTube attack vid after Brazilian fuzz uncuff chief

Appeal against judge's banning order fails

Legal28 Sep 2012 | 10

Google exec faces arrest after vid tears strip off Brazilian

Judge wants YouTube mayoral brickbat removed - or else

Legal26 Sep 2012 | 17

Motorola adds THIRD SIM to Qwerty handset

Threesome with a Brazilian

Personal Tech01 Jun 2012 | 2

Brazilian cops hunt pillaging 'gang of blondes'

Pic Sao Paulo express kidnapping she-devil cuffed

Bootnotes26 Mar 2012 | 40

China ready to slap down US in smartphone wars

No turning back after 2012 as Brazil and India close in on UK

On-Prem16 Mar 2012 | 16

Brazil sues Twitter over police checkpoint tweets

Threatens $290k fine... daily

Legal07 Feb 2012 | 38

Self-planting plant discovered in Brazil

The ultimate gift for lazy gardeners

Science21 Sep 2011 | 29