Enactment of the Brazilian information technology law, which forecasts exemption of the Industrialized Product Tax (IPI) in some states and an 95% reduction in others until 2014, among other incentives, should boost sector investment from the current R$ 600 million (275 million) to R$ 1 billion (US$ 460 million) by 2007. To the minister, the loss of income from the taxes should be compensated by greater sector revenues.
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Agência Brasil* Brasília – The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) should commission today (04) two Mirage 2000-C aircraft of a total 12 that the country purchased from France. The commissioning ceremony, to include Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, should take place at Anápolis Air Base, in the midwestern Brazilian state of Goiás. The aircraft
Agência Brasil* Manaus – The first financing contract of the Development Fund of the Amazon (FDA), signed yesterday (28), is going to help build a thermo-electric plant that will produce 81,250 kilowatts of energy in Manaus, capital city of the Brazilian Northern state of Amazonas. "This represents 10% of the energy consumed in Manaus, including
Between September 01 and 06, the 10th General Conference of the Academy of Science for the Developing World will be promoted in the city of Angra dos Reis, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Representatives of 12 Arab countries should participate in the meeting, among them the ministers of Science and Technology of Palestine and Sudan.
A factory of integrated circuits will be installed in the city of Porto Alegre, in the South of Brazil, up to April 2007. It will produce chips used for making computers, television sets and cellular phones. The project came from a partnership between the federal, state and municipal governments with teaching, research and entrepreneurial entities.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Shoe industry São Paulo Alpargatas is going to inaugurate on Friday (25) a research and development centre in the city of São Leopoldo, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The unit will concentrate intelligence turned to innovation and development of new products for the global
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Mobile telephony in Brazil registered another 1.2 million numbers in July. Up to the seventh month of the year, there were 93 million telephone numbers operating in the country, a volume 1.4% greater than the total registered in June. Of the total, around 74 million are prepaid and 18
The Research and Development Centre is after a commercial partner to start operating in the Arab world. CPqD supplies technology to support operations and business, mainly in the telecommunications sector. The Foundation has revenues of R$ 204.5 million a year (US$ 93.8 million at current exchange rates) and started exporting in 2000.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – A study by consultancy IDC Brazil shows that 55% of the Brazilian manufacturers will have 12% greater information technology budgets this year than they had in 2005. The study shows that in the segment of small and medium companies, the budgets will be turned mainly to hardware and, among
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The Chilean capital will host today (27) and tomorrow the International Agroenergy Seminar. At the event, experiments about the use of agricultural resources for the production of energy will be presented. The opening of the seminar will include the participation of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, and of the regional director of
This year, the city of Ajman will start using a sewage treatment system developed in Brazil. It was developed through research led by Ricardo Franci Gonçalves and is appropriate for hot regions, like Brazil and the Emirates.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – To provide incentives to the production and introduction of biodiesel in the national market, new contracts for the purchase of the product were signed yesterday (25) at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace. Six refining companies agreed to supply Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, up to the end of June 2007, with
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Representatives from 18 countries are discussing digital mapping of soils in a workshop in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting started yesterday (04) and follows up until Friday (07). It is organised by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) for Soils, the International Union for Soil Sciences and the Brazilian
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Two scientists from the Roger Abdelmassih Clinic and Research Centre on Human Reproduction, in São Paulo, southeast Brazil, presented an all-new research at the annual meeting at the European Society of Human Reproduction, in Prague, last month. The scientists, Russian naturalised Brazilian, Irina Kerkis and Alexandre Kerkis, managed to
