Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – While GDP growth in Brazil during the first half of 2005 was 3.4%, energy consumption in the country rose 5.4%, when compared to the same period last year (energy consumption rose 4.5% in 2004). The biggest increase in energy consumption this year was in the North, where the growth
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The complex in Osório, city in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, will be the second largest in the world. The Brazilian Development Bank will loan US$ 206 million to finance the undertaking, which should start its operations in the second semester of 2006. The credit is part of the Financial Support Programme for Alternative Energy Sources (Proinfa) of the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
The project E-Blocks, by the company Positivo Informática, won the World Summit Award (WSA) in the category e-Learning. This places the pedagogical system, developed to teach English to children between 5 and 10 years old, amongst the 40 best multimedia works in the world. The prize giving will take place during the World Summit for the Information Society, in November in Tunisia.
With little over two years of existence, 14bits has already managed to reach worldwide prominence. In August the company received a request for a price estimate for the development of a shopping centre website in the Arab country. In June, the studio was considered one of the 90 most important interactive studios in the world by publishing house Taschen.
The hospital will have a new nucleus for the treatment of patients who suffer with excessive weight. One of the procedures will be the gastric pacemaker surgery that is already used in Europe and the United States. The Garrido institute also wants to be among the first to apply this technique.
The game should be available in the beginning of next year. It was developed by the Scientists Associated Technological Development, created in the Incubator Centre for Technology Companies of São Carlos, city in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The company is formed by young researchers, most of them in their 30s.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Electronic trade generated a turnover of US$ 1.9 billion in Brazil in the first semester of the year. The information is from the research by the Brazilian Chamber of e-Commerce (Camara-e.net) and E-Consulting. Throughout the year the volume should reach US$ 4.0 billion, with an increase of 30.66% in
Solution developed by the Brazilian chemical engineer Marcos Gugliotti is in the final testing phase. Next month, the engineer will make experiments in the reflecting pools at the National Congress and the head offices of the Superior Court of Justice in the Brazilian capital city, Brasilia. The aim is for the product to reduce water evaporation by up to 30%.
Positivo Informática, a company from the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, started exports of educational equipments, the E-Blocks, to the Middle East. The company sold 50 units to Lebanon, at US$ 35,000. In the evaluation of the exports manager, Juliano Fontes, business in the region is promising.
Scientists from countries such as England, Germany, Australia, United States, Canada, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia, Uganda, Mexico and Guatemala will be in Brazil, from today (10) till Friday (12), to participate in a meeting of the Biofortification of Agriculture Products for Improvement in Human Nutrition Programme, at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, in the city of Sete Lagoas, in Minas Gerais.
A Leather Technology Centre is being built in the midwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. It is the first in the Midwest of Brazil. The centre will execute not only studies on cattle leather, but also on leather of other animals, like sheep, pigs, alligators, fish, capybaras, ostriches, chinchillas, and even frogs.
Companies identify niches in the market and invest in creativity. One of the examples is Oníria, from the city of Londrina, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, which developed a game that is amongst the 20 most sold in Germany. The company Malisoft, from Curitiba, also in Paraná, has won the demanding Japanese market, where they get 60% of their revenue.
