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Security researchers warn of a new phishing attack that targets Brazilian credit card owners by spoofing emails from MasterCard's Surpreenda (surprise) program.The new campaign was spotted by spam analysts from Commtouch, who note that unlike classic phishing schemes where users are threatened into exposing thei... |
19 January 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Federative Republic of Brazil has signed the formal accession agreement that will open the way for the country to become a Member State of the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Once the Brazilian government ratifies it, Brazil will become the fifteenth Member State and also the first one from outsid... |
30 December 2010
08:14 GMT |
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Security researchers from Kaspersky warn of an email-based attack directed at Brazilian online banking users, which uses real names and national identification numbers, to trick them into downloading a trojan.The fake emails are crafted to appear as originating from Banco Itaú, one of the largest banks in... |
4 November 2010
07:53 GMT |
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Google Street View just launched in a few more places, Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica. Users flogging to view the new imagery, though, got to see more than cute penguins and not in a good way. Images of two bodies were spotted, one in Rio de Janeiro and the other in Belo Horizonte. The bodies were partially cove... |
2 October 2010
08:15 GMT |
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Authorities in the South American nation announced last week that they plan to enact a new set of measures, taken with the explicit purpose of protecting the massive savanna known as Cerrado. This is a huge swath of land that features a magnificent diversity of animal and plant species. Its value for the world is ine... |
22 September 2010
09:13 GMT |
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Investigators working deep in a Brazilian forest managed to collect samples of aerosols that are largely free from contamination with chemicals produced by human activities. This is the first time such an accomplishment is made, researchers say. Analysis of the collected aerosols revealed that they were in near prist... |
17 September 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Opera Mini, the most popular mobile browser in the world, is expected to hit a number of more than 60 mobile phone models in Brazil via a recently signed partnership between Opera Software and local wireless carrier TIM. A new, co-branded application called “Navegador TIM,” would be pushed out to mobile ... |
10 September 2010
12:34 GMT |
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Traditional Web hackers are increasingly landing their services to spammers by allowing them to run advanced mass mailing tools from the compromised servers.Such a specialized Web-based application was located by security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab on hacked servers in Brazil, a country where spa... |
9 September 2010
16:16 GMT |
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New figures released by the Brazilian government show that the deforestation in the Amazon decreased by 47.5% over the last 12 months.This decline is showed by images taken by a low-resolution satellite, and the figure is the highest since anti-deforestation measures began in 1988.If this data is confirmed by a secon... |
3 September 2010
09:22 GMT |
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On Wednesday, mobile phone maker Motorola announced the upcoming availability of its new Motorola FLIPOUT with MOTOBLUR handset on the market in Brazil. The device, which sports a square design, is powered by Google's Android 2.1 operating system, and hits the shelves with a pivot design that reveals a five-row... |
1 July 2010
11:04 GMT |
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The FBI failed to break the encryption protecting the data of a high profile banker investigated in the largest corruption and money laundering case in Brazilian history. The Bureau's experts gave up twelve months after receiving the seized equipment from the Brazilian authorities.In July 2008, the Brazilian Fed... |
29 June 2010
03:34 GMT |
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More than 50 years ago, a team of American scientists made a remarkable discovery. They were able to prove the existence of a peculiar species of fish that had two main traits to distinguish it from other similar creatures. First of all, it only lived underground, and second of all, it had no eyes. A single specimen ... |
12 May 2010
09:12 GMT |
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TIM and Opera Software announced recently a new partnership through which the latest version of the Opera Mini browser is delivered to mobile phone users in Brazil. According to the duo, the mobile browser is set to offer users an experience similar to the one offered by a PC browsing solution, as the Web pages will... |
22 March 2010
14:31 GMT |
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If you live in Australia and you feel that you're being cheated by the delayed release of games and the censorship of the Australian Board, and the consequent banning of some violent titles, you don't have the right to complain about it anymore. Also, if you live in some other part of the world and feel in ... |
20 November 2009
05:34 GMT |
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TomTom, a provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, has announced that the TomTom app for iPhone navigation is available for immediate download via Apple’s iTunes App Store. A total of 18 apps are available for regions including Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, Australia, Eastern Europe (and lots more), with... |
26 October 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Over recent years, Brazil has expressed its intention of becoming a regional, industrial powerhouse, especially in the field of electronics and related technologies. As such, the capital city of Santa Catarina State, Florianopolis, or Floripa, was considered to be the best place to locate this new center, which is to... |
5 October 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Google manages to attract the biggest audience all over the world and its collection of sites leads in many of the sectors it operates in. Overall, Google has the most visitors and enjoys most of the time spent online. Still, while Google's dominance in places like the US and Europe may seem disconcerting, there... |
15 September 2009
06:49 GMT |
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While trotting happily through a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, naturalists stumbled upon a new species of monkeys, with an abnormally large tail, and a peculiar gray and dark brown coloring. Aside from its anthropological value, the find demonstrates again that new discoveries in this field of research are a... |
8 July 2009
04:59 GMT |
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A lot of people, us here at Softpedia included, were pretty surprised when the announcement related to the new Max Payne 3 videogame arrived. The third title in the series will be developed by Rockstar, not by usual studio Remedy, and the overall look, from what we've seen until now, is pretty different from the... |
10 June 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Investigators under the gruesome task of searching the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for debris and bodies from the Air France Airbus A330-200 that crashed on June 1st, 2009, some 680 miles (1,090 kilometers) Northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off the northern coast of Brazil, recovered 15 more corpses from ... |
9 June 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Trend Micro researchers warn of a new fake antivirus program, which specifically targets Brazilian users. The application displays ransomware behavior, as it locks access to multiple types of documents and asks victims to acquire a license in order to regain control. The new rogueware, called Byte Clark, is consider... |
12 May 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced today the release of its flagship model Nokia 5800 XpressMusic with Comes With Music functionality in Brazil. The new device is set to provide mobile phone users in the country with the possibility to download millions of tracks unlimitedly. The 3.2" touchscreen handset is t... |
29 April 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The Brazilian government seems determined to build a number of dams on some of the largest tributaries of the Amazon river, the mightiest flow of water in the world. The first to enter the eyesight is, naturally, the Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon and home to more than 600 species of fish, of which ... |
6 April 2009
09:46 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in Brazil will soon be able to enjoy two new music handsets developed by Korean cell phone maker Samsung, namely the M2310 and M2710. The two music-centric devices come with music-dedicated buttons on the front, similar to those that can be seen with the M7600 BeatDJ, and can be considered some sim... |
28 March 2009
06:45 GMT |
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The Florida Everglades, the largest wetland in the United States, pales in comparison to Brazil's Pantanal region, which is a bit larger than the United Kingdom, and houses thousands of endangered species, which have found in the area a home away from accelerated industrial and urban development. Now, humans hav... |
17 February 2009
06:14 GMT |
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British inventors have managed to devise a new way of planting trees in devastated areas without having to go through the regular channels. They have created a helicopter-based delivery system that lets tree seedlings wrapped in small plastic cones fall. C-Questor of Weybridge, Surrey is behind the innovation, which ... |
31 January 2009
08:01 GMT |
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Brazil opposed the idea that rich countries could offset their carbon emissions by funding tree preservation efforts in underdeveloped countries, its ambassador for climate change, Sergio Serra, announced at the Poznan UN conference on Thursday. The main reason for this refusal was the fact that, on one hand, ri... |
5 December 2008
05:02 GMT |
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Students from a private medical school in Brazil were part of a new scientific study, which was aimed at understanding exactly why soon-to-be doctors were so depressed during their internship years. About 481 people enrolled in the survey and submitted to periodic examinations, performed by ABC Regional Medical Schoo... |
5 December 2008
03:18 GMT |
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After the recent riot that took place in the city of Paragominas, when a 3,000-large mob destroyed governmental buildings, stole confiscated wood, and used a tractor to assault the hotel where environmental officials and inspectors were spending the night, the Brazilian government cracked down on illegal wood cutters... |
28 November 2008
03:06 GMT |
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The devastation that Brazil suffered with the latest floods and mudslides has caused billions of dollars in damages and claimed the lives of an estimated 100, with 19 still missing, authorities reported yesterday. As some people had nothing to eat or drink for 4 days or even more, looting is a spreading phenomenon th... |
27 November 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Days of torrential rain have turned a significant part of Brazilian soil into a swamp and prompted massive floods and landslides in several areas of the country. From preliminary estimates, authorities reported 59 dead and nearly 44,000 uprooted by the massive weather anomaly, which struck the state of Santa Caterina... |
25 November 2008
09:06 GMT |
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The town of Paragominas was home to incredible scenes on Sunday, as a mob of approximately 3,000, protesting against the federal government's crackdown on illegal logging in the region, took to the streets and opened fire on a shed housing the cars of the federal inspectors. They also stole back the trucks that ... |
25 November 2008
05:41 GMT |
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Basically, Brazilian authorities applied the “if you can't beat them, join them” principle in tackling deforestation and the loss of valuable ecosystems in the Amazon. They decided to place stock market values on the forest, so that revenues that would be obtained from it could rival the illegal mone... |
8 November 2008
04:38 GMT |
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The official numbers released recently by the Brazilian government show a bleak statistical representation of species dynamics throughout the country. As opposed to 1989 numbers, when some 218 animals were classified as about to go extinct, the newest list, compared with data collected this year, shows that approxima... |
5 November 2008
10:14 GMT |
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Long-term investigations of the Brazilian government finally paid off, when authorities discovered the largest oil deposits in recent years, off the coast of the country. All areas contained within Brazil's 200 miles of sea, and even some that were beyond that limit, were searched for fossil fuels. In 2007, the ... |
22 October 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Motorola has just announced that it launched two new music-oriented phones in Brazil: Motorola W388 and Motorola W231. To make the handsets more attractive for Brazilian mobile users, the American company has teamed up with NXZero, a popular rock band from Sao Paolo. In consequence, both the W388 and W231 come w... |
12 September 2008
12:07 GMT |
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Amidst the hype created by the official presentation of Nokia's latest N85 and N79 Nseries handsets, few might have noticed a newly-appeared concept phone that comes as one of the most interesting "unreal Nokias" seen so far. Designed by Ulisses Gardim from Sao Paolo, Brazil, the new Nokia concept (which wa... |
28 August 2008
03:08 GMT |
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We previously reported on the arrest of a teenage Dutch, who had created the Shadow botnet. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit and the FBI worked together to solve the case of the malicious network, which is reported to be responsible for the infection of over 100,000 machines. The Brazilian conspirator in the Shadow bot... |
22 August 2008
03:19 GMT |
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In its continuous attempt to be a leader in the large emerging mobile markets (like China or India), Motorola has recently announced the release of four new mid to low-end handsets in Brazil: W396, W388, W231 and W180. These W-series phones come after Moto has also announced no less than other five new handsets f... |
21 July 2008
04:56 GMT |
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Motorola has recently unveiled the upcoming handsets planned to be released in Brazil, the largest South American mobile market (more than 128 million mobile users). All of these Moto phones have already been announced for Europe, except for the ZN200, a new slider from Motorola's ZN family. Motorola ZN20... |
2 July 2008
03:12 GMT |
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LG KF240, part of LG's KF fashion-oriented line-up of handsets, is now available in South America - in Brazil, more exactly. The handset was first announced in February, and Brazil is the first country where it can be bought. The KF240 is a mid to low-end device with multimedia-centered features. The handset ... |
23 June 2008
09:37 GMT |
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With the UEFA Euro 2008 just started, football fans all over the world should be ecstatic, since this is the moment to see the best European National teams in action. Still, some people want more than just to watch - they have to actively take part in the game, especially if it is a football match. Add Brazilians to ... |
9 June 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Vivo, the largest Brazilian mobile operator, together with RIM announced the release of BlackBerry Pearl 8110, the latest smartphone targeted for users who need both business and multimedia functionality. There will be two color versions of the 8110, Pink and Titanium, and RIM said in a press release issued yesterda... |
7 May 2008
08:04 GMT |
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Samsung recently launched a new clamshell phone in Brazil, the V820L, a handset created to bring mobile TV to South American users. Samsung V820L is a clamshell that comes with a futuristic design and packs a 2.6 inch rotating TFT display with an unusual resolution of 240 x 300 pixels. V820L is the first handset with... |
25 April 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Google has always said that users' privacy is extremely important and its efforts to protect it were applauded even by international authorities. However, the Mountain View-based company has just handed over private information about some users to the Brazilian authorities, as part of an investigation supposed t... |
24 April 2008
06:33 GMT |
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In the end, soap operas seem to be good at something: slowing down the demographical boom. At least in Brazil, they have mitigated the population growth, as signaled by a new research made at the London-based Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). And this is not simply because Brazilian women spend less time in... |
18 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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The Brazilian retail market sells about any computer you would expect to find in the US. However, department stores across the country boast a different breed of computers that cannot be purchased anywhere but in the country: Positivo. This computer brand is hardly known outside South-America, but it manages to sell ... |
18 April 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Ericsson and TIM Brasil announced they have reached an agreement according to which the Swedish company will provide a new WCDMA / HSPA network for the South American mobile operator, in order to allow the deploying of high-speed broadband across eight Brazilian states. The states that will benefit from the agreemen... |
17 April 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Google's social network Orkut is quite popular among the Brazilian Internet users and this is not always a good thing, mainly if the content appearing on the website shouldn't be published on such a page. On Wednesday, Alexandre Hohagen, the man in charge of Google Brazil, said that the Mountain View-based ... |
10 April 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Beautiful women, dancing half or more naked under the moonlight, what more could a normal man wish for in his holiday? If he's alone, of course, and by that I mean "not with his wife," because you can never be alone in Brazil, especially during the Carnival. Loud music, a continuous feeling of surrealism and let... |
4 February 2008
04:11 GMT |
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