The increasing trend for data storage on external servers has created new challenges that require a review of computer security policies.
The use of mobile devices and personal cloud services represent hitherto unknown challenges for the protection of sensitive business data.
"A study by Sophos revealed that 45% of people use personal services in the cloud for business purposes, although 64% felt that it generates potential risks to the company," reported Elfinancierocr.com.
In order to keep attracting foreign investment Costa Rica needs to produce more professionals in the fields of technology, who speak three languages and have the ability to make decisions.
To attract more investment in the area of new technologies, Costa Rica requires more engineers with computer skills, three languages and the ability to solve real problems.
Top of the list in the region is Panama (57 in the world), followed by Costa Rica (58), Guatemala (98), Honduras (99), El Salvador (103) and Nicaragua (131).
The Global Information and Communication Technologies Report 2012 is prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with INSEAD Business School. It has been published since 2001 and covers 142 countries.
With an investment of $2 million, Greenersys is operating a showroom in Costa Rica to market products like wind turbines, solar heaters, LED screens and electric vehicles.
The franchise Greneersys started operations in Costa Rica on Wednesday March 21st, when it opened its showroom in La Uruca, in which $2 million has been invested.
Wind turbines, solar heaters, lighting and LED screens, and electric vehicles are some of the products on sale, reported Elfinancierocr.com.
The speed of technological change threatens to dramatically shorten the lifespan of companies who do not make innovation the bread and butter of their existence.
If your company has a tendency to rest in bureaucracy, or to react only when the market demands, it will likely have a shorter life span, and the cause of its death will surely be the so called creative destruction.
New devices and applications are allowing consumers to examine their health and act for themselves in preventing, improving, and managing their condition.
The DIY trend will not diminish in 2012, but will accelerate.
Many innovations designed for consumers to take control and perform a huge variety of tasks for themselves are being added to the market.
New telephony brands will present their products and services in the country's third ExpoTelecom event.
The companies Movistar, Claro and Kolbi will come face to face for the first time in at the 2011 event, which is the first held since Costa Rica opened its cell phone market.
It is an opportunity for the companies to reveal their new technologies.
Costa Rica's government has launched the use of digital signatures, but warns that the growth of its use will depend on its incorporation by the private sector.
The digital signature binds the identity of a person or team with a message or electronic document, to ensure authorship and integrity. The recognition of digital signatures provides security for electronic transactions, promoting e-commerce.
The traditional Latin American Meeting of Innovation and Business is being organized by the Panamanian Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications(CAPATEC).
BIZ FIT PANAMA 2011, will bring together academics, business leaders, consultants and other professionals involved in innovation and business. The format of BIZ FIT PANAMA 2011 meeting will focus on current issues of Innovation, Business and Technology, as detailed in the agenda of the event to be held on 14 and 15 of September, attended by Dr. Stephen R. Central Covey who will speak about his book “ La Tercera Alternativa” (The Third Alternative.)
$300 million will be invested over the next ten years to build a new center for information technology services, creating 1,000 jobs by 2014.
A press release from the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica states:
IBM's operation in Costa Rica currently provides services in human resource processes, management of customer relations, finance, accounting and shared services to IBM customers in North and South of the USA.
Government, business and international experts will discuss how to get the country to boost local capacity and take advantage of the opportunities of the global economy.
On June 30th, the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, together with the World Bank and the Government of Costa Rica will host its first Latin American Cities Conference in Costa Rica.
The 2010 list is lead by National Telecommunications and Networking Company CMW with $ 58 million.
Second place goes to Oracle with $ 48 million, followed by Ericsson AB with $ 28.5 million and Unisys of Central America in fourth place with $ 25 million.
According to the Integrated Contract Information System of the Comptroller General of the Republic, "the entity which drove these purchases was the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the only current mobile operator in the local market since the start of operations by Claro and Telefonica is expected only during the second half of 2011," informed IT NOW on their website.
The medical devices company will build a 25.000 square meters plant in Coyol, Alajuela.
Volcano's manufacturing facility will produce intravascular ultrasound catheters and precision cables, and the company expects to begin construction on January 2011.
Volcano Corp. joins 37 other companies already operating in the country in the field of medical devices and biotechnology.