SÃO PAULO – The Canadian maker of BlackBerry phones in Sao Paulo yesterday inaugurated its third technology center in Brazil, in partnership with Junior Enterprise Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (USP). The unit was installed at the company’s headquarters in São Paulo and began operating in July.
installing technology development centers is part of the global BlackBerry training students and software developers interested in creating mobile applications for smartphones. The announcement was made by Alec Saunders, vice president of worldwide developer relations and ecosystem of BlackBerry. In his first trip to Brazil, the executive visited during the week of the USP facilities and technology centers that BlackBerry already installed on Maceió, with the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), and Recife, with the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).
“The purpose of the installation of the centers is to unite teachers, students and technology professionals to develop applications market. Accordingly, we will strengthen actions in Brazil, “said Saunders. The executive noted that the total number of applications developed in Latin America, approximately 40% were produced in Brazil. In evaluating Saunders, most of the applications developed in Brazil have qualities to be exported. “In the technology centers are developed fantastic designs of applications of interest to industry, governments, universities,” he said. The executive estimates that at least 1000 BlackBerry apps developed in the country.
Saunders could not tell the number of software developers to produce applications for the BlackBerry operating system. In 2012, the company had a network of 5000 companies and professionals dedicated to developing applications for BlackBerry smartphones in Brazil. Worldwide, the company has a network of 45,000 developers. Last year, the BlackBerry has come to invest $ 100 million in projects related to application development.
The company’s goal for the coming months is to install two more technology centers in the country, one in Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with PUC-Rio, and another in Belo Horizonte, with the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG .)
New model
BlackBerry began selling in Brazil in May Z10 your new smartphone with touch screen and virtual keyboard. The handset was launched in the U.S. in January.
The company said the device Q10 (which has the physical keyboard) starts to be sold in the United States on June 5. In Brazil there is still no date set, but according to Saunders, the prospect is that the device reaches the market soon.
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