The decision to allow anyone to register a .pt TLD has suffered yet another blow, as the authorization from the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology was postponed to an unknown future date.
6 months ago the request to liberalize the .pt TLD was proposed by the Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN) in order […]

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A tv ad campaign for ZON (a cable operator that offers a triple play service) began airing the passed week on the main Portuguese tv networks.
The campaign isn’t very out of the ordinary, but for one thing: it mentions a blog url . Here’s the concept: people who sign in with ZON are so […]

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It uses a black background and therefore offers great energy savings, because black uses less energy than white on computer monitors.
Called Eco Find, it is interely Portuguese in the making, but it uses Google results.

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In a global marketplace, companies struggle when it comes to providing the best content to local search engines, many times insisting in having a main .com website, that often does not appear in local product searches.
There is no one solution to this problem, but, has a multi lingual SEO blog I think Multi Lingual Search […]

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As was announced by several SEM blogs and media, Google launched internationally the navigational links in their homepage. This was a feature previously only available in Google.com (US).
The order of the links in the Portuguese version of Google (Google.pt) is now the following:
Web | Images | News | Groups | Calendar | Photos
This differs […]

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A recent study by a researcher at Brown University places Portugal in 7th place worldwide when it comes to best practices in e-government. This represents a 41 places rise over the result the country had obtained last year. The study analyzed 1687 sites in 198 countries, in all 5 continents.
This result comes as no surprise […]

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It’s called e-Justice Centre and it represents a joint project of the Justice Department and Aveiro’s University, which already has a strong presence in Second Life.
The Justice Department’s press release explains that the centre aims to be a place where Second Life residents can resolve conflicts that come about in the 3D world, such as […]

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There are not a lot of alternatives if you want to do paid search advertising in Portugal. Basically you have two big players - Google Adwords with the lion’s share and Anúncios Sapo a very distant second.
Now AEIOU, a portal which was recently bought by one of Portugal’s biggest media groups Impresa, announced they are […]

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That will put Portugal in the top 5 best educational systems in the EU. Or at least that’s the aim of Portugal’s Prime Minister José Socrates, for the next 3 years.
Since taking charge of the Portuguese government, Socrates has pushed a 430 million euro technological update of the Portuguese educational system, by setting up […]

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Google Universal Search, the new “search model” recently launched by Google is starting to appear in the Portuguese SERPs (Google.pt).
Until recently search results in Portuguese did not include anything more than simples websites. A couple weeks ago we noticed the appearance of “search suggestions” in the bottom portion of the Google page.
Now we increasingly […]

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Ydreams and Sapo announced a new product than allows users to access the Internet from home, without using a traditional computer system.
The product is called “Sapohome” and it consists of a touch sensitive screen that allows access to information in a geographical context. This means that the user researches for news, maps, weather, restaurants […]

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RTP, the public TV broadcaster in Portugal has now in YouTube a partner to publish its videos online.
RTP follows in the footsteps of other European TV broadcasters, like BBC and Deutsche Welle.
In a dedicated YouTube area, users can access some of the most popular videos from many programs, ranging from dramas to comedies. […]

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Sapo Maps, the Portuguese map service from Sapo.pt, now allows the users to plan itineraries, and choose different routing options (quicker, shorter, on foot).
The user interface also improved over the last version, displaying a two column scheme, with much of the space available for the actual map data. AJAX is now used to […]

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An ambitious project called MapMyName, launched by two graduate students from Aveiro University in Portugal, aims to map and subsequently count all the Internet users in the world.
This is made possible, according to a video release in YouTube, due to a “recommendations system”. Every person who signs in, recommends 3 friends that also use […]

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Hi5, one of the most successful web 2.0 sites in Europe, and one of the most visited sites in Portugal, chose Sapo, the most important entertainment portal in that country, as the search engine for its Portuguese users.
Sapo replaces Google in both search and ads in Hi5.
According to Netpanel, Hi5 is the 4th most […]

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The project, codenamed SecondUA intends to project the Portuguese University by being one of only 70 worldwide to establish a presence in Second Life.
The University of Aveiro bought an island in Second Life and plans to divide it into six big areas, dedicated to online classes, study spaces and leisure. A area called InfoZone […]

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The ongoing saga of the hostile takeover of PT (Portugal Telecom) by Sonae is finally over. In a meeting, the main PT stockholders voted against the takeover, and trusted the current board of directors with the mission to further expand the company, specially in the South American markets.
At the same time, PT Multimedia, the […]

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Sapo, the largest Internet entertainment portal in Portugal, launched Sapo Local this week.
This move follows others from Sapo news pages, that now specifically target sport, technology and economy.
Sapo Local uses AJAX to gather news from different places into a personalized “news homepage”. This different places include blogs and other stablished news websites.
A Sapo […]

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The Portuguese Justice minister Alberto Costa announced that the Internet is fast becoming the preferred method for Portuguese businessmen to create new businesses.
A year and half ago, a program called “Empresa na Hora” (Create your company in one hour) was launched to speed up the process of creating a business from scratch. The Internet […]

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