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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 [...]

Google Universal Search in Portuguese

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

RTP teams up with YouTube

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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, [...]

Sapo Maps now with itineraries

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

Hi5 closes deal with SAPO in Portugal

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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) [...]

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