At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
That will put Portugal in the top five best educational systems in the EU. Or at least that is the aim of Portugal’s Prime Minister José Socrates, for the next 3 years. Since taking charge of the Portuguese government, Socrates … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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) … Read More
Europe’s largest telecoms operators – with one American firm – are planning to launch a mobile phone search engine to rival Google and Yahoo. The companies concerned include Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and US firm Cingular. Combined, they have a user base of 600 million people – with some 20% in the UK expected to have broadband speed mobile phone access by the end of 2007.
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Social media and Web 2.0 are rather recent concepts, but well known ones in the US. But in Portugal its praticaly unknown. In fact, only recently did some companies begin to invest seriously in some online initatives, that could be … Read More
According to marktest, during 2006, 848 thousand young people (15-24 years old) surfed the web a total of 156 million hours. That’s an average of 22 minutes online each/per day. Hi5.com is the page that gets more views, with an … Read More
Last year has been quite a busy one for the Portuguese stock market, mainly because of the takeover bid of Sonaecom over PT Telecom, the Portuguese main Telecom operator. In a very small market like Portugal this may have impredicable … Read More
A typical middle-sized company in Portugal has a website on the Internet, 85% of big companies do. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the website has probably never been updated since 1998, it’s in flash, you can’t … Read More
