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 have there six …

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.

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 …

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 average …

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 …

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 …

A recent Hotwire Ipsos MORI survey, identifies blogs as one mos the most influential information sources, second only to newspapers.

The study reveals that 34% declare they have not purchased a product after reading comments on the internet from customers or …

Accoona has launched its search engine into the European zone - in fact western Europe. The search engine - which is on a .eu at www.accoona.eu searches by language - rather than country. Currently, the EU version runs …

Abondance tells us that the Agence pour l’innovation industrielle (Industrial Innovation Agency) gave an update this week on progress with regard to 6 of its projects including the European search engine project ‘Quaero’. The project has a budget of …

Accoona - the new European Search Engine

Threadwatch and ThomasB report that Google has extended the GoogleMaps application to cover many more countries in Europe. Then have even followed route E30 all the way to Moscow!

As Thomas writes, the implications for local search are significant. With multilingual …

French registrations of .EU domains show a clear rejection of the name by the French. After 24 hours, the French have only registered one fifth the number of domains (48,000) that the British have registered (260,000) - …

The BBC reports on the opening of the doors of EurID to allcomers trying to register one of the valuable .EU domains - now on a first come first served basis. Already 300,000 have used the sunrise period to …

The number of applications for .eu domain names seems to be somewhat tardy in the UK, according to the current figures from Eurid - where Germany - not surprisingly - is way in the lead with 81,000 applications, followed …

The long awaited .eu domain name opened today for applications. The ’sunrise’ period will run from 7th of December to 7th April 2006 to allow those with prior claim to secure their domains before they are made available on a …

Speaking at the eyefortravel Sales and Marketing in Travel Europe conference in Berlin, Jan Oetjen, Travelocity’s managing director Germany, said that the search engine revenues would be cut following the likely consolidation in the travel industry. …

Proximedia of Belgium is predicting that 25% of Belgian companies are likely to switch to using a .be domain name.

European businesses abuzz over ‘.eu’ domain names - INQ7.net

Recently, Vector21 conducted a very exciting study of online trends in the tourism arena, just for Portugal. Surveying people in Lisbon, Porto and Algarve, Vector21 found that 78.6% confirmed that they are internet users, while 50% stated that …

You don’t hear much news about the Portuguese internet arena. But of course they’re not just busy putting out fires. Here’s a brief news insight out of Portugal. During the first quarter this year, broadband connections reached 9.2% in comparison …