Tag archive: Portugal

Racking up over one million views on YouTube in approximately two weeks, photographer Kien Lam created a time-lapse video (embedded below) comprised of 6,237 photographs documenting his year long trip around the world. Lam quit his job as a securities finance analyst at Blackrock during August 2010 and decided to spend 2011 visiting 17 different countries over a period of 343 days. To start the journey, Lam packed up his Panasonic Lumix GF-1… Read More

A new study put out about internet usage in the European Union points to a large increase in access and broadband connection in households since 2006. However, almost a quarter of EU citizens still haven't ever used the internet. The data was published by the European Eunion's statistical office, Eurostat. The study concerns individuals aged 16-74, and usage during the first quarter of 2011. It can be surreal to imagine for some of… Read More

The EU's Court of Justice has upheld Portuguese restrictions on online gambling. The Luxembourg-based court threw out a case brought against the Portuguese government's nonprofit lottery and betting organization by Gibraltar-based BWIN and the Portuguese professional soccer league. The soccer league and BWIN had offered soccer games for betting via the Internet in Portugal but were both fined euro75,000 each for violating the… Read More

Just a couple of weeks ago, a new cable brought East Africa online. Now, problems with an undersea cable have caused communications disruption in several West African countries – specifically Benin, Togo, Niger and Nigeria. The damage is to the SAT-3 cable which runs from Portugal and Spain to South Africa, via West Africa, the BBC reports, and in Nigeria it’s taken out around 70% of the bandwidth, forcing companies to use… Read More

It’s a major discovery, a cyber spy network that’s infected 1,295 computers in 103 countries, according to the Information Warfare Monitor (IWM), which is made up of researchers from Ottawa-based think tank SecDev Group and the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies. That might not seem like a lot of computers, but those machines are in foreign ministries and embassies. The discovery occurred after… Read More

Folks who thought eBay's online payment service PayPal was already pretty ubiquitous might be in for a little shock: the service is expanding its global reach by rolling out fully localized sites in Mexico, Singapore, and Hong Kong, as well as adding nine new languages to its primary Web site, including Danish, NOrwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Bahasa Indonesian. The additions bring the… Read More

Microsoft has announced an agreement with Portugal to put WIndows XP, Microsoft Office 2007, and a selection of educational products onto Portugal's “Magellan” laptops, based on Intel's Clasmate PC design. The notebooks cost school children just €50, and are aimed at accelerating technology adoption in Portuguese schools. “For the first time a whole generation will grow up to have strong English and ICT… Read More

Earlier this year, Portugal made a deal with Intel to produce 500,000 Classmate PCs under license based on Intel's design. Now, Portugal has turned around and made its own deal with Venezuela that will see one million Linux-powered Classmate PCs for use in Venezuelan schools. Although terms of the deal were not given, the move is part of a broader package of agreements involving energy development, infrastructure, and housing valued… Read More

The Portuguese government wants to have many more laptops available for elementary school students, and that’s making Intel rub its hands in glee. According to AP, Portugal has placed an order with Intel for 500,000 of its Classmate low-cost laptops. Under the deal, Intel will be technology adviser to Portugal's Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications – the Ministry co-ordinating the laptop… Read More

Apple continues to sign agreements with international mobile operators to bring the company's iPhone to a larger market, just as the company is reportedly prepping to launch a new 3G-enabled version of the device, along with version 2.0 iPhone software. Today's announcement come's from France's Orange, which issued a one-sentence statement saying it has reached an agreement with Apple to distribute the iPhone in… Read More

International mobile operator Vodafone—which owns part of the U.S.'s Verizon Wireless—has announced that it has reached an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten international markets—including Italy, where Telecom Italia had recently been reported to have made a non-exclusive deal with Apple to sell a 3G iPhone. In addition to Italy, Vodafone says it will offer iPhones in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt,… Read More

Vodafone has become the first mobile operator to sign on to the Facebook for Mobile Operators platform, a set of technical specs and services designed to help network operators more easily offer Facebook applications for mobile devices, rather than relying on accessing the site through traditional PCs or Web browsers embedded in mobile phones. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Facebook Mobile does not currently… Read More

It’s hardly a secret that phishing is one of the biggest problems facing computer users these days. Phishing attacks are becoming more sophisticated – just think of the one launched lastmonth against Monster.com users – and there are also many who don’t understand exactly what phishing is.   However, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are aiming to change that. They’ve developed an online game called… Read More

2K Games has shipped the largest expansion pack for the Civilization IV strategy game franchise, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, adding a wealth of new civilizations, units, wonders, inventions, technologies, and an advanced AI to the popular title, focusing on late-game eras afer the invention of gunpowder. “Given the overwhelming critical and commercial success of Sid Meier's Civilization IV, we were… Read More

The term “Gmail” may commonly represent a reference to Google’s popular e-mail service, but in Germany, Google was beaten to the punch on the name game. Daniel Giersch, founder of G-mail, took Google to German court nearly three years ago over use of the name. On Wednesday, a court ruled  in Giersch’s favor, banning Google from using the name in Germany. Giersch has been using the G-mail name since 2000 for… Read More