Portugal’s NOS has decided to use Dutch firm Metrological’s Application Platform, alongside the WPE open source browser, to launch a new personalized multiscreen service – UMA. The system will sit alongside the NOS RDK set top software provided by Canadian firm Espial, but the two are essentially separate, although not as far as the customer could notice. The announcement came out of Metrological and it wants us to tell you all about the clever stuff it has done to upgrade the User Experience, but first we need to look at the Portuguese market and where it has been heading. There are two major outside influences, what’s happened in neighboring Spain and the arrival of Netflix at the end of 2015.…