Podcast with Ken Hansen of .NYC

By on May 20, 2013 in Podcasts
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Ken Hansen of Neustar and .NYC joins Michele and Conn for this week’s podcast.  With over 20 years of Internet and telecom, sales, marketing and business development experience, Ken led the business development efforts that resulted in Neustar’s entry into the registry business, the award of dot-biz by ICANN and the Department of Commerce selection of Neustar [...]

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Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index

By on May 14, 2013 in General

Netflix have published their monthly ISP Index. For Ireland the ranking is now: Which is pretty much the same as last month. But what about historically? That’s a little bit more interesting: But the speeds themselves are still really slow with only one ISP (Magnet) giving an average over 2 megabits per second. Remember how [...]

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Podcast with Gabriela Avram of 3DCamp

By on May 10, 2013 in Podcasts
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Here’s a bonus podcast for this week featuring Gabriela Avram, lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Limerick and one of the organisers of 3DCamp, which will be held on 25 May. In the spirit of BarCamp, 3Dcamp is open, inclusive and free to attend – it’s also very cool, with a focus on [...]

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Live Fast & Prosper [Podcast #62]

By on May 9, 2013 in Podcasts
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Brought to you by Blacknight – it’s another Technology.ie podcast, with Michele & Conn and the tech news of the week. Remember Barcamp?  3DCamp is flying the flag in Limerick on May 25th.  (Listen out for a bonus podcast on this tomorrow!) The case begins in the Supreme Court in the Data Protection Commisioner’s appeal [...]

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Mac OSX Productivity Bundle

By on May 9, 2013 in software

Software bundles for OSX are fairly common and often great value. MacHeist and others have made them very popular. If you missed the last MacHeist bundle then this week’s bundle from StackSocial might be worth looking at. It gives you $690 worth of software for $49.99. A single copy of Camtasia for Mac would cost [...]

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Breaking The Language Barrier With Webflakes

By on May 8, 2013 in General

If you don’t speak a language other than English you are probably missing out. You might not realise it, but there’s a LOT of excellent content out there that you can’t read or even be aware of as it’s published in languages other than English. Startup Webflakes is trying to do something about this by [...]

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Buy Gaming Credits With Your Mobile

By on May 8, 2013 in General

If you’re a pay as you go mobile phone user and a gamer then this new service might suit you. Buy Game Points is a new service from Phonovation that launched recently. It does exactly what you’d expect it to do – it lets you buy points for Xbox Live using your mobile phone. At [...]

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Track The Syrian Internet Outage In Realtime Via RIPE

By on May 8, 2013 in General

RIPE may be the “home” to hardcore network geeks, but they do some really cool stuff that the rest of us can appreciated and understand. One of their recent additions is bunch of tools to help mere mortals visualise how the internet is working (or not). In the case of Syria, as has been reported [...]

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Akamai Visualise Internet Traffic

By on May 7, 2013 in General, social media

Akamai carries up to 30% of the web’s traffic so when they start talking about data they’re not only dealing in big numbers, but also significant percentages of the internet’s users. They’ve made public a lot of their data and they’ve done so in a pretty visual and engaging fashion. For example, here’s broadband penetration [...]

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Debian 7.0 Wheezy Released

By on May 6, 2013 in software

Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” was released on Saturday. The latest version of Debian brings a number of new features to the open source operating system including “multiarch support”. Multiarch support means that you’ll be able to install both 32 bit and 64 bit software on the same machine without having to worry about dependencies ie. it’ll [...]

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