Archive | November, 2012

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Griffin Announce Lightning Cables

If you’re the proud owner of an iPhone 5, mini iPad or the latest iteration of the iPad you’ll be using a lightning connector. Unfortunately, as we already mentioned, there aren’t that many lightning accessories on the market.. Griffin are one of the few 3rd party vendors to offer lightning cables as of yesterday. The […]

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Apple Releases iTunes 11

Apple has released iTunes 11 which is a complete overhaul of the software. It’s much more visual than its predecessors and the bulk of the new features, as outlined on the Apple site, seem to focus on the user interface. There is, however, one new features that could prove very useful. You can now pickup […]

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Market and Promote Your Online Business

Blacknight, which runs this site, has just announced a new site that is aimed at helping existing Blacknight customers market themselves in the runup to Christmas. The site is designed to help small businesses market their products and services by leveraging Blacknight’s existing marketing and communications. Some more details here Visit the site here. Related […]

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Facebook “Law” Explained

Over the last few days you’ll probably have seen lots of your friends posting a completely pointless and quite inane update to their Facebook wall to “protect” themselves. The guys over at College Humor have broken this down in their own unique way and explain the multiple issues with both the concept and the language […]

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Psy’s Gangnam Style Most Popular Video Ever

Psy’s Gangnam Style video has broken all the records to become the most popular video on Youtube ever. At time of writing it’s clocked up over 815 million views! Not had enough of him yet? You can now order a whole range of Psy themed toys, USB keys and even a bobble head:   Here’s […]

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Undiscovery [Podcast #51]

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 51 for November 22nd 2012, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. Michele’s back from his European odyssey, to Belgrade and back via Brussels and Paris!  Irish Rail report over 1 million sessions on their WiFi service.  ParkYa launch private beta. The ultimate lazy bed! Virtual tape measure might […]

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Post-Budget Briefing For Technology Companies

The Irish Internet Association are running a post-budget briefing for companies in the tech sector. The event is being held on Thursday, December 6th from 9.30am to 11am in the Digital Exchange in Dublin. Speakers for the event will include Michael McGivern, Tax Partner at RSM Farrell Grant Sparks, Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Professor in Finance […]

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Video: Social Media Gurus Explained

The guys at The Onion come up with some very amusing and incisive videos. Their recent one on social media gurus is particularly biting – I suspect some marketing / media types are probably laughing nervously at this.. Or maybe they’re so wrapped up in themselves that they don’t realise the truth? Enjoy! [youtube]http://youtu.be/CK62I-4cuSY[/youtube] Related […]

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