The Ultimate Hobbit Trailer
With the last instalment of The Hobbit (The Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies) going on release this week the epic journey through Middle Earth is coming to a close. Naturally somebody decided to use this an excuse to make a Hobbit trailer spanning the entire series: The Hobbit The Battle of the Five […]
Bitbuzz is Bought by UPC
Ireland’s leading WiFi provider Bitbuzz has been bought by communications giant UPC. Bitbuzz, is a WiFi network operator providing a range of managed services to hotels, airports, café bars, pubs and other public locations throughout Ireland and the UK. Founded in Dublin in 2003, it expanded into the UK market in early 2008 and in 2010 opened a dedicated […]
Captain Picard Sings your Christmas Favourites – Make it So
This is fantastic. It originally appeared last Christmas, but it’s an evergreen. Make it so, make it so, make it so! [youtube]http://youtu.be/KeaehxEdpgo[/youtube] Technology.ie is powered by Blacknight.
Hotel Tonight Founders Took Advantage of the Shift from Web to Mobile [Video]
Sam Shank is co-founder of Hotel Tonight, the last minute hotel booking service. Originally geared towards tonight-only bookings it has now expanded to allow users to book accommodation up to seven days in advance. Speaking to Technology.ie at Web Summit, Sam says Hotel Tonight’s business model is designed to take advantage of “the shift from web […]
Bond is Back, SPECTRE is the 24th 007 Film
James Bond Producers, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli yesterday released the title of the 24th James Bond adventure, SPECTRE. The film, from Albert R. Broccoli’s EON Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, is directed by Sam Mendes and stars Daniel Craig, who returns for his fourth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007. […]
Realex Payments wins Ulster Bank International Business Award
Realex Payments has been announced as the winner of the International Business Award at the Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards 2014. The Company, which processes over €28bn per annum for 12,500 online and mobile businesses worldwide was the overall winner amongst the 4 companies shortlisted from each province. Realex Payments’ reach is truly global with […]
Limerick Company Arralis Wins European Space Agency Contract
The European Space Agency has awarded a significant contract to Arralis, a technology company servicing the aerospace and security sector founded and based in Limerick. Arralis designs and manufactures high frequency semiconductor chips, modules and antennas up to and beyond 110GHz. Under the contract Arralis will deliver a 94GHz radar chipset with space end-use applications, […]
Are You a Robot? Google’s new CAPTCHA is that Simple
Google has updated its reCAPTCHA, anti-bot system to cut down on the number of times it needs to ask you to identify distorted text. It turns out the bots are getting better at reading distorted text, as good as 98.9% accurate. Google, meanwhile, has developed advanced risk analysis of users’ behaviour which allows it give most humans a pass, […]
The Ballad of Lidl and Aldi [Video]
… I’d go out to Lidl or Aldi for a pound of sausages, and I’d come home with a pound of sausages, and a cordless drill, and a wetsuit, and an inflatable dinghy, and a portable generator … – Mickey MacConnell What I like about Aldi and Lidl is the lack of choice. There’s usually only one brand of everything, […]
Trad Tune Challenge for Walk in My Shoes Mental Health Awareness Campaign
I’ll say one thing for the Ice Bucket Challenge, it encouraged a lot of people to try uploading video to the web. Now some of them have figured out there are even better things to upload than someone getting ice water tipped over them. True, the Trad Tune Challenge is not as dramatic as its icy inspiration, […]