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Aer Lingus To Offer Wifi?

Aer Lingus is exploring offering wifi on both European and Transatlantic flights reports Damien Mulley. According to Damien’s article the airline would charge €10 for a UK or European flight, while they’d charge €20 for a flight to the US. Other airlines, such as Delta, base their pricing on the more traditional time periods eg. […]

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Some Ulster Bank Memes

When something breaks  people get upset. When the thing that’s broken is your bank, then people get very angry (understandly). They also get to post some rather amusing memes about the issue. The recent Ulster bank technical issues is no different. Here are a couple of the better ones: From Hairy Baby: From Twitter user […]

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Minister for the Internet [Podcast #32]

Michele’s in Arizona, at a meeting of domain registrars, discussing policy, including the Registrar Accreditation Agreement.  It’s always a struggle to podcast over hotel WiFi but this time we decided it was hopeless. I kept the Skype connection on the studio end, and used Skype-Out to phone Michele’s hotel room. We recorded yesterday on World […]

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File It In The Shredder [Podcast #29]

This week’s guest is Francesco Cetraro of Afilias.  From their headquarters in Dublin, Afilias run top level domains such as .info and .mobi and also provide the GoMobi mobile website builder tools (currently available on a 30-day free trial from Blacknight!) For this podcast, Francesco joins us from his home in Sweden, with Michele in Carlow […]

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Who Should We Interview?

Over the last few months we’ve spoken to quite a few people from Ireland and overseas. We’ve spoken to people about domain names, writing, SEO, marketing, technology (in general) and a whole lot more. We’ve recorded episodes in Ireland, Africa, the US, Costa Rica and various parts of Europe. So who should we be speaking […]

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What Are This Week’s Hottest Stories In Technology?

Even though this week is “shorter”, as Monday was a holiday in many countries (including Ireland) it’s been a very busy week in technology news circles. The announced acquisition of Instagram by Facebook is probably the biggest story this week, but what other stories are people talking about? We’ll be recording this week’s podcast tomorrow […]

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Patently Obvious [Podcast #21]

Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie podcast episode 21, presented by Conn Ó Muíneacháin and Michele Neylon. “It’s not like I’m over here in Costa Rica sitting by the pool drinking nice cocktails all day long and working on my tan”, explains Michele.  He’s at ICANN 43 this week and apparently it’s not going smoothly.  New TLDs are […]

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Ice Cold in Orlando [Podcast #17]

Michele’s in Florida at the Parallels Summit, but I tracked him down for the podcast.  It wasn’t difficult! It sounds busy, but fun.  Lots of meetings, and a keynote speech from Guy Kawasaki.  Oh – and an ice bar! Here at home, EMC announced an initiative with the government to help developers develop cloud apps […]

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