Intel was scheduled to provide a spectacular drone display as part of the opening ceremony at this year’s winter Olympics. Unfortunately the drone part of the ceremony was cancelled. However that doesn’t mean that we can’t all enjoy the performance, as the company had shot video of their behind the scenes work on the performance […]
Today’s podcast was recorded in the office of CEO Michele Neylon at Blacknight HQ. He’s just returned from two weeks in Las Vegas where he attended CES, followed by Namescon. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 23:31; 13MB; MP3. CES was simply huge, says Michele. One thing that caught […]
International CES was on this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show closed yesterday afternoon and the organisers have already released some data on this year’s event: 2.2 million square feet of exhibition space 3600 exhibitors 170 thousand attendees 45 thousand attendees from outside the US 375 startups Final numbers on the event will be […]
Over the years we’ve seen many attempts to improve on the ergonomics of the traditional computer keyboard, which in turn owes its layout to a design intended to slow down the rate of manual typewriters which tended to foul up if one hammer had not got out of the way before the next one struck. Surely, goes the […]
Jothan Frakes joins Blacknight’s Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin on today’s podcast to talk about NamesCon, the domain names conference in Las Vegas from January 11 to 14. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 36:39; 22MB; MP3. A veteran of the domains industry, Jothan is co-organiser of Namescon, now in […]
We mentioned Collision Conf back in January. At the time we didn’t have a lot of information about the event, though we knew who was behind it. Over the past few weeks Paddy Cosgrave and his team have announced speakers and other details. They were also running a “2 for 1” deal on tickets, with […]
Today’s podcast (40:09, 24MB, MP3) was recorded by Michele and Conn at Blacknight HQ, as painters put the finishing touch to the recent rennovations, in preparation for the official launch of Blacknight’s brand new datacentre (more on that soon!) Michele reports from Namescon, which he attended last week in Las Vegas. We talk about domain […]
The team behind Web Summit is expanding into the US. While details on the new conference “Collision Conf” are scant, we do know that Paddy Cosgrave and his team are organising a fairly ambitious conference in the US later this year. They’ve chosen Las Vegas to be the venue, which makes a lot of sense […]
Brought to you by Blacknight – it’s the technology.ie podcast with Michele and Conn. Blacknight has got the builders in! The development of our new datacentre has provided an opportunity to re-model the offices as well. A high-street business would probably put a sign up saying “please excuse our appearance”, but for us, all you’ll […]
