Archive | May, 2013

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Breaking The Language Barrier With Webflakes

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

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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Akamai Visualise Internet Traffic

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

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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The Puppy Gets It [Podcast #61]

Easyjet does away with checkins This is very cool if you’re a Mac fan (but eye bleedingly expensive .. ). Twitter warns journos about security and open up their advertising platform. Ultra secure messaging – wipe the messages on both ends – they’ve even got a hacker challenge! The Ennis Innovate incubator programme invites applications from startups. MicksGarage.com […]

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Unboxing

The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be available via Three later this month and they’ve put out a video showing the unboxing, which shows off some of the phone’s features. Three Ireland are offering a number of plans with the S4 that include plenty of data, so that you don’t have to worry about how much […]

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ICT Excellence Shortlist Announced

Mediateam’s annual ICT awards are being held in the Ballsbridge Hotel on May 16th. This year’s shortlist has been announced: T Project of the Year (Public Sector) Triangle Opensky Data Systems & Dublin City Council DataEdge & IAA McKesson & HSE Post.Trust IT Project of the Year (Private Sector) Codec-dss Arkphire VMWare TEKenable and VoiceSage […]

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MicksGarage.com Announce Investment & Expansion

Online car parts retailer MicksGarage.com has just announced a significant expansion and investment. The announcement was made this morning during the opening of the company’s new facilities in Dublin by  An Taoiseach Mr Enda Kenny. The company has announced that it plans to create another 65 jobs over the next two years. They’ve also got […]

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