This week, technology.ie is at TBEX, the global conference which puts travel bloggers in touch with the travel industry. There are also some cool travel and blog related technologies here – but let’s begin with a chat with Lola Akinmade Åkerström. Lola is an award-winning writer, photographer, and blogger based in Stockholm, Sweden whose work regularly […]
If you weren’t at the Ploughing Championships, you might have caught the live stream, running on AerTV, on the Irish Independent website and on Agriland.ie. Naturally, technology.ie was more interested the the technicalities of the operation than in the content itself! Content Director for The MediaPool, Kevin MacDermott, was only too happy to give us […]
While it might not be on the scale of the Amazon announcement from earlier this week, Carphone Warehouse has announced today that they’re taking on 60 additional staff for the Christmas season. The company, which has 84 stores across the country, already employs over 600 people. Peter Scott, MD of Carphone Warehouse Ireland said: “We […]
“Best CIO” is a new award at this year’s Dot IE Net Visionary Awards. Sponsored by Intel, it was judged by a special panel chaired by Dennis Jennings, who explained that the award recognised the importance of data in modern computing, and the role of the CIO in managing data and using it to drive […]
We’ve already blogged about our own Michele Neylon’s success at the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards, but there were 17 other winners on the night also. Here is a video of the presentation of 15 of those awards. Also, coming soon: the Special Recognition and CIO of the Year awards. And well done to Paul […]
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last few days you’ll be aware that the US government has shut down. While a lot of reports have focussed on which services were impacted by the shut down several of the technology sites have been looking at online services. Ars Technica reports on the apparently arbitrary […]
I had pleasure of chatting with Mel McLaine, on Friday night at the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards. He was the official photographer for the event and I’m delighted to see that his photo-record of the event is now available online! Go check yourselves out if you were there. Ye’re all looking gorgeous! 🙂 I’ve […]
“You’re Blacknight? You host my site!” “Cool! Tell me about your site!” Rory McEvoy was chatting on twitter one night when he decided to test his followers’ general knowledge. The response surprised him, and gave him an idea. Now Rory runs Twiznight every Monday at 9:30pm. Each quiz is sponsored and all the tweets feature […]
A lot of retailers take on extra staff for Christmas. However in the case of Amazon’s US operations the number of staff involved is huge. The online retail giant has announced that they’ll be hiring more than 70 thousand full-time seasonal staff this year! That’s a 40% increase compared to 2012. The company will retain […]
