Netflix has just announced that the second season of “House of Cards” will premiere on Friday February 14, 2014. And if you want, you can watch all 13 episodes in a Valentine’s day marathon! Directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright the critically-acclaimed drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls […]
The Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, the Minister for Justice, Equality & Defence Alan Shatter TD, and the CEO of Vodafone Ireland Anne O’Leary have this morning launched a new free smartphone app that allows users to receive CRI (Child Rescue Ireland) alerts direct to their smartphone. The smartphone app was created with the assistance of […]
The Irish law blog Cearta.ie is offline this morning after its owner, Dr. Eoin O’Dell of Trinity College, shut it down in response to a decision regarding its academic value. Responding to queries from his followers on Twitter this morning, Dr. O’Dell explained that he had shut down his blog because the Head of […]
Nominet, the company which runs the .uk ccTLD, have announced that from 2014, people will be allowed to register domain names directly under .uk. Prior to this, you had to choose a second level domain in which to register, such as .co.uk for businesses, .ac.uk for academic institutions, .gov.uk etc. According to Michele on the […]
Moira O’Brien is co-founder of Irish Radio International, an online radio station based in Cork which caters especially to the Irish Diaspora abroad and the new Irish at home. We met her at the launch event for TEDxCorkWomen, which takes place next Friday at the Firkin Crane Theatre in Cork. Blacknight is a sponsor of […]
It’s a big day for online retail, and consequently for credit and debit cards, but millions of customers of RBS and its subsidiaries in Britain and Ireland, including Ulster Bank, found themselves unable to use their cards online or at ATMs yesterday. The banks’ mobile apps and internet banking services were also inaccessible for a […]
I almost feel like this video ought to be a hoax, but then this is, after all, the company who’ve put free live webcam support into their newest tablets. If Amazon seems quirky and outlandish to us when they come out with things like this, maybe it’s because we don’t fully grasp how big their […]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Vj-6WabssEA[/youtube] Congregation took place in Cong, Co. Mayo on Saturday and technology.ie was there. Participants came from the worlds of PR, media and technology, and every participant was a speaker. All had “blogged their way in”, and on Saturday they gathered in a series of “huddles” to talk about social media and how to get […]
Black Friday was big in the US and a lot of Irish online retailers also cashed in on the “big day”. But what about “Cyber Monday”? Several online vendors are running deals today including Amazon – they’re offering a Kindle Fire HDX with a £30 discount today along with many other deals Think Geek are […]
