It was one of the most unique and intimate events relating to social media in 2013. Now the organisers of CONGregation, the one-day social media unconference held in Cong, Co Mayo, are looking for “expressions of interest” for 2014. CONGregation is unusual in that you cannot buy a ticket for the event: you have to blog your way in. There […]
Visa Europe today confirmed that its digital wallet service, V.me by Visa, will expand to Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Italy by the end of the year. Pilots will also launch in Greece, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2015, taking the total number of markets offering the service to 12. They’ve also announced a further […]
Matt Watts is EMEA Director of Technology and Strategy at storage & data management provider, NetApp. He spoke at the Fujitsu World Tour event at the Convention Centre in Dublin last week, on the topic of The Changing Role of IT – Becoming a Broker of Services to Business. Technology.ie is powered by Blacknight, Ireland’s leading provider of domains and […]
Found on Twitter, this picture eloquently sums up the difference between three popular operating systems. HT: Matt Watts
Déanfar seoladh eisiach anocht ar an dlúthdhiosca nua pop-cheoil i nGaeilge: Ceol #10, ar an gclár Rí-Rá ar RnaG ar RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta idir a 9 agus a 10 a chlog. Tá Raidio Rí-Rá ar fáil go forleathan ar an idirlíon ar rrr.ie, agus ar an gcóras digiteach DAB i mBaile Átha Cliath agus i bPort Láirge. […]
They’ve embraced the web and social media and they’re hiring geeks for their “innovation hub” in Swords, complete with giant chess and multi-coloured cubicles (we can’t confirm the existence of beanbags). But the flight path to online success is fraught with turbulence, and the response to Ryanair’s new mobile app, launched yesterday, can be described as mixed. The […]
If you’re thinking of attending The Summit in Dublin in November, today’s your last chance to to get the Super Early Bird three-day ticket, for €525. Prices go up by €1000 at midnight, but please note that is midnight Pacific Time, appropriately enough for an event with its feet on the ground in Dublin, but its […]
There are two kinds of people in Ireland: those who grew up with British TV and those who didn’t. For the second group, there will always be references that go right over our heads and for me, until recently, Doctor Who was among them. I missed the reboot of Doctor Who in 2005 because, by then, […]
Fujitsu brought their 2014 World Tour to the Convention Centre in Dublin last week. Professor Barry Smyth, CEO of the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics, gave a talk entitled From Small Sensors to Big Data: The data driven business. Our modern mobile devices, explains Barry, are sensor platforms, contributing to the collection of 1 exabyte (=1 million […]
In the unending quest to entertain the people of the internet, it was only a matter of time before somebody sat down a group of Americans and fed them Mikado biscuits and black pudding. The result is mildly amusing, to be fair, even if it’s not exactly an enlightening cultural exchange. The decision to give the victims Smokey Bacon […]
