Announcing their new fibre-to-the-home joint venture yesterday, ESB and Vodafone made reference to the quarterly reports on the State of the Internet, published by content delivery network, Akamai, and expressed confidence that their venture would propel Ireland “into the ranks of the world’s fastest broadband countries”. But according to the latest report published by Akamai last week, we’re already there. The latest […]
As of July 1st 2014 the rates for roaming across the EU have dropped. This is great news for anyone who likes to travel in the EU and doesn’t want to disconnected while “on the road”. The EU’s Digital Agenda team released a short video to help explain the changes: Personally I’m looking forward to […]
ESB and Vodafone today signed a joint venture agreement to invest €450 million in building a 100% fibre-to-the-building (or fibre-to-the-home, FTTH) broadband network offering speeds from 200 Mbps to 1000 Mbps which it claims will propel Ireland “into the ranks of the world’s fastest broadband countries”. Ireland will become the first country in Europe to utilise […]
If you’re concerned about mobile security, then you might want to spend $629 on a phone designed with security in mind. Blackphone is a joint venture between phone manufacturer Geeksphone and the cryptographic service Silent Circle. Announced in January, it has begun shipping this week. Blackphone uses a custom version of Android its developers call […]
Schools out for the summer, and Miss Mernagh‘s Senior Infants Class have graduated! We met her last year at Blog Awards Ireland where she took the top spot in the Science and Education category. Cathriona Mernagh blogs at MissMernagh.com where she has encountered a community of readers and collaborators who share her interest in early childhood education. It’s very important work and we […]
Antonie Geerts pointed me to this video last night which makes an astonishing, but not very surprising, assertion about Facebook advertising. We already know that buying fake likes is counterproductive, because Facebook’s algorithm penalises pages and users who have a lot of likes from followers who do not engage with them. Veritasium’s Derek Muller gives an overview of […]
