GAAGO, RTÉ and the GAA’s online streaming service for Gaelic Games outside of Ireland, announced today at Web Summit that payments disruptor Stripe has been selected as the long-term payments partner of GAAGO. Since the service was launched in May this year, Gaelic Games fans in over 150 countries have been enjoying the new reality of […]
PCH founder and CEO Liam Casey is having a busy week in Dublin. He’s attending Web Summit, of course – he says that Silicon Valley was full of talk about that event last week. But before the Summit, PCH was involved with running the three-day Design and Hardware Hackathon at DCU Innovation Campus over the weekend. That’s where he spoke to Technology.ie. […]
It’s just a video of a man pressing a button, OK? Lots of other people clap and cheer. Oh – and Pat Kenny is in it too! [youtube]http://youtu.be/6R6gpt2W15U[/youtube] The video gives a feel for what’s going on here, but Web Summit is packed with so much more. We’re making lots of video here at […]
There’s so much happening at Web Summit, but they’ve managed to scrunch Day One on the Centre Stage into a 30 second video! Web Summit Day 1 in 30 seconds from Sportsfile on Vimeo. I’m here with the Blacknight team, and shooting video for technology.ie. Got a story to tell? Book a slot to come […]
Yesterday at the Web Summit, the winners of the ESB Spark of Genius Award were revealed. A shortlist of 30 finalists was announced on September 3rd. All finalists then pitched for a panel of judges, with entrants being scored on the uniqueness of their idea, their level of development thus far, and their potential for future […]
One of the most suprising things we learn in Physics class is that the acceleration due to Earth’s gravity is constant for any mass (9.81 m/s/s). Gallileo demonstrated it in 1589 by dropping objects of different mass from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Sure, a heavier mass will do more damage, but they all reach the ground at the same time. One explanation […]
I’m at Web Summit for the next three days reporting for Technology.ie, and the Blacknight team are here too. You can talk to Gianni about domains and hosting, dedicated servers and colocation in our state-of-the-art datacentre. Or you can talk to me about your story: your startup, your business, your idea. We’re shooting video interviews over the […]
The CEOs of Dropbox and Evernote were among a group of about 50 high profile technology figures who were evacuated from the home of Paddy Cosgrave last night after his chimney caught fire. The Web Summit founder told the story as he opened the 3-day event on the main stage, welcoming the thousands of attendees to the RDS in Dublin. […]
Ireland’s first multidisciplinary Design and Hardware Hackathon has been one by Cash Up, the team which developed and prototyped a connected cash register over the course of the three-day event which finished last night. Following on the success of the Hardware Hackathon in September, the weekend event added a focus on design this time around. The event was organised […]
54% of US firms now employ some form of cloud computing, but there is a huge variation among IT managers when it comes to awareness of the security issues associated with cloud computing, and how to address them. Here’s a recent infographic compiled by Dell which presents some recent research on attitudes and awareness among IT […]
