The sign on the wall here in Technology.ie office says ‘More Cat Videos‘. It’s a simple philosophy, but we’re simple people, and we need reminding on a daily basis. This one’s from GoPro, and features Didga, the skateboarding cat from Australia. Go on! One more cat video couldn’t hurt, could it? Did I mention skateboarding? And […]
We had a great time at The SME Awards on Saturday, which Blacknight sponsored. It was a great chance to meet friends old and new and celebrate Irish SMEs. Thanks to Rick O’Shea and to Damien Mulley and his team for putting on a great show! We’ve got lots of video from the event; here’s the first with […]
Microsoft’s 3-day Build developer conference got underway yesterday in San Francisco and the first day had some interesting developments, such as the news that Windows will compete aggressively with Android on small devices, by making it free for devices with screens less than 9 inches. Also – they announced new Software Development Kits to allow easy […]
The EU Parliament has voted to make the eCall system mandatory in new cars and light vans from April 2018. In the event of a serious accident, eCall automatically dials 112 – Europe’s single emergency number – and opens a voice channel. It also transmits automatically a minimal amount of information required to assist the emergency […]
Last October, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Safety Check while on a visit to Tokyo. It’s meaningful to be in Tokyo to announce this because the great earthquake and tsunami a few years ago inspired us to build the first version of this for Japan. Now we’re glad to have this ready to serve everyone […]
The inaugural Blacknight SME Awards was held last night at the Radisson Hotel in Cork, and the Grand Prix went to LearnUpon, a learning management system provider, which is growing internationally and exporting its services around the globe. As well as the Grand Prix, LearnUpon also won awards in the ‘Customer Focus’ and ‘B2B Export […]
Last month Mick Moran dropped into Blacknight’s office in Carlow. As Interpol‘s Assistant Director for Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation, he has a particular interest in Internet governance and over the years he’s attended meetings of ICANN and other industry bodies. In the process he’s gotten to know our CEO, Michele Neylon, so he called in to say hello when […]
So cats always land on their feet? Well – maybe they do – but that’s not what saves them from death. It turns out that feline aerodynamics are such that a cat’s ‘terminal velocity’ – the constant speed it reaches when acceleration due to gravity is equal and opposite to the drag caused by air resistance – is […]
Dell today announced that it is creating 100 new ‘Innovation Technology’ R&D roles at its Limerick Campus. This investment in digital innovation will support the company’s ongoing technology transformation enhancing the end to end sales, customer and partner experience. Today’s investment builds on an announcement in October which saw 60 Dell Commerce Services roles created […]
Last week’s Digital Rights Europe conference was a great gathering of technology, business and legal minds: thoroughly enjoyable, and productive too! If you missed it (or if you were too busy networking to catch all the presentations) DRI have made some of the presentations available on their website – and there’s more on the way. We’ve also […]
