The Irish Internet Association‘s annual Net Visionary awards are now accepting nominations. This year’s categories are: Best Website – joyous to look at and splendid to use Best Web Development Agency Best Cloud Services for SMEs Best Mobile Application – indispensable to its users Best International Scaling Irish Business Best Start-Up – the one to […]
Archive | June, 2015
Silage Time Lapse
Watch a farmer cut, bale and collect a field of silage in this time lapse. The entire operation took several hours in reality, but with the time lapse it’s reduced down to just over 5 minutes. (You might want to turn off the sound)
Eircom launches Competition for Rural Fibre Trial
eircom, Ireland’s largest telecommunications provider, has launched a nationwide competition to identify the next Fibre To The Home rural trial community. The move follows on from the first successful trial site in Belcarra, County Mayo, which has seen business and residents of this rural community enjoy the enormous economic, educational and social benefits of having […]
Irish Ambassador Addresses ICANN in Argentina, as Dublin prepares for ICANN 54
ICANN 53 is drawing to a close in Buenos Aires, and delegates are looking ahead to ICANN 54, which will be held in Ireland for the first time, hosted in Dublin by peering exchange INEX. INEX CEO Barry Rhodes will address the public forum at 2pm local time, and he’ll be joined on stage by the Irish ambassador […]
Cake Café’s Ethical Business Makes a Story for Social Media [Video]
The Cake Café in Dublin is a business built around a story: a message of sustainability and environmental responsibility which underpins everything they do, and gives them lots to talk about on social media, as well as in books, TV and other media. It also helped them to win the Best Environmentally Minded Business Award at The […]
Taylor Swift Gets Apple to Agree to Pay Royalties During Streaming Trial
View image | gettyimages.com Apple has backed down on their plans to not pay artist royalties during the three month trial period of the new Apple Music streaming service. It follows criticism by Taylor Swift, and others, who had complained about the proposal in the wake of Apple’s announcement at WWDC. In a post on Tumblr, Swift […]
Last chance to Stake Your Claim as Dot-Irish Landrush Concludes!
The Land Rush Phase of the new Dot-Irish domain Extension will draw to a close tomorrow, Saturday 20 June at 5pm Irish time. Until then, if you’ve got your eye on a prime domain name, you’re still in with a chance of getting it if you get your application in. Land Rush applications are being taken over at Blacknight.irish, […]
Accepting Payments Online is Easier than Ever – Realex Payments [Video]
Ireland’s SMEs have lagged behind internationally for the ability to accept payments online, but they are catching up fast, says Paul Dunne of Realex Payments. He was speaking at a free seminar for SMEs organised by Mulley Communications, in conjunction with the recent Blacknight SME Awards. Setting up an account with Realex Payments is as simple […]
Which Voters Are More Likely To Be On Twitter?
As we’ve mentioned in the past social media is playing an ever important role in politics, both nationally and internationally. The latest research from Ipsos MRBI looks at voters, the parties they support and how many have Twitter accounts: It indicates that Labour voters are most likely to report Twitter account ownership and that they […]
Facebook To Build Data Centre In Ireland
According to news reports this morning Facebook is planning on building a data centre in Ireland. The new facility will be located near Clonee in Meath. According to reports the project will have a budget of around €200 million and will boost Facebook’s Irish staff numbers to over 1000. The company already employs over 900 […]