The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is appealing a case to the Irish Supreme Court. The case involves Irish ISP Eircom’s out of court agreement with the music industry to implement a “three strikes” rule or “graduated response” to alleged copyright infringers. The Irish Times has full coverage of this latest chapter in the IRMA vs […]
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Aer Lingus To Offer Wifi?
Aer Lingus is exploring offering wifi on both European and Transatlantic flights reports Damien Mulley. According to Damien’s article the airline would charge €10 for a UK or European flight, while they’d charge €20 for a flight to the US. Other airlines, such as Delta, base their pricing on the more traditional time periods eg. […]
Netflix Traffic Down 25% In US – Blames Olympics
While Netflix might be available in several countries, including Ireland, the biggest and most important market for the company remains the USA. So when reports came out that the service’s traffic was down 25% some analysts might get a bit worried. Netflix, however, are blaming the dip in traffic on the Olympics. Subscription based video […]
Bacon Flavoured Filler Text
If you browse the web enough (I do!) then you’ll come across a lot of filler text, AKA Lorem Ipsum. It’s usually the same text over and over again: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud […]
Hulu Plus Comes To Apple TV
While this is not going to be officially available to Irish Apple TV users anytime soon, it’s still interesting news. Hulu Plus is now available to 2nd generation (black) Apple TV users with iTunes US accounts. The extra icon “magically” appeared in an update in the last couple of days. What’s interesting is that you […]
Questions For Crystal From DotCo?
This week we’ll be joined by Crystal Peterson from the .co registry. Crystal is .co’s Director of Channel Marketing and spends most of her time on the road bringing the .co message to internet and startup events across the globe. Prior to joining CoInternet Crystal was with .org and before that she worked with .mobi. […]
Panasonic’s New Camera Potential Eyefi Killer?
One of Panasonic‘s latest cameras, the Lumix SZ5, offers a number of features that are making my mouth water. But the one that really sprang out at me was its wi-fi options. At the moment the only way to get wi-fi on your camera is to use a special memory card with extra software from […]
Talking OSX Mountain Lion With Krystian Kozerawski
We’ll be recording this week’s technology.ie podcast tomorrow evening. With the release of Apple’s latest version of OSX – Mountain Lion, who better to have on the show than one of the leading Mac bloggers in Europe? Krystian Kozerawski aka Mackozer is a man of many talents. He’s one of Poland’s foremost Mac bloggers and […]
OSX Mountain Lion Has Been Released
Apple Mac user? Hardcore fanboy? The latest version of Apple’s OSX – Mountain Lion was released in the last hour. The price in Ireland is EUR 15.99 Will you be making the switch to the new version of Apple’s operating system? Let us know via the comments
Ipads Providing Cheaper And Lighter Alternative For Airline Inflight Entertainment
Apple’s iPad might solve several issues for airlines and their customers. The iPad is being used by several airlines to provide inflight entertainment services. While providing hundreds of iPads is obviously not cheap, they weigh considerably less than the current inflight entertainment systems, so they could save airlines on fuel costs Qantas’ fleet of 767s […]