We’ve talked about the digital copyright debacle several times over the past couple of months. With the signing into law of the copyright SI last week some may have felt that the story was over, but in many respects it’s only the end of a chapter. There is now an open consultation on the subject. […]
Conn and I will be recording this week’s podcast this evening. On the show this week we’re very lucky to have Nataša Đukanović from the .me registry as our special guest. Nataša is sales and marketing director for the .me domain name registry and is also one of the nicest people I know in the […]
This week EMC launched their cloud4gov initiative, along with the government, and other industry partners. The Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte made a nice speech. I was talking tech on Raidio na Gaeltachta the next day when the interviewer asked me whether these kinds of announcements could ever deliver what they seem to promise. And […]
We’re giving away an Xbox 360 over on the Blacknight Facebook page. More details here and you can enter here.
Spotted in County Clare. OK, so it’s not an iPad killer, but that’s hardly an excuse to burn them by the bagful, is it?
When I blogged about my plans to “cut the cord” the other day, I didn’t know that Netflix was coming to Ireland and the UK. But when I turned on Twitter this morning it was the subject of every second tweet. First of all, hats off to them for a simple sign up. This photograph […]
I hate to use the word ‘austerity’. I’ve resisted giving in to the “doom & gloom”, aware that it’s a convenient trope for media in “the current climate”. But in 2011 it’s become clear that ‘austerity’ is more than just a media cliche. And this Christmas as we’ve reconnected with old friends, people are talking […]
2012 is upon us! So what does it hold for technology and the web? Will Facebook have an IPO? Will Google’s social network take market share from Facebook? Will ICANN be able to launch new TLDs on time? We don’t have the answers to any of those questions – yet, but throughout 2012 we plan […]
That’s the question which puzzled Trevor Eckhart when he discovered it installed on a range of smartphones. But it’s not what it is, so much as what it does, that gave him cause for concern … Mobile networks have rushed to distance themselves from this product, and the company itself claims that it is nothing […]
Someone posted about these over on Google+ and they really caught my eye Each card is available in multiple languages – programming languages obviously! If anyone sends me one of these it will be cherished! Related articles Code Cards of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at) Sugar Shout Out: Cool and Colorful Geeky Gifts Under $25 (fabsugar.com) […]
