Fujitsu World Tour Comes to Dublin
Research from global ICT solutions provider Fujitsu has revealed that nearly two thirds (63%) of leading Irish financial services CIOs and IT decision makers expect their budgets will increase within three years. Possible factors for the increase in expenditure include improved market conditions, expansion and the replacement of existing infrastructure. The research, which included areas […]
Game of Thrones Visual Effects (Video)
German company Mackevision is one of several involved in the visual effects of HBO’s blockbuster series Game of Thrones. A couple of days ago they released a video that “reveals” some of the visual effects work they contributed to season 4. It’s a little bit like having a magician tell you how they perform a […]
Doro’s new PhoneEasy® 508 is The Anti-Smartphone
OK – so we all know that we’ve got more computing power in our pockets than the Starship Enterprise had going to Aldebaran. Or maybe not – it’s hard to keep up with Moore’s Law these days. But sometimes people just want a phone. And while technology is embraced by many older people, and can provide significant […]
Clever Yet Cruel German Reaction To #GER vs #BRA
This video, from a German radio station, started doing the rounds last night. When I posted it to my personal account around midnight Irish time it had only clocked up a couple of thousand views .. it’s now at well over a million! Here it is: http://youtu.be/RLZUKqpXYzU
Brazil’s Defeat Breaks Twitter Records
Brazil’s shocking annihilation last night at the hands of Germany in the World Cup Semi-Final, is the most tweeted sporting event ever, with 35.6 million tweets, according to the official TwitterData account. With 35.6 million Tweets, #BRA v #GER is the most-discussed single sports game ever on Twitter. #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/pRjssAZmhg — Data (@XData) July 9, 2014 Not only […]
Doctor Who Reimagined – Power Rangers Style
So a bunch of Japanese guys decided to have a go at re-imagining Doctor Who. Am I the only one who thinks they’ve captured the essence of the Time Lord’s adventures? I particularly like the Sonic Screw Sword! This could catch on. Imagine Fawlty Towers next? Or Oireachtas Report? HT: Graham Cluley says it’s the “weirdest thing […]
€23 million in SFI Funding for Young Researchers
The Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr Seán Sherlock, T.D. has announced €23 million in new funding to help support 40 of Ireland’s most promising young research talent to become fully independent researchers. The funding which is being awarded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) will help ensure that Ireland’s most talented young researchers can be encouraged […]
Hassle.com now Matching Cleaners & Clients in Ireland [Audio]
Today’s podcast (18:32; 11MB; MP3) features Jules Coleman, co-founder of Hassle.com, which launched in Dublin yesterday. Hassle.com is an online marketplace that allows busy people to book and pay for someone to come and clean their house. Traditionally, this has been a difficult task, heavily dependent on word-of-mouth recommendations and trust, both on the part of the client […]
How far can Legolas see?
Don’t you just hate it when science gets in the way of a good story? No doubt JRR Tolkien thought it would be cool to give telescopic vision to elves, but it turns out that the laws of wave diffraction make it physically impossible to distinguish the detail which Legolas describes in The Two Towers. Or […]
Get Paid to Watch Netflix – No, Seriously!
So you like watching Netflix? TV shows, documentaries, movies – you can lose hours in there, I know! But what if you could get paid for it as well? No, I’m not kidding! It turns out that Netflix employ actual humans as taggers. Their job is to watch Netflix content, and then generate tags to help describe and categorise the […]