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Newspaper Licensing Ireland “Clarify” Position

Simon McGarr has been writing extensively over the last couple of weeks about Newspaper Licensing Ireland and the Irish tradition media’s views on copyright. The story has gained a lot of traction and has garnered considerable coverage in the international press, both traditional and digital. Earlier today he posted an update which highlights NLI’s “clarification”. […]

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Track Your Luggage Easily

Airlines lose bags all the time. Last month I spent several days in the US without any luggage – it’s incredibly annoying! A new device might help travellers with this problem (nearly 26 million bags get misplaced every year by airlines!). The gadget called the “TrakDot” fits in the palm of your hand and is […]

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Growth Of The Digital Universe

EMC have published an interesting graphic showing the growth of the “digital universe” and the “cloud” with predictions for 2020. Related articles New Digital Universe Study Reveals Big Data Gap: Less Than 1% Of World’s Data Is Analyzed; Less Than 20% Is Protected (prnewswire.com) Across the Universe (emcplus.emc.com)

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Link Loss [Podcast #54]

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 54 for January 4th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. New Year’s Eve mobile networks didn’t fall over – why? Because people are using alternatives.  Whatsapp did 18 billion messages on NYE – they’re doing about 7 billion / day normally Ubuntu making a play in mobile?  Mark […]

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Social Media + Football Clubs = ?

Welsh football club Newport County AFC were obviously delighted to announce a player transfer yesterday .. maybe a little bit too excited about it even: We can confirm that Jake Thomson has joined Lincoln City on a month's loan. http://t.co/vhEYhrxV — Newport County AFC (@NewportCounty) January 2, 2013 the other club involved, Lincoln City, however, […]

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Social Media In 2012

2012 was an interesting year with Instagram being acquired by Facebook, Psy exploding on the music / video scene (and all the parodies that followed), Facebook had their IPO and so much more. Here’s a nice graphic from The SEO Company that sums it up month by month So does anyone have any predictions for […]

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Going Back [Podcast #53]

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 53 for December 28th 2012, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. They say nostalgia isn’t what it used to be!   The ESB is certainly appealing to the Ghost of Christmas Past with the re-run of this old ad.  (Ironic that upload of this podcast was delayed by a series […]

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