Sky To Launch Broadband and Phone Services In Ireland
Sky have announced that they will be launching their broadband and phone services in the Irish market later this year. Existing Sky customers were informed by mail last week of the impending launch. If you are interested in finding out more about the service you can sign up for more information via their site.
Irish Company Launch Open Source Mobile CMS
IQ Content have launched Antenna, which is an open source CMS for event listings. The event listing software is also mobile optimised The system offers three publishing options for event listings’ operators: web, mobile and email: You can find out more about the CMS on the official site or grab the code from Github. A […]
He Texted – She Texted [Podcast #47]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 47 for October 26th 2012 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain. ICANN 45; Michele’s new role; Digital Switchover; Dublin Web Summit. He texted – She overanalysed! 😉 iPad Mini Launch; UK site blocking; Irish site blocking (or not!) What Facebook paid for Instagram. Video fun; Ghosts; […]
The Obligatory iPad Mini Launch Post
If we didn’t post something about the launch of the new Apple iPad Mini you might wonder what we were up to .. So here it is.. First off, let’s look at it. Since we obviously don’t have an actual iPad Mini here’s a nice photo of one provided by Apple: Now we could try […]
LG Uses “Scare” Tactics To Show Off Tech
I’m not sure if this is cool or really dumb, but it’s definitely a rather novel way to market a company’s tech products: [youtube]http://youtu.be/NeXMxuNNlE8[/youtube] LG fitted their new screens into the floor of a lift and then tricked people into thinking that the floor was collapsing .. .. What do you think? (If nothing else […]
Macheist Provides Cool Software And Helps Charities
Macheist runs a special bundle offer on Mac software about once a year. The bundles usually give you several hundred euro worth of software for a fraction of the price. This year is no different, with them offering $589 worth for $29. 25% of all purchases goes to charity and you can choose to give […]
The Full Reveal [Podcast #46]
This week’s podcast was recorded on Thursday night last as Michele prepared to depart for ICANN in Toronto. It should have been posted on Friday, but I screwed up! Once again we struggled with hotel WiFi – in fact – we gave up on it and I phoned the hotel room. And that’s where our […]
Raspberry Pi now comes with 512MB of ram
Today Raspberry Pi announced that their “Model B” unit comes with 512MB of ram instead of the 256MB it came with previously. In their announcement they said that anyone waiting on a model B should get the 512MB model starting today October 15th. There will also be a firmware update within the coming weeks that […]
European Network Operator Meeting Coming in May
RIPE will be holding their 66th public meeting in Dublin in May of next year. The meeting will be held in Dublin’s Burlington hotel and will probably see network geeks from across Europe descending on Dublin. Full details on the event are on the event site.
Yahoo! And Bing To Launch Google Adsense Competitor
In the world of “contextual advertising” ie. where ads are displayed based on a web page’s content, Google’s Adsense has dominated the market for the last decade. While there have been several attempts by other companies to compete in the space, none of the offerings to date have managed to hit the “critical mass” to […]