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Online Betting Giant Announces 600 Jobs

Paddy Power, the online betting giant based in Dublin, has announced over 600 new jobs for Dublin. With the new jobs the company will have close to 3000 staff. According to reports this morning the jobs will be in a variety of roles including social media, e-commerce, marketing and research. An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny, […]

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Irish Neutral Exchange Joins Twitter And Reveals Data

INEX, the Irish Internet Exchange, where Irish ISPs and content providers “peer” has joined Twitter. While an organisation’s presence on the social media network is hardly newsworthy in itself, the information that they *might* share with Irish internet users is potentially “geektastic” For example: Quietly, while no one was looking, we peered over 45Gbps of […]

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Google.ie Hijacked?

It looks like Google.ie has been hijacked The current whois record shows:  whois google.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain:       google.ie descr:        Google, Inc descr:        Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company) descr:        Registered Trade Mark Name admin-c:      KR59-IEDR tech-c:       CCA7-IEDR registration: 21-March-2002 renewal:      21-March-2013 status:       Active nserver:      ns1.farahatz.net   nserver:      ns2.farahatz.net […]

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Daft.ie Launch Smart TV App

Online property portal Daft.ie has announced that they’ve launched an App for the Samsung range of “smart” TVs. The new app will allow users to access all advertised properties, search and save them to their existing Daft.ie account. Do you have a smart TV? Would you use this? Related articles Daft.ie Unveil TV ad (technology.ie)

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Irish Times New TV Ad

The Irish Times has launched a new advertising campaign entitled The Story of Why. You can read more about the background to the campaign on their site. Here’s the extended version of their TV ad, which runs to 2 minutes. It’s not clear how long the actual TV version is, though obviously it’s not that […]

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The Oatmeal Helps Buy Tesla Property

Remember the entire Tesla vs Edison thing a couple of months back? Shortly after that The Oatmeal started a fund on IndieGogo to help buy Tesla’s old workshop in Shoreham, New York – the Wardenclyffe tower and surrounding land. Earlier this evening they announced that they’d signed the paperwork for the deal: It’s official:we just […]

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Nodejs Conference In Dublin

Node Dublin takes place in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin on October 18th and 19th. The conference focus is node.js and the speaker lineup includes Richard Rodger, David Mark Clements and many more: Isaac Schleuter Mikeal Rogers Dominic Tarr James Halliday Felix Geisendorfer maciej malecki Rick Flakvinge Ben Noordhuis Daniel Shaw Owen Barnes Micheil Starzinger Max […]

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