Free Wifi On Irish Buses
According to a report in the Sunday Business Post, Bus Eireann, the Irish semi-state bus company, is to offer free wifi on 100 of its buses. Several of the private bus companies that service routes such as Dublin Airport to Galway, have been offering free wifi on their services for the last couple of years, […]
Ulster Bank’s Technical Disaster To Cost Bank Over 35 Million
Ulster Bank’s technical disaster, which left thousands of Irish customers without access to their money, will cost the bank at least 35 million Euro in compensation. Scarily the bank’s parent, RBS, is still not stating that the issue has been fully rectified: The bank’s parent, Royal Bank of Scotland, said the computer error, which stopped […]
Short & Sweet [Podcast #38]
OK so we know that .CO is pitching itself as the “cool” TLD, but there may be more to it than spin if Crystal Peterson is anyone to judge by. Crystal Peterson is cool. She’s a natural podcaster and could have a career in media if she ever gets tired of the domain industry. Right […]
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Appealing Three Strikes Case
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is appealing a case to the Irish Supreme Court. The case involves Irish ISP Eircom’s out of court agreement with the music industry to implement a “three strikes” rule or “graduated response” to alleged copyright infringers. The Irish Times has full coverage of this latest chapter in the IRMA vs […]
Aer Lingus To Offer Wifi?
Aer Lingus is exploring offering wifi on both European and Transatlantic flights reports Damien Mulley. According to Damien’s article the airline would charge €10 for a UK or European flight, while they’d charge €20 for a flight to the US. Other airlines, such as Delta, base their pricing on the more traditional time periods eg. […]
Netflix Traffic Down 25% In US – Blames Olympics
While Netflix might be available in several countries, including Ireland, the biggest and most important market for the company remains the USA. So when reports came out that the service’s traffic was down 25% some analysts might get a bit worried. Netflix, however, are blaming the dip in traffic on the Olympics. Subscription based video […]
Facebook announces fake users
So what’s in the numbers. We’re constantly hearing about people buying fake followers on most of the social networks, you can head on over to the likes of http://fiverr.com/ and for you guessed it a fiver you’ll end up with someone getting you a load of new followers. Of course if you don’t know any […]
Bacon Flavoured Filler Text
If you browse the web enough (I do!) then you’ll come across a lot of filler text, AKA Lorem Ipsum. It’s usually the same text over and over again: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud […]
Hulu Plus Comes To Apple TV
While this is not going to be officially available to Irish Apple TV users anytime soon, it’s still interesting news. Hulu Plus is now available to 2nd generation (black) Apple TV users with iTunes US accounts. The extra icon “magically” appeared in an update in the last couple of days. What’s interesting is that you […]
My kingdom for a calculator
While this is in no means ground breaking it’s a rather nice little feature. I’ve known for a long time that Google will do your sums for you. Head to google.com and put in 20×10= hey presto it’ll throw the answer back to you. In general the answer is displayed for you before any potential […]