Eclipse 2015 provided some tantalising glimpses through the clouds, but for most people in Ireland it was just a ‘slightly darker’ cloudy morning. Blacknight’s attempt to stream the event online was described as “a washout”: the skies only cleared as the event had passed and the equipment taken down. Similarly at Trinity College, which held a viewing event […]
Those boffins at Blacknight HQ are at it again! When not tweaking servers or flogging domain names they’ve been known to gaze in wonder at the stars and, with a spectacular astronomical event in the form of a partial solar eclipse scheduled for Friday morning, they’ve decided to stream live video of the event at blacknight.solar. […]
Starting today at 3pm you can register a domain name in the brand new .Science domain, and to celebrate, Blacknight is offering .science domain names for the ridiculous price of €2.55! Why .Science? Well as the new registry’s CMO Andy Churley explains, we’re nearly all scientists, when you think about it! [youtube]http://youtu.be/3CbUzSLZLBI[/youtube] There are lots […]
Nitro, the Australian founded, San Francisco headquartered, document management company are having a week-long recruitment drive for their EMEA HQ in Dublin, culminating in a talk by their Director of Engineering, Brendan Dillon at Career Zoo tomorrow at 2:30pm. They’ve been busy promoting their ‘work hard – play hard’ corporate culture, which they’ve nicknamed ‘The Wombat Republic‘, in a a […]
Child sexual abuse is a distressing subject to think about, but it’s important not to let that get in the way of playing our part in the fight against it. For this reason, INHOPE, the global network of Internet hotlines, which includes Hotline.ie, has produced a video explaining its work, and the important role played by members […]
It’s been a little quiet here at Technology.ie the last few days. I’ve been out and about meeting my favourite kind of interesting people: entrepreneurs. I’ve got three new videos up on the Blacknight Blog: quick interviews with people involved in Irish SMEs. You can expect to see more in that vein in the coming weeks as […]
SpunOut.ie, Ireland’s youth information website, has partnered with social networking platform Twitter to launch a new ‘Online Safety Information Hub’ to mark Safer Internet Day 2015 (February 10th). Each year the global online safety community celebrates Safer Internet Day to raise awareness of the steps we can all take to make the internet a better […]
Blacknight, Ireland’s leading provider of web hosting and domains, has announced that it is to be the headline sponsor for the inaugural SME Awards to be held on April 25 2015, at the Radisson Hotel in Cork. Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon joins us on today’s podcast to talk about the Awards and Blacknight’s commitment to SMEs. Click on […]
Last night’s Digital Summit in Galway was a tremendous success! The talks were streamed live and you can watch them here, and there was plenty of energy in the lobby as well! Over the coming days, Technology.ie will bring you interviews with many of the speakers, exhibitors and participants from Galway Digital Summit. To start with, this video features some […]
Here’s part 2 of our chat with Pat Divilly at OMiG (Online Marketing in Galway) December meeting. He’s built a successful business on social media and content marketing, so we asked him about his approach to content. [youtube]http://youtu.be/x24YWd0j2f8[/youtube] Part 1 of the conversation is here. Blacknight is sponsoring OMiG’s first Galway Digital Summit tonight at the Ardilaun Hotel. […]
