We mentioned Parcel Motel a few months ago. It’s a fantastic service and I’ve been using it for both business and personal use for the last few months and it’s saved me time and money. A lot of UK retailers either do not ship to Ireland or charge much higher rates to do so. With […]
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Comreg Reports Increase in Broadband Speeds
Comreg, the Irish Communications Regulator, has issued its latest report which covers Q2 2013 ie. April 1 to June 30. According to the report Irish broadband speeds have increased, mobile phone penetration is up. However, revenue per user (ARPU) is down. Here’s a few figures and quotes from their release: In Q2 approximately 37.5% of […]
Save 5% On O2 Billpay Phones
We write about mobile phones and gadgets here, so being able to share an offer with you makes sense 🙂 O2 Ireland are offering a 5% discount on the purchase of a phone when you sign up for a bill pay plan. Full details of the phone handsets available here – just use the coupon […]
Buy Gaming Credits With Your Mobile
If you’re a pay as you go mobile phone user and a gamer then this new service might suit you. Buy Game Points is a new service from Phonovation that launched recently. It does exactly what you’d expect it to do – it lets you buy points for Xbox Live using your mobile phone. At […]
Track The Syrian Internet Outage In Realtime Via RIPE
RIPE may be the “home” to hardcore network geeks, but they do some really cool stuff that the rest of us can appreciated and understand. One of their recent additions is bunch of tools to help mere mortals visualise how the internet is working (or not). In the case of Syria, as has been reported […]
ICT Excellence Shortlist Announced
Mediateam’s annual ICT awards are being held in the Ballsbridge Hotel on May 16th. This year’s shortlist has been announced: T Project of the Year (Public Sector) Triangle Opensky Data Systems & Dublin City Council DataEdge & IAA McKesson & HSE Post.Trust IT Project of the Year (Private Sector) Codec-dss Arkphire VMWare TEKenable and VoiceSage […]
Revenue’s New Property Value Site Doesn’t Get Colours
Revenue have launched a new site offering details on Irish property values. The maps are colour coded depending on the valuation bands, but the colours aren’t exactly distinctive: They’re basically just shades of the same colour, so you’d be excused if you find the maps rather confusing. Dublin’s values are bit more colourful, but since […]
Find And Buy Cool Crowdfunded Tech
Crowdfunding is a cool concept, but what happens to all those products when they become available to buy? How can you find them easily? Outgrow.me tries to solve this with its marketplace of crowdfunded products from Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. You can search by “tag” or sort by availability ie. available to buy now vs. accepting pre-orders […]
Want To Win A Groupon Voucher?
We’ve teamed up with the nice people in Groupon to offer a couple of our readers (or fans) a chance to win a Groupon voucher. Do you need any special skills to win? No Just follow the instructions below and you’ll be in with a chance (or a few) to win one of these fabulous […]
Who Should We Interview?
Over the last few months we’ve spoken to quite a few people from Ireland and overseas. We’ve spoken to people about domain names, writing, SEO, marketing, technology (in general) and a whole lot more. We’ve recorded episodes in Ireland, Africa, the US, Costa Rica and various parts of Europe. So who should we be speaking […]