In today’s podcast (19:11; 10.9MB; MP3), Conn catches up with Blacknight’s CEO Michele Neylon, who’s just back from the US. He’s been appointed to the board of i2Coalition – the Internet Infrastructure Coalition which represents the interests of companies “who build the nuts and bolts of the internet”. Blacknight joined last year, joining companies like Dell, Amazon and Google. The […]
The Gathering ended 2013 with claims of: 250-275,000 of overseas visitors to Ireland travelled specifically because of a Gathering, or because of the Gathering The growth in visitor numbers, directly attributable to the Gathering, is estimated to be worth approximately €170million in revenue The Gathering Ireland succeeded in its broad based aim of engaging the […]
It’s an annual feature of the Irish blog world: Damien Mulley’s list of Ones to Watch for the year ahead. It’s a list of people, not organisations, but it’s no surprise to see that it includes two of the team from Trustev – a startup which has recently featured on international business watchlists. But if […]
The Realex Fire Irish Web Awards is about to start, and Technology.ie is on the scene. We don’t plan to live stream it or blog it – but if you’re not one of the 500 people at the Four Seasons Hotel this evening, you can follow the hashtag on Twitter: #realexfirewebs. A short while ago, […]
We mentioned the nominations list was out for the 2012 Irish Web Awards .. What we didn’t mention, however, was that they’ve broken a new record Over 900 websites were nominated for the awards by over 350 people Damien Mulley, the awards organiser, was both delighted and a bit taken aback by the award’s success […]
With “awards season” in full swing there’s been a couple of interesting developments in the last 24 hours. First off, Damien Mulley’s Irish Web Awards have reported their biggest number of entries to date. According to a report in the Business Post there have been over 600 entries so far. Meanwhile the Eircom Spiders have […]
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. […]
This show was recorded late on Tuesday night, with Michele in a Dublin hotel room prior to taking a New York flight the next day. We talk about the Google ‘Wi-Spy’ story. The New York Times identified the Google engineer who wrote the software – it turns out he’s also the author of Netstumbler, a […]
