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Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index

Netflix have published their monthly ISP Index. For Ireland the ranking is now: Which is pretty much the same as last month. But what about historically? That’s a little bit more interesting: But the speeds themselves are still really slow with only one ISP (Magnet) giving an average over 2 megabits per second. Remember how […]

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Amazon Taking On Netflix With Original Series?

Last Friday Amazon debuted the pilots for several TV shows on their video streaming service. The 14 pilots include 8 sitcoms and 6 kids animated shows. Based on the viewers’ feedback Amazon will then decide which shows to actually order. In a release earlier today they announced that the pilots had been the most watched […]

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A Geeky Gathering [Podcast #60]

Michele is en route to Beijing this morning for ICANN 46, and Conn phoned him last night at a Dublin hotel for this week’s podcast.  We had a snigger at the annual crop of April Fool stories. The mobile phone is 40 years old – where did you first see yours? Twitter expands “cards”.  Amazon expands […]

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Hemlock Grove Coming To Netflix

Netflix has been making quite a stir in the last couple of months. Not only have they gained a large userbase in Ireland and the UK, but they’ve also started shaking up the market with their own inhouse productions. The first of them House of Cards we’ve mentioned several times in the past. On April […]

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With and Without Makeup [Podcast #58]

It’s makeover time for websites,as the Irish Times and Irish Independent try out new looks.  Google Plus gets a touch up – nobody notices.  Facebook announce a new look – has anybody actually seen it yet?  Anyway, Facebook is uncool.   Again. Google reader gets culled.  Conn and Michele go and wallow in aggregator nostalgia. […]

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Netflix Launch ISP Speed Index

Netflix have been ranking ISPs for the last few months and publishing data on their blog. In the case of Ireland and the UK the data was on their Irish and UK blog (obviously!) The new “speed index” covers all territories where Netflix is available They’ve got quite a lot of data to draw their […]

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Dream Big and Fast [Podcast #56]

Michele & Conn reunite for a Valentine’s day podcast!  On the agenda: Google celebrates George Ferris.  And the Star Wars traceroute! We’ve missed a few shows, so there’s a lot to catch up on: Social WiFi by Karma; About.me buys itself back from AOL; Mega is launched. Vine gets a mention too … remember that?  It was […]

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High Street Retailers Feeling the Pinch

It’s been a pretty bad week for high street retailers. Earlier this evening it was announced that  HMV Ireland has been put into receivership only a couple of days after the company was put into administration. Also today Blockbuster in the UK announced that they have gone into administration. The company has over 500 stores […]

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