The finalists for the 2015 Realex Payments Web Awards have been announced Apart from the “standard” categories there is also an award for “The Most Influential Irish Website Ever”. This is an award that fascinates me and the shortlist is a very interesting cross-section of new, old, serious and “light”: UCC – they were one of the […]
Last week, the High Court granted billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien an injunction against RTÉ, prohibiting it from revealing any details of his relationship with IBRC (formerly Anglo Irish Bank). Then yesterday, independent TD Catherine Murphy made specific allegations about the banking arrangements between O’Brien and IBRC. Ms Murphy was speaking in a Dáil debate, and her words are privileged under the Constitution, […]
The new RTÉ Player International was launched yesterday by Ryan Tubridy, along with some other well known RTÉ faces. Based on a ‘freemium’ model, the app, which is available on iOS devices only, offers about 100 hours of free RTÉ programming, with up to 500 hours available for a subscription of €8.99 per month. The […]
OMiG, Online Marketing in Galway’s first Digital Summit has been completely sold out, organiser Maricka Burke-Keogh has confirmed. Sponsored by Blacknight, the event will be held in the Ardilaun Hotel on Thursday next, 29 January. The list of speakers includes Hugh Linehan of the Irish Times; Lucy Campbell, Marketing Director of RTÉ Television and RTÉ Digital; Aidan […]
Tickets are going fast for Galway’s first Digital Summit to be held at the Ardilaun Hotel at 6:30pm on January 29. The event has grown out of the monthly gatherings of OMiG – Online Marketing in Galway, founded by Maricka Burke-Keogh. Blacknight is the Gold Sponsor for the Digital Summit, and Technology.ie attended the launch recently in Galway. [youtube]http://youtu.be/eVKgGd4Tjmk[/youtube] The […]
The Minister for Communications, Alex White, TD, yesterday signed the order designating the new UTV Ireland television service for carriage on SAORVIEW, the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television platform. The decision means that Irish television viewers who rely on the SAORVIEW platform will be able to view the new service when it launches on New […]
TV and radio producer Pat O’Mahony has a reputation as someone who is as comfortable with new media as with old. That’s partly due to a series of Christmas programmes he made for RTE in 2009, 2010 and 2011 called Now That’s What You Called News. Based on Google’s Zeitgeist Report on popular searches, the show […]
From the poster boys of Ireland’s erupting tech scene to the heavyweights excelling in global and domestic markets, EY Entrepreneur Of The Year brings you The Entrepreneurs – an all-new documentary series that follows some of Ireland’s most successful entrepreneurs as they overcome fear, failure and adversity in pursuit of their ambitious visions. It starts […]
(Tá podchraoladh i nGaeilge ar fáil in éineacht leis an alt seo. Cliceáil ar an seinnteoir thuas, nó tá sé le híoslódáil anseo: 20:40; 12MB; MP3) A new comprehensive online Irish language news service was launched today by RTÉ, as part of a range of initiatives arising from the report of its internal Irish Language Working Group which was published […]
Remember all that talk about Digital SwitchOver (or Analogue SwitchOff) last year. Yes it was a year ago and now we can all forget about it, right? Well not quite, because RTE are planning to introduce new HD services in the new year, and so we’re all being asked to re-tune our TVs, set-top boxes, […]
