Here’s the first of many videos we will bring you from Web Summit 2015. We spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani from Radix, the company behind some of the most tech’ and business friendly new Top Level Domains, including .TECH, .PRESS, .HOST, .WEBSITE, .SITE, .ONLINE, .SPACE and .PW. Registries agree that part of their job involves educating a public still unfamiliar with the […]
What makes a good password? It should be easy to remember, and difficult to crack. According to security researcher Per Thorsheim, those two properties can reinforce each other. The key is to make a password personally significant to the user yet very long – e.g. a sentence. If I ask you to remember a random number, like 37824601, it […]
From big corporations to aggressive startups, Dermot Casey helps companies to work better. In particular, he helps them to think strategically about how to leverage technology in the service of their business goals. Formerly COO and CTO at Storyful, now he works with Keith Bohanna at Near Future. At the Vodafone Smart Business Show in the RDS, he gave a […]
I met Terry Prone at the Vodafone Smart Business Show in the RDS, where she gave a talk on Communication in the Digital Age. “You’ve been doing this since long before there was a Digital Age”, I said to her. “What’s changed?” Communications is faster now, and more immediate, says Terry. And with the convenience comes the […]
Technology.ie attended the Vodafone Smart Business Show at the RDS recently. Among the speakers was Louise Phelan, VP Global Operations EMEA with Paypal in Dublin. Speaking on The Future of Money, she told the audience: it’s got to be mobile. Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight, Ireland’s leader in hosting and domains. Did you know? Dot-Irish […]
The finalists have been announced for The Maximum Media Social Media Awards (The Sockies), to be held on Wednesday June 3rd in the RDS Concert Hall. The premier awards show in Ireland for all things digital marketing and social media, there are 27 categories this year covering areas such as Facebook, Twitter, Business categories, Campaigns and […]
We’re at the Smart Business Show today, on the second day of a two day event sponsored by Vodafone Ireland. The event got underway yesterday with Dara Murphy, Minister for European Affairs & Data Protection, and Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke officially opening the show. More […]
Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave has said that the event may leave Ireland if WiFi issues at the RDS cannot be resolved. He was speaking on stage yesterday as Web Summit drew to a close. He also revealed that he thinks the event which catered to 22,000 people is still not big enough, describing it as “Glastonbury for Geeks”. Later, RDS and […]
Web Summit has published details of Twitter traffic over the three days of the event: 120,000 tweets published (from over 40,000 unique Twitter accounts) Tweets per minute peaked between 11am and 2pm on Tuesday (coinciding with Eva Longoria’s Main Stage and Food Stage appearances). Longoria was the most-mentioned speaker at the Summit to date – […]
Pitch, which is the largest start-up competition in Europe, is being held in Dublin as part of Web Summit. The competition is sponsored by Coca-Cola. With over 200 entries from over 36 countries the last two days have seen a lot of activity and heated competition between the start-ups who made the original list. So […]
