“I have been told by my girlfriend that she’ll dump me as soon as I get it.” Emmet Ryan is talking about Google Glass, and he’s hoping he can talk the lady around before the product goes mainstream. As a technology journalist for the Sunday Business Post he’s obviously into the tech, but he can […]
Phorest is a company with a Big Hairy Audacious Goal: to capture 25% of the global market for management software for hair salons and beauty parlours. They’re already number one in Ireland and the fastest growing in the UK, and they’ve just launched in the US. Connor Keppel is Phorest’s marketing manager and he spoke to Technology.ie at the Sunday Business […]
They’ve gone “gangbusters” in the US for proximity technology such as Apple’s iBeacon, says Sean O’Sullivan of LocalSocial. In Europe, we’re beginning to see deployments in just the last few weeks. One of those deployments is LocalSocial’s app for Savill’s Real Estate: Savill’s on Show. It’s designed for use in show-houses: users can install and run the […]
These days it’s not enough to simply organise a conference, says Adrian Hopkins, you need to create a community around the event. Adrian is the Conference Director with The Sunday Business Post, organisers of The Digital Media and Marketing Summit, which was held last week at Croke Park. Almost 400 people attended the event to […]
Everybody is talking about Irish TV today, as the Mayo company announced its plans to launch a 24 hour TV channel on 1 May, aimed at the Irish diaspora, and promising to create 150 jobs in the process. But when I tuned in to Pat Kenny on Newstalk to hear founder Pierce O’Reilly tell his […]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/EuhJ22KGnSQ[/youtube] A Capital Gains Tax rate of 33% is a tax on risk, and operates as a disincentive to entrepreneurship in Ireland, which amounts to “economic illiteracy”. That’s the view of Galway based entrepreneur and campaigner Declan Ganley, which he expressed recently in an opinion piece in The Sunday Business Post. A few days […]
According to a report in the Sunday Business Post, Bus Eireann, the Irish semi-state bus company, is to offer free wifi on 100 of its buses. Several of the private bus companies that service routes such as Dublin Airport to Galway, have been offering free wifi on their services for the last couple of years, […]
Michele’s in Arizona, at a meeting of domain registrars, discussing policy, including the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. It’s always a struggle to podcast over hotel WiFi but this time we decided it was hopeless. I kept the Skype connection on the studio end, and used Skype-Out to phone Michele’s hotel room. We recorded yesterday on World […]
Michele Neylon is unwell, but he soldiers on. Suffering a reaction to vaccinations for a forthcoming trip to Africa, he should really be in bed, but he’s struggled in to his desk at Blacknight HQ to join me for another Technology.ie Podcast. Our guest this week is Adrian Weckler, Digital Editor of the Sunday Business […]
