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Anonymous hacks North Korea’s Twitter page News
04.04.2013 Hacker group Anonymous has declared its own war against North Korea by hacking in and seizing control of the country’s Twitter and Flickr accounts. -
Denis O’Brien assembles Digicel consortium to pursue Myanmar mobile licence News
04.04.2013 Denis O’Brien has assembled a consortium of investors that includes US-Hungarian billionaire businessman and philantropist George Soros and Myanmar business leader Serge Pun to... -
World’s first mobile phone call happened 40 years ago today News
03.04.2013 Forty years ago today, on 3 April 1973, the first call from a handheld mobile phone was made by its inventor Dr Martin Cooper, then-head of Motorola’s communications division.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Cisco to acquire mobile-networking company Ubiquisys for about US$310m News
03.04.2013 Networking equipment maker Cisco is to acquire Ubiquisys, a provider of intelligent 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) small-cell technologies, for about US$310m. -
Is Facebook a wolf stalking mobile operators – could a Facebook SIM be next? News
03.04.2013 Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to launch a new smartphone in collaboration with HTC, as well as a new home screen app for Android users. Analysts reckon this is the start of a... -
Verizon denies joint plans with AT&T to bid for Vodafone in €200bn mega merger News
03.04.2013 US telecoms player Verizon has blasted speculation that it plans to co-operate with AT&T in a bid to buy UK telecoms giant Vodafone in a transaction rumoured to be worth in... -
Digital Ireland Forum to focus on next-generation technologies that will transform business News
02.04.2013 The next generation of technologies being deployed in communications, media, finance and software will have a profound impact on the competitiveness and growth of our businesses...Categories: Leadership & Management, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Communications -
Irish internet users saw little impact of major cyberattack - INEX News
02.04.2013 The exchange that handles 95pc of data traffic from Irish people using the internet has said it was unaffected while a major cyberattack was in progress last week, as a backlash... -
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange’s prosecutor steps down, while accuser sacks lawyer News
28.03.2013 The prosecutor leading the trial in Sweden against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has stepped down while the lawyer for one of the women in Sweden accusing Assange of rape has... -
ComReg warns businesses to defend against PBX fraud over Easter weekend News
28.03.2013 Businesses shutting up shop for the Easter weekend have been warned by telecoms regulator ComReg to be vigilant against PBX fraud, which could leave them reeling with phone... -
Breakthrough fibre can transfer data at 99.7pc the speed of light – 73 terabits per second News
28.03.2013 Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have claimed to produce optical fibre that can transfer data at 99.7pc the speed of light. -
Cork’s Firecomms in fibre components deal with global player News
28.03.2013 Cork-based fibre communications technology company Firecomms has secured a major deal with a global supplier of fibre components to the automotive sector and other industries,...Categories: Multimedia, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Development, Design, Deals Done, Communications -
Facebook rolls out new threaded conversations feature News
26.03.2013 Social network Facebook has released a new conversation threads feature that lets users and readers reply to individual comments. -
Review: Logitech HD TV Cam News
25.03.2013 I sometimes look at the TV business in despair. I can see why it has become a commodity business at a time when technologically it should be enjoying a glorious resurgence. Why... -
Airfibre launches B2B broadband services across Cork City News
25.03.2013 High capacity wireless broadband provider Airfibre has deployed its 1Mbps up to 1Gbps broadband service in Cork. -
4G LTE mobile broadband to reach 220m subscribers by 2014 News
25.03.2013 Rapid uptake of 4G LTE mobile broadband technology in the next year will see the subscriber number doubling from an estimated 105m this year to 220m by 2014.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Insurance player Campion invests in private cloud rollout News
23.03.2013 Campion Insurance Group has invested in a virtualised private cloud rollout with ICT provider Trilogy Technologies to modernise its IT systems with a cloud system that joins up...Categories: Virtualisation, IT Management, Investments, Digital Business, Data Management, Communications, CIO -
BlackBerry 10 surpasses 100,000 app milestone News
21.03.2013 Just two months after the release of the BlackBerry World app store, it now boasts 100,000 apps, including major apps from Rovio, eBay, MTV, CNN, Rdio and Skype, to name a few.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Communications, Apps -
FIT and UPC Ireland support digital inclusion for Get Online Week News
21.03.2013 Twenty-three per cent of Europeans have never accessed the internet, according to Eurostat figures from 2012. That’s why this week is Get Online Week, a Europe-wide initiative... -
Google: ‘We’re focused on enabling the next 1bn computer users’ News
20.03.2013 The democratising effect of technology that is seeing billions of people around the world join the internet revolution as they switch on their first mobile phones and computers...Tags: Operating Systems, Android, Smartphones, Mac, Windows, Personal Computers, Acer, Samsung, Chrome, Google