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Apple planning social overhaul of iCloud to compete with Instagram? News
15.05.2012 Tech giant Apple is planning a major overhaul of its iCloud cloud computing service that will include new photo-sharing services that could see it rival Facebook and Instagram.Categories: Wireless Communications, Web 2.0, Storage, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Apps Zone, Apps -
Evernote valued at US$1bn after raising US$70m financing News
03.05.2012 Cloud player Evernote has raised US$70m in a funding round led by Meritech Capital and CBC Capital that values it at more than US$1bn. The company’s CEO Phil Libin says the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hosting Services, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Google Drive has just upped the stakes in the cloud game, starts price war News
25.04.2012 It’s the speed and elegance of Google Drive that has hooked me in, but there’s also something about the astute way Google has realised people want to do more than just store... -
Irish Govt reveals e-government strategy up to 2015 News
12.04.2012 The Irish Government has revealed a new e-government strategy that contains 44 actions across eight priority areas. Projects include an online passport service, a national...Categories: Software & Web Development, IT Management, Hosting Services, Government, Data Management, CIO -
Are Bono and the Edge among Ireland's best tech investors? News
03.04.2012 U2’s Bono and the Edge have emerged as something of tech-investment supremos. Last night, it emerged via a tweet that both Bono and the Edge took part in the US$250m...Categories: Storage, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Irish Stock Exchange joins BT’s Radianz global financial cloud News
21.03.2012 The Irish Stock Exchange has joined the BT Radianz Cloud of banks, brokers, investment managers and funds in a move that will expand the exchange’s existing international reach... -
Northern Ireland invests in rollout of stg£170m education cloud News
09.03.2012 Northern Ireland is investing stg£170m in a new ‘Education Network Northern Ireland’ cloud-based network as part of the Classroom 2000 (C2k) programme. Northgate Managed...Tags: Managed Services, Cloud Computing, Northern Ireland, iPad, Broadband, WAN, LAN, Digital Schools, Eircom -
Trilogy Technologies listed in world’s top 100 managed services firms News
22.02.2012 Dublin ICT firm Trilogy Technologies has been listed in Nine Lives Media’s fifth annual MSPmentor 100 Global Edition, a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top... -
Google DNS – a phone book for the internet – logs 70bn requests daily News
14.02.2012 Google’s public DNS (domain name system) – the largest public DNS service in the world – is handling on average more than 70bn requests a day, the search giant revealed today.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Servers, Search, Internet, Hosting Services, Database, Communications -
Sage embarks on mission to bring firms to the cloud News
08.02.2012 Business software player Sage is encouraging business owners to experience cloud computing for themselves by taking part in free online trials. The company is bringing most of... -
Unified comms player ShoreTel buys M5 Networks News
06.02.2012 IP telephony player ShoreTel has acquired M5 Networks, a pioneer in hosted unified comms, in a cash and shares deal valued at US$146.3m. -
Blacknight hit with external security breach News
02.02.2012 Hosting provider and domain registrar Blacknight has revealed it had been hit by a security breach. While no data was compromised, the breach may include client contact details,... -
Coffee, vino and a little bit of virtualisation, please! News
27.01.2012 Coffee and tea distributor Robert Roberts and its wine and spirits subsidiary Findlaters has invested in a new disaster recovery and virtualisation system.Categories: Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Servers, IT Management, Hosting Services, Data Management, CIO -
Sage puts payroll into the internet cloud News
18.01.2012 Accountancy software player Sage has launched what it claims is the first payroll system to sit in the cloud. The web-based Sage One Payroll system was developed by Sage’s...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Online Business, Internet, Hosting Services, Digital Business, Apps -
Apple plans to disrupt media … again! This time it should be social News
03.01.2012 The tech world is buzzing with speculation about what Apple is planning to announce at a special media event in New York later this month. One thing everyone agrees on, it does... -
The first casualty of the SOPA war is the internet itself News
23.12.2011 The internet industry as we know it – from the US perspective – is in the middle of a damaging civil war thanks to the deep divisions caused by the Stop Online Piracy Act.Categories: Servers, Security, Multimedia, Media, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
New cloud consortium projects €5m revenues in first year News
14.12.2011 A new cloud computing consortium of Irish and international IT companies – the SLA-1 consortium – is projecting €5m in revenues in its first year in operation. -
Microsoft releases Sky Drive app for iPhone and Windows Phone News
14.12.2011 Microsoft’s cloud storage offering for consumers – SkyDrive – is being made available today for users of Windows Phone and iPhone devices.Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Servers, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hosting Services, Hardware, Document Management, Digital Media, Data Management, Apps Zone, Apps -
C&W launches Storm cloud comms platform News
07.12.2011 Cable & Wireless Worldwide has launched its Storm hosted communications platform, which allows businesses to use multichannels on a single platform. -
75pc of European firms will never recover lost data News
23.11.2011 Three-quarters of businesses in Europe will never recover data lost when computers crash. A pan-European survey found that 54pc had either lost data or suffered downtime or both...