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Virtualisation case study: Lakeland Dairies News
23.06.2010 Lakeland Dairies is one of Ireland's largest dairy processing co-operatives, employing around 650 people and operating out of five sites across the northern half of the island...Categories: Virtualisation, Servers, IT Management, Data Centre, CIO, Government, Comms, Digital 21, Internet -
Mobile apps revenues to exceed US$30bn News
09.06.2010 The latest forecast on the mobile apps economy suggests that content subscriptions and in-app billing will drive the apps market to revenues of in excess of US$30bn by 2015.Tags: Advertising, Apps, -
Google reinvents web indexing with jolt of ‘Caffeine’ News
09.06.2010 Google has completed a new web indexing system called Caffeine which, it says, provides 50pc fresher results for web searches than its traditional web-indexing system. -
Superfast broadband will add stg£18bn to UK economy News
09.06.2010 Jeremy Hunt, the new culture secretary for the UK, has identified next-generation broadband as integral to adding stg£18bn to GDP to the UK economy and creating anything between... -
New iPhone 4 will force mobile operators to abandon flat tariffs News
08.06.2010 The iPhone is already putting a strain on current mobile networks but with the new iPhone 4 the traffic will explode and force operators to abandon flat-rate service plans, an... -
Vodafone reveals new DSL and MiFi ‘Broadband in a Box’ package News
08.06.2010 Vodafone has introduced a new broadband package that combines a fixed broadband modem with a 3G broadband modem, enabling users to enjoy DSL broadband at home or at work and... -
An Post launches a new pre-pay MVNO with Vodafone News
08.06.2010 Ireland’s postal operator An Post has launched a new €2m mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) called Postfone, promising ‘any network, any time’ rates of 20 cents per minute... -
The US$3.3trn cloud computing opportunity – Steve Ballmer News
05.03.2010 Technology is the gift that keeps on giving and cloud computing is one of those gifts, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last night told students at the University of Washington as he...Tags: Cloud Computing, Steve Ballmer, -
Ericsson trials high def TV over mobile broadband News
04.06.2010 Ireland is getting closer to achieving 1GB per second mobile broadband as Ericsson trials LTE (long term evolution) technology in Dublin, supported by ComReg’s test and trial...Tags: Ericsson -
Online video community to exceed 1bn by 2014 News
03.06.2010 Video traffic is set to overtake peer-to-peer as the top internet traffic contributor by the end of this year and the total global online video community will exceed 1bn users... -
Chip giants in pact to ensure digital revolution is open source News
03.06.2010 Chip manufacturers IBM, Samsung and Texas Instruments have established a new software engineering foundation aimed at improving Linux distribution such as Android, Ubuntu and... -
Close to 5m downloads of Skype’s iPhone 3G app News
03.06.2010 Prior to the launch users with the Skype app on their iPhone were confined to making such calls within Wi-Fi networks at home or in public places. -
Social networking mobile apps grow 240pc to 14.5m users News
04.06.2010 Social networking leads as the top-gaining category for both application and browser access on mobile devices, according to new research by ComScore. Accessing bank accounts is... -
Eric Schmidt: Google to hand over intercepted data News
04.06.2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that within the next two days Google will begin providing European regulators with the rogue data it intercepted from private Wi-Fi... -
Iridium orders 81 spacecraft in US$2.1bn deal News
03.06.2010 Mobile satellite services player Iridium has granted a US$2.1bn order to Thales Alenia Space of France to build 81 satellites as part of the Iridium Next project to make voice...Tags: Iridium, Iridium Next -
Converged fixed and mobile broadband on the way for consumers News
03.06.2010 Fixed and mobile operator Vodafone is to unveil a new Broadband of Box platform that combines DSL with 3G services, making broadband a universal experience. This is being driven... -
Samsung Wave arrives in Ireland 1 June News
24.05.2010 Samsung's latest smartphone, the Wave, which has high-def video recording an impressive AMOLED screen, will go on sale in Ireland from 1 June.Tags: O2 Ireland, Bada, -
Leinster House catches up with White House on Twitter News
24.05.2010 New proposals to allow Oireachtas members to tweet from the Dail and Seanad chambers have been drafted by the Oireachtas Committee on Procedure and Privileges.Tags: Twitter, Barack Obama, -
Move to IPv6 critical as internet reaches limits of growth News
19.05.2010 The existing internet based on Internet Protocol version 4 is running out of available addresses due to massive web growth, particularly mobile internet in developing nations... -
Deloitte’s Irish operations win European internet award News
19.05.2010 The Irish operations of Deloitte have won the ‘Best Use of the Internet’ award at the International Tax Review Annual European Awards.