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Alcatel-Lucent performs ‘heart’ surgery on the web – reveals new core News
23.05.2012 Telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new set of internet core routers and has outlined a new vision of what the ‘heart of the internet should be'. The new core routers...Categories: Web, Servers, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Communications -
Vodafone Ireland invests €120m in network upgrade News
22.05.2012 Vodafone’s Irish operations invested €120m in the last year on developing its network, the largest investment by any network operator in Ireland this year. -
BT in stg£20m Northern Ireland healthcare transformation deal News
21.05.2012 BT has won a stg£20m contract to be the sole supplier of voice and data communications to Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in a five-year contract to transform healthcare... -
Vodafone launches ‘landline number for your mobile’ service News
16.05.2012 Vodafone has introduced a new unified communications technology it calls One Net that provides small and medium-sized businesses with a landline number for their mobiles. -
20 years of the internet in Ireland (timeline) News
15.05.2012 Twenty years ago today Barry Flanagan began Ireland On-Line in his house in Galway, kick starting the internet as a consumer phenomenon in Ireland. We look back at some of the... -
AIB signs five-year Ireland, NI and UK data comms deal with Eircom News
15.05.2012 AIB has signed a five-year deal with Eircom in which the telecoms provider will upgrade and replace AIB’s data networks and voice systems across Ireland, Northern Ireland and... -
The internet in Ireland is 20 years old today! News
15.05.2012 As Facebook – just a baby at eight – hurtles towards one of the most momentous IPOs in tech industry history, it almost went unobserved today that the internet as we know it in...Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Economy, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he lacks home internet News
14.05.2012 If you thought Ireland had broadband problems, then spare a thought for Steve Wozniak. The Apple co-founder has declared he doesn’t have broadband at his home in California and... -
Magnet buys UK FTTH player Velocity 1 - reveals fibre deal with Sky News
08.05.2012 Magnet Networks has entered the UK fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) market with the acquisition of a 90pc stake in UK fibre broadband player Velocity 1 from Quintain Estates and... -
Sage rolls out ‘mobile payments anywhere’ tech in UK and Ireland News
04.05.2012 Business software giant Sage today began rolling out its Sage Pay Mobile technology, which enables businesses to accept card payments using their mobile phones to authorise the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Security, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Business Software -
Blueface to sell VoIP and mobile via Carphone Warehouse stores News
03.05.2012 VoIP firm Blueface has struck a deal with the Carphone Warehouse network of 83 stores in Ireland to sell its landline and mobile services. -
Google engineer behind Street View Wi-Fi probe outed News
01.05.2012 Engineer Doe, the mysterious Google engineer who wrote the code that allowed Google’s Street View cars to gather private Wi-Fi data that raised privacy hackles in countries... -
Apple runs the gauntlet of UK ad watchdog’s ire over 4G in iPad News
01.05.2012 Technology giant Apple and the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) appear to be caught up in a showdown over the use of the term 4G in the new iPad. The ASA says it will... -
Irish internet speeds ranked 7th in the world, claims Akamai News
01.05.2012 As the Next Generation Broadband Taskforce get set to launch its report tomorrow, a report by Akamai reckons that internet speeds in Ireland are almost three times the global... -
What to do when the internet is down (infographic) News
30.04.2012 What to do when the incomprehensible happens - the internet goes down? A new infographic takes a cheeky look at 16 possible solutions.Categories: Wireless Communications, Web, Telecommunications, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Communications -
Cerf's up: economic future tied to growth of ‘internet of things’ News
26.04.2012 One of the internet’s founding fathers Vint Cerf, who co-invented TCP/IP technology – the platform upon which the internet runs – said that by the end of the decade every person...Categories: Apps, Communications, Consumer Tech, Digital Media, eCommerce, Economy, Internet, Software & Web Development, Web, Web 2.0, Wireless Communications -
AirSpeed Telecom links directly with London’s LINX exchange News
24.04.2012 Licensed wireless telecoms provider AirSpeed Telecom has developed a direct link with the London Internet Exchange. The move also allows AirSpeed Telecom to link directly with... -
WWW inventor: HTML5 will make Minority Report look like child’s play News
24.04.2012 The way Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, describes it, the internet revolution of the last 20 or so years that we all take for granted today was a near-accident...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, IT Organisation, Internet, CIO -
Japanese networks team up to standardise emoticons News
24.04.2012 Three of Japan’s biggest mobile networks plan to standardise the appearance of emoticons – called ‘emoji’ in Japan – across mobile devices offered on their networks. -
Vodafone to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide for stg£1.04bn News
23.04.2012 Vodafone Group will acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), which owns the UK’s largest fibre network, for stg£1.04bn in order to strengthen its enterprise business and for...Categories: Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Networking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Communications