Categorised as: Networking & Telecoms
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Spotify joins forces with Volvo to bring voice-controlled streaming music to cars News
06.03.2013 Car maker Volvo will today launch a new integrated, voice-activated music system brought about through a partnership with streaming music giant Spotify. The music service will... -
Despite the gadgets, the mobile economy faces growing pains News
06.03.2013 Barcelona became the epicentre of all things mobile last week, as more than 70,000 telecoms and internet industry people gathered to reveal and observe the latest breakthroughs,... -
216 additional Irish schools to receive 100Mbps broadband in 2013 News
05.03.2013 An additional 216 secondary schools on top of the first 280 schools in the trial and first phase of the project are to receive 100Mbps broadband, Ireland's Communications... -
Weekend news round-up: seeing clearly on Google Glass, new war on copyright theft erupts News
04.03.2013 In our round-up of the weekend's top tech stories, we look at the row that has brewed up in recent days over what really are the factors behind Apple's success, a proponent of... -
Sky buys Telefónica’s UK broadband business for stg£200m News
01.03.2013 BSkyB has acquired Telefónica’s broadband business in the UK for stg£200m in a deal that will make Sky the second biggest broadband player in the UK. The acquisition includes... -
Review: the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone (video) News
01.03.2013 To begin with, I believe the entire mobile and smartphone industry owes a debt of gratitude to BlackBerry for kicking off the whole mobile data device revolution in 1999 with...Categories: Wireless Communications, Reviews, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
European Commission to invest €50m in paving the way for 5G News
28.02.2013 Just as 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile services are beginning to deploy in Europe, the European Commission’s vice-president Neelie Kroes has decided that she wants to see... -
UK court orders ISPs to block access to file-sharing websites News
28.02.2013 Six ISPs including Sky, Everything Everyhere, BT, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin have been ordered by a UK court to block access to file-sharing websites KAT, H3T and Fenopy.Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Telefónica reports 27pc decline in profit – writes down value of stake in Ireland by €527m News
28.02.2013 Global telecoms giant Telefónica has reported a net profit of €3.9bn for 2012 - a 27pc decline - which it said was due to the adjustment of the value of its stakes in Ireland... -
Next 1bn users central to the future of the global mobile economy (infographic) News
28.02.2013 Emerging markets will be the key source of future mobile communications growth with 1.6bn new connections coming from around the world, out of which 61pc of these will come from... -
Sea Fibre Networks expands link from Dublin to Frankfurt News
18.02.2013 Carrier-neutral fibre player Sea Fibre Networks has expanded its reach to Frankfurt, Germany, one of Europe’s major financial hubs. -
BT acquires ESPN’s Ireland and UK TV channels business News
26.02.2013 Telecoms player BT has acquired ESPN’s UK and Ireland TV channels business, giving it ownership of rights to major sporting events like the FA Cup, the UEFA Europa League, the... -
Altobridge raises US$7.8m from Intel and World Bank News
26.02.2013 Kerry-based mobile technology player Altobridge has raised US$7.8m in funding from technology giant Intel and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) subsidiary. -
O2 to launch TuGo app that turns voice calls into a multi-screen experience News
25.02.2013 Telefónica’s O2 division in the UK will this week launch a new VoIP service called TuGo that will allow mobile users to make and receive calls on any Wi-Fi connected device... -
Operators at #MWC13: the golden age of mobile faces challenges News
25.02.2013 The leaders of some of the biggest mobile operators in the world agree that while the mobile industry worldwide is at a historic peak in terms of smartphone activations,... -
Cisco acquires Intucell for US$475m News
25.02.2013 Networking equipment maker Cisco has completed its acquisition of mobile networking company Intucell for about US$475m in cash and retention-based incentives. -
Former Vodafone exec Michel Combes is Alcatel-Lucent's new CEO News
25.02.2013 The former chief executive officer of Vodafone Europe Michel Combes will take the helm of network equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent as its new CEO on 1 April. -
AOL's digital prophet David Shing – ‘It’s time to build a new kind of web’ News
22.02.2013 AOL’s engineers are hard at work building the template for a new kind of internet experience with Big Data at its heart that the company’s digital prophet David Shing says will...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Google reveals new hardware – say hello to the new US$1,299 Chromebook Pixel News
22.02.2013 Google has revealed its latest piece of hardware, the Chromebook Pixel, the next generation of its Chromebook family. The computer is geared at cloud workers and has a 12.8-inch... -
Eircom next-gen network is future proofed for fibre-to-the-home - CEO News
21.02.2013 Eircom CEO Herb Hribar has revealed that the fibre-connected street cabinets that will enable 1.2m homes and businesses in Ireland to get 50Mbps to 70Mbps broadband by 2014 have...