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Now that Eircom’s VDSL network is live, alternative operators get ready to pounce News
17.05.2013 So Eircom’s had its big day and has gone live with the first phase of its fibre network which will serve about 300,000 homes. From Monday, other licensed operators will launch... -
20-20 vision – Ireland is still only at the start of its fibre journey News
17.05.2013 Ireland’s fibre journey is not a fait accompli and if anything time is of the essence if the Government is to reach its goal of having a minimum of 30Mbps for every home by... -
Eircom goes live with up to 70Mbps fibre network News
16.05.2013 Eircom has gone live with the first phase of its €1.5bn fibre network which will deliver speeds up to 70Mbps to some 300,000 homes initially. By the time the network rollout is... -
Dublin tech firm Openmind named as finalist in CTIA Emerging Tech Awards News
02.05.2013 Irish software company Openmind - which transmits 1bn SMS messages a day for 120 mobile carriers - has been named as a finalist in the 2013 Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards... -
ASAI upholds complaint against Eircom over ‘misleading’ broadband ads News
02.05.2013 The complaints committee of the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a complaint made by a consumer against Eircom over its next-generation broadband... -
Digiweb in spectrum deal to deliver broadband to Scottish schools News
02.05.2013 Dublin-headquartered telecoms provider Digiweb has entered into a long-term lease agreement with Scot-Tel-Gould to allow the local firm to use its national 10GHz licence in... -
Vodafone begins bringing 3G to voice-only areas; launches new enterprise group News
01.05.2013 Ahead of the launch of 4G and enabled by winning its share of the spectrum auctions last year, Vodafone Ireland’s new CEO Anne O’Leary has announced the first locations where... -
I.T. Alliance to cloud-enable HP’s LIFE skills endeavour News
01.05.2013 Technology giant HP has selected an Irish company, I.T. Alliance, to bring its US$20m HP LIFE programme, which has trained 2m students worldwide, into the cloud. -
Colt connects Cork to mainland Europe via 43,000 km fibre network News
25.04.2013 The city of Cork’s digital aspirations have been given a welcome boost with the news that global data network operator Colt has connected the city to mainland Europe via its... -
Ireland’s average broadband speeds fall almost 7pc – global study News
24.04.2013 A global study of average measured broadband connection speeds by Akamai for the fourth quarter of 2012 has shown that although Ireland ranked a respectable 15th out of 98... -
Battle for the ‘internet of things’ begins as CA acquires Layer 7 News
23.04.2013 Just a week after Intel acquired Mashery for an estimated US$180m, software giant CA has signed an agreement to acquire Layer 7 Technologies, a privately-owned API management... -
UK 4G player EE reaches 320,000 subscribers in just five months News
23.04.2013 Just five months after launching its first 4G services, Everything Everywhere (EE) this morning reported it has now reached 320,000 4G subscribers in the UK and is on target to... -
Telefónica Ireland’s Tony Hanway: 4G will be a catalyst for bridging the digital divide (video) News
17.04.2013 Telefónica Ireland CEO Tony Hanway said that when 4G arrives in the coming months it will help to bridge Ireland’s digital divide by bringing with it vast improvements in the... -
UPC’s Dana Strong: enormous risk Irish firms face by ignoring digital economy (video) News
16.04.2013 Already 50pc of online purchases by Irish consumers are with overseas websites and Irish firms that fail to tackle the digital economy face tough challenges down the line, the... -
Exit from troika will boost IDA’s efforts overseas – O’Leary News
16.04.2013 Ireland’s planned exist from the ‘troika’ lending programme later this year will provide a reputational boost overseas, the CEO of IDA Ireland Barry O’Leary explained, helping... -
Maurice Mortell interview: data centres are the heart of the digital economy (video) News
15.04.2013 TelecityGroup Ireland managing director Maurice Mortell says data centres have become the heart of the digital ecosystem, with vital interconnects between various telcos, cloud... -
Major brute force attack against WordPress under way News
12.04.2013 A large distributed brute force attack against WordPress sites is understood to be occurring. A large botnet with more than 90,000 servers is attempting to log in by cycling... -
Seven Irish companies make the Red Herring 100 list of European tech firms News
11.04.2013 Seven Irish companies have made this year’s Red Herring 100 list of up-and-coming private European tech firms. This achievement shows that a small country like Ireland is... -
Dropbox unveils new ‘Dropbox for Business’ service News
10.04.2013 Cloud storage player Dropbox has rebranded ‘Dropbox for Teams’ with the more enterprise-friendly moniker ‘Dropbox for Business’, and said that new single sign-in capabilities...