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Eircom agrees to allow other telcos to access its fibre broadband network News
31.01.2013 Any fibre Eircom puts in the ground it will have to open up to other licensed operators. That’s the message that came from ComReg today as it ruled Eircom has significant market...Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Digital Media, Communications -
EE expands 4G broadband to nine more UK cities News
31.01.2013 Everything Everywhere - a collaboration between Orange and T-Mobile - has expanded its fourth-generation LTE network to nine more cities in the UK. -
The five minute CIO: Eddie Ormonde News
18.01.2013 The IT manager at Dublin Business School (DBS) Eddie Ormonde explains how moving to virtual desktops has met tactical and strategic goals: freeing IT budget for other projects... -
Transatlantic fibre player Hibernia Networks completes US$52.5m refinancing News
17.01.2013 Transatlantic network services player Hibernia Networks has just completed a US$52.5m debt refinancing, with new lenders Fortress Investment group LLC and Bridges Bank taking part. -
Intune’s latest breakthrough – software defined networks across hundreds of miles News
17.01.2013 Dublin technology company Intune Networks this morning claimed it has designed the world’s first distributed switch which is capable of extending Software Defined Networks... -
Smartphones now consume more data than tablet computers News
16.01.2013 Smartphones have overtaken tablet computers in their thirst for mobile data for the first time. According to the latest research from Arieso, 40pc of data is consumed by 1pc of... -
Ofcom allows Sea Fibre Networks to quickly deploy and maintain networks in UK News
15.01.2013 UK Communications regulator Ofcom has granted Sea Fibre Networks SNF Code powers, which enable the company to roll out fibre-based networks in the UK. -
Pan-European project to revolutionise broadband delivery gets €8.1m in funding News
09.01.2013 A pan-European telecoms project aimed at transforming how broadband is delivered using fibre optics has been awarded €8.1m in EU funding. The project involves research groups at... -
New entrants to Irish broadband market will drive down prices, says ComReg News
02.01.2013 New entrants to Ireland’s broadband market – which is hurtling in the direction of superfast broadband and 4G services – will increase downward pressure on prices and upward... -
ComReg warns Eircom over wholesale obligations, threatens High Court order News
23.12.2012 Ireland’s telecoms watchdog ComReg has issued Eircom with a notice for not complying with agreed service levels to other telecoms operators. Eircom has been given five weeks to... -
IT professionals fear loss of control when it comes to cloud computing News
21.12.2012 IT professionals are still being deterred by the perceived risks of cloud computing with loss of control one of their biggest worries, a global study of 4,500 IT professionals... -
Rabbitte wants broadband in close to 100pc of homes in two years – 81pc ‘not enough’ News
21.12.2012 New CSO figures showing that 81pc of homes in Ireland had broadband were just “not enough” Comms Minister Pat Rabbitte TD told an EU Telecoms Ministers meeting in Brussels... -
The year in comms - the arrival of 4G and superfast broadband is imminent News
24.12.2012 The year 2012 has been a pivotal year in the development of the telecoms industry in Ireland as the first of the various superfast broadband services began to debut in the... -
The year in cloud - how Ireland lay the building blocks for the cloud economy News
29.12.2012 The year 2012 was a year of advancement for cloud computing on so many levels. As well as companies like Google and Microsoft revealing new cloud-based services, it was a year...Tags: Denis O'Brien, Richard Bruton, UCC, Dropbox, Martin Murphy, DCU, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing, HP, Education, Google, Microsoft -
Oscar-winning producer Lord David Puttnam named Ireland’s Digital Champion News
17.12.2012 Ten-time Academy Award-winner Lord David Puttnam, who has 26 BAFTAs and a Palm D’Or to his name and who lives in Skibbereen, Co Cork, has been named Ireland’s Digital Champion... -
Bitbuzz expands complimentary Wi-Fi to Dublin’s busiest shopping streets News
17.12.2012 Wi-Fi provider Bitbuzz has expanded its complementary Wi-Fi service Bitbuzz Freedom in Dublin, beyond Grafton Street to include parts of Henry Street, Temple Bar and the... -
Dell signs €100k private cloud IT deal with analytics firm Distinct News
14.12.2012 Dell’s Irish division has secured a €100,000 deal to deliver servers and storage to power Dublin-based analytics-as-a-service provider Distinct’s private cloud analytics and... -
Job security is a key barrier to uptake of cloud computing by IT managers News
12.12.2012 A key barrier to the uptake of cloud computing technologies is reassuring and convincing IS/IT managers that their jobs would not become obsolete if they shifted to the cloud, a... -
Dark fibre motorway survey completed – vital first step towards next gen networks News
08.12.2012 Never mind all the talk about fibre networks, what really needs to be talked about is dark fibre – the high capacity cable that will future-proof Ireland to be at the crossroads... -
Tech Jobs 2012 - Top 50 jobs announcements of 2012: Nos 50-46 News
07.12.2012 Today we begin our countdown of Ireland’s top jobs announcement stories of 2012. It was the year companies in sectors that are thriving despite the downturn – technology,...