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IAB Europe awards MEP Sean Kelly for standing up for data privacy rights (video) News
24.05.2013 Sean Kelly, Fine Gael MEP for Ireland South, has been selected to receive the prestigious IAB Europe Award for Leadership and Excellence for his approach to dealing with privacy...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Tech -
Irish500 begins task of listing Ireland’s supercomputers News
09.05.2013 Today, the 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications Conference in Athlone will see the launch of the Irish500 project to raise the profile of high-performance... -
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... -
Google Now will soon arrive on Google’s home page News
22.04.2013 As evidence that Google is rigidly following a ‘mobile first’ ethos when it comes to developing products, the search giant’s Google Now context engine which debuted last year...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Computers -
IBM reports US$23.4bn Q1 revenues as profits miss analyst estimates News
19.04.2013 IBM has reported a lower profit for the first quarter, with net income falling by 1pc as a result of delays in several of the technology company's large software and mainframe... -
Microsoft strikes at Amazon’s cloud infrastructure heartland News
16.04.2013 Amazon’s status as the enabler of cloud infrastructure for start-ups and organisations striving for flexibility is to be threatened by Microsoft, which has just announced its...Categories: Web, Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, R&D, Internet, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Digital Business, Data Centre, Apps -
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... -
Trilogy Technologies in IT services deal with Aura gym chain News
12.04.2013 Trilogy Technologies has deployed IT equipment and software across the fitness chain Aura’s eight sites around Ireland following a competitive tender. -
HP seeks to shake up data centre market with Moonshot server News
11.04.2013 HP believes it can disrupt the data centre market with its newly launched Moonshot server which uses 89pc less energy, occupies 80pc less space and costs 77pc less than a... -
Irish IT executives behind international curve on big data News
08.04.2013 Only 56pc of Irish business executives believe big data will be a priority in the next five years compared with the EU average of 76pc, a Vanson Bourne study on behalf of data... -
Anonymous hacks North Korea’s Twitter page News
04.04.2013 Hacker group Anonymous has declared its own war against North Korea by hacking in and seizing control of the country’s Twitter and Flickr accounts. -
Global internet slowdown triggered by largest reported DDoS attack News
27.03.2013 What started as a dispute between spam blockers and a hosting service has resulted in the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attack reported, which could have... -
Insurance giant Zurich to create 112 jobs at two new IT hubs in Dublin News
26.03.2013 Global insurer Zurich is to establish two new IT hubs in Dublin that will result in the creation of 112 new technology jobs. The two hubs will serve the IT service and security...Categories: Servers, Security, Management, Leadership & Management, IT Management, Investments, Economy, Digital Business, Data Management -
Michael Dell faces pitch battle to retain control of the company he started News
25.03.2013 Michael Dell is facing competition from two main contenders who may scupper his US$24.4bn bid to take computer giant Dell private. Dell's board of directors has confirmed that...Categories: Software, Servers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership & Management, Investments, Hardware, Financial, Computers -
HP includes BT Engage IT as cloud partner News
19.03.2013 More details are emerging around HP’s cloud strategy, after the company added to its list of cloud partners with the signing of BT Engage IT and talked up its use of OpenStack... -
Netflix launches US$100,000 developer competition to improve cloud computing News
15.03.2013 Netflix has launched the Netflix Cloud Prize competition in Github, which has US$100,000 available in prize money to challenge developers around the world to improve the... -
HP lands major deal with European Commission to build its cloud News
13.03.2013 Technology giant HP has won a major contract with the European Commission to supply HP Integrity servers to support critical workloads, including database-intensive applications...Categories: Servers, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Government, Digital Business, Data Management -
Cloud TCO calculator for SMEs goes live News
13.03.2013 Hosted desktop provider Let’s Operate has launched a new total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator that allows SMEs to compare the actual cost of their current traditional IT...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Digital Business, CIO, Apps -
Working in 2016: 35pc of workers will no longer see work as a destination News
07.03.2013 By 2016, more than a third of workers around the world will no longer see the physical workplace as a place they have to go to, thanks to the cloud and bring your own device... -
Vatican to digitise Apostolic Library into 2.8 petabytes News
07.03.2013 The Vatican is to embark on a major nine-year project that will see it digitise its catalogue of 80,000 historic manuscripts, 40m pages and 8,900 incunabula, as part of EMC’s...