For the first time, a mayor will lead St Patrick’s Day parades on both sides of the Atlantic. Enabled by Cisco’s TelePresence technology, the mayor of San Francisco Ed Lee will today lead a virtual parade through his own city before marching in person in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Cork tomorrow.
16.Mar.2013 11:03
Around 44.8m people in the UK used the internet in December 2012, up 5pc on last year and around a third of these accessed the web from mobile phones and tablet computers – an all-time high.
15.Mar.2013 14:48
Almost two-thirds of Irish households now have a broadband connection, the latest quarterly report from ComReg reveals.
14.Mar.2013 10:23
Plane, trains and ships may receive better broadband satellite service within weeks now that the expert group responsible for harmonising the efficient use of the radio spectrum across Europe has agreed upon the introduction of better broadband connections.
13.Mar.2013 11:44
Cable TV and broadband provider UPC has reported 16.5m views of On Demand content since its launch last May.
11.Mar.2013 12:01
Ireland telecoms regulator ComReg has restored the launch of wholesale next-generation access (NGA) broadband from 8 April to the original target date of 20 May in response to industry concerns about the testing of the product and its compatibility with other operators’ systems.
08.Mar.2013 16:16
Eircom has revealed plans to extend its WiFiHub network to 70 Irish Rail and DART stations, with more to follow over the next few months. The move will bring the number of public WiFiHub hotspots around Ireland to 1,800.
08.Mar.2013 11:04
The advent of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) like .blog or .hair will only facilitate the division of the internet into territories, the Irish Internet Association has warned and has written to ICANN voicing its objection.
07.Mar.2013 16:39
BT is to create 1,000 new fibre engineering jobs in the UK as part of its stg£2.5bn investment in fibre broadband. The 1,000 jobs are being created at the telco’s Openreach business.
07.Mar.2013 12:57
Meteor has apologised for a data service ‘disruption’ that left customers across Ireland unable to connect to its network for hours last night and into this morning. The issue has now been fixed, the mobile communications provider said.
07.Mar.2013 10:36
Ireland’s Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, has warned there may be a gap in the country’s legislation when it comes to bullying or defamation via social media. He also said balance needs to be struck between the rights of individuals and the rights to freedom of speech.
06.Mar.2013 10:50
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, gadgets and technology.
06.Mar.2013 09:39
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 Minister Pat Rabbitte TD said today. That means all secondary schools in Dublin, Meath and Kildare will have this infrastructure installed during early 2013.
05.Mar.2013 14:21
Irish people love to talk and so it makes sense that since an in-flight mobile service was launched by AeroMobile more than 900 calls, 25,000 text messages and 10,000 mobile devices connected to the internet on Emirates, Ethiad and SAS flights to and from Dublin.
05.Mar.2013 12:09
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 Telefónica’s O2 and BE consumer broadband and fixed-line telephony business businesses.
01.Mar.2013 10:23
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 Europe pioneer the next generation of mobile after that, 5G.
28.Feb.2013 17:12
