Tagged: Wireless & News
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Chill Insurance awards AirSpeed Telecom €500k call centre contract News
22.04.2013 Online insurance broker Chill has awarded AirSpeed Telecom a €500,000 three-year contract to establish a next-generation contact centre. -
New wireless prototype to monitor comfort of patients in wheelchairs News
06.04.2013 The WiSAR Lab at Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) is tackling a new wireless project to monitor patients in wheelchairs who may be susceptible to pressure sores. -
Airfibre launches B2B broadband services across Cork City News
25.03.2013 High capacity wireless broadband provider Airfibre has deployed its 1Mbps up to 1Gbps broadband service in Cork. -
AirSpeed turnover grows 40pc to exceed €10m News
04.03.2013 Wireless broadband and cloud services provider AirSpeed has reported a turnover in excess of €10m for 2012, up 40pc on the €7.2m reported the previous year. -
Alcatel-Lucent signs US$1bn managed services telecoms deal in India News
16.01.2013 Communications giant Alcatel-Lucent has signed a managed services contract worth US$1bn with India-based Reliance Communications to deliver seamless voice and data services...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Deals Done, Communications -
Mr and Mrs Bopp have an appointment at the White House News
14.01.2013 An Ireland-based husband-and-wife team behind a charity that brought emergency communications systems to earthquake-stricken Haiti in 2010 and to New York following Hurricane...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Life Sciences, Internet, Funding, Digital Media, Computers, Communications -
Avis to acquire car-sharing network Zipcar in US$500m deal News
02.01.2013 Car rental giant Avis is set to expand its portfolio into the US car-sharing marketplace as it is to purchase the car-sharing company Zipcar in a deal that could be worth up to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Sustainability, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Deals Done, Apps -
PFH deploys 4,000 data ports at new Aviva Stadium News
07.07.2010 Cork IT player PFH has signed a major deal with Kentz to provide a fully resilient local area network (LAN) infrastructure at the new Aviva Stadium comprising 4,000 data ports... -
Alcatel-Lucent CTO Marcus Weldon: nations will need to plan for fibre everywhere (video) News
07.11.2012 While the future is undoubtedly multi-screen, multi-device and wireless broadband everywhere, sophisticated fibre networks connected to energy-efficient cell devices will be... -
Ireland should capitalise on white spaces opportunity following analogue TV switch-off News
06.11.2012 Following the switch-off of Ireland’s analogue TV signal in recent weeks, tech industry giants like Microsoft and academics are urging the country to take advantage of a huge... -
Where is Ireland at in terms of 4G spectrum? ComReg answers our questions News
12.10.2012 ComReg yesterday came in for heavy criticism by broadband lobby group Ireland Offline for the lack of progress in terms of 4G spectrum auctions, which were meant to have begun... -
Go go Google smart watch! Internet giant plans web-connected timepiece News
04.10.2012 You have to wonder is there anything that Google isn’t trying to re-invent? From phones and glasses to driverless cars, the latest challenge, it seems, is to re-invent the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Search Engines, Research, R&D, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
TelecityGroup’s Maurice Mortell – prepare your economy for the digital wireless future (video) News
19.09.2012 By 2016, more people will be connected wirelessly than via wired technology and the implications for businesses in Ireland already playing catch-up with e-commerce needs to be... -
Potential economic boost as rural Clare community gets a 100Mbps broadband service News
06.09.2012 A fibre-to-the-mast deployment by Mid-West Wireless will see people in the Kilmaley district of Co Clare served with a 100Mbps broadband service ideal for heavy video streaming... -
An interview with Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte on Ireland’s broadband future News
04.09.2012 John Kennedy talks to Ireland's Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte about the new National Broadband Strategy, which aims to deliver high-speed broadband to homes and firms... -
Apple plans new adventures in hi-fi – Airplay Direct to arrive with iPhone 5 News
29.08.2012 Technology giant Apple plans to introduce an update to AirPlay called AirPlay Direct which will allow users to form a direct connection between an Apple device and hi-fi...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Phones, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Majority of Wi-Fi users unaware public hotspot providers obliged to retain usage data News
20.08.2012 Some 72pc of Wi-Fi users are unaware that public Wi-Fi hotspots are obliged by law to retain information about who uses their service, new research from Bitbuzz claims.Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Security, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech -
The week in gadgets: Samsung, Dell and Sony products for business and pleasure News
07.08.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Samsung brings us a multi-view smart camera with gesture control, Dell introduces powerful new mobile workstations, and Sony tries to bring...Categories: Week in Gadgets, Multimedia, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
UK 4G wireless spectrum auction delayed until 2013 News
24.07.2012 UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has revealed that while the wireless spectrum auction in the UK will be 80pc bigger than 3G and will cover 98pc of the UK’s population, the auctions... -
Ireland ranks below OECD average for fixed broadband penetration News
18.07.2012 Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions reached 314m in the OECD area at the end of 2011, with year-on-year subscriptions rising by 4.1pc, but Ireland is lagging behind the...