Tagged: Travel & News
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Overheating mobile phone causes emergency landing at Shannon Airport News
13.09.2010 A plane was grounded at Shannon Airport on Friday after an overheated mobile caused emergency on the transatlantic flight. -
Ryanair wins against screenscraper Atrapalo News
07.09.2010 Ryanair can publicly describe screenscrapers as ‘illegal sellers’, ‘parasites of the sector’ and ‘dead wood’ but not as ‘bastards’ when defending its exclusive distribution... -
The digital business week News
06.09.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week. -
Revolutionary navigation system makes directions more natural News
02.09.2010 NAVTEQ, which provides maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, has launched a new product that promises to materially change the way navigation systems interact... -
Hotel start-up site sells €100k in six months News
02.09.2010 Hotel booking website HotelDealsIreland.ie has made more than €100,000 in sales since it launched in February, with luxury hotels proving more attractive to consumers than... -
Skyscanner and Hostelworld.com team up News
02.09.2010 Flight comparison website Skycanner.net has formed a partnership with hostel booking website Hostelworld.com, in order for Hostelworld.com to enhance its functionality and user... -
Mobile app at heart of Dublin's bid to bring 1m extra visitors News
02.09.2010 Dublin Tourism is expecting more than 100,000 downloads of a new Android and iPhone app that is one of the flagship features of a new digital strategy to bring 1 million extra...Categories: Wireless Communications, Mobility, Mobile, Government, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Apps Zone, Apps -
The traditional workspace is evolving through unified communications News
30.07.2010 Travel disruptions in the last year has introduced Irish businesses to the real benefits of mobile working and unified communications. Mary Bradshaw is the managing director at... -
BBC.com relaunches news site News
15.07.2010 BBC.com has relaunched its news site, with new functionality and design and ramped up coverage of sport, travel, business and technology. -
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two takes first crewed flight News
19.07.2010 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two, designed to take the first space tourists on suborbital flights, has just completed its first rehearsal journey with crew above the Mojave desert.Categories: Science, Engineering -
The digital business week News
19.07.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week. -
Hundreds of consumers hit by 1800hotels.ie collapse News
14.07.2010 Hundreds of Irish consumers are understood to have been hit by the collapse of the online travel reservation company 1800hotels.ie. The company announced on Tuesday night that... -
The digital business week News
05.07.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Communications, Data Centre, Investments, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mobility, Online BusinessTags: Intune Networks, Broadband, Energy, Google, Travel, Digital Realty Trust, Dublin, HP, Palm, Smartphones, Netbooks, PCs -
Google is now a force in global travel industry News
02.07.2010 Very soon you’ll be Googling up your boarding pass and automatically switching flights via your smartphone. Perhaps that’s the vision driving Google’s US$700m acquisition of ITA... -
Google has airlines and travel sites up in the air News
30.06.2010 Search giant Google’s efforts to acquire airline IT services provider ITA Software is understood to have unnerved the global travel industry who fear it may give Google too much... -
Snap2Travel using image recognition News
18.06.2010 A Galway-based company is trialling a mobile travel technology solution in Germany called Snap2Travel (www.snap2travel.com), which is making innovative use of image recognition...Tags: Mobile Apps, Travel -
BlackBerry apps for the stranded traveller News
20.04.2010 With countless travellers stuck in their hotels, hanging about airports and generally trying to make do until the ash cloud decides to move on, it's good to know that a... -
Irish web users love joke and weather apps News
24.12.2009 For Irish internet users it appears that weather and jokes were by far the most sought after applications on portals in 2009, according to telecoms software player FeedHenry. -
Online shoppers spent €22m on 1 December News
04.12.2008 Irish online shopping in Ireland peaked on Monday 1 December with over 112,000 transactions valued at €22.6m – equating to €942,000 an hour spent by online shoppers.Categories: Business, Digital Life -
CarTrawler flies high on e-commerce deal with Atlantic Airways News
30.10.2008 Online car rental technology firm CarTrawler has struck a deal with Faroe Islands airline Atlantic Airways.Categories:Tags: E-commerce, Travel,