Tagged: ISP & News
-
The internet in Ireland is 20 years old today! News
15.05.2012 As Facebook – just a baby at eight – hurtles towards one of the most momentous IPOs in tech industry history, it almost went unobserved today that the internet as we know it in...Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Economy, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications -
What to do when the internet is down (infographic) News
30.04.2012 What to do when the incomprehensible happens - the internet goes down? A new infographic takes a cheeky look at 16 possible solutions.Categories: Wireless Communications, Web, Telecommunications, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Communications -
Sound, vision and fury News
12.04.2012 Ongoing debates about digital media, copyright reform, piracy and internet freedom are just ‘raindrops’ in a much bigger flood that is about to hit the internet.Tags: Copyright, ACTA, SOPA, Innovation, Piracy, Legislation, ISP, Illegal Downloads, Copyright Infringement -
Removing child pornography online more effective than blocking it - ISPAI News
29.02.2012 Paul Durrant, general manager of Internet Services Providers Association of Ireland (ISPAI) hit back at claims that Irish ISPs were not doing enough to battle child pornography... -
Skype security flaw could expose users to stalking or fraud News
25.10.2011 A security flaw in Skype has been discovered, that experts claim can be used to track not only users’ locations but also their peer-to-peer file-sharing activities and could... -
It’s IPv6 day today. Great, so what? News
08.06.2011 OPINION: Jim Foster, client principal at BT Ireland, explains why IPv6 is such a big deal, why it matters to the IT industry and why there's no need to panic in the same sense... -
23,000 US file sharers targeted in largest ever BitTorrent case News
10.05.2011 The US Copyright Group has been allowed to subpoena ISPs in order to find out the identities of more than 23,000 file sharers who illegally downloaded the Sylvester Stallone... -
Future of the internet event News
23.03.2011 IET Ireland is holding an event in Dublin tomorrow (24 March) to evaluate the possibility that in less than a year ISPs applying to regional internet registries will be refused....Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mobile, Internet, Data Management, Data Centre, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Ripplecom rolls out 8Mbps broadband across Ireland News
04.03.2011 Wireless broadband provider Ripplecom has upgraded its core network to deliver a 10GB core which in turn is making it possible for the company to roll out new 8Mbps services in... -
Telcos bungle broadband message – consumers are confused News
22.11.2010 In a harsh reflection of the quality of marketing activities of ISPs and telcos, many European and US consumers do not think that access to ultra-fast broadband would make a... -
'ISPs not judge and jury for copyright infringements' - UPC News
19.11.2010 UPC re-enforced its belief that internet service providers (ISPs) such as itself should not be made into "judge and jury" if a customer infringes copyright online. -
WiMax provider Imagine acquires Clearwire in Ireland News
26.07.2010 Sean Bolger’s fast-growing Imagine has acquired Clearwire’s Irish operations for an undisclosed sum. Imagine is engaged in a €100m national rollout of WiMax supported by Intel...Categories: Wireless Communications, Mobility, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Communications -
50pc of firms get broadband speeds more than 10Mbps News
22.04.2010 Irish firms are spending 15pc less on mobile services and 60pc of firms are still getting their internet services from incumbent Eircom. Up to 92pc of Irish firms today have... -
UPC to continue to fight music giants over ‘three strikes’ policy News
19.04.2010 Cable broadband player UPC said it will continue to ‘vigorously’ defend itself in the ISP liability proceedings taken against it by the big four music companies despite Judge...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal, Networking & Telecoms -
The day the music (piracy) died in Ireland News
17.04.2010 Three strikes and you’re out! A decision by a judge to allow record companies to hand over the IP addresses of illegal music downloaders to internet service providers clears the...Tags: Eircom, EMI, Sony, Music, Piracy, ISP, Data Protection Commissioner , Warner, Universal, Illegal Downloads, Three Strikes, IRMA, -
Irish digital TV firm breaks into Chinese market News
02.12.2009 A digital TV firm based in Cork has signed a major deal with one of China’s leading internet service providers to deploy internet TV (IPTV) to the world’s biggest population. -
-
-
The Pirate Bay has been throttled News
25.08.2009 The controversial peer-to-peer site The Pirate Bay is to go offline after it emerged a Swedish court has ordered its internet service provider (ISP) with a hefty fine.Categories: Comms -
Eircom confirms DNS outage News
07.07.2009 Ireland's largest ISP Eircom has confirmed that there was a domain name server (DNS) outage on its website last night after users complained they were being redirected to bogus...