Tagged: Internet & News
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Alcatel-Lucent performs ‘heart’ surgery on the web – reveals new core News
23.05.2012 Telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new set of internet core routers and has outlined a new vision of what the ‘heart of the internet should be'. The new core routers...Categories: Web, Servers, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Communications -
AirSpeed Telecom links directly with London’s LINX exchange News
24.04.2012 Licensed wireless telecoms provider AirSpeed Telecom has developed a direct link with the London Internet Exchange. The move also allows AirSpeed Telecom to link directly with... -
Yahoo! and Alibaba in US$7bn stock deal News
21.05.2012 Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group is to purchase back a 20pc stake Yahoo! holds in its company as part of a US$7.1bn deal. The deal values Alibaba at US$35bn. -
20 years of the internet in Ireland (timeline) News
15.05.2012 Twenty years ago today Barry Flanagan began Ireland On-Line in his house in Galway, kick starting the internet as a consumer phenomenon in Ireland. We look back at some of the... -
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 -
New CoderDojo a hit with Dublin 15 kids News
14.05.2012 Kids from Dublin 15 were out in force on Saturday for the latest CoderDojo coding club at Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB). -
Cyber-criminals catch on to online hotel booking craze News
14.05.2012 Cyber-criminals appear to be capitalising onto the trend of people booking their holidays online. Hotline.ie has issued an appeal for people to be aware of fake booking... -
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he lacks home internet News
14.05.2012 If you thought Ireland had broadband problems, then spare a thought for Steve Wozniak. The Apple co-founder has declared he doesn’t have broadband at his home in California and... -
Rabbitte reveals report of Next Generation Task Force (video) News
02.05.2012 Here’s a video of Ireland’s Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte’s speech as he launched the first report of the Next Generation Task Force. In July Minister Rabbitte intends to...Tags: E-net, UPC, Telefonica O2, Pat Rabbitte, Broadband, Next Generation Broadband, Internet, Vodafone, Imagine , BT, O2 -
Rise in fake job ads, e-commerce sites seeking personal data News
02.05.2012 There has been an increase in false job adverts, fraudulent websites offering cheap goods and other schemes online to trick people into sharing their personal and banking... -
Jameson 1780 ‘tour of Dublin’ site wins Webby Award News
01.05.2012 Irish whiskey maker Jameson has been given a global Webby Award today for ‘Best Use of Interactive Video’ in its beautifully designed Jameson1780.com website that takes web...Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Design, Apps -
Weekend news roundup: taxing questions for Apple, Intel's biggest gamble yet News
30.04.2012 In our trawl through some of the top tech newspaper articles this weekend, questions have emerged as to whether the internet will be eclipsed by something else in the same way...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Father of the internet Vint Cerf: we must save newspapers (video) News
27.04.2012 Business models that will help newspapers to survive need to be found because quality journalism is vital to a successful democracy, one of the ‘fathers of the internet’ Vint... -
Tim Berners-Lee: people would go to prison rather than lose internet News
24.04.2012 The inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee said people were absolutely right to take to the streets to protest SOPA, PIPA and ACTA and said disconnecting a family’s...Categories: Telecommunications, Social Media, Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Tim Berners-Lee to speak about ‘the data revolution’ in Dublin News
19.04.2012 Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with having invented the world wide web while at CERN, yesterday called on internet users to demand their personal data from internet giants... -
Online study looks at how Irish users react to advertising News
17.04.2012 Irish internet users are apparently more than three times as likely to trust Irish content sites compared to social networks and almost twice as likely to trust them over portal...Categories: Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers, CIO -
Google’s Sergey Brin warns of demise of open internet News
16.04.2012 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out against giants such as Apple and Facebook, as well as the rising threat of governments trying to control people’s web access, resulting... -
Reddit users to be sued over member’s suicide? News
13.04.2012 Reports have been circulating this week that nine members of the content-sharing website Reddit allegedly urged a fellow user of the site to follow through with his plans to... -
Scientists create first-ever working quantum network News
12.04.2012 A group of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany say they have built the world’s first elementary quantum network based on interfaces between...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Science, R&D, Mobility, Internet, Intellectual Property, Engineer, Energy, Consumer Tech -
Irish public is failing to report online racism, Hotline.ie says News
10.04.2012 The Irish internet watchdog for illegal content, Hotline.ie, is claiming the Irish public is failing to use the service to anonymously report incidents of incitement to hatred...