Even Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt is complaining about Irish broadband

14 years ago

While the current state of broadband infrastructure in Ireland in nothing short of disgraceful, it’s a relief somewhat to hear…

Google Transparency Report: UK requests removal of nearly 100,000 items from index

14 years ago

The British Government made 38 separate requests to Google for the removal of data from the search giant’s index and…

International Space Station to broadcast live HD video stream of Earth early next year

14 years ago

Canadian company UrtheCast will begin streaming live HD imagery of earth from the International Space Station (ISS) in Spring 2012.…

BBC releases 60 years of Reith Lectures from radio archive online

14 years ago

The BBC has released over 60 years' of audio archive from its acclaimed Reith Lectures online as part of its…

Aerial photography confirms existence of unknown tribe deep in Brazilian Amazon

14 years ago

The Brazilian government has announced the discovery of a previously unknown tribe of people living deep in the Amazon rainforest.…

Google to retire Google Health and Google PowerMeter

14 years ago

Google have announced today that they will discontinue two underperforming products; Google Health and Google PowerMeter. Google Health will retire…

Huffington Post to launch UK edition this July 6th

14 years ago

Arianna Huffington, editor of the Huffington Post Media Group, has confirmed that her popular news and content aggregation website, The…

J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore brings App Store economics to ‘niche’ markets

14 years ago

With the launch of the Pottermore website Rowling has brought app store economics to ‘niche’, that is to say single…

The future of rail travel; non-stop high-speed trains assisted by “feeder” trams

14 years ago

One of the main flaws with today’s high-speed trains is that they still have to stop at various locations, picking…

How to destroy a spaceship: The ESA live tweets the destruction of its Kepler craft

14 years ago

The European Space Agency live tweeted a dramatic space craft re-entry sequence which saw its ATV-2 Space Freighter, Johannes Kepler,…

Over 146,000 Irish households and businesses still on 2Mbps broadband or less

14 years ago

Figures published yesterday in the latest Irish Communications Market ComReg quarterly report suggest that 146,326 households and businesses in Ireland…

MSD officially opens two new €28.6 million health-care facilities in Cork

14 years ago

Pharmaceutical company MSD has officially opened two new facilities at their existing Brinny site near Innishannon, Cork. The two new…

Dublin named as finalist to become 2014 World Design Capital

14 years ago

Dublin has been named as a finalist city to become the 2014 World Design Capital, the international event’s organising body…

Darklight calls for submissions; Crowdfunded film projects wanted

14 years ago

Ireland's premier amateur filmmaking festival, Darklight, has opened submissions for its 2011 event & is calling for crowdfunding and crowdsourcing…

Nokia unveils buttonless MeeGo-based N9 smartphone

14 years ago

Nokia have unveiled their first MeeGo-based smartphone at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today. The Nokia N9 is also…

Dramatic increase in .IE domain registrations during recession

14 years ago

More .IE domains were registered in Ireland in the first five months of 2011 than during the same periods over…

First ever Irish Internet Expo will take place this October

14 years ago

Internet Expo, the first ever event of its kind in Ireland will take place in the RDS, Dublin this October…

Still awaiting guidance on the EU Cookie Directive

14 years ago

Oliver Emberton, owner of SilkTide – a website analysis company, has produced this 2.5 minute video to explain the controversial…

Google buys DVR company SageTV, impending Google TV upgrade?

14 years ago

Google has acquired digital video recording (DVR) technology company SageTV, which suggests that a Google TV upgrade may be on…

Official Facebook iPad app to be launched in the “coming weeks”

14 years ago

Facebook have been developing an official iPad app over the past year which they will release in the “coming weeks”,…