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  • Vodafone launches 'landline number for your mobile' service 16.05.2012
  • 20 years of the internet in Ireland (timeline) 15.05.2012
  • AIB signs five-year Ireland, NI and UK data comms deal with Eircom 15.05.2012
  • The internet in Ireland is 20 years old today! 15.05.2012
  • Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he lacks home internet 14.05.2012
  • Magnet buys UK FTTH player Velocity 1 - reveals fibre deal with Sky 08.05.2012
  • Sage rolls out 'mobile payments anywhere' tech in UK and Ireland 04.05.2012
  • Blueface to sell VoIP and mobile via Carphone Warehouse stores 03.05.2012
  • Google engineer behind Street View Wi-Fi probe outed 01.05.2012
  • Apple runs the gauntlet of UK ad watchdog's ire over 4G in iPad 01.05.2012
  • Irish internet speeds ranked 7th in the world, claims Akamai 01.05.2012

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Cerf's up: economic future tied to growth of ‘internet of things’

26.04.2012 One of the internet’s founding fathers Vint Cerf, who co-invented TCP/IP technology – the platform upon which the internet runs – said that by the end of the decade every person and machine on the planet could conceivably be internet-connected. This means more economic opportunities will arise for IT-skilled economies, as the cost of internet-enabling anything falls.

WWW inventor: HTML5 will make Minority Report look like child’s play

24.04.2012 The way Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, describes it, the internet revolution of the last 20 or so years that we all take for granted today was a near-accident born of desperation. But no near-accident is the impact of open data and how the late Steve Jobs played a role in bringing forward the revolution in HTML5.

Apple runs the gauntlet of UK ad watchdog’s ire over 4G in iPad

01.05.2012 Technology giant Apple and the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) appear to be caught up in a showdown over the use of the term 4G in the new iPad. The ASA says it will close the case against Apple if it removes references to 4G from its UK e-commerce site.

Irish internet speeds ranked 7th in the world, claims Akamai

01.05.2012 As the Next Generation Broadband Taskforce get set to launch its report tomorrow, a report by Akamai reckons that internet speeds in Ireland are almost three times the global average, making them the seventh-fastest in the world.

AirSpeed Telecom links directly with London’s LINX exchange

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 content-delivery networks like Akami, Limelight, Amazon, Google and the BBC.

Vodafone to acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide for stg£1.04bn

23.04.2012 Vodafone Group will acquire Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), which owns the UK’s largest fibre network, for stg£1.04bn in order to strengthen its enterprise business and for cost-saving opportunities.

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