The internet in Ireland is 20 years old today!
Ireland On-Line was formed out of Barry Flanagan's house in Galway on 15 May...
16.05.2012 Vodafone has introduced a new unified communications technology it calls One Net that provides small and medium-sized businesses with a landline number for their mobiles.
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...
14.05.2012 Sean Gallagher to break silence on 'Twittergate' scandal online
12.05.2012 OPINION - What's the biggest compliment you can pay a website?
10.05.2012 EU mobile data roaming charges to be capped as of 1 July
02.05.2012 120 new jobs for a new contact centre in Belfast
02.05.2012 Dublin firm reveals test technology for connected TVs
Vodafone has introduced a new unified communications technology it calls One Net that provides small and medium-sized businesses with a landline number for their mobiles.
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 pivotal moments in Ireland's internet history.
AIB has signed a five-year deal with Eircom in which the telecoms provider will upgrade and replace AIB's data networks and voice systems across Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK.
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 Ireland, at least, is 20 years old today.
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 instead has to rely on smartphones to access the net. Why?
Magnet Networks has entered the UK fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) market with the acquisition of a 90pc stake in UK fibre broadband player Velocity 1 from Quintain Estates and Development plc for an undisclosed sum. The move will see Magnet also work with Sky to provide TV services via fibre-to-the-home.
Business software giant Sage today began rolling out its Sage Pay Mobile technology, which enables businesses to accept card payments using their mobile phones to authorise the transactions. The m-commerce technology could prove pivotal in helping small firms, such as those employing electricians and plumbers, to accept payments on the doorstep.
VoIP firm Blueface has struck a deal with the Carphone Warehouse network of 83 stores in Ireland to sell its landline and mobile services.
Engineer Doe, the mysterious Google engineer who wrote the code that allowed Google's Street View cars to gather private Wi-Fi data that raised privacy hackles in countries worldwide has been identified.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.