Tagged: Magnet & News
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Now that Eircom’s VDSL network is live, alternative operators get ready to pounce News
17.05.2013 So Eircom’s had its big day and has gone live with the first phase of its fibre network which will serve about 300,000 homes. From Monday, other licensed operators will launch... -
Ireland languishes near bottom of Netflix broadband league table News
09.04.2013 At this stage we shouldn’t really be surprised, but here it is: Ireland is in second last place out of seven countries served by movie-streaming service Netflix in terms of the... -
Telecoms industry bewildered as ComReg decides to split market News
12.02.2013 Ireland’s telecoms watchdog ComReg is to press ahead with a controversial wholesale decision that will divide the telecoms market into areas where a variety of price margin... -
Trust will be the biggest challenge of the cloud, apps, big data and social age News
22.01.2013 The issue of trust will tower over the matter of struggling to manage the exponential growth in data and will define the cloud age and the consequent explosions in social media,...Categories: Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Digital Business, Data Management, Consumer Tech, CIO, Architecture, Apps -
European Commission urged to block proposed split of Irish telecoms market News
22.11.2012 Organisations representing Irish telecoms companies and consumers have written to the European Commission warning that a two-tier telecoms market is about to emerge in Ireland....Categories: Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Economy, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, ComputersTags: ComReg, Eircom, BT, Magnet, Sky, UPC, Broadband, Cable Broadband, LLU, Vodafone, O2, 4G, Superfast Broadband, Next Generation Access -
Shortage of Saorview set top boxes predicted as 100,000 to lose TV tomorrow in switchover News
23.10.2012 Between 80,000 and 100,000 homes in Ireland will lose their TV signal when the long-serving analogue signal is switched off tomorrow. An additional 300,000 secondary TVs in... -
Hibernia Media acquires TeliaSonera’s fibre media business – expands global footprint News
28.08.2012 US businessman Ken Peterson’s Hibernia Media division of Hibernia Atlantic has acquired the TeliaSoneria MediaConnect business spanning 13 countries in Europe and North America... -
Magnet and Interxion join forces to increase focus on supporting the Government cloud News
16.08.2012 Fibre communications provider Magnet has forged a new alliance with data centre firm Interxion to help Magnet meet continued demand for its cloud-based telephony services and... -
#euro2012 – 30pc of viewers will watch matches on smartphones, tablets, PCs News
08.06.2012 One in three Irish people will use their mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets and laptops, to view the European Championships games live.Categories: Wireless Communications, Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Deals done this past week News
14.05.2012 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish and global technology sector. -
Deals done this past week News
08.05.2012 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish and global technology sector. -
Magnet buys UK FTTH player Velocity 1 - reveals fibre deal with Sky News
08.05.2012 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... -
Tablet computers have become the second TV – major disruption ahead News
02.05.2012 Tablet computers are beginning to disrupt the multi-billion-dollar TV business and by 2016 112.5m US consumers will own one. According to Irish online TV service Aertv, one in...Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Science, God and Einstein to feature in Nobel Laureate lecture at DCU News
28.03.2012 William Philips who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 will deliver two stimulating lectures tomorrow at DCU. The first will focus on ‘Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff... -
Aertv to live stream Jerry Fish session for St Patrick’s Festival News
16.03.2012 Online TV-streaming service Aertv will live stream a recording session of musician Jerry Fish from Windmill Lane Recording Studios as part of this year’s St Patrick’s Festival. -
Aertv to live stream ITLG Innovation summit News
07.03.2012 Magnet’s Aertv live streaming service will broadcast the Irish Technology Leadership Group’s (ITLG) Innovation Summit that takes place next week in Silicon Valley. -
ASAI upholds Magnet ‘fastest broadband’ complaint against UPC News
03.02.2012 In what seems like a case of ‘my data pipe is bigger than your data pipe’, the Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has upheld a complaint by Magnet objecting to... -
Temple Bar TradFest sessions to go global News
26.01.2012 Sessions of the 2012 Dublin Temple Bar TradFest will be streamed online between today and Sunday to a worldwide audience.Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Magnet in broadband deal with Munster Rugby News
24.01.2012 Magnet Networks has signed a two-year partnership with Munster Rugby club to be its official phone and broadband provider. -
Hibernia Atlantic in global fibre deal with Huawei News
16.01.2012 Hibernia Atlantic has signed a major construction deal with Huawei that will see the Chinese telecoms giant deploy its US$300m transatlantic Project Express network that will...