All Ireland Broadband
Yesterday the Irish Minister for Communications announced details of the all Ireland broadband Internet access roll-out scheme. The essence of this is that every part of Ireland will have broadband...
View ArticleJason Roe Versus Ryanair
Last weekend I read an article by web developer Jason Roe in which he described his discovery that under certain circumstances the Ryanair web site would revert the cost of flights to 0.00€. The full...
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BBC News Web Site Archive
I read an interesting article on the BBC News web site last weekend, and today I wanted to email its link to a friend. Unfortunately the link was no longer present on the homepage, so I used the search...
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Irish Government Censorship
A very interesting story about Government censorship has been unfolding in Ireland over the last two days. Indeed, if not for the Internet then the story would have been successfully squashed by now!...
View ArticleRecord Traffic For Second Irish Budget 2009
Last October I described the format of the Irish budget, and how it is broadcast online by RTE, in Record Traffic For Irish Budget 2009 Announcement. At that time INEX had a record throughput of...
View ArticleRTE Launches On-Demand TV Player
Today RTE launched its on-demand video player, which is unimaginatively called RTÉ Player. I have not had a chance to try it yet, but I already watch a lot of RTE current affairs content on demand....
View ArticleRTE Player in UCD
A friend of mine who works in UCD was trying to use the RTE Player on her laptop this week. (Yes, it was work related :o ) She had mixed results! She could view the RTE Player web page, and any of the...
View ArticleThe Irish Times Mobile Edition
The Irish Times has finally launched a mobile edition of its website! It is about time! Previously, I had to get all of my national news from RTE when I was using my PDA! I read the news on it last...
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Record Traffic For Irish Budget 2010 Announcement
I noticed that INEX had record traffic levels last Wednesday afternoon of approximately 8.7Gbits/s according to the INEX traffic statistics. I assume that this record was due to people watching the...
View ArticleTablet (Computers) and Online News
I read an article yesterday claiming that tablet users consume more online news. See Tablets Drive Deeper News Consumption [STUDY]. Yes – I am definitely one of those people! The thing that really...
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