Last week, Vodafone embarked on its most ambitious mobile handset project to date: a new operating system, Vodafone 360, that it hopes will rival the iPhone, Nokia and Google’s Android. To kick the system off, it has launched two high spec Samsung smartphones.
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These days, we are all in love with netbooks. They’re light, they’re cute and they’re cheap. The eight-inch mini laptops weigh half as much as a full-sized laptop and cost as little as €190. They come with a stripped-down operating system that gives access to the internet and to e-mail.
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Telecoms firm Imagine plans to ignite a broadband price war with the release of aggressive pricing for its new WiMax broadband product early next week.
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In the IT industry, most Irish commercial data centres are operating at a very high level of their rated capacity.
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Sony has launched what it claims to be the world’s lightest laptop.
The Vaio X weighs a feather-light 0.65kg (less than half the weight of a MacBook Air) and is just over one centimetre thick.
How depressing it is that in 2009, 15 years after the internet’s mainstream adoption, we are still imploring Irish companies to create proper websites for themselves.
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Now that we can take information anywhere on devices as small and portable as laptops, smartphones or USB keys, we’re finally seeing the extent of the problem encryption technology was intended to solve.
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Now that it has been around as a generally-used software term for a few years, we are al l becoming used to business intelligence (BI). Its more obvious manifestations – like executive dashboards, score cards, traffic lights and other smart graphics – show how an organisation is performing, or at least a neat summary of the information in the system.
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Windows 7 has “comprehensively’‘ outsold Vista so far in Ireland, according to executives in the company’s Irish operation.
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If you want to convert a bunch of HTML files sitting on your hard drive into a publicly-accessible website, you will need to sign up for a web-hosting service.
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