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By Catherine O’Mahony

The board of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland meets for the first time tomorrow with the much delayed contract negotiations over Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) among the main items on its agenda. Read the rest of this entry »

Of the small but growing group of Irish public relations professionals who rank as insiders in the digital world, Edelman’s Piaras Kelly is possibly the most committed. Read the rest of this entry »

By Adrian Weckler

Ever wish you could make a movie? A real, proper high resolution film, as opposed to a shaky, poor-quality home video? If you have seen films such as The Blair Witch Projector Paranormal Activity, you will know that the technology to make studio-quality productions has fallen into a consumer’s budget. Read the rest of this entry »

By Adrian Weckler

Netbooks are slow, clumsy and usually underpowered, yet that has done nothing to quell their popularity among Irish laptop buyers. According to IT retailers, netbooks outsold full-size laptops during the busy Christmas period.

One of the higher-specification models available is Toshiba’s NB200. It has a relatively large 250GB hard drive and about the most powerful netbook processor available on the Irish market. It is also a clean, modern design, with very little of the plastic feel that some of its rivals have. Here, we look at how it performs in its most important tasks. Read the rest of this entry »

By Adrian Weckler

Attention, long-suffering Irish broadband users: there is a glimmer of hope. That glimmer was glimpsed last week in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, where subscribers to UPC’s broadband service got a pleasant surprise – speeds of over 150 megabits per second (Mbs). Read the rest of this entry »

By Samantha McCaughren, Business Correspondent

Clare-based company that designs software for brokers has launched a new web-based product and is targeting 4,000 brokers in Britain. Read the rest of this entry »

Some new businesses are the result of Eureka moments and Aonghus O’hEocha’s came two years ago when he heard a song on the radio that he liked. He waited until the end of the song to find out its name, but instead the radio station took a commercial break. It was then O’hEocha realised the need for a software application that would allow radio listeners identify what they were listening to. Read the rest of this entry »

By Aisling Mackey

When I built my first website back in 2004, I was heavily pregnant, harried and exhausted, with limited time on my hands to get it all done. The task seemed insurmountable. E-shopping software, host providers, merchant gateways, pay-per-click: there was so much terminology and so little time. Read the rest of this entry »

Steve Jobs, mastermind and chief executive of Apple, is not known for understatement. Even so, when Jobs declared two years ago that ‘‘people don’t read anymore’’, his words drew instant attention. For a start, there was the sneaking perception that he might be right.

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Bord Gáis has credited Google Adwords with helping it win 138,000 electricity customers over seven months last year.

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