EU Blow to Eircom and Illegal File Sharing
Delighted to read Threat to Eircom ‘three strikes’ plan. It will be interesting to see how Eircom reacts!
View ArticleRecord 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 ArticleEircom Broadband Update
Last night I read that Eircom will start upgrading its broadband offering. You can read more about this in either Eircom unveils ‘next-generation’ broadband or on Eircom’s site. (Unfortunately, I...
View ArticleExemplar Network
During the weekend I read about Intune Networks and the Exemplar Network in Ireland’s next big thing – Govt commits extra €5m to Exemplar Network. It appears to be a very positive development, and I am...
View ArticleIntune Networks to Float
Amid all of the economic bad news, here is something positive! Intune Networks might be the next Irish company to make an IPO according to Intune targets IPO to be Ireland’s anchor tech firm. This will...
View ArticleWorld IPv6 Day
IPv4 addresses are due to run-out some time in the next few weeks, so there is growing media attention to this issue. In order to raise awareness, there will be a World IPv6 Day later this year. Many...
View ArticleEmerging Telco Charging Models
I just read an interesting blog post on emerging telco charging models: Euro ‘Google Tax’ battle looms. I am not sure what the author means by the following: However, what would stop the likes of...
View ArticleHuman Hotspots at SXSW
There was a lot of discussion last week about using homeless people as mobile hotspots at SXSW, as described in Use of Homeless as Internet Hot Spots Backfires on Marketer. I think that it was a good...
View ArticleGoogle Data Centres
This is really impressive visual insight into Google‘s data centres – Google Data Centres.
View ArticleThe “Evil” Bit
I had to read about the “Evil” bit in Request for Comments: 3514 this afternoon! I wonder why it never caught-on!
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