Below is the test of the official press release detailing Skype’s entry into the corporate PBX world. This will be a boon to Irish businesses, although considerable retooling of the PBX and sufficient bandwidth will be required to transition to the new platform. It will be interesting to see the rates to Irish mobiles...
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PC Magazine thinks so….
Dell’s Alienware division will lay off employees from a number of its business units as the once-independent division becomes more closely tied to Dell’s main organization and significantly expands its reach.
In a memo forwarded to ExtremeTech, Alienware general manager Arthur Lewis outlined a number of divisions that contained...
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PARIS — Two of the world’s largest mobile phone operators, the Spanish company Telefónica and the British giant Vodafone Group, said Monday that they would share infrastructure in some European markets in a move meant to cut costs as the economic downturn erodes their profits.
The companies said they had agreed to share networks in...
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Hidden iPhone Tethering Feature Exposed
I came across this story recently and it made me realise just how backward the iPhone really is. Lack of MMS, no incoming VOIP notifications, no copy and paste and now this! This “hack” is widely available as standard on any S60 phone. How primitive.
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Part 1.
OK, VoIP – you’ve heard of it and maybe you’ve dabbled with it, but you also know that what you don’t know is likely to come back and bite you, usually when money has already changed hands and not long after your 30 day money back offer expires.
If you’re like me when I...
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This is a useful service and is absolutely free. As you might expect you automatically receive responses to your tweets directly via SMS to your phone but there is another feature I find quite useful – namely a clipping service.
You can specify a keyword that you are interested in, for example I used the...
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12.03.2009 – Silicon Republic
According to the head of Facebook in Dublin, Ireland underestimates its impact on the online economy.
In their short history, social-networking sites have been maligned as a place only teenagers go to get into trouble. But there is nothing like a good recession to focus minds, and the importance of these networks...
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Athlone Advertiser, March 13, 2009.
By Finian Coghlan
A student facing drunken, public order charges for the second time in a month, left court again without a conviction after the judge reluctantly agreed to adjourn a final decision on sentencing until next October to see if the defendant’s behaviour improves.
John Gilna (18), from Esker, Ballinalee, Co...
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Yet another reason why “the last mile” should have been held in trust for the public;
Quoted from http://www.breakingnews.ie/business/eyaucwmhmhkf/rss2/:
Warning over broadband future
The future of broadband in Ireland has been plunged into doubt because struggling Eircom cannot commit to rolling out the technology, it was warned today.
The telecoms company refused to disclose the scale of its...
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This morning I opened my email to find an invitation to become an alpha tester for the windows version of Boxee. For those of you unfamiliar with Boxee it’s a media centre for PC’s. What that means is that it can locate all kinds of video, from live tv to your own audio streams,...
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