O2 has announced the launch of a new mobile TV service.
Called 'O2 TV', it offers customers the choice of two mobile TV packages: 'O2 Lifestyle Pack' focusing on entertainment, music, and news with channels including RTE News Now, CNN and the Travel Channel; and the 'Sky Sports & News Pack' offering live sports and news content on channels including Sky Sports 1, 2 & 3 and Sky News.
O2 TV uses streaming technology and is available on a wide range of 3G/HSDPA capable handsets.Both services will be available on a 30-day trial service.
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Commenting on the launch, Karl Aherne, category manager, dDigital & entertainment, Telefónica O2 Ireland, said: 'O2 previously trialled live broadcast digital TV on mobiles in 2007 using DVB-H technology.' Read More
Courtesy: RTE News
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
57,500 receive Leaving Cert results
Around 57,500 students have been receiving the results of their Leaving Certificate exams today. This year's results follow previously seen patterns of low achievement in maths and science subjects. The number sitting higher level maths fell, with only 16% of students sitting the paper. Once again there was a low uptake of physics and chemistry at higher level and high failure rates in all science subjects.
After the emergency rescheduling of the second English paper, students' results in that subject are broadly in line with those of previous years.
While there are minor fluctuations, the State Examinations Commission said the rescheduling of the paper did not adversely affect the quality of this year's scripts.
As in previous years there were high achievers. Among them one candidate who has achieved nine A1s. Read More
Courtesy: RTE News
After the emergency rescheduling of the second English paper, students' results in that subject are broadly in line with those of previous years.
While there are minor fluctuations, the State Examinations Commission said the rescheduling of the paper did not adversely affect the quality of this year's scripts.
As in previous years there were high achievers. Among them one candidate who has achieved nine A1s. Read More
Courtesy: RTE News
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Tuesday Push: WhoseView.ie
WhoseView.ie is a social review based website currently in open beta that allows all to rant and rave on local services and products!
http://www.whoseview.ie/ was founded by Helen McCarthy and Michael McFionbhear in partnership with Lightbox Multimedia. They are also supported by Enterprise Ireland.
The site was launched on July 17th 2009 with 38,000 Dublin businesses and close to 600 customer reviews. The goal is to concentrate on city locations, moving to Galway and Cork in September, before launching into the UK in early 2010. It is a review website boasts over 10 categories, Restaurants, Food & Drink, Bars & Nightlife, Shopping & Fashion, Health & Beauty, Arts & Culture, Hotels & Travel, Local & Home Services, Recreation and Automotive. Read More
Courtesy: Silicon Republic
http://www.whoseview.ie/ was founded by Helen McCarthy and Michael McFionbhear in partnership with Lightbox Multimedia. They are also supported by Enterprise Ireland.
The site was launched on July 17th 2009 with 38,000 Dublin businesses and close to 600 customer reviews. The goal is to concentrate on city locations, moving to Galway and Cork in September, before launching into the UK in early 2010. It is a review website boasts over 10 categories, Restaurants, Food & Drink, Bars & Nightlife, Shopping & Fashion, Health & Beauty, Arts & Culture, Hotels & Travel, Local & Home Services, Recreation and Automotive. Read More
Courtesy: Silicon Republic
Monday, August 10, 2009
Open Access leads the way in promoting academic research
Scholars are embracing the internet to bypass publishers and speed the process of research
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING seems a world away for most of us, but it’s the intellectual infrastructure that underpins modern life.
And, like nearly everything else, it’s being speeded up by the internet.
What we think of these days as research began with the Royal Society of London, an idiosyncratic group of 17th-century gentlemen scientists. Mostly they were the middling upper-class – third sons of lords, with more free time than responsibility.
They met in a hall to talk about natural history, read letters from absent colleagues and performed experiments for each other. Read More
Courtesy: Irish Times
ACADEMIC PUBLISHING seems a world away for most of us, but it’s the intellectual infrastructure that underpins modern life.
And, like nearly everything else, it’s being speeded up by the internet.
What we think of these days as research began with the Royal Society of London, an idiosyncratic group of 17th-century gentlemen scientists. Mostly they were the middling upper-class – third sons of lords, with more free time than responsibility.
They met in a hall to talk about natural history, read letters from absent colleagues and performed experiments for each other. Read More
Courtesy: Irish Times
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Clear Channel has donated 10 bus shelter ad spaces to talented artists working in Lucan and Clondalkin
Clear Channel has donated 10 bus shelter ad spaces to talented artists working in Lucan and Clondalkin. Young artists who worked with professional artist Jessica Tobin via the online space of NOISE South Dublin (http://www.noisesouthdublin.com/) will get to showcase their work, which focuses on social issues of importance to young people, this August throughout Dublin. Issues covered in the poster project, entitled Listen to the NOISE discourage stereotyping, alcohol abuse, and following the crowd.
The artwork will appear on bus shelter ad spaces from August 10th through the 23rd. Via workshop sessions in real time and on the space of the NOISE South Dublin website, young people discussed social issues that mattered to them. They then looked at literature, poetry, song writing and visual art that touched a chord with their particular social issue. By examining both writing as well as visual imagery that sparked ideas, the young artists then designed their posters. Clear Channel supported the idea of exhibiting the artwork after seeing some of the poster designs in their initial stages.
The announcement of which posters will appear throughout Dublin was made on Friday, July 31st at a DVD Launch Party event which celebrates work created on NOISE South Dublin since its launch on October 28th 2008. The DVD called NOISE Soundation also celebrates work created by young people in the Soundation, a digital media and music group within Lucan Youth Centre in Lucan/North Kildare Youth Service.
Courtesy: SDCC
The artwork will appear on bus shelter ad spaces from August 10th through the 23rd. Via workshop sessions in real time and on the space of the NOISE South Dublin website, young people discussed social issues that mattered to them. They then looked at literature, poetry, song writing and visual art that touched a chord with their particular social issue. By examining both writing as well as visual imagery that sparked ideas, the young artists then designed their posters. Clear Channel supported the idea of exhibiting the artwork after seeing some of the poster designs in their initial stages.
The announcement of which posters will appear throughout Dublin was made on Friday, July 31st at a DVD Launch Party event which celebrates work created on NOISE South Dublin since its launch on October 28th 2008. The DVD called NOISE Soundation also celebrates work created by young people in the Soundation, a digital media and music group within Lucan Youth Centre in Lucan/North Kildare Youth Service.
Courtesy: SDCC
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
25,000 potential jobs for Ireland through smart economy plan
Up to 25,000 new jobs could be in the pipeline if a series of projects aimed at transforming Ireland into one of the world’s foremost digital economies come to fruition, the Minister of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD, and Minister of State for Information Society, Minister Conor Lenihan TD, said today.
In what is one of the boldest steps taken by an Irish Government yet towards putting the country at the forefront of the digital age, the Government is to focus on building a smart broadband network called the Exemplar Network that makes use of multiple colours of fibre to dramatically boost the speed of fibre-based communications. Read More
Courtesy: Silicon Republic
In what is one of the boldest steps taken by an Irish Government yet towards putting the country at the forefront of the digital age, the Government is to focus on building a smart broadband network called the Exemplar Network that makes use of multiple colours of fibre to dramatically boost the speed of fibre-based communications. Read More
Courtesy: Silicon Republic
Bing takes another slice of the Google pie
Microsoft’s new, improved search engine Bing shows no signs of losing its shine; in fact it has gained another 1pc of the US search market, eating into Google’s lead.
According to an analysis carried out by the research arm of Irish web analytics firm Statcounter, Microsoft's share of the search market increased from 8.23pc to 9.41pc in the month of June.
These new figures mean that Microsoft and Yahoo combined took 20.36pc of the market in July in comparison to their 19.27pc the month previous. Read More
Courtesy: Silicon Republic
According to an analysis carried out by the research arm of Irish web analytics firm Statcounter, Microsoft's share of the search market increased from 8.23pc to 9.41pc in the month of June.
These new figures mean that Microsoft and Yahoo combined took 20.36pc of the market in July in comparison to their 19.27pc the month previous. Read More
Courtesy: Silicon Republic
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