O2 Ireland announced yesterday its launch of a Twitter SMS service, the first Irish mobile carrier to do so.
Sending and receiving Twitter messages will cost the same as sending and receiving regular SMS text messages on the O2 network.
If you’re an O2 customer, to begin, text START to 51210. Twitter has a handy list [...]
Facebook today announced that the company plans to more than double the size of its operation during the official opening of its new EMEA headquarters in Dublin.
Facebook’s European operations have been headquartered in Dublin since October 2008 with over 70 employees currently on site.
The company expects to double the size of its [...]
Someone at microsoft decided that Telnet was not a secure application and so in Vista & Windows 7 it is not installed by default. To enable it:
Open control panel
Then go into programs
Then in programs and features there should be a part that says ‘turn windows features on or off ‘
Click ‘turn windows [...]
A 3-D iPhone application, allowing the user to rotate, zoom and navigate their way through the human heart, has been developed by eMedia, a campus company at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology’s Innovation in Business Centre.
Pocket Heart is the first 3-D medical application to come to Apple’s iPhone App Store and offers students a unique [...]
US firm Lumension is setting up a new research and development centre in Galway, which will create 30 new jobs. The initiative is being supported by IDA Ireland.
Lumension, headquartered in Arizona, develops, integrates and markets security software that helps businesses protect their vital information and manage risk across firms’ networks.
The new centre in Galway will [...]
Eircom has confirmed that the hacker attack that led to surfers being misdirected to bogus websites and two subsequent outages over two weeks was a ‘moderate attack’ known as cache poisoning.
‘Cache poisoning’ is a form of attack where the open-architecture of a domain name server (DNS) is re-configured to direct authentic web traffic to non-authentic [...]
Apple’s latest version of its Safari web browser has accumulated a tally of 11 million downloads in its first 3 days, of which six million-plus have been installed on Windows machines.
Safari 4 has some new innovations, including Top Sites, which shows the user a collage of their favourite sites within one window, and Cover Flow, [...]
Hewlett-Packard gave a disappointing outlook for full-year revenue and said it will lay off another 2% of its workforce as consumers and businesses cut spending on computers, printers and services, sending its shares down about 5%.
The new round of layoffs — which total roughly 6,400 jobs — announced yesterday are on top of previously announced [...]
