Tag archive: Dublin

Things are happening at Facebook. Well, of course, things are always happening at Facebook, but news emerged on Friday that the social networking giant is considering doubling the size of its European headquarters in Dublin. If you double something that’s small, it remains pretty small, but Facebook already has a sizable presence in the Irish capital. Indeed, doubling its current 5,000 square meters (54,000 square feet) of office space would… Read More

European budget airline Ryanair often has very cheap flight deals – it’s not uncommon to pay less than $1 (plus tax) for a ticket at times. But it makes money in other ways. If you want to check-in in-person, rather than online, you pay extra, and the same for every piece of checked luggage. So it’s perhaps no surprise that they’re rolling out in-flight mobile calls and texts as another way to make money, and at… Read More

Microsoft isn’t making its vast profits any more, it’s shedding 5,000 jobs, and, according to a new company blog posting, it’s also going to delay its plans for a new data center in Des Moines, Iowa. The center was set to host Hotmail, Live Search and Windows Live services. In the posting, from Arne Josefsberg, general manager of infrastructure services, Global Foundation Services, and Michael Manos, general manager of… Read More

Ireland has been developing a reputation as a tech center for several years, and that received a big boost yesterday with the news that social networking site Facebook has selected the nation’s capital, Dublin, as the site for its new international headquarters. And no, it’s nothing to do with the Guinness. According to the company, the new HQ will be home to both sales and technical operations covering Europe, Africa and the… Read More

If you’re a student at University College, London (UCL) or Trinity College, Dublin, a new academic service means you’ll be able to download lectures from iTunes, making the alarm clock a thing of the past. They’re the latest addition to the so-called iTunes U, where lectures from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley and MIT are all available for free. Video and audio recordings of the Trinity College and UCL… Read More

When someone says they’re playing World of Warcraft to relax, better start believing them. A new study by Middlesex University has found two hours playing the game can lower stress levels.   292 online gamers, both male and female and aged between 12 and 83 – yes, 83 – were first given questions to answer regarding stress and anger. After that, they spent two hours in front on the screen playing WoW, after which they… Read More

Google’s inexorable march toward world domination continues. It’s moved into the university market, and institutions are switching their e-mail services to Google.   The latest is Ireland’s venerable Trinity College in Dublin, where the entire e-mail network is being replaced by Google’s system. Although there will be no changes on the surface, with the e-mail addresses and domain name remaining exactly as they… Read More

Research and Markets, a market research firm based in Dublin, Ireland, announced results today which reveal some interesting trends in users of streaming media. The report, titled

BitBand has announced that BitBand's VOD solutions are powering the first IPTV deployment in Ireland. The triple play services, delivered through a single fiber-optic cable to homes in Dublin, offersubscribers telephony services, broadband Internet access, multi-channel TV and VOD, with additional new services to be introduced in early 2005. The deployment is led by Magnet Networks, an Irish company owned by U.S. investment company… Read More

Much was made of the fact that the Xbox outsold the PlayStation 2 in the hardware stakes for two weeks after its launch in the territory, but obviously after the initial buzz of the launch, the console has completely died in South Korea – a country which is noted as being one of the leading nations in the world for online gaming. Analysis of what went wrong for Microsoft in Korea falls broadly into two camps. The first, and probably… Read More