[31.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A panel composed of young backpackers had their say at Irish-owned Hostelworld.com’s fourth annual hostel conference held in Dublin this week and the verdict is: guidebooks are old news.
“By the time you buy a guidebook it’s already a year out of date, at least with online reviews you […]

[31.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]While nobody outside the inner circle of Apple knows when the iPhone will arrive on Irish shores, one thing is for sure: Apple re-seller 3G Stores will not be selling the handset if the phone does not go with its partners 3 or Meteor out of the four Irish mobile […]

[31.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Spin-ins – companies not directly related to UCD research – now account for 40pc of occupancy at the NovaUCD incubation campus, it emerged this week.
Academia, established business people and budding entrepreneurs alike gathered yesterday at University College Dublin’s centre for technology transfer, NovaUCD, for the centre’s open day, […]

[31.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]As an economic downturn begins to bite, could cost-conscious firms’ use of technology finally bring about the paperless office? Gordon Smith investigates.
Eoin O’Connor may just have made Irish legal history without meaning to. Last January, the solicitor had been waiting for a report to arrive by […]

[30.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Twenty-six new technology jobs are to be created at a Tralee-headquartered technology company after it emerged it has attracted €1.2m in seed funding from Enterprise Ireland and the AIB Seed Capital Fund.
Donseed, which focuses on the web-based work management solutions market, targets the construction, retail and energy sectors.
Its […]

[30.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]When Facebook opened up its technology to third-party developers to create the likes of Scrabulous or official applications from other sites like Digg or Flickr it was hailed as the ‘MySpace killer’ or the ‘anti-MySpace’, but as of today MySpace will no longer be on the other side of the […]

30.01.2008 MySpace takes a leaf out of FacebookWhen Facebook opened up its technology to third-party developers to create the likes of Scrabulous or official applications from other sites like Digg or Flickr it was hailed as the ‘MySpace killer’ or the ‘anti-MySpace’, but as of today MySpace will no longer be on the other side […]

[30.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Despite Google’s chief internet apostle Vint Cerf stating that the company will never build a G-phone or Google-phone because it is not in the business of hardware, there are rumours the search engine giant may indeed be developing a G-phone in collaboration with Dell.
Unlike mobile manufacturers such as […]

[30.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Despite Google’s chief internet apostle Vint Cerf stating that the company will never build a G-phone or Google-phone because it is not in the business of hardware, there are rumours the search engine giant may indeed be developing a G-phone in collaboration with Dell.
Unlike mobile manufacturers such as […]

[30.01.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has cut the cost of registering or renewing a dot.ie domain name by 5.8pc.
The price reduction has been introduced as a result of continued growth in registrations, the managed registry said.
Registrations have passed 92,000 domain names, representing a net 29pc increase since January […]