[15.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Establishing a successful business presence on the web can be tricky but when you fake it, the online community is unforgiving
And of course, what goes online stays online – blogging blunders are forever so a business should think carefully before it engages with customers on a blog, says […]

[14.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]In what is thought to be the biggest-ever court judgement against spammers, social networking site MySpace won a payout of US$236.8m in damages when hundreds of thousands of junk emails were sent out to its members.
Sanford Wallace, the man behind the mass unsolicited emails, was previously head of […]

[14.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Web 2.0 activities on mobile handsets will generate US$22.4bn in revenue annually by 2013, Juniper Research has claimed.
This is up from US$5.5bn at present. Juniper Research includes social networking and user-generated content (UGC), and mobile search and mobile instant messaging (IM) in its cache of mobile web 2.0 […]

[14.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Provider of free digital travel guides, UK firm Schmap, has been around since 2004 and during this time has managed to create comprehensive interactive city guides for 200 destinations worldwide.
Users can now take these guides with them on their holidays because Schmap has just launched a version designed […]

[14.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Unresolved issues such as the increasing broadband bottleneck at local exchanges and overcoming the ‘last mile’ between the exchange and home will mean deploying triple play services – broadband, TV and telephony – a struggle for providers in countries where copper is the dominant access method.
Connectivity expert Brian […]

[14.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Web 2.0 can no longer be ignored as a passing fad, but what are the implications of this disruptive technology for Irish organisations?
Podcasts, RSS, blogs, wikis, mash-ups, social media, P2P. If you had uttered these words in a business meeting 10 or even five years ago, you […]

[13.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A new service from Google, with one line of code, will now allow websites to easily add a social networking element to their site rather than linking to a large networking portal like Facebook or MySpace to connect to their audience.
Friend Connect does not require programming knowledge and […]

[12.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A consortium involving BT Ireland, media holding company Communicorp and Swedish digital terrestrial television (DTT) operator, the Boxer Group, outlined its case for a DTT license to the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) today.
The consortium, Boxer DTT, is vying for one of the three DTT licenses that will […]

[09.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Russian search engine Yandex and internet auction site eBay have more of a share in the European search market than long-standing search engines MSN and Yahoo!, figures from analyst firm ComScore have shown.
Figures for March 2008 show that while Google is still the out-and-out leader in the search […]

[09.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]One in three airline websites in the EU contain a serious breach of EU consumer law, EU Consumer Commissioner, Meglena Kuneva, has said.
Presenting her mid-term report on the investigation into ticket pricing on airline websites in the EU, Kuneva said she was appalled to find there are serious […]