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Eircom reveals new logo as part of €16m rebranding as eir

The company also announced that it’s rolling out home broadband services with download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second in 15 communities around the country. 23,000 premises will have access to the eir ‘Fibre Extreme’ product immediately, which

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5G connections to hit 240m by 2025

If a new report from Juniper Research is accurate, the amount of devices connected online with 5G speeds will hit 240m by 2025, but only 3pc of the world will actually have access to it. While 4G speeds are still

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iOS on fast lane into enterprise space

In a deal very similar to that with IBM last year, Apple has forged a new hardware partnership with Cisco that will create a fast lane for iOS devices and apps into the enterprise space. The deal will see Cisco

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AirSpeed puts fibre in William Fry’s diet

Wireless and fibre broadband telco AirSpeed Telecom has signed a three-year contract worth €250,000 to install a high-performance MPLS network at legal firm Willam Fry’s new Grand Canal Square headquarters. William Fry employs 440 people and is planning to create

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Host in Ireland President, Garry Connolly, to Keynote at Sustainable Processing 2015

Host in Ireland, a marketing initiative created to drive interest in hosting digital assets in Ireland, today announces its President and Founder, Garry Connolly, will deliver the keynote during Sustainable Processing 2015, an Irish industry event hosted by the Sustainable

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Tech business week: Dublin a Tech Hub, and UPC becomes Virgin

This week in tech business news, Dublin is added to the Google Tech Hub Network, and UPC is to be renamed Virgin Media in Ireland. Google has added Dublin to its Tech Hub Network through a partnership with Dogpatch Labs.

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Google’s new EU user consent policy

In response to a request from EU regulators, Google has updated its user consent policy, and website owners need to ensure compliance by 30 September. Mason Hayes & Curran explains why and how. Web users may have noticed an increase

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Windows 10 lands

Microsoft has revealed that it is already firmly on the road towards its 1bn target for Windows 10, with some 75m machines upgrading to the new operating system after its first month. Microsoft released the new operating system on 29

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Windows 10 review: a true return to form for Microsoft

There’s a certain rhythm to Microsoft and operating systems if you have been paying attention over the last 15 or 20 years. And yesterday’s (29 July) arrival of Windows 10 to 190 countries around the world for free is in

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Airspeed in €1.5m investment

Multi gigabit broadband is going to be made available across Ireland as part of a €1.5m investment by fibre and wireless communications player AirSpeed Telecom. As part of the rollout, AirSpeed has struck a deal with forestry organisation Coillte to

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