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Dell to put all bets on red with investment of US$125bn

Dell is attempting to make a massive push into the Chinese market after announcing that it intends to pump US$125bn into the country over the next five years. The announcement was made by none other than Dell’s chief executive, Michael

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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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Google’s new Dublin Tech Hub

In what is a major coup for the city’s burgeoning start-up community, the Tech Hub Network increases the amount of start-up resources available from Google in terms of mentors, access to new technologies and access to co-working space in other

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3 Ireland, Wandera provide mobile data security, optimisation

Wandera, provider of advanced mobile threat prevention and data usage optimization for enterprises, together with enterprise mobility specialist CWSI, has announced a strategic partnership with Three to deliver its secure mobile gateway services to business customers in Ireland. The integration

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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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Cloud giant Dropbox has acquired enterprise communications player

Dropbox’s acquisition of Clementine signals a greater emphasis on the new wave of comms and productivity apps currently occupied by emerging players like Slack and Wrike. Dropbox has it within its power to be, in effect, the workspace of the

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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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