- Second screen app TV Buzz launches in Ireland, zeebox expands to the US Second screen TV companion apps are alive and well. Today two separate services, TV Buzz and zeebox, announced the introduction of, and expansion of, their respective companion apps.
- Record companies want to control what we access online, Irish Government obliges Threatened by legal action from EMI Ireland, the Irish Government has agreed to publish an order next month, "plugging a gap" in Irish copyright law and effectively allowing record companies to restrict access to whole websites in Ireland as they please.
- BT Ireland fibre roll-out now reaches three-quarters of all premises in Northern Ireland Announcing their financial results today, BT Ireland has also revealed that their roll-out of fibre broadband has now reached three-quarters of all premises in Northern Ireland, and that Derry/Londonderry has become the first city in the UK to have all telecoms cabinets upgraded to fibre.
- Over 146,000 Irish households and businesses still on 2Mbps broadband or less Figures published yesterday in the latest Irish Communications Market ComReg quarterly report suggest that 146,326 households and businesses in Ireland are currently subscribed to broadband packages of 2Mbps or less. Data concerning Q1 2011 indicates that 123,934 residential broadband subscriptions and 22,392 business broadband subscriptions are currently active for packages offering between 144kps and 1.99Mbps download speeds.
- BT all-Ireland profits up 11%, network is “key enabler” BT have today announced an 11% increase in profits for its all-Ireland communications services operation, to which the company attribute as a “result of cost transformation programmes and the successful delivery of large retail and wholesale contracts”.
- IPv6, Ireland, and the future of the internet A lot of debate has been circulating in recent months about the subject of IPv6 and how it will be the saviour of the internet as we know it. In this article we try to explain what exactly IPv6 is, why it’s so important for the continued success of the internet, and how prepared Ireland is for its imminent deployment.
- Ireland’s ISPs “not responsible” for internet piracy The debate about internet piracy, in particular music and movie piracy, reemerged yesterday after a High Court decision in favour of UPC stated that the company was not responsible for piracy policing on its network.
- UPC wins landmark case against ‘big four’ record labels UPC has won a legal action taken in the High Court in Dublin today by the ‘big four’ record labels over music piracy on its network.