Tag: internet access

  • Irish govt appoints "Internet Czar"

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    Tom Raftery
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    I read in the irish Independent this morning that the Irish Govt has appointed an “Internet Czar” – someone to keep us all safe on the Internet. John Laffan is due to take up his role as the director of the Office for Internet Safety (OIS) next month. Justice Minister Brian Lenihan said that Mr…

  • First Gphones shipping?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Rumour has it that the first 50,000 Gphones will ship from Taiwanese handset-maker HTC‘s manufacturing facility before the end of the year. While 50,000 may seem like a modest number, “These initial phones are not going to be for sale,” Benjamin Schachter, one of the [UBS] analysts who worked on the report, said in a…