Tag: ireland

  • Emigrating to Spain

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    Tom Raftery
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    My wife Pilar and I have decided to move to my wife’s home town of Seville in the south of Spain next year. This is a decision we have been wrestling with for some time now but this summer’s lack of sun tipped the decision. We are going to wait until the end of the…

  • Firefox's marketshare now 27.8% in Europe?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Damien asks us what our site stats for Firefox are after reading the results of a survey by XiTi monitor which shows Firefox having 38.6% marketshare in Ireland. You can…

  • More rumours of O2 iPhone deal

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    Tom Raftery
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    Forbes Madrid are reporting this morning that O2’s parent company, Telefonica have signed an exclusive deal with Apple for iPhone distribution rights in the UK. This is the second time this rumour has emerged in the last two weeks. Both times from very credible sources. It makes sense. Vodafone don’t need Apple (and the sales…

  • Off to MIX07

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m writing this post in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport waiting to board a flight to Chicago (and then another to Vegas) for Microsoft’s MIX07 conference. I’m looking forward to the conference, the line-up of talks looks really impressive and I’ll get a chance to meet some great people. What is really cool as well…

  • CIX – the building begins!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Building has commenced on the CIX data centre – the first fully redundant data centre in Ireland outside of Dublin! CIX intends to be incredibly energy efficient and has even developed a carbon neutrality strategy document. Watch the CIX blog for more on this. [Disclosure – I am a director of CIX]

  • Gapminder.org's incredible data visualisation

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    Tom Raftery
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    One of the revelations for me of the Le Web 3 conference was hearing Prof. Hans Rosling‘s presentation. Everyone I spoke to mentioned his talk as being the highpoint of the event. I checked out Gapminder.org, the site he mentioned where you can access all the data he presented and it is incredible. The interactive…

  • E-tailer recommendations

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    Tom Raftery
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    In a follow-on to my post on External Storage options, I’m also wondering if anyone could recommend a good (good = reliable and cheap) e-tailer where i could source the sotrage solution i decide on (and any other electronic toys goods I want to buy). Obviously, the e-tailer should have no problem shipping to Ireland!