Are you fed up getting calls to switch your telco provider? if so call your telephone provider (ie. 1901 for eircom) and ask them to block third party providers calls, its a free service. If third parties still call, ring the data protection commision on (01) 874 85 44 and report the third party. I…

does the Apple IPod nano sound too much like Creative Zen Nano? Na, no. Nano derived from the Greek word for small means ten to the minus ninth power, or one billionth. Perhaps its the billion bit Jobs is thinking of, not a billion IPods but tracks sold… Its going to be a White Christmas,…

back when I was younger (to quote SLF) I used to get my shoes in a very large shoe store in Talbot Street Dublin 1. The realy cool thing for a 5 year old was the shoe-fitting x-ray machine. Climb up 3 rubber coated steps, insert your right foot and left in two holes on…

Shaun Woodward is Minister for Water Charges in Northern Ireland Why is he in the news? yesterday he delayed the introduction of the hated double tax – the water charges. In an interview with Shaun Woodward, BBC reporter Mark Davenport commented “… he [Woodward] seems determined to push ahead with the introduction of water charges,…

Mr Lenihan also earlier defended himself for falling asleep during a telephone link to TV3’s Ireland AM morning programme. He was due to go live from his hotel bedroom at the Fianna Fáil think-in in Co Cavan when technicians heard him snoring loudly down the line and pulled the item. “I just slept through the…

News is up; todays JNLR results show that newzy progs are on the up in figure terms, something the podshows wont dent for along time. 2FM’s Gerry Ryan has lost 40,000 listeners, while Marian Finucance and Pat Kenny have also lost some of their audience. Liveline’s audience has also fallen by 20,000. Ryan Kenny Finucance…

[SiliconRepublic.com] If you?ve ever passed by someone in the street wearing the distinctive white earphones of an iPod, did it ever occur to you that they might be listening to the radio? Welcome to podcasting, a service for downloading radio shows as MP3 files for playback on a computer or digital music player.Unlike live streaming,………

my server txts me every other hour to say all is well and a few bits of data that make me feel happy, like the number of downloads of my latest podcast… as I watch it grow. So its buzzing along at 500 server interactions eg. 200 full downloads every 14 days to 28 days.…

what google ads needs is a sensitivity filter. the great Irish breaking news portal breakingnews.ie has ads for “Cheap Flights to Cyprus” x four. While the news content makes this association, the system lacks a filter that could deem these ads to be least apt to place on this site now. Perhaps Im over sensitive…