Free Wi-Fi across public transport network

Ireland to offer free Wi-Fi across public transport network

31 Aug 2012

Ireland

Ireland’s transport minister Leo Varadkar has revealed plans to have free public Wi-Fi services available across the country’s entire public transportation system next year. According to local news source The Journal, Wi-Fi has already been introduced on Irish Rail and Bus Eireann services, while trials are also underway on Dublin Bus and Luas, Dublin’s light rail transit system, with a view to a full rollout in the near future. Mr Varadkar was cited as saying that Dart and Dublin commuter rail services are expected to come online this autumn, while Dublin Bus will develop a ‘business case’ for a fleet-wide Wi-Fi rollout in 2013; the latter has already trialled wireless internet access on the No 16 bus route, while it is being added to 80 new vehicles.

Alongside the public transportation roll out, the report notes that Wi-Fi services are also being provided in tourism offices across the country.

New Lisburn Chamber of Commerce website launched

The launch of new Lisburn Chamber of Commerce website was hosted at the 2b:creative studio recently, attended by members of the Chamber and its Chairman, Mr John Steen. Damian McCann and Martin Barlow, 2b:creative. Pictured with the guest speaker Nichola Bates of GrowSalesOnline. The guest speaker for the evening was Nichola Bates, founder of GrowSalesOnline, who delivered an engaging insight into the importance of promoting business using online marketing and offered useful advice on how to utilise the internet and social media platforms to raise company profiles to new target markets. The design and production of the website was delivered by 2b:creative, who also sponsored the project. Simon Bruce commented "We were very enthusiastic when approached by Chamber Chairman John Steen who asked if we would be interested in designing and sponsoring their new website, it is important that all businesses are willing to pull together when the opportunity arises. We realised that this project would provide an ideal platform for Lisburn companies to promote their products and services locally, as well as previously untapped markets further afield" "Now that the website is launched, it is important that all Chamber members utilise it as a promotional and marketing tool to develop their own online profile" The website can be viewed at www.lisburnchamber.co.uk

Blacknight Invite Customers To Fly Their Irish Flags Proudly with .IE Domains

Blacknight Invite Customers To Fly Their Irish Flags Proudly with .IE Domains

August 30, 2012 – Carlow, Ireland – Blacknight are reaffirming their commitment to Irish domains with deep discounts on .IE registrations and transfers.

The leading Irish domain registrar and hosting company are offering  .IE domains for €5.99 with the purchase of a Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com/) hosting package.

Customers who order a Blacknight Maximus hosting plan  http://www.blacknight.com/maximus-hosting.html with 600GB of monthly transfer and 30GB of diskspace (either Linux or Windows Server 2008) for 1 year will be eligible to transfer or register a new .IE domain at the discounted rate.
This offer also applies to the purchase of the Minimus annual hosting planhttp://www.blacknight.com/minimus-hosting.html (Linux or Windows Server 2008) as well as the Medius hosting plan http://www.blacknight.com/medius-hosting.html (Linux or Windows Server 2008)

Michele Neylon of Blacknight states: “We love giving discounts and were looking for a way to celebrate the announcement of our new, green data centre. We couldn’t think of a more perfect way to celebrate the ground breaking on a local Irish data centre than by promoting .IE domains.”

.IE has a market share of 42% in Ireland and .IE domains have become a strong staple of Irish Internet culture. As the leading registrar for .IE domains, Blacknight intend to continue to strengthen the relationship between the domain and its Irish registrants.

Neylon continues: “We are a proud, Irish business and have made it our mission to help other Irish businesses establish an online identity. Whether it is a website, mobile site or online store; it is our goal to help Irish businesses expand their presence. We are heavily committed to investing in the Irish economy and want to provide others with the tools to do the same.”

To take advantage of these promotions, customers must order 1 year of hosting and the domain name simultaneously as these offers only apply to domain name registrations and transfers when ordered at the same time as an annual hosting plan.

Dublin Web Summit - More Speakers Announced

More Speakers announced, Sold Out Hotels & Price Increases Europe is back from holidays! Our attendee list has doubled in a week and is now fully updatedhere. All three of our recommended hotels are now sold out on the opening night, you can read more here or see our hotel advice page here.  Today we've announced 10 more incredible speakers, all the details are on our updated website. Gary Kovacs Mozilla Martin Varsavsky Fon Baratunde Thurston The Onion / Cultivated Wit Louise Phelan PayPal Edial Dekker Gidsy Mattias Ljungmann Atomico Kevin Rose Google Ventures Eva Ho Factual Ilya Segalovich Yandex Patrick Collison Stripe Omid Ashtari Foursquare Aubrey Sabala Sailthru Courtney B. Myers General Assembly Gareth Williams Skyscanner Joe Fernandez Klout Megan Quinn KPCB Alexia Tsotsis TechCrunch Mike McCue Flipboard

Blacknight Announce All New Green Data Centre

Blacknight Announce All New Green Data Centre


Irish registrar to open on-site facility to manage data needs

August 27, 2012 – Carlow, Ireland – Blacknight announce the construction of on-site data centre that will use green technology and create local jobs.

Leading Irish registrar and hosting company Blacknight are not content to leave “well enough” alone. Their big project for 2012 is to build an environmentally sound, onsite data centre in their current facility.

The data centre, which is currently under construction, will be completed by the end of 2012.

 “ We are always looking for ways to improve our services,” states Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon. “Bringing a data centre in-house means our staff are no more than 5 minutes away to service it at any time. Having that kind of peace of mind gives us more time to focus on other aspects of our business.”

Data centres can be considerable energy drains, however, Blacknight have arranged for the data centre to be cooled with ambient air from outside, rendering the cooling system very environmentally friendly.

Paul Kelly, CTO states “ We are aiming for a PUE of between 1.1 and 1.2. This means that the cost to cool the IT equipment will be considerably lower than in older data centres. Ireland’s year round low average temperatures make running a data centre cooled by ambient air a possibility.”

Blacknight CTO Paul Kelly goes on to say: “On day one, our new data centre will house 700 servers and by the end of the project that number will be 6,500. The project will also add several million euro to the local economy.”

Blacknight has partnered with a local company to build the data centre, which has helped to create local jobs. The expansion plan will see the company breaking into new markets, allowing Blacknight to bring more processes in house and create additional jobs.

The project started in late 2011 and construction began in the summer of 2012. Phase 1 of the project should be completed by the end of 2012, with the data centre opening its doors early in 2013.

Power and connectivity are in abundance in Carlow, which makes it the ideal location for a data centre.

Paul Kelly CTO explains “The business park we are in will be able to provide up to 2MW of power. There is already fibre into the park and we’ll be bringing resilient connectivity in from other carriers”

As running a data centre in-house is cost effective, Blacknight intends to pass that savings on to their customers.

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is GOOD for YOU, your KIDS and TECH

Think we'll be richer without patents? Think again

By Andrew Orlowski • Get more from this author

Posted in Business, 28th August 2012 13:43 GMT

Analysis Relax, everyone. While the patent system is far from perfect, a remarkably common-sense jury decision last week in the Apple-Samsung patent trial has clarified that system's purpose and strengths as the "lifeblood of business", as inventor James Dyson calls it.

Putting powerful short-term legal protections under inventions is overwhelmingly more convincing than any mooted alternative. We're all richer for it. And the verdict has also been good news in an unexpected way: it's a fillip for the jury system too. Much to the distress of intellectual property "experts", this is a small victory for democracy over technocracy, and against the administration of justice by self-selecting elites.

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Samsung Claim against Apple - Live Theverge.com

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Suffice to say, Samsung's legal team cannot be happy right now.

4:12:47 PM PDT

Both decisions for Apple.

4:12:42 PM PDT

'516: yes. '941: yes.

4:12:34 PM PDT

Has Apple proven by a preponderance of the evidence that Samsung is barred by patent exhaustion from enforcing the following Samsung patents against Apple?

4:12:28 PM PDT

Patent exhaustion. The Intel question.

4:12:17 PM PDT

No.

4:12:14 PM PDT

Has Apple proven by a preponderance of the evidence that Samsung has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by monopolizing one or more technology markets related to the UMTS standard?

4:12:04 PM PDT

Question 31.

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No.

4:11:54 PM PDT

Did Apple prove that Samsung breached it's obligations when developing the UTMS standard?

4:11:36 PM PDT

Antitrust.

4:11:30 PM PDT

Damages from Samsung to Apple: zero.

4:11:03 PM PDT

DId Apple prove they were invalid? No across the board

4:10:32 PM PDT

No across the board. Wow. Nothing on Samsung's utility patents.

4:10:12 PM PDT

No on all but the iPod touch. It's up next...

4:09:37 PM PDT

'460 no across the board

4:09:22 PM PDT

'516 No

4:08:52 PM PDT

'460: literally infirngement for 3GS: no

4:08:46 PM PDT

'893 iPhone 3GS No

4:08:38 PM PDT

'711 iPhone 3GS: No

4:08:31 PM PDT

'711 Patent on iPhone 3G No. '460 on iPhone 3G: no.

4:08:11 PM PDT

Samsung's claims against Apple up next

Apple - Samsung Verdict - Live from TheVerge.com

LIVE FEED AS it Happened - From TheVerge.com

4:04:36 PM PDT

1 billion, 51 million 855 thousand dollars

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Damages.

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STA: No for unregisted iphone trade dress and iPad Trade dress

4:03:42 PM PDT

SEA: No for iPad Trade Dress.

4:02:39 PM PDT

Question 19

4:02:30 PM PDT

No for Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Prevail, S2 ATT, S2 T-Mobile, Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, and Infuse 4G.

4:02:08 PM PDT

For STA: Yes for Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Showcase, Mesmerize, and Vibrant.

4:01:50 PM PDT

No for Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Prevail, S2 ATT, S2 i9100, S2 T-Mobile, Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, and Infuse 4G.

4:01:25 PM PDT

For SEC: Yes to Fascinate, Galaxy S i9000, S 4G, Showcase, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

4:01:04 PM PDT

If you found the unregistered iPhone 3G trade dress protectable and famous, for each of the following products, has Apple proven by a preponderance of the evidence that Samsung Electronics Co. (SEC) and/or Samsung Telecommunications America (STA) has diluted the unregistered iPhone 3G trade dress?

4:00:51 PM PDT

Question 16.

4:00:45 PM PDT

STA: Yes for Fascinate, Galaxy S 4G, Showcase, Mesmerize, Vibrant. No for Captivate, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Galaxy Prevail S2 ATT, S2 Tmobile, Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, and Infuse 4G.4:00:06 PM PDT

No for Captive, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, S2, Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, Infuse 4G

3:59:39 PM PDT

Yes on Fascinate, i9000, Galaxy S 4G, Showcase, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

3:59:26 PM PDT

SEC

3:59:22 PM PDT

15

3:59:13 PM PDT

Dilution? Apple provide Registered iPhone and unreigsted iphone 3G diluted, no others.

3:58:39 PM PDT

Apple has proven only the iPhone 3G trade dress protectable.

3:58:15 PM PDT

On to trade dress. Samsung has NOT proven that'893 trade dress is not protectable.

3:57:50 PM PDT

No across the board. Not a single one proven invalid by Samsung.

3:57:33 PM PDT

381 Not proven invalid.

3:57:16 PM PDT

Invalidity. Another biggie.

3:57:06 PM PDT

STA: Yes for all but D'087 and D'889

3:56:41 PM PDT

SEA: Yes for 381, 915, 163

3:56:23 PM PDT

SEC: Yes for all but D'087 and D'889

3:56:00 PM PDT

Sorry, last question was whether Samsung should have known. This next one is willfulness.

3:55:33 PM PDT

'889 No for both Galaxy Tab models.

3:55:25 PM PDT

D'305: Yes for Captivate, Continuum, Showcase, Gem, Indugle, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Vibrant.

3:54:58 PM PDT

D'087: Yes for S 4G, Vibrant. No for S2 ATT, S2 Epic 4G Touch, S2 Skyrocket, Infuse 4G.

3:54:36 PM PDT

D'677: Yes for Fascinate, S 4G, S2 ATT, S2 Tmobile, Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, Showcase, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Vibrant

3:54:06 PM PDT

Question 9 — was Samsung willful in its infringement? Big one here for damages.

3:53:43 PM PDT

No across the board

3:53:09 PM PDT

D'889 Patent.

3:53:05 PM PDT

For STA: Yes for Captivate, Continuum, Chrarge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, S 4G, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize and Vibrant.

3:52:28 PM PDT

Yes for Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy S i9000, S 4G, Showcase, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Vibrant.

3:52:01 PM PDT

Again, SEC up first.

3:51:54 PM PDT

The D'305 patent.

3:51:45 PM PDT

Question 7.

3:51:38 PM PDT

For STA: yes on S 4G and Vibrant only.

3:51:25 PM PDT

Yes for S i9000, S 4G, and Vibrant. No for S2 ATT, S2 i9100, Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, and Infuse 4G.

3:50:57 PM PDT

D'087 Patent. SEC up first.

3:50:44 PM PDT

for STA, Yes for Galaxy S 4G, S2 Tmobile, S2 Epic 4G Touch, Skyrocket, Showcase, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Vibrant

3:50:22 PM PDT

that was for SEC

3:50:16 PM PDT

No for Ace.

3:50:14 PM PDT

Yes for Fascinate, Galaxy S, S 4G, S 2 ATT, S2 i9100, S2 Tmobile, S 2 Epic 4G touch, Skyrocket, Showcase, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Vibrant.

3:49:40 PM PDT

Infringement of D'677 patent.

3:49:22 PM PDT

No for Captiavet, Continuum, Gem, Indulge, Nexus S 4G, Transform, and Vibrant

3:49:06 PM PDT

'163: Yes for Droid Charge, Epic 4G, xhibit 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, S 4G, S 2 ATT, S2 Tmobile, Tab, Tab 10.1, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Replenish.

3:48:36 PM PDT

No for Replenish

3:48:34 PM PDT

'915: Yes for Captivate, Continuum, Droid harge, Epic 4G, Exhibit, Fascinate, Prevaila, S 4G, S 2 ATT, S2 Tmobile, Galaxy Tab, Tab 10.1, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Intecept, Mesmerize, Nexus, Transform, and Vibrant

3:47:22 PM PDT

'381: Yes for all devices.

3:47:15 PM PDT

Inducement for '381 '915 '163

3:46:59 PM PDT

Question 4

3:46:57 PM PDT

No for Captivate, Indulge, Intercept, Nexus S 4G, Transform and Vibrant

3:46:44 PM PDT

for STA: Yes for Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Prevail, S 4G, SII ATT, S 2 TMobile, Galaxy Tab, Mesmerize and Replanish

3:46:14 PM PDT

For SEA: Galaxy Tab 10.1 Yes.

3:46:02 PM PDT

No for Captivate, COntinuum, Gem, Indulge, INtercept, Nexus S 4G, Transform, and Vibrant. Yes for Fascinate.

3:45:38 PM PDT

Yes for Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Ace, Prevail, Galaxy X, Galaxy S 4g, S II AT&T, i9100, S II Tmobile, Galaxy Tab, Tab 10.1, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, and Replenish

3:45:02 PM PDT

SEC up first

3:44:58 PM PDT

Claim 50 of '163 patent

3:44:47 PM PDT

Question 3

3:44:42 PM PDT

No on intercept and Replenish

3:44:36 PM PDT

for STA: Yes for Captiavte, Continuum, Droid Charge, Exhibit, Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, S II AT&T, SII T Mobile, Galaxy Tab, Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Tranform and Vibrant

3:43:57 PM PDT

For SEA: Yes on Galaxy Tab 10.1

3:43:51 PM PDT

No on Ace Intercept and Replenish

3:43:45 PM PDT

For SEC Captivate, continuum, droid charge, fascinate, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy S II, i9100, Galaxy s 2 Tmobile, Tab, Tab 10.1, Gem, Indulge, Infuse, Nexus S 4G, all yes

3:42:58 PM PDT

Question Two. Claim 8 of 915 patent

3:42:41 PM PDT

Continuum, Droid Charge, Exhibit 4G, Galasy Ace, Prevail, S 4G, S II, Galaxy Tab, The Gem, Indulge, Infuse 4G, Mesmerie, Nexus S 4G, Replenish and Vibrant

3:42:07 PM PDT

STA yes for Captivate

3:42:03 PM PDT

for SEA, Galaxy Tab Wifi

3:41:43 PM PDT

Answer for all devices is YES

3:41:39 PM PDT

For each of the following products did Samsung (SEC, SEA, STA) infringe claim 19 of /301 patent

3:41:07 PM PDT

Apple's claims

3:40:38 PM PDT

This is it. This is history. The verdict from the Jury