| Group set up to protect nesting little tern seabirds on Louth coast |
A NEW conservation group has been formed in Co Louth and its first major project begins this month. It aims to protect nesting little terns, which are Ireland's rarest breeding seabirds. They spend winter along the coast of west Africa and return to Ireland in April until September. They nest directly on beaches, which leaves their chicks and eggs vulnerable to destruction from dogs, walkers and natural predators, including crows, who can steal the eggs. // Read More // |  |
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| Posted By Tony Lowes on 03/04/2008 ( Reads : 1106 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Ulster customers to test high-speed internet link |
| People in 10 Northern Ireland communities are being invited to take part in the trial of BT's new high-speed internet service. Four exchanges in Belfast, two in the North-West and those in Glengormley, Lisburn, Bangor and Newtownards are among 53 areas of the UK which will begin testing the ADSL broadband Max service by the end of this month. Higher speed broadband services will allow users to run more applications at the same time, such as downloading videos or music while gaming online, listening to internet radio or e-mailing.
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| Posted By Peter McCloskey on 14/12/2005 ( Reads : 1236 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Council casts its net - on the web |
| IT might not be enough to turn viewers away from their favourite TV soap. But those with little better to do can now log onto the web and watch their local councillors in action from the comfort of their living room or office. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 01/12/2005 ( Reads : 1325 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Poor weather delays Rathlin's online party |
| The forecast of gale force winds postponed an historic event on Rathlin which would have made Marconi proud. Celebrations involving the island's schoolchildren were scheduled on Friday to mark the latest technological move aimed at bringing the Province's only inhabited isle out of isolation - Broadband. A prediction of severely inclement weather, however, forced organisers, British Telecom, to cancel the plans at the last minute. It is understood, the celebrations may now have to wait as long as next spring in the interests of the safe passage of guests. Among the events planned was a web link between Rathlin primary pupils and students in Methody College, Belfast, aimed at demonstrating Broadband's versatility and speed. A spokeswoman for BT said: "Rathlin was enabled at the end of August/beginning of September, the event was being held to mark that. "We don't know when it will be now - we'll just have to play with the weather." While they'll have to wait to put up the streamers and balloons, the island youngsters and their families are already enjoying the advantages. It's yet another telecommunications milestone reached by the often inaccessible island. Some 106 years before, Guglielmo Marconi sent the world's first commercial signal there from Ballycastle. Welcoming the extension of further services to Rathlin, DUP MLA Mervyn Storey said: "This is yet another positive development for the residents. "The fact that the island is remote and frequently at the mercy of the weather is all the more reason for hi-technology to be advanced there with all possible haste".
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| Posted By Peter McCloskey on 25/10/2004 ( Reads : 1279 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| NI set for 100% broadband coverage |
| Full broadband access is expected to be available throughout Northern Ireland by the end of next year. The region will be the first in Europe to have 100% broadband access. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By Peter McCloskey on 29/03/2004 ( Reads : 1385 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Ecoweb: www.epa.ie/air/monitoring |
| The Environmental Protection Agency's new website which provides "real-time" figures on air pollution levels for various pollutants including sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.
The monitoring sites include six in Dublin, three in Cork and there are 11 others around the country.
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| Posted By the editors on 21/03/2004 ( Reads : 1321 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Top companies open to cyber-attack |
| Some of the biggest financial and service companies in Dublin city centre have left their computer networks defenceless, The Sunday Business Post can reveal. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 24/08/2003 ( Reads : 1366 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Aggregators Attack Info Overload |
| Maniacally wired netizens who read a hundred blogs a day and just as many news sources are turning to a new breed of software, called newsreaders or aggregators, to help them manage information overload. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 19/08/2003 ( Reads : 1424 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| E-mail shrinks the world |
| The theory that almost everyone on Earth is connected to anyone else via a small
number of acquaintances seems to hold true for e-mail too. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 12/08/2003 ( Reads : 1381 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Adamstown Development [Letter] |
| Madam, - The oral hearing of An Bord Pleanála regarding the proposed development
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| Posted By the editors on 28/07/2003 ( Reads : 1462 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| ESB tests power socket internet technology |
| Communications Minister Dermot Ahern has finalised plans to trial technology that delivers an internet connection through power sockets. A spokesman for the minister said a pilot project would start within six weeks. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 20/07/2003 ( Reads : 1377 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive? |
| THIS is Charles Lax's brain on speed. Mr. Lax, a 44-year-old venture capitalist, is sitting in a conference for telecommunications executives at a hotel near Los Angeles, but he is not all here. Out of one ear, he listens to a live presentation about cable television technology; simultaneously, he surfs the Net on a laptop with a wireless connection, while occasionally checking his mobile device , part phone, part pager and part Internet gadget , for e-mail. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 08/07/2003 ( Reads : 1440 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Searching for a Dial Tone in Africa |
| ACCRA, Ghana, July 3 , The Internet bubble has long since popped in the United States, Europe and Asia. But in parts of Africa the Internet is serving as a powerful force for change, primarily by allowing companies and individuals to make international telephone calls far less expensively than through conventional channels. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 06/07/2003 ( Reads : 1443 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Intel Loses Decision in E-mail Case [Spam] |
| The California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a former employee of Intel was free to send e-mail messages to current company employees, overturning a lower court's injunction. The court rejected Intel's argument that the messages represented illegal trespassing to its computer systems. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 01/07/2003 ( Reads : 1465 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Unmetered internet hits Ireland |
| Time has finally been called on net clock-watching in Ireland. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 30/06/2003 ( Reads : 1412 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Internet Graphics format wins freedom |
| Friday 20 June has been dubbed Gif Liberation Day as net users the world over celebrate the end of a costly patent agreement. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 23/06/2003 ( Reads : 1420 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Spam virus 'hijacks' computers |
| Spam accounts for about half of all e-mail sent globally. Spammers are sending out viruses that take over people's computers and turn them into junk mail machines, say experts. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By the editors on 15/06/2003 ( Reads : 1376 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Big Brother watches island wildlife |
| Cameras are to be installed on remote Scottish islands to enable people on the mainland to watch their colonies of sea birds and other wildlife.
The proposals for St Kilda have just received the go-ahead after winning grants totalling £120,000. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By The Editors on 24/05/2003 ( Reads : 1443 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| Man Charged With Fraud in Spam Case |
| A man was arrested outside his home in Buffalo on Tuesday and charged in state court with forgery and fraud in connection with millions of unsolicited e-mail messages, commonly known as spam, Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, said yesterday. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By The Editors on 15/05/2003 ( Reads : 1375 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
| E-Mail Service Providers Unite in Bid to Stop Spam |
| The three leading providers of e-mail accounts said yesterday that they had started to work together to develop ways to reduce the unwanted commercial messages, commonly known as spam, that are increasingly clogging their customers' mailboxes. // Read More // | |
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| Posted By The Editors on 29/04/2003 ( Reads : 1367 ) | Comments (0) | Internet Access |
