Archive for the 'Communications' Category

RTE Digital Radio Now Online

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Via Rick O’Shea, RTE have launched their new digital radio stations online. At the moment, they’re only available in RealPlayer format - though there are links to the non-existent Windows Media streams.

The RTE “How to Listen” page also contains links to the normal broadcast radio stations and podcasts.

I’ve played around with it for a while, [...]

Tiger Woods Nearly Brings Down The Internet

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of golf, but even I knew that Tiger Woods was in an 18 hole play-off for the US Open with Rocco Mediate on Monday.

From about 5pm GMT, (9am local time), there was a sudden surge in Network Traffic through 70 different ISP’s in North America. [...]

The Customisable Mobile Phone

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I’m always on the look-out for the must have phone. Somewhere out there is the perfect phone - a phone that has the perfect balance between size, usability, components and price. I’ve trawled through sites such as Expansys.ie checking technical specs and reviews. There are a lot of great phones out there, but each and [...]

BBC iPlayer Coming to Your Mac

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

The BBC announced that they are planning to release a Mac OS version of iPlayer by the end of the year. The BBC iPlayer allows UK viewers to either download or stream the previous weeks programmes to the computer.

At the moment, the iPlayer Download Manager is a Windows only program, although the BBC states streaming [...]

The CAD$3,000 Phone Bill

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

It sounds a bit steep, but if you’ve spent a month downloading high definition movies through your mobile network, and you’re being charged per kilobyte, then it’s quite possible to rack up a bill of this size. And that’s exactly what one Canadian man did.

The thing is the bill was originally CAD$85,000. Which you have [...]