Archive for February, 2009
Public relations, Ryanair style
You have to love Ryanair, if only for the sheer neck of the company. When Jason Roe found a bug in Ryanair’s site, he blogged about it. Enter the commenters.
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Tags: jason roe, Ryanair
How times have changed. When I first started going to concerts, you were thoroughly searched on the way in for cameras and other recording equipment that might be used to video the band.
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Tags: copyright, file sharing, video, youtube
Net Visionary Awards 2009
The nominations for the Net Visionary awards are now open. Nominations close on March 27th and voting will open in April.
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Tags: Net Visionary
Ebay auction tool gets flagged
Ebay users beware – apparently a third-party auction tool has inadvertently been harbouring something a little more nasty than a last second bid and a bit harder to shift [BBC]. The good news is that the company, Auctiva, has already solved the problem. And for those who were infected, the trojan, Adclicker, is classed by […]
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Tags: auction, ebay, ecommerce, trojan
Review: The INQ phone
The INQ phone is designed to appeal to those who can’t bear to be disconnected from Facebook or Bebo or longer than is necessary. Who need to be hooked into Skype or MSN Messengerfor large parts of the day because .. well, just because. In other words, it was designed to appeal to someone just […]
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Tags: 3 Ireland, bebo, Facebook, INQ, MSN
This one will just run and run. Not content with their well thought out plan of introducing three strikes and you’re off the network, Irma is now going to start targetting websites it doesn’t like. Excellent plan.
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Tags: Eircom, IRMA, music
Brooks Bayne has started a bit of a spat on the internet by speculating about fake twitter followers.
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Tags: brooks bayne, guardiantech, spam, twitter
And again…
Speaking of mobiles, another new one has crossed my desk for testing. No saved texts or incriminating pics on this one. But it did have someone’s facebook account logged in. It’s probably a good thing I don’t have (that much of) an evil streak!
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Tags: Facebook
Pirate Bay scores small victory
Small victory for Pirate Bay. [BBC] The charges against the site have been “simplified” – meaning prosecuters have dropped the “assisting copyright infringement” ones and decided to proceed with the “assisting making available copyright material” charges.
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Tags: copyright, legal action, music industry, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi, sweden, the pirate bay, twitter
Minibyte 