Damien Mulley

BT Ireland pull out of the National Broadband Scheme

July 25th, 2008

News just coming in. Confirmed with them too. No reasons for doing so yet. The final tender was meant to be decided by Autumn so this is cutting it close. The Department go on hols (just like the Courts) in the next while too. BT Ireland will still be the tech partner for Three who along with eircom are the only ones left in the tender process.

Not sure will the Department be as happy with a two horse race and them leaving this late into it. I wonder what changed recently?

Update: Irish Times coverage.

A BT spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that it had withdrawn “due to the lack of spectrum being made available” for the scheme.

BT planned to provide coverage using a wireless technology called WiMax. Industry sources said that 10Mhz of radio spectrum was being made available for the NBS.

Following a technical analysis, BT found this was not sufficient as it would have required a large number of base stations to provide the broadband speeds required by the Department of Communications.

Posted in Eamon Ryan, irishblogs, technology | 1 Comment »

This is why I like Twitter

July 25th, 2008

I ask a question about Babylon 5 (in 140 chars or less) and get back great feedback from people in 140 characters or less. 11 replies in 10 minutes.

Posted in irishblogs, technology | 3 Comments »

eircom to sue ComReg next week

July 25th, 2008

Seems a date has been put down for eircom to sue ComReg in the Commercial court about ComReg’s recent line share price reductions.

Commercial Court goes on hols at the end of the month so either they don’t go to Costa Del Law and listen to the case or they do and the case is adjourned until October. Meaning line share prices are frozen until then.

Stay tuned.

Posted in irishblogs, technology | Comments Closed

Their Fluffy Links

July 25th, 2008

David

Laura

Phil

Update: Fibreglass links from Andrew.

Posted in irishblogs | 2 Comments »

That Media Training thing – August 6th in Dublin

July 24th, 2008

This media training for startups I mentioned will take place in Dublin on August 6th. City centre venue will be announced soon. I’ve emailed everyone that put their names down for it and the response rate has been quite low. Perhaps it got thrown into the spam folder? 🙂 If you didn’t get my email about it, let me know.

There may be upcoming sessions for those that want the legal basics for starting a company and if enough tech companies attend, specifics for tech companies might be covered. Anyone interested in a legal bootcamp for startups? It won’t be done by me, obviously.

Posted in business, irishblogs, personal | 8 Comments »

Fluffy Links – Thursday July 24th 2008

July 24th, 2008

No Fluffy Links yesterday on this here blog and I appear to be still on the road today. But Linkmap, Will Knott and Maman Poulet took up the challenge instead. Yaysies.

Feedback on IrishBlogs.ie still wanted.

Love these photos.

Can you feed two people in a week for €50? I guarantee this is going to be a feature in a newspaper or as a piece in a radio show in the next few weeks. The betting though is on whether attribution will be given.

Via Ian of the Thrill Piers. Bon Iver Daytrotter session. BTW, is Ian the most gigged out music blogger in Ireland?

Una gives the goss on Fringe. Nice. Am there.

Holy Fuck coming back. Yay.

Via Kerry: Buzzwords for 2008. Infosnacking is one I dislike greatly.

Via Kottke:
Terminator 2 set to inappropriate music
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Posted in Fluffy, irishblogs | 4 Comments »

Review of Comfort Inn Hotel/Maldon Hotel – Granby Row, Dublin

July 23rd, 2008

Comfort Inn/Maldon Hotel – Granby Row, Dublin

Sitting on the space where the Waxworks used to be, this is a very new hotel from the Comfort Inn group. It’s become such a regular hotel for me now that the staff know me and ask when I’ll be back next. Best asset for them is their very friendly staff. Next up are their prices. €79 midweek, €89 later in the week which can go up to €169 on weekends depending on how late you leave it. You get a twin, single or double room for those prices. Prices per room not per person sharing. Brekky not included. Fine for me.

Rooms are brand new, well furnished, air con and broadband in each room. Ethernet cable in the rooms and wireless in reception.

Where they don’t get their 5th star is on the building itself. Built in the boom, corners were cut. So some of the showers leak or the fittings don’t fit that well. It’s the same for their hotel in Smithfield. Still though, a great price and lovely staff.

Rated 4/5 on Jul 23 2008

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Review Tags: , hotel, inn, comfort, granby, row

Posted in irishblogs | 4 Comments »

Saw the Dark Knight

July 22nd, 2008

It rocked.

Met Rick. You know, that rocked more. Wearing the pimp hat and feather though and the cane? Does he think he’s Gerry Ryan now or something?

Good to see the blogternity there too. Big up to fab movies site Movies.ie too. How many of the audience will go and see it again and more than once? A lot I’d say. How many straight men will not find Christian Bale hot but will have a man crush on the Joker?

Oh and I’m on the road at the moment so blog service will return soon enough. I challenge y’all to do your own fluffy links.

Posted in film, irishblogs | 19 Comments »

IrishBlogs.ie wants your feedback

July 22nd, 2008

IrishBlogs.ie

I’m working with Roger from IrishBlogs.ie at the moment to get feedback from the Irish Blogging Community on how they want to see IrishBlogs.ie progress. A survey is now up asking people what changes they’d like to see to the site and in what priority. Roger won an Award at the first Blog Awards for his contribution to the Irish Blogging community because of the way IrishBlogs.ie brought so many of us together. It’s still a community focused site today.

There will be some changes to the way the site looks as well as some under the hood changes to add some features which will hopefully make the site even more useful. While we’re excited about some of the changes we think can be made, the crowd and the community always trump the ideas of a few. So tell IrishBlogs.ie what you want to see from the site.

Please also spread the word and encourage as many others as possible to give feedback via the survey. The more the merrier.

Posted in irishblogs, technology | 5 Comments »

Fluffy Links – Tuesday 22nd July 2008

July 22nd, 2008

This rocks. Lidl Treats. A blog about good stuff you can get in Lidle. Read this nice list of good stuffs. Now if they got their feed added to Twitter. Such a great concept for a blog.

Recessions are good now? Scarcity is too.

Wine in a can. A beautiful can though.

This is broken. Nice site on bad design.

So you can get around someone blocking their phone number?

Anyone applying for Seedcamp?

FFFFound and fonts. Yum.

The Pleasure of Finding Things out. Richard Feynman. This is part 1 of 5
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So a wrestler asks for a chair to belt a guy. A possible drunk audience decides on mass participation:
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Via Nialler9

Little Boots – Ready for the fun (Hotchip cover)
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