Archive for February, 2008

Singularity Revealed

1 comment February 19th, 2008

I’m a bit late on this but after all the What is Singularity questions Aral Balkan revealed that it’s a large scale online web conference planned for later this year. Read all about over at the Singularity08 site.

Aral is just an amazing swirl of activity and in his spare time recently he put together a flash version checker website - something that everyone looks for at some stage but never knows where to go to, well now it’s sorted!

Broadband Shambles

2 comments February 18th, 2008

Given that I’m planning on moving down the county from Dublin next year broadband services become very important. The whole broadband situation outside of the main urban centres is a mess and there’s no hope of the current government and minister Lying Eamon Ryan fixing it. Senator Shane Ross is putting forward a Broadband Infrastructure Bill which might help, if it were accepted and there seems to be moves to revive the Ireland-Offline lobby group to put some pressure on the people in charge.

Wireless broadband is available in a lot of places mostly thanks to Digiweb although you need to be in line of sight of a station and within a certain distance which can be a bit difficult in rural areas.

The satellite broadband is a laughable option, so laughable that I don’t think you can call it broadband, certainly not when it’s realisitcally only one way service, although at least there’s plenty of companies out there providing it and offering some relief to dial up sufferers.