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VEI Global, a managed IT services provider in Naas, has become the 500,000th premise to get connected to Siro’s fibre-to-the-building broadband network. Siro is a joint venture of the ESB and Vodafone delivers 2Gb/s fibre-to-the-building connectivity over existing energy infrastructure. It […]

HPE has announced an expansion of its portfolio of sustainability services, as well as a new sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform. The tech giant says the offerings have been designed to help organisations reduce the carbon footprint associated with their IT estates, […]

Internet giant Google is the latest business to call time on remote and hybrid work. “Going forward, we’ll consider new remote work requests by exception only,” the company told workers in a memorandum from ‘chief people officer’ Fiona Cicconi, which is presumably […]

This week Niall and Dusty go through the big announcements at this year’s WWDC. Has the Vision Pro done enough to reignite interest in mixed reality or will it be another virtual reality dud? We are also joined by Dr Susan Leavy from the School of Information & Communication Studies at […]

Mechatronic engineering student Aimee Shanley-Brookes recently took home joint-first place in Intel’s ‘Best Engineering Project’ at the DCU 2023 Final Year Project Expo. TechCentral.ie caught up with Shanley-Brookes to discuss her prize-winning project, finding her path, and the […]

The team from Phone Pulse won the finals of the returning IT Channel Champions Cup Football Tournament. The event, held on a wet May Day with heavy rain and thunderstorms, transformed into a scorcher just as the players were arriving, setting the perfect stage for a day of intense action for 20 […]

A critical vulnerability in Barracuda Networks’ e-mail security gateway (ESG) devices now means all devices using it must now be replaced. The order came directly from the security company this week which said devices should be replaced regardless of whether the zero-day vulnerability was […]

Google is set to take a tougher approach to employee office attendance following changes to its hybrid work policies. Reports from CNBC suggest that Google plans to track office badge data to monitor attendance and will actively confront staff who continue to work remotely when scheduled to attend […]

Salesforce and Google Cloud have announced an expanded strategic partnership to help businesses utilise data and AI to deliver more personalised customer experiences, better understand customer behaviour, and run more effective campaigns at a lower cost across marketing, sales, service, and […]

Viatel has formed a strategic partnership with ArmorPoint, a global managed security service provider. Under the deal, the provider of cloud, security, networking solutions and digital services will deliver ArmorPoint’s managed cybersecurity solutions into the European market.  “As […]

I was struck by a phrase used by Shannon McWilliams, global vice president, ArrowSphere, at Arrow Electronics in a recent report, entitled The Innovation Enablement Guide from the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC). “Security seems to reinvent itself every year or two as more and […]

Cloud vendors should welcome the introduction of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in 2025, said Michael O’Reilly, chief technology officer, NTT Data Services Ireland. Speaking on a recent TechFire webinar where an audience of IT professionals, O’Reilly discussed the burning […]

Apple’s hardware showcase at this year’s WWDC developer event may have stolen the limelight, but the company’s true innovation lies in its software announcements, according to analysts. The launch of the Apple Vision Pro, framed as a “revolutionary spatial computer” […]

IBM has announced plans to launch its first European quantum data centre and cloud region. Housed at IBM’s facility in Ehningen, Germany, the data centre is expected to be operational by 2024 and will serve as a host site for IBM Quantum’s European cloud region, the company revealed on […]

Wiki Loves Earth Ireland, a photography competition focused on wildlife and nature, is calling all passionate photographers to showcase the awe-inspiring landscapes and diverse wildlife of the island of Ireland. The competition aims to celebrate the island’s natural heritage while encouraging […]

Enterprise Ireland’s Technology Gateways will receive a funding boost of €47 million as its been announced that the programme will now run until 2029. Charged with increasing the levels of interaction between Irish Industry and the Technological Universities (TU) and Institutes of […]

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC23) is in full swing, and on Monday the firm took to a virtual stage to reveal a slew of greatly-awaited new products and features. Across the two-hour bumper event, the firm dropped a great deal of announcements with several specifically […]

Spotify has announced plans to lay off 200 staff amid a ‘strategic realignment’ of the firm’s podcast division. Sahar Elhabashi, VP and head of Spotify’s podcast division confirmed the layoffs, which equate to around 2% of the workforce, in a statement on Monday. “We […]

Over the past few years, countless millions of words have been written about augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). For a time, it seemed the technologies could be about to change the world, with Mark Zuckerberg seemingly going all in, renaming his company Meta after the so-called […]

OpenAI has published details of a new training method that it hopes will improve the accuracy and transparency of AI models. The AI firm used ‘process supervision’ to train a model for solving mathematical problems, a method in which systems are rewarded for each accurate step taken […]