Want to buy some tech for your loved one or even for yourself? Urbanista a have a special offer with free worldwide shipping until Sunday Feb 19th with 20% off their range, All you need to do is enter VALENTINES in at the checkout. Head to Urbansita and check out their range and watch out for more reviews coming your way from us..
We have featured many products from Urbanista and today we check out the NEW YORK Dark Clown headphones with ANC which has recently hit the market. These will look familiar to some but have new specs and features and surpass the old with really good sound and of course with ANC now built-in it makes things even better.
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New York Bluetooth headphones featuring active noise cancellation (ANC) means you can wear them at the office or in the bustling streets and enjoy your music undisturbed. With the ANC feature on, you get 16 hours of noise-free, pure musical enjoyment on one single charge. With the ANC feature off, you get 25 hours of wireless music and calls. Should you ever run out of power, you can connect them to your device with the complimentary cable.
These are really comfortable to wear even for long periods and come equipped with all you need, the padding on the cups are really comfortable and isolate much of the exterior noise alone without the need for the new ANC feature which is now becoming a thing with headphones and more popular due to the idea behind it, these cans are not aimed for those at an office environment or anything like that but can be worn anywhere and the added ANC really helps if you are one to look for a particular style, You might have office headphones but you can simply swap if preferred to get the extra features if your own office ones do not have ANC.
Some though prefer not to use this feature so they are semi aware of their surroundings but everyone is different and if you are at home or in a quite environment you will understand more as to the benefits of isolating exterior sound fully.
Control are simple to use and easy to use as they are raised slightly from the cups and even blindly you will be able to simply navigate,the toggle too are perfect and overall you will have no issues finding your way around in no time.
The build quality is as before its solid and robust,they do look plain in this colour but plain is not a bad thing, They are easy to keep clean a damp cloth is all you would need even underneath the headband which has a really nice rubber texture is simple to maintain and also comfortable.
Sound is great,much better than similar models thanks to the ANC mostly all genres I played highs,mids and lows where crisp and clear and had good bass so I was pleased to hear they have improved over past variations and they really pack a punch and are loud which is what I personally prefer.
We have more to come from Urbanista in our review section so stay tuned for those and check these out right HERE or on https://www.urbanista.com/
Xtorm, market leader in mobile charging solutions, starts the year on a high note by taking on your messy charging cables. If your smartphone is suited for wireless charging, a wireless charger by Xtorm will be the perfect addition to your desk or night stand!
Get rid of those loose cables
Loose charging cables in your interior often look messy and always end up disappearing behind the desk or night stand when you need them. A wireless charger by Xtorm is the perfect solution to keep your interior tidy, elegant and clean. Moreover, it is very easy! Simply put your smartphone on the wireless charger and charging starts automatically.
Innovative
All wireless chargers by Xtorm use Qi (derived from the Chinese word qi, which means energy flow), a wireless charging standard used by, amongst others, Apple, Samsung, HTC, Huawei, LG, Motorola, Nokia, BlackBerry, Sony, and many more. The use of the latest technology in our products also ensures that you can simply use wireless charging to charge your smartphone through the phone case.
Always the right solution
Thanks to the broad range of Wireless products by Xtorm, there is always a product in thier selection that perfectly fits your needs. Besides the elegant Charging Stand Angle, Wireless Fast Charging Pad Freedom and a wireless power bank, we also offer integrated wireless charging . These can be built into, for example, a desktop, night stand or other piece of furniture of your choice. Start the year right and clean up your cables with Xtorm!
Price and availability
The recommended sales prices for all our Wireless Chargers is €39. The are available from several (online) stores and at xtorm.eu. Xtorm offers a two-year warranty and unlimited help desk support on all her products.
FutureScope, Ireland’s only conference that promotes collaboration between the entrepreneurial community and multinationals, will take place in the Convention Centre Dublin on Thursday, 31st May 2018. The event is limited to 1,200 attendees, to enable quality networking, and will feature more than 120 speakers and panellists, with 40 exhibitors.
Now in its fifth year, FutureScope, organised by Dublin BIC, is focused on delivering attendees real value from the day. A special emphasis is placed on purposeful networking and the creation of collaboration opportunities for start-ups, scale-ups, multinational companies, innovative Irish enterprise, SME’s, the research community, investors, academia and state agencies.
The one-day event will be action-packed with highlights including the crowning of the One2Watch 2018 award, where one Irish start-up will be recognised for the most scalable early-stage business idea; panels and workshops on emerging business opportunities such as digital transformation, smart cities and fintech; and structured networking sessions on the Future World.
FutureScope 2018 promises to be the biggest and best year yet with founders, CEOs and leaders from high-profile companies, including Vodafone, Enterprise Ireland, Facebook, IBM, Google, Alltech, Blueface, Circle, Newswhip, Jobbio, Science Foundation Ireland and many more, all looking to collaborate, trade and share views on what they see as the major emerging trends affecting their business.
Key themes to be explored this year include how the Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly connecting our world, what business applications will arise from VR and AR, and where exactly will data analytics and AI lead us?
Martina Larkin, Head of Europe and Eurasia, World Economic Forum, is one of the big name speakers confirmed. Other speakers on the day include: Jaime Cudden, Smart City programme manager at Dublin City Council and Barry O’ Sullivan, director at Insight Centre, with many more to be announced.
This year’s event is designed around four core pillars which represent each stage of the business innovation lifecycle, from idea to reality to global scale:
– Insights stage: Provide attendees with insightful perspectives on emerging technologies and how they will shape our future world
– Collaboration stage: Showcase great examples of collaboration from around Ireland and identify new opportunities for collaboration, for example between multinationals and indigenous start-ups
– Innovation stage: Showcase and promote the innovations driving a smart economy
– Entrepreneurship stage: share knowledge, insights, tools and techniques to empower entrepreneurs to start and scale
Michael Culligan, CEO, Dublin BIC, said, “FutureScope is the must-attend event of 2018 for businesses and entrepreneurs looking to collaborate and engage with the most exciting start-ups and scale-ups. The central premise of the event is to create a platform for global multinationals, large innovative Irish companies and successful entrepreneurs to explore business opportunities. Through panel discussions, tech demonstrations, innovative showcases, and structured networking, FutureScope offers the perfect setting for collaboration.”
Super-early-bird tickets are now available for €89 until the end of this month (28th February). Early-bird tickets are then available at a cost €125 until 11th May, tickets increase to €145 until 22nd May and €170 in the week leading up to Futurescope. Tickets include access to four stages, ten breakout sessions, innovation showcase, networking, hot lunch and all-day coffee.
For more information and to register for the event, visit http://www.futurescope.ie/
Futurescope is supported by strategic partner Dublin City Council.
Hundreds attended an event in London this weekend, aimed at enticing skilled tech workers to Ireland.
404 London saw leading tech employers showcasing the career opportunities they have on offer in their Irish sites. Participating companies included Cartrawler, HubSpot, Indeed Prime, Workday and Zendesk.
In addition to showcasing career opportunities, the event featured panel discussions, tech installations and talks by industry leaders. John Romero, creator of the popular Doom computer game, was a star attraction, remaining unbeaten in a ‘Doom Deathmatch’ at the event, for which he played Doom against 20 fans.
404 London was run in partnership with Tech/Life Ireland, a joint initiative of Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation.
Commenting from the event, Jackie Slattery, co-founder of 404, said:
“We’ve had hundreds of skilled tech professionals in attendance at 404 London. These are people interested in moving to Ireland because they know the best tech companies in the world are located there. They’re also attracted by the work/life balance, well-established tech community and the scope for career progression. The feedback from participating companies has been fantastic – they were all hugely impressed with attendees’ experience and skills levels.
“There’s a well-documented shortage of skilled tech professionals in Ireland, so we’re delighted there was such a strong turnout. This is the first Irish tech recruitment event of its kind – directly connecting Ireland’s tech employers with the large pool of talent available in the UK.”
McLaren is delighted to announce a multi-faceted, long-term partnership with Dell Technologies, the world’s largest privately-controlled technology company.
Dell Technologies, which consists of seven global brands – Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream and VMware – will bring its deep technology expertise to all McLaren Technology Group companies, including McLaren Racing and McLaren Applied Technologies, as well as benefitting McLaren’s esports programme, World’s Fastest Gamer.
The McLaren Technology Group has just completed the first part of its IT transformation journey towards a high-performing hybrid cloud capability. This includes a modern, agile, automated, performant and highly available set of data centre services, using Dell EMC compute, storage, and infrastructure management software.
The partnership will seamlessly integrate Dell Technologies’ wide-ranging platform of solutions into McLaren’s day-to-day operations, including support for design and manufacturing, trackside operations, telemetry, safety-critical ecosystems, storage, esports and simulation, fan engagement and guest experience.
McLaren and Dell Technologies intend to collaborate on future projects in the areas of security, cloud, digital and workplace transformation technologies, with scope for technical innovation not only within the two organisations but also the wider industry.
Zak Brown, Executive Director, McLaren Technology Group, commented:
“McLaren’s agreement with Dell Technologies expands beyond the traditional sponsorship model. We are like-minded organisations led by the key principles of technical innovation and human progress at the cutting-edge of data-driven technology.
“Formula 1 is a relentless environment and partnering with Dell Technologies provides us with class-leading capabilities and support to drive invaluable efficiencies that will enable McLaren to perform at the highest possible level across our entire business operations. We are especially excited about the future possibilities that will arise within McLaren Applied Technologies, an area of our business that is growing fast and offers huge potential.
“This announcement is a further statement that McLaren has strong ambitions as we strive to take an important leap in performance both on-track and off it. Dell Technologies is the perfect partner and our two brands share the same ethos, which will propel us towards our business objectives for 2018 and beyond.”
Jeremy Burton, Chief Marketing Officer, Dell Technologies, commented:
“Dell Technologies’ relationship with McLaren builds upon a shared heritage of innovation, engineering excellence and high performance. Over the past few years, McLaren’s rich history in motorsports has given rise to a more diverse and ambitious organisation that we’re excited to partner with.
“Our partnership is expansive, enabling us to showcase our Dell Technologies portfolio from consumer gaming and esports to the enterprise edge, data centre and cloud.
“We look forward to playing a transformative role within every facet of the McLaren Group, both trackside and at the McLaren Technology Centre. It is the first time we have partnered as Dell Technologies in a global commercial agreement of this nature, and we look forward to a long-term collaboration.
A large land-locked country in West Africa, Mali’s population of 17 million has seen a strong growth in mobile uptake over the years, due to a lack of fixed connectivity services. Alpha Telecom’s long-awaited launch as the third mobile operator in Mali, under the brand Telecel, means that mobile subscriber penetration in Mali is expected to reach 138% in 2022, up from 127% in 2017, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Previously there have been two mobile operators in Mali: Orange Mali, part of the French Orange Group, and Malitel, part-owned by Marco Telecom and Malian government. At the end of December 2017, Alpha Telecom finally launched Telecel. Despite receiving a mobile license as far back as February 2013, Telecel had not managed to launch services until now. Over the years, it faced financing, infrastructure, and legal delays.
With network equipment built by Huawei, Telecel plans to offer 3G services, first in Bamako, then gradually rolling out across Mali. Telecel will be inserting fresh competition into the current duopoly between Orange Mali and Malitel.
June Sun, Technology Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “A new mobile operator entering a market can potentially lower the prices for consumers, as the new operator competes for subscribers with the incumbents. However, Telecel will have to compete with established products in the market, such as Malitel’s and Orange Mali’s popular mobile money services.”
This is a strap to be short but its got something quite different and offers something new via haptic feedback via two boxes if you will placed on the strap which can be worn in several ways so it’s not a mandatory fixture or set up just like a VR headset for example which this works quite good with too if you are into that thing, If you like music,gaming and VR you need to try it more so to get what this feeling is like, It’s new its different,its good.. But perhaps niche…..For now..
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Set Up is simple and there is an app you should download both on Android and iOS so before going any further get the apps as these control feedback and the app is pretty clean and neat with a simple to use UI which also allows you to share your status via social media if you wish to do so.
The app also allows you to control the music just like a typical music player on a mobile phone and it’s another option other than the controls on the unit itself which are simple and easy to use and also easy to navigate blindly once you get set up and use to using it. The app will give you the choice of ear pods, On-Ear and In -Ears to pick from on the top and you can look through your music library to from the top right, The hamburger menu gives you some other options.
Once you are all set up and what you want to set up be it gaming,VR music or video you are then good to go and feel what happens next,this is not for everyone to be honest and I was a bit optimistic about it when I first seen it and what it can actually do and to be fair it makes things better than the bog standard norm and brings life to whatever it is you might be doing.
This is effectively is like a subwoofer for your body which you can control the intensity so each person might be different on what they can take and limited for VR use but they have a vest which looks really neat and its something more down my street for a complete set up and more immersive experience in VR. Having tried this in several positions its hard to say which is best but what is important is that it brings something totally new here and with their future products coming to market they will change the bog standard experience an I would like to see this working on AR too rather than VR.
It is however a tad bulky but especially when wearing both headphones and a VR unit but its not that heavy and you could say it feels like a backpack strap on you for a bit and the adjustable straps can be moved to suit your preference depending which way you wear it ,You will know its there it does not wear off easily and that does not really matter because of what it does, As it’s a first gen product things can only get better and these are the guys to bring something new for everyone and not just folks into music but the gaming and VR world too and its good to see.. I like the idea and the their products and look forward to what is coming from them in the future to give me something more than I and we have been use to for a long time,this opens doors and they have the products the change the boring norm for its intended market.
Equinix, Inc. the global interconnection and data centre company, will host an event at 17:00 on Thursday, 22nd February in the Guinness Storehouse, St. James’ Gate, Dublin 8 to announce the expansion of its Internet Exchange (IX) to Ireland.
As IP traffic driven by cloud, mobile, IoT, video, gaming and data analytics continues to grow, the need for networks to exchange traffic, or “peer,” is accelerating. IX enables organisations to cater to this digital demand through interconnection with rich ecosystems. At this Equinix-hosted event, attendees will learn more about how Equinix is building a globally consistent Interconnection Fabric by launching Equinix Internet Exchanges in six new European cities, including Dublin.
Maurice Mortell, managing director of Ireland and emerging markets, Equinix; Michael Winterson, vice president, regional business development, Equinix; and Herbert Preuss, global solutions architect, Equinix, will discuss the growing and evolving need for interconnection and why an updated interconnection model is required. They will provide attendees with an introduction to the Equinix IX expansion and also explain how companies can take advantage of the new opportunities offered by this global platform.
Attendees will also have the chance to take part in a peering technical workshop covering a number of topics including Dual IX peering in local metros and the benefits of a campus-peering model.
The seminar will be followed by a reception which will offer excellent networking opportunities with business-owners and industry figures. Equinix executives and a number of Equinix’s Irish-based customers will also be in attendance. Admission to the event is free. For more information and to register, please visit: http://bit.ly/2EyKc0W
