Fonesalesman, the makers of the world’s first truly wireless portable charger has today put its latest model, the QiStone2, on offer for one week only. The QiStone2 is now available on Amazon for just £24.99 to celebrate the lead up to this year’s Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park taking place from the 5th to 7th of July.
As the people who enabled iPhones to be compatible with wireless charging it was only right Fonesalesman played a part at this year’s Wireless Festival. The limited time offer is a 50% price slash from its original retail price and will run from the 1st July to the 8th July. Portable chargers have now become a packing essential for festival goers and fonesalesman’s latest product and deal recognises this.
The QiStone2 can charge an iPhone X three times over in just one charge and can charge multiple devices at once making it the perfect addition to your festival backpack. With this offer, Fonesalesman is hoping to dodge festival goers’ frustration of flat batteries and enable them to capture memories with friends and performances of headliners Cardi B and Asap Rocky across the weekend.
Bavan Palasanthiran, Founder of Fonesalesman said:
“There’s nothing worse than not capturing magical moments at a festival because you’ve ran out of battery. That’s why we’ve put this offer on, to avoid exactly that. As a company that strives for a world without wires it felt only right to equip wireless festival goers with our QiStone2. It’s powerful and durable but also small, light and easy to use on the go, perfect for a weekend packed with music and fun”.
In the run up to this year’s wireless festival, Fonesalesman the makers of the world’s first truly wireless portable charger has put its latest model, the QiStone2, on offer for this week only.
From July 1st – 8th, The QiStone2 can be bought on Amazon for Just £24.99.
The QiStone2 can charge an iPhone X three times over in just one charge and can charge multiple devices at once making it a perfect addition to your festival packing.
This year’s wireless festival sees CardiB and A$AP Rocky headline and takes place in Finsbury Park, London 5th-8th.
Today, Ricoh has announced a definitive agreement to acquire DocuWare, a leading provider of Content Services software.
Headquartered in Germany and the United States, DocuWare provides cloud and on-premise document management and workflow automation software to over 12,000 customers in more than 90 countries across the globe through a network of 600 partners.
David Mills, Corporate Senior Vice President, Ricoh Company Ltd, says: “We are intent on building a thriving business which meets the growing need of companies around the world to digitise their businesses and workplaces, wherever they may be. We see a strong demand from our customers to maximise the value of their documents and business content to support their growth. The agreement we have made with DocuWare, which has a market-leading, cloud-first content services offering, is a hugely significant step in meeting that need. We are delighted at the additional capabilities we will be able to offer current and new customers.”
Ricoh has a long-term existing partnership with DocuWare and employs its software both internally in its own operations and with existing customers. Mills adds: “DocuWare takes the pain and cost out of business processes, helping reduce human error and, importantly, improve business efficiency to free-up valuable employee time. Our ambition at Ricoh is to ‘empower digital workplaces’. What that means in practice, is connecting people to information faster and more conveniently, improving communication and creativity; the synergy between Ricoh and DocuWare speaks directly to this ambition.
David Mills, Corporate Senior Vice President, Ricoh Company Ltd
DocuWare will operate as a standalone subsidiary of Ricoh and we are committed to maintaining and growing its hugely successful partner programme, through expanding its channel network and investing in further product development. DocuWare already seamlessly integrates with our new IM C series of multifunction printers, through Ricoh Smart Integration, providing customers with a simple, secure way of scanning documents and feeding them directly into a highly effective, intelligent workflow process.”
Mills continues: “As a long-time partner, Ricoh understands the power of DocuWare’s channel to deliver document management and workflow automation solutions to customers. Ricoh wants to strengthen and grow this route to market and is committed to helping and learning from DocuWare and its management team.”
Dr Michael Berger and Max Ertl, presidents of DocuWare, summarise: “DocuWare has a bold growth plan, and that includes enabling current and future partners with leading document management and workflow automation technology. Having Ricoh as a strong investor and owner gives us the certainty that we can achieve our goals and continue to be a reliable, trustworthy and innovative provider for the entire DocuWare partner and customer community.”
Ricoh has been investing in digital workplace services by growing both organically and through acquisition. The acquisition of DocuWare is in line with Ricoh’s strategy to grow its digital workplace transformation offering.
The deal with DocuWare is expected to close over summer 2019, subject to receiving clearance from the relevant competition authorities in Germany and Austria and completion of other customary closing conditions. Following completion of the deal, DocuWare will operate as a subsidiary of Ricoh with Dr Michael Berger and Max Ertl remaining as presidents.
SEO & Grow are a small, Dublin-based consultancy specialising in Search Engine Marketing. The 2 Co-Founders, Peter O’Neill & Aidan Rooney, are in their early 20s and have a very unique start-up story.
Peter and Aidan met while studying Marketing, Innovation & Technology together in DCU before embarking on a year-long spell in South America, where they worked as Head of Search Marketing at Peru Hop, an Irish-owned travel company. Within eleven months, they had more than doubled Peru Hop’s organic & referral website traffic, so they knew they had a flair and talent for SEO.
After spending some time apart working in London and Dublin respectively with Senior SEO/PPC Consultants, and upon graduating from DCU, the pair joined forces once more to set up SEO & Grow.
The 2 Dublin lads believe their experience to date has helped them to identify a real gap in the market: “Having worked both client-side and agency-side over the last couple of years, we noticed a huge disconnect between a business’s needs and an agency’s offering. A lot of SEO agencies do their best to withhold as much information as possible from their clients. Through an agency’s lens, the less a client knows, the more that client can be charged. SEO & Grow serves to bridge the gap between a business’s needs, and an agency’s offering.” The 2 Dubs have been busy since launch and are working with customers across various industries and several continents including a Luxury Travel Agents in South America, a Private Tutoring Agency in London & a Real Estate Company in California.
And, when they’re not working, Peter & Aidan are more than likely travelling… They spent last December working remotely from India – relaxing on the beaches of Goa, dodging snake charmers in Jaipur and sailing on the Ganges in Varanasi. Over the next 5 years, the pair have a very different approach than usual as to how they hope to grow: “We plan to continue scaling vertically, not horizontally – meaning we don’t want to build the biggest agency in Dublin with the most employees and clients, we want to build the best agency in Dublin with the most satisfied clients & the best margins.”
Younger generations have been revealed as the biggest security threat to businesses as one in ten (10%) Millennials admitted that they would knowingly use a work device that was under cyber-attack. Meanwhile, 42% of Gen Z office workers confessed that they have lost a device that was linked to their work email account.
The survey of 500 Irish office workers was commissioned by specialist IT solutions distributor, DataSolutions, and carried out by Censuswide in May 2019.
Lifting the lid on some of the biggest cybersecurity threats facing businesses today, the study found that 19% of all Irish office workers have sent sensitive work-related information to the wrong email recipient. Furthermore, 14% of Irish office workers have copied sensitive company data from previous or current employers for their own use.
The findings also reveal that 28% of Gen Z employees admitted to having access to company information or private logins from a previous employer, followed by Millennials (16%), Gen Xs (9%) and Baby Boomers (8%).
Gen Z was also found to be the most suspicious generation when it comes to hackers targeting devices used on a daily basis. In fact, Gen Z office workers topped every category as the most concerned group in relation to the hacking of internet connected devices including game consoles, wearables, smart security cameras and smart TVs.
For example, 25% of Gen Z office workers are worried about their wearables (such as smart watches) being hacked, compared to 15% of Millennials, 19% of Gen Xs and 15% of Baby Boomers.
Overall, the survey found that across all generations, the devices that Irish office workers fear most being hacked are their smart security cameras (31%), followed by smart home alarms (30%) and smart home voice assistants (28%).
Dave Keating, Group Security Director, DataSolutions
Commenting on the survey findings, Dave Keating, Group Security Director, DataSolutions, said: “It’s clear from our survey findings that Irish office workers, albeit some more than others, are cautious because of the threat of cyber-attacks.
“While it is a positive sign that the younger generations place an emphasis on internet security, we can see that this awareness doesn’t always translate into action. For example, when the WhatsApp security breach occurred earlier this year, everybody was talking about it, but how many people immediately went on and actually deleted or upgraded the app on their phone? I’d say fewer than you think.
“That’s why employers cannot take for granted that their employees will take steps to stave off an attack when they have other work commitments or if it impacts on the use of their devices. Business leaders need to remain alert to the dangers that human error and carelessness can pose.
“The fact that one in ten Millennial Irish office workers would choose to still use a device that they know is under cyber-attack is a clear indication that business leaders need to safeguard themselves by putting the right solutions and strategies in place.
“If they don’t, the security and possibly the future of their organisation is at stake. As we will be discussing at this year’s Secure Computing Forum in the RDS on 12th September, cyber-attacks and breaches can be detrimental, not only in terms of costs and resources but also more critically, reputations. We will present lots of useful tips and advice on how to safeguard against cyber-attacks.”
Guest post by Sonia James.Social media over the years has turned a dramatic turn and people these days have become obsessed with it. There are plenty of social messaging apps, channels and websites where kids and teens always lurking without seeing day and night.
They use instant messaging apps like it is the basic element of their meal. Young kids and teens using cell phone devices connected to the internet. So, they download trendy social media apps on their smartphones such as Facebook, Yahoo, WhatsApp, Line, vine, Instagram, Snapchat and many others alike. All these instant messaging apps are full of features that allow the user to use it without paying a single penny.
According to a study of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Study says since last decade social media is one of the most common and regular activities of modern day teenagers. It means it is quite alarming for the parents when they see their children sticking with the cell phone screen and use social messaging apps. In this alarming situation, parents should aware of the following social media dangers in order to make sure their online safety.
Social media dangers for teens
Obviously, excess of everything could be dangerous. Therefore, when teens use social media platforms on their cell phones without bothering the privacy on their profiles, interaction with the strangers, access to the inappropriate content and many others activities like compromise teens security to the fullest. Let’s discuss the most probable social media dangers that can hit your teens mentally, emotionally and physically.
Cyber bullying
Bullies online are considered as the most dangers actors on social media especially for teens and kids in particular. Teens that used to engaging with the strangers online, mostly they got humiliation, abused through worlds by the bullies online. It is not necessary that online bully know you in real –life even an unknown person can bully a young girl or boy just for the sake of fun. At the end of the day after the effects of cyber bullying could be long lasted on the young victim.
Sharing become shaming: Stalkers & health issues
Teens these days used to of sharing photos, videos, images and plenty of other kinds of stuff on social media apps and on websites in terms of sexual suggestive possess in scanty clothes. Moreover, teens also share their private inappropriate photos to friends and lovers and ultimately due to some various reasons teens sharing become shaming and selfies sexting is the root cause of the issue. So, teens obsessed with social messaging apps are harboring sexual fantasies through social media using their mobile phones connected to the internet. In addition, teens often get trapped by the stalkers online and meet them in real –life. At the end of the day when teens got cheated they also got health issues likewise depression and anxiety due to ill sleeping patterns, stress due to continuously staring to the screen and digital dementia is one of the most dangerous health issues teens have got due to the addition of social media.
Protect teens from social media dangers with phone spy app
Parents have to perform digital parenting and for this, they have to install TheOneSpy phone surveillance software on the target device of the teens. So, initially, you need to use your cell phone browser that should be connected to the internet. Now visit the official website of the mobile phone tracking app and in response, you will receive an email alongside the credentials.
Furthermore, you need to get physical access on the target device and once you have it start with the process of installation. Once you have ended up with the then you need to activate it on the target device. Use already procured credentials and get access to the online control panel where you can use following mentioned tools to protect kids from all types of social media dangers to the fullest.
Live screen recording
The end user can use live screen recorder software and further can record back to back short videos of the screen in real –time. In addition, you can see the live recorded videos by getting access to the electronic web portal. The end user can see videos of the activities happen on the social media platforms likewise text messages, text conversations, shared photos, videos, and Voice messages.
IM’s Logs without rooting
You can get the logs of all the trendy social media apps running on the teen’s cell phone without rooting the target device.
Conclusion:
Non –rooted mobile phone spy app is one of its kinds high –tech tool that can do the magic for you. It empowers the end user to track each and every single activity happens on the target cell phone activated with instant messaging apps to the fullest.
Civica, a market leader in business-critical software applications, digital solutions and managed services, has agreed a new seven-year, £6m contract with the Department of Education Northern Ireland (NI) to provide its Universal Pensions Management (UPM) cloud software to administer teachers’ pensions in the region.
Barry Jordan, Director of Workforce at the Department said: “The Department is pleased to award this contract to Civica following a public procurement competition. We look forward to working with them to implement the new system which will enhance services for the 65,000 active, deferred and retired scheme members. The new system will, amongst other things, offer users a self-service facility through online access.”
Lorraine Smith, Divisional Managing Director, Local Government at Civica commented: “We are delighted to have won this new contract with the Department of Education and look forward to delivering pension services for scheme members when the new system goes live in April 2020.
“Civica has a strong track record in Northern Ireland as a major technology provider, committed to transforming the way organisations work and investing in future growth. This latest contract is a true collaboration between our critical software and digital teams, and we’re excited to show how our expertise in both areas will improve both back-office processes and front-line services both short-term and into the future.”
Civica is a leading partner for Northern Ireland’s organisations across government departments, policing, health & care, housing and public safety, together with commercial organisations. Its major public services customers include NI Direct, BT Ireland, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Services and Belfast, Southern and Western Health and Social Care Trusts.
Each year, Netflix put out their recommendations for the smart TVs that provide the best performance and are the easiest to use for Netflix (and, ultimately, other streaming services). And every year they up the ante for what it takes to make the list. This year, Netflix is excited to recommend select models from Samsung, Sony and Panasonic that will provide a top notch experience. Do you have one or planning on upgrading your TV??
Here are the initial designations of 2019 Netflix Recommended TVs:
Samsung Q60R/Q70R/Q80R/Q90R/Q900R series, RU8000, The Serif and The Frame devices
Sony BRAVIA X85G(XG85)/X90G(XG90) series and A9G(AG9) series
Panasonic VIERA GX700/GX800/GX900 series
For more information on specific models, you can go to the Netflix Recommended TV website. Timing of availability for Netflix Recommended TVs will vary by country, and not all models will be available in all regions.
Mytaxi, Ireland’s leading e-hailing app, has announced a new innovative taxi-sharing service – “mytaxi match,” that will be piloted across Dublin locations in the coming months.
mytaxi will be changing its name to “FREE NOW” on July 2 as part of joining a wider mobility international “NOW” brand family, which is focused on expanding transport services offered to passengers in Ireland, across Europe and globally. Passengers will not need to download a new app on July 2 and there is no technical or data switch – all that will immediately change is the name so customers just have to update their app and they’re ready to hail.
“mytaxi match” is the first new service to be launched on the app; and will be part of the “FREE NOW” rebrand. It will allow passengers travelling in the same direction, the option to pair up and more efficiently utilise taxi capacity, reducing carbon emissions and lowering fares paid by customers.
The pilot, already trialled successfully on a smaller scale in Limerick, will initially be operational in the Grand Canal Dock area and Sandyford Industrial Estate and will roll out across more Dublin locations as the pilot progresses.
mytaxi is partnering for the pilot with Smart Dublin, a collaborative initiative of the four Dublin local authorities. It partners with universities, citizens and private industries working with smart technologies to tackle challenges and aims to improve services and quality of life for businesses, residents and visitors across the Dublin region.
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Under the themes of Smart Environment and Smart Mobility, Smart Dublin has engaged with local authority champions working on solutions to investigate and introduce EV charging points, reduce carbon emissions, improve air quality, reduce traffic congestion and provide alternative transport options. This pilot will provide additional insights that will complement existing project initiatives and could feed into future planning in these areas.
Alan Fox, General Manager for mytaxi Ireland/said: “Taxis are one of the most flexible forms of transport, but usually do not travel to full capacity. Our new ‘match’ technology forms part of a smart solution to better use mytaxi’s fleet in Ireland, particularly at peak hours, and offer passengers a cheaper, more environmentally-friendly taxi-sharing service. This innovation, currently being used very effectively in a number of other European cities, gives passengers travelling in the same direction the option for the first time to ‘match up’ and share taxis. We believe this new innovation has the potential to reduce waiting times at peak hours, decrease traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions and more effectively offer customers a flexible, cost-effective transport solution that really meets their needs.”
The Smart Dublin Lead, Alan Murphy, said: “One of our key goals at Smart Dublin is to collaborate with industry partners and all four local authorities to position Dublin as a world leader in the development of new urban solutions using the city region as a test bed. Match’s taxi-sharing capacity has the potential to provide additional transit options, build awareness and promote multi-modal shift and showcase alternative approaches to transport in Dublin. This pilot with mytaxi will help us gather valuable information and generate insights to better inform local authorities and our partners on alternative and more sustainable transport options.”
As part of this pilot between mytaxi and Smart Dublin, mytaxi will geo-fence the locations in the app where passengers can use ‘match’. Passengers will be notified of ‘match’ availability when inside the virtual fence. The geo-fenced areas will have taxi-sharing options available 24/7 and fares will be calculated transparently using the technology on the app.
Passenger privacy is of the utmost importance to mytaxi and we commit to full compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
It is intended overall that the pilot will garner more insight into Dublin travel patterns and will better gauge public interest in alternative transport modes as part of local authority understanding of the city’s sustainable development.
mytaxi or FREE NOW in Ireland will remain focused on meeting the growing public demand for taxis and the expansion of its regional footprint across the country. 16 million passengers were carried in Ireland by mytaxi in 2018, its busiest year ever. The app continues to recruit new drivers, with 2,135 joining throughout the year, bringing the total number in its fleet to over 12,000.
FUJIFILM Corporation and its President, Kenji Sukeno, today announced the release of INSTAX Mini Li-Play (RRP €170.00). This sleek hybrid instant camera is the smallest and lightest INSTAX product on the market, boasting instant printing via microSD. However, these features are only the tip of the ice-burg! The INSTAX Mini Li-Play is the first instant camera to fully embrace sound, making it Fujifilm’s most playful camera yet. The INSTAX Mini Li-Play is available in Ireland from today and in three attractive colours; Stone White, Elegant Black and Blush Gold.
LET’S GET LOUD
INSTAX Mini Li-Play has the ability to record audio via a dedicated sound button located on the front of the camera. The audio clip is converted into a QR code, which is printed onto the INSTAX print, in a location of your choice! The audio can then be played on any type of smartphone using any QR application. This unique feature is an innovative new way to share messages with friends and family.
FUN IN AN INSTANT
In addition to embracing sound, INSTAX Mini Li-Play has a variety of functions making it perfect for everyday use. The camera has live view functionality, which means fans can use the rear LCD screen to frame and take photos. These images can then be saved to the internal camera memory, or to a microSD card. This ensures users can save photos down to their computers if they aren’t ready to print them.
INSTAX Mini Li-Play also boasts remote camera control, which enables the user to shoot images on their smart phone and then transfer them to the INSTAX Mini Li-Play for instant printing – all done via Bluetooth. The camera also features three shortcut buttons positioned on its left edge, which allows the user to select different frames for images.
INSTAX Mini Li-Play is available now in Fujifilm outlets nationwide, RRP €170.00, prices may vary by retailer.Watch out for our review soon
