By armchair on November 28, 2011
Irish shoppers are voting with their mice and a report earlier this morning says that we’ll be spending upwards of 250 million euro online. Today might not be “Black Friday”, but it will be the biggest day of the year for online shopping according to research from Visa Europe. Most of the transactions with Visa [...]
Posted in News, statistics | Tagged Black Friday, Credit card, Cyber Monday, Irish, Online shopping, Visa, Visa Debit
By armchair on September 3, 2011
A few years ago I got a digital SLR camera. I used it quite a bit, but now it’s gathering dust. Why? Because it’s bulky and carrying it around is awkward and it’s heavy. While a compact camera is a good option to have it lacks a lot of the “punch” of an SLR, so [...]
Posted in Cameras | Tagged Bridge camera, Camera, Photography
By armchair on July 6, 2011
Ireland has a lot of history, so it’s only natural that we would also have a large number of heritage sites dotted around the country. Many of them are managed by the Office of Public Works and are open to the public at no charge. Some sites, however, do come with a cover charge. As [...]
Posted in Tourism | Tagged History, Ireland, Office of Public Works, Tourism, World Heritage Site
By armchair on July 3, 2011
VAT on a range of leisure related products has been reduced from 13.5% to 9%. The tax reduction is designed to boost consumer spending and job creation and will have a tangible impact on prices of a wide range of leisure items such as newspapers, cinema tickets and more: • the supply of food and [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Business, Business and Economy, Consumer confidence, Consumer spending, Value added tax
By armchair on May 15, 2011
Last week a new initiative to get Irish businesses online was launched in Google Ireland’s HQ by An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny. The initiative is backed by Google, Blacknight, An Post and the city and county Enterprise boards. Irish businesses can get a free domain name, hosting, an easy to use website builder and free [...]
Posted in News | Tagged AdWords, An Post, Blacknight, Business, Enda Kenny, Google, Taoiseach
By armchair on February 27, 2011
Another new feature that is now available on all listings is a simple Google map. If you include your company’s physical address with your listing two things will happen: The address and contact details will appear beside your listing A little map will show up pinpointing where you are based on a map of Ireland [...]
Posted in Features, News | Tagged Google, Google Maps, Physical address, Searching
By armchair on January 30, 2011
So what happened? Due to a technical issue the main armchair.ie site has been offline since the November 2010. Basically the site’s backend wasn’t compatible with a newer version of PHP and simply ceased functioning. I had been hoping to get it back online quickly, but between my workload with other projects, Christmas etc., it [...]
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By armchair on April 20, 2010
The volcanic eruptions in Iceland have been impacting flights throughout Europe for the last few days. Unfortunately airplanes are also used to transport goods, so An Post is reporting severe issues. Royal Mail doesn’t appear to be as badly affected, but they’re still reporting issues. So how long is this likely to continue? Will businesses [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Ireland, Online shopping, shipping, Shopping
By armchair on March 13, 2010
Econsultancy have a “teaser” article about a research paper on shopping. Some of the figures they’re citing are more than a little impressive!
Posted in News, statistics | Tagged Electronic commerce, Online shopping, Shopping
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