TV, sports and Call of Duty are focus of Xbox One event, to gamers’ dismay (video)
22.05.2013 A YouTube user has condensed last night’s Xbox One reveal into just 1 minute and 40 seconds of TV, sports and Call of Duty. Oh, and dogs.
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Five DkIT students to represent Ireland in international Dare to be Digital competition
22.05.2013 The winners of the Irish leg of Dare to be Digital have been announced and five students from Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) will go on to represent Ireland at the international level next month.
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Most commuters would embrace paperless travel – Accenture survey
22.05.2013 Three-quarters of commuters who use public transportation say they believe electronic ticketing would make travel easier, and 92pc would welcome paperless travel, a new global survey by Accenture suggests.
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Mcor Technologies co-founder to speak at this year’s 3Dcamp ‘unconference’
22.05.2013 3Dcamp returns for its sixth year at the University of Limerick’s Computer Science and Information Systems building for another informal conference looking at interactions between the digital and physical worlds.
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Microsoft unveils the Xbox One, blurs lines between gaming and TV
21.05.2013 Microsoft has brought the Xbox One to light as its next-generation console at a press event at its Redmond, Washington, HQ. But to call it a games console doesn’t actually do it justice, so Microsoft has gone with ‘all-in-one home entertainment system’.
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#OI2Dublin – Intel CTO predicts next generation of PCs will challenge standalone tablets (video)
21.05.2013 Intel’s chief technology officer Justin Rattner has predicted that the arrival of the next generation of PC devices that will run energy frugal processors like Intel’s forthcoming Haswell chip will lead to a rebound in demand for PC devices, like ultrabooks and hybrids.
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PlayStation 4 to be unveiled at E3 on 10 June (video)
20.05.2013 Perhaps trying to distract from the Xbox excitement of this week, Sony has released a teaser trailer for the forthcoming PlayStation 4 and announced a date for its unveiling.
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Louth students cross the generation gap with app innovations
20.05.2013 Transition-year students from four schools in Co Louth have been involved in a unique project with adults in the region to come up with prototypes for four mobile apps that aim to cross the inter-generational divide.
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The week in gadgets: a thumb-sized PC from Dell, hybrids from HP and Xbox on top
20.05.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as Xbox celebrates 28 months as the top games console in the US, HP unveils two new hybrid laptops, and Dell gets ready to ship its thumb-sized PC device.
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Free Mansion House event to showcase new digital innovations
17.05.2013 The Mansion House in Dublin will be playing host to a free digital showcase called ‘Your Future City’ next Monday and Tuesday in order to give people a taste of how technological innovation is impacting on every aspect of our lives. One of the event’s attractions will be a LEGO-building workshop.