Categorised as: Design & News
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Apple design guru receives knighthood News
23.05.2012 Apple’s chief designer shall now be referred to as Sir Jonathan Ive following his commendation at Buckingham Palace in London today.Tags: Products, Design, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, iPod Touch, iPod, iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air, iMac, Apple -
Mazda and Fiat to team up on new sports car News
23.05.2012 Mazda and Fiat are set to collaborate on the development and manufacturing of a new convertible roadster sports car for both the Mazda and Alfa Romeo ranges. The design of the... -
Facebook testing subtle Timeline redesign News
23.05.2012 While the business world is heavily distracted by the social network giant’s declining stock, Facebook has quietly begun testing a new-look Timeline for user profiles. -
SpaceX blasts off for International Space Station News
22.05.2012 The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft have successfully blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida to carry out an unmanned test flight to the International Space... -
Meet the Irish Facebook engineer who was part of clever NASDAQ bell hack News
19.05.2012 Irish Facebook engineer Colm Doyle was one of the team of Facebook engineers who devised the clever hack that saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline automatically update... -
Soundwave aims to take music analytics to a whole new level News
17.05.2012 Imagine being able to capture in real-time what type of music your friends are listening to, or finding out the most popular musical choices are in your city? Well, today’s... -
Wicklow start-up Smart Storage wins Eircom award News
16.05.2012 Smart Storage, a new venture set up in Wicklow in 2010, has won the April finals of the Eircom Start Up competition. Paul Jacobs, a qualified engineer, started Smart Storage... -
New Sweat for Equity programme to get start-ups going News
11.05.2012 Techies, creatives and those with ideas for new start-ups can now apply for Swequity Exchange, a new programme that the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Ireland is... -
Will Google self-driving car be future's safety vehicle? (video) News
10.05.2012 This week, Nevada was the first state in the US to grant Google a special licence to test out its self-driving car, essentially a modified Toyota Prius vehicle, on its streets...Categories: Design, Energy, Engineer, Engineering, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, R&D, Renewable Energy, Science, Sustainability -
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Instagram now has 50m members News
02.05.2012 Photo-sharing app Instagram now has 50m users, according to reports, with 5m new users joining each week. -
Google launches ‘indoor’ Street View for businesses in Europe News
01.05.2012 Google’s Business Photos Program has gone live in Europe, offering businesses the ability to allow Google Maps Street View users to see inside their premises with 360-degree...Categories: Search, Online Business, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Design, Apps, Search Engines, Software & Web Development -
Jameson 1780 ‘tour of Dublin’ site wins Webby Award News
01.05.2012 Irish whiskey maker Jameson has been given a global Webby Award today for ‘Best Use of Interactive Video’ in its beautifully designed Jameson1780.com website that takes web...Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Design, Apps -
Craigslist user offers to legally change name for Apple WWDC ticket News
27.04.2012 One person so eager to have a ticket to consumer tech giant Apple's sold-out Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) has posted an ad on Craigslist offering to legally change his... -
Apple confirms WWDC for 11 June – could we see iPhone 5 or TV reveal? News
25.04.2012 Apple has confirmed its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place between 11 and 15 June this year at San Francisco’s Moscone West. The iOS platform and OS X... -
Google+ gets new ‘share’ button News
25.04.2012 Google has introduced the Google+ Share button, which lets users share links with their followers without endorsing them by clicking on the new button. -
Japanese networks team up to standardise emoticons News
24.04.2012 Three of Japan’s biggest mobile networks plan to standardise the appearance of emoticons – called ‘emoji’ in Japan – across mobile devices offered on their networks. -
Next computing wave - Intel unveils 22nm 3-D Tri-Gate chips News
23.04.2012 Intel has taken the wraps of its latest game-changing third generation of Intel Core processors developed on 22nm manufacturing process using 3-D tri-gate transistors. The new...Categories: Architecture, Design, Development, Digital Media, Games/Entertainment, Hardware, Internet, R&D, Security, Software, Wireless Communications -
Adobe brings landmark software titles to Creative Cloud News
23.04.2012 Software giant Adobe has launched its new subscription-based Creative Cloud centred around the new family Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) software. -
Sinclair ZX Spectrum celebrated in UK Google Doodle News
23.04.2012 Would you believe the Sinclair ZX Spectrum turns 30 today? The 48k home computer would be remembered fondly as the starting point for many early coding and gaming endeavours of...