Categorised as: New Media & News
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‘We need to offer a better service than piracy,’ says Deezer’s Mark Foster (video) News
19.06.2013 Mark Foster, managing director of Deezer UK and Ireland, arrived at the Digital Agenda Assembly in Dublin Castle to discuss the idea of European champions in terms of digital...Categories: Media, Digital Media -
Beijing Treaty could strengthen online copyrights for musicians and singers News
19.06.2013 If it comes into force, the Beijing Treaty on the area of copyright for audiovisual performances is set to pave way for better online and offline rights for performers such as...Categories: Web, Media, Marketing, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
1m Samsung Galaxy users to get Jay-Z’s new album for free News
18.06.2013 In a collaboration between the South Korean mobile device manufacturer and the rap mogul from Brooklyn, select Samsung handset owners will be given the opportunity to get...Categories: Media, Digital Media -
Digg Reader takes off as free public beta on 26 June, paid service to follow News
18.06.2013 For those of you anxiously counting down the days until Google Reader clocks out for good (that’s 13 sleeps at the time of writing), the good news is that Digg’s replacement...Tags: Digg, -
Dylan Collins’ latest venture Box of Awesome goes live in Ireland News
18.06.2013 Video games and software entrepreneur Dylan Collins’ next big venture Box of Awesome has begun shipping to Ireland. Box of Awesome, which offers the digital and 21st-century... -
Advertising giant WPP takes a stake in microblogging service Muzy News
18.06.2013 Advertising giant WPP has taken a stake in Muzy, a Pinterest-like microblogging platform that has about 20m users. -
Coors Light brings out social-to-real-life video game app News
18.06.2013 Coors Light has attempted a new market first with a social-to-real-life video game that ties in with 800 pubs across Ireland to give thirsty punters up to 3,000 prizes,... -
Netflix lands exclusive deal for DreamWorks Animation spin-offs News
17.06.2013 In its largest deal for original first-run content to date, Netflix has secured a multi-year arrangement with DreamWorks Animation for over 300 hours of new programming directed... -
‘Tweet’ gets a new social media meaning in the Oxford English Dictionary News
17.06.2013 The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – considered to be the definitive guide to the English lexicon – is willing to bend the rules to include the new digital-age meaning of the... -
Is Instagram about to unveil a new video app? News
17.06.2013 Rumours are emerging that Facebook-owned Instagram may reveal a new video service. Facebook is holding a press event at its San Francisco, California, headquarters on 20 June... -
Irish music discovery app Soundwave comes out of beta on 20 June News
17.06.2013 This Thursday will see the full release of Soundwave, a music-discovery app created and developed in Ireland that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called “a music product that so... -
Google invests US$7m in bid to eradicate child abuse imagery online News
17.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to step up its efforts to eradicate child abuse imagery online and is investing US$5m as well as supporting organisations in the frontline fighting this...Categories: Web, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Google doodle celebrates Father’s Day in the form of storytelling slot machine News
16.06.2013 Google has unleashed another fantastic interactive doodle especially to mark Father’s Day. The interactive doodle on the Google homepage works by hitting the second ‘o’ in...Categories: Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Viral videos of the week: a racist B&B, an optical illusion and live Photoshop News
16.06.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a handy instructional video from PlayStation, a Photoshop magician at work, a... -
10 ways to make the most of your Facebook business page (infographic) News
15.06.2013 Staying on top of a Facebook business page is obviously key to ensuring it provides the most impact to its followers, and to attract new followers. To help Facebook business... -
Google to embark on epic Bloomsday ramble across the world News
14.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to mark Bloomsday this Sunday – the celebration of the day in James Joyce’s Ulysses when Leopold Bloom and Nora Barnacle sauntered through South Dublin... -
RTÉ Archives creates online exhibition of JFK’s visit to Ireland 50 years ago (video) News
14.06.2013 It is almost 50 years since then-US President John F Kennedy visited Ireland and to mark the occasion, Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ has chronicled the visit in a major online... -
Netflix to allow multiple user profiles under one account News
13.06.2013 Netflix vice-president of product innovation Todd Yellin revealed this week that Netflix accounts with multiple user profiles are currently undergoing testing and could be made... -
Twitter analytics go public – all users can now see their tweets’ performance News
13.06.2013 Every Twitter user can now check out in-depth data about their tweets and followers as the social network’s analytics platform goes free-for-all.Categories: Social Media, Marketing -
First look: IDA Ireland's new global advertising campaign (video) News
13.06.2013 IDA Ireland, Ireland’s agency responsible for attracting major digital giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook, is about to kickstart a global advertising campaign that...