Categorised as: New Media & News
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Could Apple have its own branded HDTV by 2011? News
21.08.2009 Apple is expected to be capable of offering a full-fledged TV set by 2011 that will come with advanced media functions and will be capable of synchronising with iPods, Mac...Categories: New Media -
First look: Windows 7 – one Vista closes, another opens for Microsoft News
21.08.2009 On 22 October, the world will wake up to the arrival of a new operating system (OS) from Microsoft, Windows 7. Around 90pc of the world’s computer manufacturers will release... -
Pirate Bay’s new owners outline business model News
20.08.2009 File-sharing site The Pirate Bay’s potential new owners have outlined a new system to identify copyright protected content and either compensate record labels or have it removed.Categories: New MediaTags: Sony BMG, The Pirate Bay, -
Broadcaster RTE first to publish ABCe enhanced certificate News
20.08.2009 RTE is to become the first Irish media owner to publish website visitor profile data together with its audited traffic data using an ABCe enhanced certificate.Categories: New MediaTags: RTÉ, -
Ex-Vogue model wins court case forcing Google to reveal poison blogger News
20.08.2009 An ex-Vogue model has succeeded in a court case against Google, winning a ruling whereby the search giant will reveal an anonymous blogger who called her a ‘skank.’Categories: New Media, Digital LifeTags: Google, -
Google reveals new enterprise search tools News
20.08.2009 Google has unveiled two new enterprise tools to boost the quality and performance of its products for business intranets. -
High-tech society: Irish start-ups and the social web News
20.08.2009 A winner of both the 2008 and 2009 Eircom Innovation Fund, tech entrepreneur and co-founder Pieter Oonk talks about new webmail application SocietyMail and socially-oriented... -
Blog Digest News
20.08.2009 DESPITE last week’s figures telling us that dropout rates were rising across third-level science and technology courses, there are many primary and secondary schools plus...Categories: New MediaTags: Blog Digest, -
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FÁS creates digital media training programme News
18.08.2009 FÁS and the Digital Media Forum are planning to pilot a Traineeship programme for the digital media industry in the autumn.Categories: Careers and Employment, New MediaTags: Postgraduate, Digital 21, -
MySpace to acquire music service iLike News
17.08.2009 Proving how the social media space continues to break business conventions, a company that began life as a popular app on Facebook for streaming music is about to be acquired by... -
Browser wars are back – Netscape founder re-enters fray News
14.08.2009 Marc Andreessen, the creator of the Netscape browser that helped kickstart the consumer internet revolution, has returned to the browser space, backing a start-up called RockMelt.Categories: New Media -
3 unveils new mobile Premiership content package News
14.08.2009 Mobile operator 3 today unveiled a new Sky Sports football package that includes video action of goals and analysis, including free alerts letting them know when a video clip...Categories: New Media, Digital Life -
Google brings out social gadgets for iGoogle News
14.08.2009 Google is today debuting 19 new social gadgets for its iGoogle personalisation portal and has enlisted online publishers from The Huffington Post to YouTube to bring out media... -
YouTube smartens up image News
13.08.2009 Video sharing site YouTube had undergone a bit of a facelift and is now displaying a more streamlined homepage to make video search and discovery easier for users.Categories: New Media -
Cisco and Warner Music in social entertainment deal News
13.08.2009 Internet systems giant Cisco has struck a key deal to power the artist websites of major label Warner Music using software-as-a-service cloud computing architecture.Tags: Software as a Service, John Chambers, -
World’s first augmented reality browser for mobile News
12.08.2009 Dublin mobile smart phone software creator Mercury Girl, sister company to new media house Mercury Boy, has been selected to develop for the world’s first augmented reality... -
Bewley’s Hotels to sell meeting rooms online News
12.08.2009 The Moran Hotel Group, which includes 10 hotels across Ireland and the UK, is now selling meeting rooms online using Meetingbroker.com software.Tags: -
Global internet ad spend shrinks by 5pc News
07.08.2009 For the second quarter in a row worldwide spending on internet advertising has dropped by 5pc to US$13.9bn in comparison to US$14.7bn in the same quarter last year. -
Murdoch plans to charge for online news News
06.08.2009 One of the world’s biggest media companies, News Corporation, today revealed that fourth-quarter operating income had slumped by over 30pc to US$3.6bn, a US$1.7bn decline from...