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Microsoft to kill Live Messenger today, countdown to end Microsoft XP and Office 2003 begins News
08.04.2013 Microsoft will today close down its popular Windows Live Messenger, also known as MSN Messenger, and is urging users to start using Skype with their Microsoft login details. The... -
Facebook most linked with cyberbullying through lens of Irish media News
05.04.2013 Analysis of media reportage of cyberbullying in the aftermath of the tragic suicides of a number of teenagers and a senior politician earlier this year in Ireland found that... -
Samsung reports US$7.7bn Q1 operating profit, up 53pc on last year News
05.04.2013 Consumer electronics giant Samsung has predicted a stronger first quarter than expected after estimating it has made operating profits of US$7.7bn on the same period last year. -
Irish start-up GetHealth makes it onto US healthcare entrepreneurship programme News
04.04.2013 GetHealth, an Irish health technology start-up that has created an app to help people achieve their health and fitness goals via gameplay and social interaction, has been chosen... -
Nokia closes flagship store in Shanghai, China News
05.04.2013 Nokia shoppers in Shanghai, China, will have to buy the company’s mobile devices at retailers and mobile carriers, now that Nokia has closed what it had deemed its largest store... -
Facebook reveals ‘Home’ – it’s not a phone but could transform all smartphones News
04.04.2013 Facebook didn’t reveal a brand new phone today per se, but an Android-based feature set called ‘Home’, which it expects to sit on the home screen of all smartphones and will...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Twitter overhauls its Android and iPhone presence to accommodate new card features News
04.04.2013 Not to be outdone by Facebook’s impending Android news today, rival Twitter has released a new version of Twitter for Android that reflects a native Android experience. The...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Harlem Shake hits 1.2bn views – but annoying meme is slowing to a shimmy News
04.04.2013 The Harlem Shake viral video craze has attracted more than 1.2bn views 40 days after it began afflicting our online lives.Categories: Multimedia, Media, Marketing, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech -
Disney pulls the plug on LucasArts News
04.04.2013 Only six months after acquiring the games developer, the Walt Disney Company is shutting down LucasArts, the firm behind the Star Wars and Monkey Island series of games. -
iPad price reductions suggest new iPads are coming News
04.04.2013 Despite Apple releasing its fourth-generation iPad and iPad mini in October, around March/April has traditionally been the launch point for new iPad products since the first one...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Angry Birds maker Rovio flying high on 101pc revenue increase News
04.04.2013 Angry Birds creator Rovio has something to crow about: a 101pc increase in total consolidated full-year revenue, thanks to growth in games revenue and sales of consumer... -
PC sales plummet worldwide as tablets and smartphones roar ahead News
04.04.2013 As a possible indication of the declining fortunes of the personal computer as we know it, Gartner has grouped PCs in with tablets, smartphones and other connected devices to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, AppsTags: App, Tablet Computers, Windows 8, Smartphones, Mobile Phones, PCs, Mac OS X, iOS, Apple, Android, Google, Operating Systems -
BlackBerry to kill BBM Music – ushers users in direction of Rdio News
04.04.2013 BlackBerry is to kill its nearly two-year-old music service BBM Music and is instead ushering users in the direction of Rdio, with a voucher for a 30-day pass to the...Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Dublin health-tech start-up secures €650k investment News
04.04.2013 Zinc Software, a Dublin-based company that is developing next-generation heart sensors, has secured €650,000 in an investment round to bring its first product to market. The...Tags: AIB, Kernel Capital, Bank of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Dublin BIC, iOS, Android, App, SDKs, Health, MedTech -
World’s first mobile phone call happened 40 years ago today News
03.04.2013 Forty years ago today, on 3 April 1973, the first call from a handheld mobile phone was made by its inventor Dr Martin Cooper, then-head of Motorola’s communications division.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Dublin start-up Converser raises US$1.2m in seed funding News
03.04.2013 Converser, a Dublin-based start-up that has developed a CRM and cloud communications platform which can be embedded within mobile apps, has just closed a US$1.2m seed funding... -
Next-generation Nexus 7 tipped for a July release News
03.04.2013 Google and Asus are teaming up once again to produce a next-generation Nexus 7 tablet coming this July, according to a report from Reuters.Categories: Consumer Tech, Computers -
Vodafone vows to end bill complexity with new RED price plans News
02.04.2013 Vodafone said today it is challenging the current conventions on tariffing by revealing five new Vodafone RED mobile price plans that range in price from €35 a month to €75 per...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Financial, Data Management, Consumer Tech -
Apple poised to begin production of next-gen iPhone and lower-cost iPhone News
03.04.2013 More reports have surfaced whereby tech giant Apple’s manufacturing partners are preparing to ramp up production of a new iPhone in the second quarter in time for a potential...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Openmind app brings SMS text messaging to Android tablet computers News
02.04.2013 Dublin software company Openmind, whose technology transmits more than 1bn SMS messages a day across 120 operator networks, has brought out its first consumer-facing app...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps