Categorised as: Consumer Tech & News
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Xtra-vision is saved: receivers sell business to Hilco Capital News
11.06.2013 High-street video and gaming rental and retail firm Xtra-vision has been saved after its receivers Ernst & Young completed the sale of the business and its assets to a number of... -
The wizardry of Steve Wozniak - interview News
11.06.2013 While the public face of Apple for so many years had been represented by the charismatic Steve Jobs, for industry insiders the man who co-founded Apple in Jobs’ garage with... -
Next generation of MacBook Air to come with all-day battery life News
10.06.2013 At WWDC today Apple revealed the next generation of MacBook Air which will be capable of all day battery life and come with fourth generation Intel ‘Haswell’ Core processors...Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Console wars return as Sony reveals powerful PlayStation 4 to take on Microsoft’s Xbox One News
11.06.2013 At E3, consumer tech giant Sony unveiled a US$399 (€302) PlayStation 4 (PS4) that will go on sale this autumn. Sony revealed powerful hardware packaged in a sleek body along...Tags: Games Consoles, Video Games, PS3, PlayStation Vita, Activision, Bungie, Hardware, Xbox One, Xbox, Microsoft, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, Sony -
Groupon to open new software hub in Dublin with more than 20 new jobs News
11.06.2013 Daily deals site Groupon has kicked off a recruitment campaign for its newly established Software Development Centre in Dublin and is looking to fill more than 20 new full-time... -
Apple’s next OS – ‘Mac OS X Mavericks’ – arriving later this year News
10.06.2013 Apple has dispensed with the tradition of naming its operating systems after wild cats and has called its next generation operating system Mac OS X Mavericks, after a favourite... -
Fast-growing mobile social network Keek hits 45m users News
10.06.2013 Toronto-headquartered mobile social network Keek has surpassed 45m users, with over 24m users joining in the last four months, the company’s CEO Isaac Raichyk has told... -
Havok reveals new game developer tools for Xbox One News
10.06.2013 Ahead of E3 today Dublin-headquartered physics software company Havok has revealed a new suite of middleware tools specifically for the forthcoming Xbox One games and...Categories: Consumer Tech, Design, Development, Digital Media, Games/Entertainment, Hardware, Software -
Annoyance at social media marketing is killing Facebook’s buzz News
10.06.2013 Evidence of growing consumer dissatisfaction with social media marketing and concerns over privacy is leading to users walking away from social networking sites, with Facebook...Categories: Social Media, Marketing, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Openet deploys dynamic billing system for T-Mobile Netherlands News
10.06.2013 Dublin-based telecoms software company Openet has won a key deal with T-Mobile in the Netherlands to deploy a real-time billing platform.Categories: Communications, Consumer Tech, Investments, Networking & Telecoms, Phones, Wireless Communications -
The week in gadgets: Haswell PCs, a tablet, laptop and desktop in one and tech for dogs News
10.06.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as Computex brings us new computers from Sony and Acer featuring Intel’s new Haswell processors, plus a revolutionary all-in-one tablet, laptop and...Tags: Computers, PC, Laptops, Ultrabooks, Tablet, Tablet Computers, Acer, Sony, Intel, HTC, Nokia, Smartphones, BlackBerry, Samsung, -
Weekend News Round-up: US cyber spying whistle-blower revealed; is Snapchat worth US$1bn? News
10.06.2013 The weekend’s tech news agenda was dominated by the fallout of the massive revelations around how US intelligence agencies have been spying on the servers of the top internet...Categories: Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Business Intelligence, Apps -
New attempt to map the scale of Ireland’s all-island games industry News
06.06.2013 Gamedevelopers.ie is embarking on a major effort to put together an interactive map that includes detailed information on all the key developers and businesses that make up the... -
EU data privacy champion hits out at Turkish attempts at social media censorship News
06.06.2013 Ireland South MEP Sean Kelly, co-author of a pending EU report on Data Protection Regulation, has slammed the Turkish government’s efforts at social media censorship resulting...Categories: Communications, Consumer Tech, Government, Intellectual Property, Multimedia, Social Media, Software -
Europe’s a 4G laggard because of a lack of regulatory certainty News
05.06.2013 Despite Europe being the original leader in terms of GSM and 3G technologies, the region is considerably behind the US and Asia when it comes to 4G. An expert warns that... -
Irish online course provider makes it onto top 20 ed-tech listing News
06.06.2013 Irish-based ALISON, which provides free online education and workplace skills training courses, has been named as one of the top 20 e-learning companies in Europe in a ranking...Tags: E-learning, -
Bruising blow for Apple as ITC grants trade ban on iPhone 4 and other iOS devices News
05.06.2013 Tech giant Apple has expressed disappointment with a decision by the International Trade Commission to accede to Samsung’s requests for a ban on imports of earlier Apple... -
Micro-managing a €2.5trn economic opportunity is no small beer News
05.06.2013 There are people to whom nanoscience – building technologies and drugs at an atomic or molecular level to around one billionth of a metre or 1m times smaller than a grain of...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Interview: Cubic’s plan to connect every smart device in the world News
05.06.2013 The tech sector might appear to be in rude health, thanks to the global population’s growing dependence on smartphones, social networks and the increased permeation of the... -
‘You’ve been tagged’ – one-third of us dread Facebook photos emerging from a night out News
05.06.2013 We’ve all been there. It's the morning after the night before, you wake up groggy and as you get your bearings you notice an inordinately large number of Facebook ‘Likes’ and...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech