Categorised as: Digital Media & News
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Tablet computers account for 20pc of all online ad impressions News
24.05.2012 Millennial Media’s Q1 Mobile Mix report has claimed that non-phone mobile devices like tablet computers accounted for 20pc of all impressions on its advertising platform during... -
Microsoft lists Belfast app firm JamPot among Europe’s top start-ups News
24.05.2012 Belfast start-up JamPot is among 15 companies across Europe vying to be named Europe’s top start-up company as part of the Microsoft BizSpark European Summit in London. -
Donegal school wins SmartClass digital education prize News
24.05.2012 One hundred and forty incoming first-year students at Loreto Community School in Milford, Co Donegal, are set to start studying their Junior Cert curriculum digitally this... -
Edco’s e-books could make textbooks a thing of the past News
24.05.2012 The full curriculum of post-primary schoolbooks for the next school year are available as e-books, as Edco now plans to tackle primary school editions.Categories: Web, Software Development, Software, Mobile, Internet, Finding a Job, Education, Digital Media, Computers, Apps, Application Design and DevelopmentTags: E-book Readers, E-books, Education, Software, Notebook, Laptops, iPad, Tablet Computers, Tablet, Edco -
Facebook spices up its Social Graph with unique user analytics News
24.05.2012 Social network Facebook has added the ability within the Insights dashboard to allow app developers to monitor the number of unique people seeing and accepting their... -
Moshi Monsters is coming to mobile – scary growth predicted News
24.05.2012 Moshi Monsters, the ‘Facebook for kids’ used by one in three children in the UK, is coming to mobile devices. Mind Candy, the company behind Moshi Monsters, led by Michael...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Lawyers descend to pick over carcass of Facebook's troubled IPO News
23.05.2012 Little did we think a week ago that Facebook’s IPO would be seen as a tawdry mess. Indeed we all thought the golden boy of social media sites would be a roaring success.Categories: Social Media, Legal, Investments, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Robert Moog synthesiser top 20 recordings News
23.05.2012 Today has seen a whirlwind of interest in the Google Doodle for electronic music pioneer Robert Moog. The Doodle, which allows users to compose tunes on a digital replica of the... -
Robert Moog 'electrified' in Google Doodle today News
23.05.2012 New Yorker Robert Moog is today’s vibrant Google Doodle subject on what would be the 78th birthday of the American pioneer of electronic music. He is best known as being the...Categories: Search Engines, Science, Multimedia, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Digital Media -
Gift voucher giant Smartbox to create 70 new digital economy jobs News
23.05.2012 One of Europe’s leading players in the production of gift vouchers and rewards, Smartbox, is to create 70 new jobs by establishing an international strategy, B2B, project... -
UPC to launch on-demand TV and movies services this Friday News
22.05.2012 This Friday more than a third of digital homes served by UPC will be able to access the RTÉ Player and TV3’s 3player. In addition, deals with six major movie studios will see... -
Google CEO spotted in London wearing Project Glass specs News
22.05.2012 Google’s CEO Larry Page has been seen in London wearing the company’s forthcoming Project Glass wearable computer specs.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
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... -
Twitter lights up with images of solar eclipse (photos) News
22.05.2012 Yesterday’s annular solar eclipse has been well-documented in images from Twitter users. -
AirSpeed Telecom links directly with London’s LINX exchange News
24.04.2012 Licensed wireless telecoms provider AirSpeed Telecom has developed a direct link with the London Internet Exchange. The move also allows AirSpeed Telecom to link directly with... -
Monty Munford and James Whelton to keynote at dot conf 2012 News
21.05.2012 Content strategy guru Monty Munford will take the stage at this year’s dot conf at the National College of Ireland in Dublin alongside CoderDojo co-founder James Whelton.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Social Media, Marketing, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Facebook shares drop to US$34.03 – price of hype or voice of reason? News
22.05.2012 Facebook shares closed last night at US$34.03, more than 25pc from its high on Friday. With Morgan Stanley coming to the rescue with US$2.4bn worth of underwriting action, is it...Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Microsoft talks up multi-monitor Windows 8 experience News
22.05.2012 In the run up to the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 8, the software giant has begun espousing the potential of the operating system as a multi-monitor operating system....Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Hardware, Digital Media, Apps -
Tourism Ireland launch competition to win a Twitter tour News
21.05.2012 Tourism Ireland’s British base has kicked off a new business tourism promotion offering senior executives a chance to win a tour of Ireland by Twitter. -
Chrome passes Internet Explorer by as world’s most used browser News
21.05.2012 New figures from StatCounter reveal that Google’s Chrome web browser is now the world’s most used browser, bypassing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.