Categorised as: Digital Media
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Geek chic: up to 10m pairs of smart glasses expected to ship by 2016 News
25.04.2013 The global market for smart glasses could amount to 10m units by 2016, IHS has predicted. This will be spurred on by Google’s efforts to promote application development for its... -
Colt connects Cork to mainland Europe via 43,000 km fibre network News
25.04.2013 The city of Cork’s digital aspirations have been given a welcome boost with the news that global data network operator Colt has connected the city to mainland Europe via its... -
Irish founder of City-of-London.com seeks to raise stg£100,000 News
25.04.2013 Peter Dodds, an Irish advertising and media industry veteran behind City-of-London.com, is planning to raise stg£100,000 from individual investors at the FT Digital Media...Categories: Media, Marketing, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Amazon plots a move into the living room with Kindle TV set-top box News
25.04.2013 Keen to exploit opportunities in the streaming business, online retail giant Amazon is set to take on the might of Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Hulu in the battle for the...Tags: Smartphones, Tablet Computers, Kindle Fire, Kindle, Apple TV, Apple, Netflix, Streaming, Amazon -
Irish director’s sci-fi movie ‘Last Days on Mars’ selected for Cannes News
23.04.2013 Last Days on Mars, the debut feature film of Oscar-nominated Irish director Ruairí Robinson, has been chosen for the prestigious Directors’ Fortnight at the 2013 Cannes Film...Tags: Movies, Irish Film Board, -
Comedy Central teams up with Twitter for first ever #ComedyFest News
24.04.2013 For five days starting next Monday, Comedy Central’s first ever Twitter-based comedy festival intends to take over your feed with the help of more than 50 comedians on the network. -
Twitter tests two-factor authentication, AP accounts suspended following hack News
24.04.2013 Yesterday, a fake tweet claiming there had been explosions in the White House and that US President Barack Obama had been injured was sent from the Associated Press (AP) Twitter... -
Apple revenues reach US$43.6bn – posts US$9.5bn profit – iPhone growth slows News
23.04.2013 Technology giant Apple posted solid sales and revenue figures of US$43.6bn and US$9.5bn, respectively, but has raised questions about future growth plans as sales levels of... -
Microsoft’s Surface Pro arriving in UK and Ireland next month News
23.04.2013 Microsoft has confirmed the Surface Pro Windows 8 tablet PC will arrive in the UK and Irish markets, other European countries, Australia and New Zealand, before the end of May....Categories: Wireless Communications, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Salesforce.com enters the online advertising business News
23.04.2013 Having conquered the online CRM space and creating social communications channels for businesses, cloud software giant Salesforce.com is now intent on becoming an online...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Media, Marketing, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, CRM -
Irish web series CUCKOO battles Tom Hanks and The Walking Dead at the Webbys News
23.04.2013 CUCKOO, an Irish web series originally produced as part of the RTÉ Storyland competition is now in the final five shortlisted for the prestigious People’s Choice Award at the... -
Amazon branches out into original TV programming, viewers decide what shows live on News
23.04.2013 The first pilots from Amazon Studios, Amazon’s original film and TV series production arm, went live on Friday and, in their first weekend, became the most-watched shows on... -
NGOs, IBM and businesses team up to tackle digital literacy News
23.04.2013 A new website that makes basic online tasks easy for new users has been launched through an initiative spearheaded by Business in the Community Ireland and collaboration between... -
Netflix reaches 36m global subscribers, US$1bn revenue News
23.04.2013 On-demand video-streaming service Netflix has posted its earnings call for the first quarter of 2013, citing more than 4bn hours of viewing by 36m subscribers worldwide – 7.14m... -
UK 4G player EE reaches 320,000 subscribers in just five months News
23.04.2013 Just five months after launching its first 4G services, Everything Everywhere (EE) this morning reported it has now reached 320,000 4G subscribers in the UK and is on target to... -
Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ breaks Spotify record, reaches No 1 on iTunes in 14 countries News
22.04.2013 Robot rock duo Daft Punk’s latest single, released at 12.01am ET (5.01am Irish time) on Friday 19 April, has reached No 1 in the iTunes chart in 14 countries, conquered the top...Categories: Media, Digital Media -
Google Now will soon arrive on Google’s home page News
22.04.2013 As evidence that Google is rigidly following a ‘mobile first’ ethos when it comes to developing products, the search giant’s Google Now context engine which debuted last year...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Computers -
1.2m Irish households will own a tablet computer by the end of this year News
22.04.2013 Digital device ownership in Ireland is surging ahead with the average home owning at least four connected devices. A new Household Sentiment Survey by Eircom predicts that 1.2m...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications -
World's first Engineering Dojo teaches robotics to 10-14-year-olds News
22.04.2013 Inspired by CoderDojo, which has spread to 16,000 children in 26 countries, Ireland’s first Engineering Dojo took place last week after enlisting the support of 15 companies in...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Science, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Media -
Weekend news round-up: anti-CISPA web blackout; US to tax the internet? News
22.04.2013 In our trawl through the weekend’s best tech stories, it has emerged that the US Senate is about to vote on legislation to give states the power to tax online purchases; how...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Internet, Financial, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business