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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:46:04 +0000 30 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/img/silicon-republic-logo-144px.gif http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/section/17/new-media 144 18 Europe's first 3D TV channel Sky 3D will launch on Saturday 3 April with the Manchester United and Chelsea Premier League match as the first show broadcast. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15625/new-media/bskyb-to-launch-sky-3d-on-3-april http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15625/new-media/bskyb-to-launch-sky-3d-on-3-april Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:53:00 +0000 New Media The ongoing legal spat between YouTube and Viacom following the US$1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit slapped on the video-sharing site has become heated with the release of court documents from both companies. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15624/new-media/youtube-claims-viacom-manipulated-video-takedowns http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15624/new-media/youtube-claims-viacom-manipulated-video-takedowns Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:22:00 +0000 New Media Entertainment giant Disney has joined forces with a UCD research centre to examine how the use of multiple cameras can enhance the high-end broadcast of major sports events. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15617/randd/disney-alliance-with-ucd-to-revolutionise-sports-coverage http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15617/randd/disney-alliance-with-ucd-to-revolutionise-sports-coverage Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000 R&D Despite the first drop in per capita income since the post-World War II era, consumers are content to spend freely on high-end electronics from smartphones to LCD TVs and netbooks. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15619/digital-life/cash-poor-punters-spend-on-hot-electronics-despite-downturn http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15619/digital-life/cash-poor-punters-spend-on-hot-electronics-despite-downturn Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:49:00 +0000 Digital Life Following a meeting with the UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson Facebook says that it plans to add an extra layer to its reporting function in order to better protect younger users against cyberbullying and sexual predators. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15616/new-media/facebook-partners-with-anti-bullying-orgs-for-web-safety http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15616/new-media/facebook-partners-with-anti-bullying-orgs-for-web-safety Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:23:00 +0000 New Media Dublin content management software player pTools has deployed a new social media system that allows Lincolnshire police to communicate directly with their community online via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15609/cio/ptools-enables-lincolnshire-police-talk-to-public-via-social-media http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15609/cio/ptools-enables-lincolnshire-police-talk-to-public-via-social-media Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:16:00 +0000 CIO Final-year college students could get a taste of their dream job - and be in with a chance to win €1,000 - through a competition launched by the Digital Hub Development Agency. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15608/new-media/digital-hub-offers-students-a-taste-of-their-dream-jobs http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15608/new-media/digital-hub-offers-students-a-taste-of-their-dream-jobs Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:58:00 +0000 New Media One in four schoolchildren have tried their hands at hacking into one another's Facebook accounts by surreptitiously using the victim's password. Nearly half of the hackers are girls, exploding the gender myth. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15606/cio/one-in-four-schoolkids-have-tried-hacking http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15606/cio/one-in-four-schoolkids-have-tried-hacking Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:42:00 +0000 CIO Pan-European digital marketing agency TradeDoubler has appointed three new senior executives to drive its expansion into the Irish and European markets. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15604/business/tradedoubler-continues-aggressive-expansion http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15604/business/tradedoubler-continues-aggressive-expansion Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:24:00 +0000 Business Internet search giant Google is understood to have been collaborating with Intel, Logitech and Sony to create a new family of internet-enabled TV sets powered by its Android operating system. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15601/new-media/google-is-working-on-tv-project-with-intel-logitech-and-sony http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15601/new-media/google-is-working-on-tv-project-with-intel-logitech-and-sony Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:56:00 +0000 New Media Driven by the next wave of apps and services like Presence, Geolocation and Social Web, revenues from mobile access to Web 2.0 apps and services will be worth US$18.9bn, analysts have forecast. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15598/comms/mobile-web-2-0-apps-market-to-be-worth-us-18-9bn-by-2014 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15598/comms/mobile-web-2-0-apps-market-to-be-worth-us-18-9bn-by-2014 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:01:00 +0000 Comms Facebook has overtaken Google in the US to be the most visited website, according to analysis from Hitwise. In related news, Twitter is exploding in terms of upstream traffic to social media sites over news and media sites. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15597/new-media/facebook-overtakes-google-twitterers-prefer-social-to-news http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15597/new-media/facebook-overtakes-google-twitterers-prefer-social-to-news Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:53:00 +0000 New Media Twitter has taken its already open technology a big step further with @anywhere, a new framework that will allow the microblogging service to be embedded anywhere on the web. First stop, YouTube. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15585/new-media/twitter-spreads-further-with-anywhere http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15585/new-media/twitter-spreads-further-with-anywhere Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:57:00 +0000 New Media Acclaimed software developer and entrepreneur Tim Bray who until recently was Sun Microsystems' web chief, has become "developer advocate" at Google and has hit out at Apple's Disney-fied vision of the mobile internet's future. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15575/new-media/xml-inventor-joins-google-jabs-apples-mobile-web-vision http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15575/new-media/xml-inventor-joins-google-jabs-apples-mobile-web-vision Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:44:00 +0000 New Media Regulators in the US are set to roll out an ambitious broadband policy plan that will see the average American experience increases in speeds up to 25 times faster than what they currently experience. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15562/comms/major-us-broadband-policy-plan-to-be-revealed http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15562/comms/major-us-broadband-policy-plan-to-be-revealed Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:46:00 +0000 Comms As it emerges Apple has begun taking early orders for its eponymous iPad, estimates are figuring orders at the rate of 20,000 per hour are being sustained. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15559/new-media/ipad-insanity-as-apple-takes-early-orders-for-new-form-factor http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15559/new-media/ipad-insanity-as-apple-takes-early-orders-for-new-form-factor Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:12:00 +0000 New Media Independent licensed telecoms providers in Ireland have added their voice to the call to prioritise the introduction of postcodes which will be vital to future GPS and location-based e-commerce services. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15541/comms/telcos-warn-post-codes-essential-to-future-of-comms http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15541/comms/telcos-warn-post-codes-essential-to-future-of-comms Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:36:00 +0000 Comms Software company Opera has released a version of its speedy mobile web browser for the Android phone and Opera Mini 5 is now available for download in Android Market. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15535/new-media/opera-mini-5-arrives-on-android http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15535/new-media/opera-mini-5-arrives-on-android Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:14:00 +0000 New Media In a move aimed at fueling the momentum so far with 2m businesses now adopting Google Apps, the internet giant has opened a new Apps Marketplace chock-full of third party cloud apps like payroll and productivity software. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15534/cio/google-opens-new-apps-store-for-businesses http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15534/cio/google-opens-new-apps-store-for-businesses Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000 CIO Top-right-oriented-graph-itis is a particularly nasty condition, prevalent amongst many busy middle and senior managers; it gives them symptoms of a warm and fuzzy feeling that all is well, when actually they don't know if all is well or not. It manifests itself in a desire to view graphs which generally rise from bottom left to top right, with the issue of what is being measured, and how, simply secondary to have a graph conforming to the correct shape. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15476/new-media/urgent-need-for-new-online-metrics http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15476/new-media/urgent-need-for-new-online-metrics Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:05:00 +0000 New Media Samsung Mobile has captured 20pc of the global smart-phone market. Country manager Gary Twohig wants Irish app developers to vie for a share of a major $2.7m apps competition. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15527/new-media/irish-developers-have-a-chance-to-lead-the-smart-phone-wave http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15527/new-media/irish-developers-have-a-chance-to-lead-the-smart-phone-wave Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000 New Media Samsung Mobile has captured 20pc of the global market. Country manager Gary Twohig wants Irish app developers to vie for a share of the global US$2.7m apps competition. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15492/special-events/irish-developers-have-a-chance-at-leading-the-smart-phone-wave http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15492/special-events/irish-developers-have-a-chance-at-leading-the-smart-phone-wave Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000 Special Events A new social-networking player has entered the scene to take on micro-messaging player Twitter with a service that enables macro-messages of 300 characters. The Whispurr social-networking service promises to bridge the online world with the offline world. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15496/new-media/twitters-nemesis-arrives-as-a-whispurr-rather-than-a-bang http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15496/new-media/twitters-nemesis-arrives-as-a-whispurr-rather-than-a-bang Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:17:00 +0000 New Media Former senior executives from Accenture and RTE have rolled out a new, free online service in Ireland called GetitKeepit.com that allows users to gather all their utility bills in one place and help to analyse, organise and retain them securely. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15495/new-media/online-service-helps-irish-consumers-analyse-utility-bills http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15495/new-media/online-service-helps-irish-consumers-analyse-utility-bills Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:58:00 +0000 New Media New trends from ultra-thin portable PCs to next-generation tablet devices like the iPad will change the shape of the personal computer as we know it in 2010, IDC says, as consumers are prepared to get more experimental. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15494/new-media/the-new-form-factors-that-will-reshape-the-pc-forever http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15494/new-media/the-new-form-factors-that-will-reshape-the-pc-forever Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:01:00 +0000 New Media A sex offender who used a fake Facebook profile to lure a student to her death has been sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in prison. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15490/digital-life/facebook-killer-gets-35-years-for-murder-of-teenager http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15490/digital-life/facebook-killer-gets-35-years-for-murder-of-teenager Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:08:00 +0000 Digital Life There is strong evidence of pre-launch demand for the Apple iPad greater than that for the iPhone. According to a survey, Amazon and its Kindle e-reader are poised to take a big hit when the new device enters stores on 3 April. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15480/new-media/apples-ipad-will-cannibalise-current-e-reader-market http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15480/new-media/apples-ipad-will-cannibalise-current-e-reader-market Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:08:00 +0000 New Media The worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, a 96.8pc increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units, according to Gartner. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15479/comms/touchscreen-mobile-phone-sales-to-grow-almost-100pc-in-2010 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15479/comms/touchscreen-mobile-phone-sales-to-grow-almost-100pc-in-2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:16:00 +0000 Comms Citizens need to prepare for the future jobs market and engagement in society through enhanced web skills, the European Commission said today. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15477/digital-life/citizens-need-web-skills-for-future-jobs http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15477/digital-life/citizens-need-web-skills-for-future-jobs Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:00 +0000 Digital Life Video sharing site YouTube is introducing closed captions with many videos, including speeches by US President Barack Obama already featuring this option. http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15469/new-media/youtube-introduces-captioned-videos http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15469/new-media/youtube-introduces-captioned-videos Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:01:00 +0000 New Media