After Manchester United Football Club announced the retirement of manager Sir Alex Ferguson on its Twitter account yesterday, fans inundated social media with photos, tributes, statistics - and memes.
09.May.2013 10:47
In the age of on-demand viewing and social media saturation, spoilers are a persistent danger – but 17-year-old coder Jennie Lamere is working on a solution to save us.
09.May.2013 10:27
Video-streaming site YouTube is the place to go to watch music videos these days, but the recent religious-themed promo for 'The Next Day' by David Bowie was pulled from the site only to be reinstated shortly afterward.
09.May.2013 09:52
A new project known as Eurapp has been launched by the European Commission with the aim of measuring the size of the app economy in Europe. The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway will run the project along with the analyst firm GigaOM Research.
09.May.2013 07:30
Brace yourself, the Alex Ferguson social media tributes are coming – and they are coming thick and fast, according to stats from Twitter UK.
08.May.2013 14:47
Visitors to the new Century Ireland online news service can now go back in time and explore images, news reports, academic research and other archival material from the time of the Home Rule debate to the Civil War (1913-1923) in Ireland.
08.May.2013 11:17
We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features dubbed zombies, a tricky question for non-Spanish speakers, another stab at virality from the Girl with a Funny Talent, a preview for Steven Spielberg’s next POTUS biopic, and a straight-talking trailer for Iron Man 2.
05.May.2013 10:22
Tech blogger Robert Scoble loves Google Glass so much he even showered with the device and released a photo of himself doing so to prove it. And then the memes came.
04.May.2013 08:00
The makers of two of the biggest cat-based memes of all time – Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat – are taking on the might of Warner Bros and video-game maker 5th Cell Media in a dispute over intellectual property.
03.May.2013 13:51
A US-based man with Down Syndrome is suing a radio station, an internet company and another individual for US$18m after a photo of him taken nine years ago became an internet meme.
03.May.2013 12:37
Photo-sharing network Instagram has just launched a new tagging feature called Photos of You that makes it easier to add people and things to photos.
03.May.2013 11:35
Irish software company Openmind - which transmits 1bn SMS messages a day for 120 mobile carriers - has been named as a finalist in the 2013 Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards at major telecoms convention CTIA in Las Vegas.
02.May.2013 17:10
Global car rental company Alamo has tasked the Dublin-based digital advertising player Quantcast to launch its real-time online advertising campaign as part of a wider marketing strategy to boost car rentals in key EMEA markets.
02.May.2013 06:00
Business social network LinkedIn has begun rolling out a new feature that lets its users present their professional stories in a portfolio of images, videos and presentations.
01.May.2013 16:59
Heineken has been keeping an eye on the online chatter surrounding the Heineken Cup and has collated tweets about the event into an infographic.
01.May.2013 16:45
Google has updated its iPad and iPhone app in the Apple App Store, bringing its Google Now context-driven engine to Apple’s mobile devices.
29.Apr.2013 15:35
Microsoft lets Siri do the talking in scathing new Windows 8 ad (video)
#OI2Dublin - Irish Times CIO Johnny Ryan on the digital future of newspapers (video)
Havok lets Anarchy reign – free mobile 3D game production engine revealed
Facebook appeal fading for many US teens as Twitter’s popularity almost doubles
