20.08.2008 Auction website eBay has revealed it plans to reduce the fees it charges sellers to list fixed-price items from September. more...
20.08.2008 NASDAQ-listed financial software and payments company Trintech this morning reported a net loss of close to US$1m in its fiscal second quarter, despite delivering revenues of US$10.5m for the quarter. more...
19.08.2008 Microsoft’s latest technology Live Mesh, which allows users to synchronise and access information across different PCs as well as remotely control their PC via their web browser, is now available for users to download. more...
18.08.2008 Internet radio site Pandora may have over 40,000 listeners per day, but the crippling weight of music royalties looks likely to shut the site down for good — an event that will indeed be a black day for the already struggling internet radio station. more...
15.08.2008 The owner of property website Daft.ie, Daft Media, has acquired a minority stake in Ireland’s largest community websites, Boards.ie, for an undisclosed sum. more...
15.08.2008 Remote Wake technology deployed by Intel and a number of partners will allow users’ PCs to ‘wake up’ from hibernation for them to take phone calls and watch favourite TV shows, at the same time as helping to save the environment. more...
14.08.2008 Chip giant Intel is going all-out to speed up industry-wide adoption of USB 3.0 technology, which is 10 times the bandwidth of existing USB 2.0 connections, for a myriad of electronic devices from cameras and phones to MP3 players and storage drives. more...
14.08.2008 It has emerged that Sony’s celebrated ultra-thin OLED TV family will debut in Europe next year. more...
14.08.2008 Tuxedos and gowns appear to be fading into the past as far as Irish internet awards go with the latest web awards opting for a theatre-style DIY approach to recognise “the sites which never get mentioned by other awards.” more...
13.08.2008 Ryanair’s decision last week to block all forms of ‘screen scraping’ by third parties is more about its desire to be a one-stop-shop than unlawful behaviour on the part of other websites, Steven Rice, marketing manager of ebookers.ie told siliconrepublic.com. more...
13.08.2008 The newest emerging category of mobile computing devices – mini-notebook PCs – are on track to reach 4.2 million units this year and will grow to eight million units next year. It’s predicted this new category could cannibalise the lower-end PC market within two years. more...
12.08.2008 Proving necessity is the mother of all invention, Google’s mobile team has developed an iPhone interface for Google Translate. more...