Tagged: Hollywood
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Silicon Valley’s top execs on hunt for Irish digital media interns News
04.11.2011 The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), which is bringing top Hollywood digital media execs to Belfast tomorrow, has today announced a new internship programme for budding... -
Hollywood and Silicon Valley bosses en route to Belfast News
01.11.2011 Top Hollywood and Silicon Valley executives are en route to Northern Ireland, where the successful TV show Game of Thrones is being filmed, to help cement the region’s...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Design -
BT ordered to block Newzbin2 News
26.10.2011 The UK’s largest telco and ISP BT has been ordered by the High Court in London to block access to a site called Newzbin2 which the Hollywood movie industry claimed was allowing...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech, Communications -
YouTube is releasing movies for rent in UK News
07.10.2011 Just months after YouTube released movies for rent in the US and Canada, the online video giant is to release more than 1,000 full-length features films from major Hollywood and... -
Silicon Valley’s Irish conquer the heart of Hollywood News
14.09.2011 Powerhouses from the entertainment and technology industries gathered in Hollywood this week to celebrate the impact of technology on entertainment and recognise the major...Categories: Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Irish tech journalist wins 'Best Foreign Film' in US movie competition News
05.09.2011 An Irish technology journalist has put years of testing video hardware to good use by writing and directing his first short film which has just won the “Best Foreign Film Award”... -
Irish in Silicon Valley to play host to Hollywood powerbrokers News
19.08.2011 Senior executives from HBO, Warner Bros and Bloomberg will attend an Innovation in Entertainment event organised by the Southern California chapter of the Irish Technology... -
Charlie Sheen breezes past 1m followers on Twitter News
03.03.2011 The race between actor Ashton Kutcher and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey to reach 1m followers on Twitter took weeks. Actor and Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen managed it in just... -
Charlie Sheen’s first tweet attracts 621,000 followers on Twitter News
02.03.2011 His turbulent personal life has long been a public spectacle, but it seems more than 621,000 Twitter users are hooked. In less than 12 hours, Hollywood bad boy Charlie Sheen has... -
Is YouTube planning movie-streaming service for Europe? News
25.02.2011 YouTube is understood to be planning an unlimited subscription service for movies that it will launch in Europe – beginning with the UK – before taking on the US and services... -
More power to the PC News
13.01.2011 As 1m PCs continue to be sold daily, Intel says its chips, including its 2nd Generation Core Processor, will drive $125bn into the PC industry’s coffers. -
Intel reveals silver bullet to save Hollywood News
06.01.2011 LAS VEGAS - Intel says its new Sandy Bridge next-generation processor has delivered the security Hollywood has craved and could mean cinema content could be delivered to the... -
Tweets fuel Tim Burton's storytelling project News
24.11.2010 Hollywood director and writer Tim Burton has recently launched his storytelling project called Cadavre Exquis that encourages people to contribute via the social networking... -
Robot stars in play News
12.11.2010 In terms of robotic acting, a few big-name Hollywood stars, not to mention the Star Wars prequels, spring to mind, while stage acting is normally the reserve of well-crafted,... -
Google plans to stream movies on YouTube News
30.08.2010 Google is in negotiations with Hollywood’s top film studios to release a pay-per view video service on YouTube by the end of 2010. -
Modern Warfare 2 smashes all records News
13.11.2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has officially become the highest-earning entertainment launch in history, grossing more than US$300 million in its first day of sales in the UK...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Hollywood, Activision, -
Poor science graduate quality playing Havok with indigenous firms News
03.09.2008 The quality and quantity of Irish computer science graduates are too low to meet the needs of one indigenous technology company, which has since been forced to establish...Categories: R&D -
Grand Theft Auto IV hijacks blockbuster season News
09.05.2008 Grand Theft Auto IV is not just the fastest-selling video game of all time, it has also beaten Hollywood in the numbers stakes by shifting six million units globally in seven...Categories: New Media, Digital LifeTags: Hollywood, -
It’s time to face the music: the future of the entertainment business News
24.04.2008 In 1998, 18-year-old Shawn Fanning created a peer-to-peer (P2P) service called Napster that allowed internet users to swap music. The age of free entertainment had arrived, the...Categories: New Media -
Havok rips into games with explosive force News
20.02.2008 Artists will now be able to dramatically increase control over interactive cloth and destructible objects within games as a result of new technologies unveiled by Irish software...