Tagged: Google & News
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Google launches person finder following Boston marathon explosions News
16.04.2013 Search engine Google has quickly added a person finder service in the aftermath of the horrific events in Boston yesterday.Categories: Web, Search Engines, Search, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Donegal student's winning Doodle 4 Google graces homepage News
16.04.2013 Annie Coyle, a 15-year-old student from Letterkenny, Co Donegal, has been announced as the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle that has been...Tags: Google, Women Invent Tomorrow -
Microsoft is the latest tech giant believed to be working on a smartwatch device News
15.04.2013 Software giant Microsoft has become the latest addition to the coterie of tech giants working on the next frontier of form factors – the watch. As well as its own smartphone,...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Weekend news round-up: Throwing ice on Google Glass; Facebook’s second coming News
15.04.2013 In our round-up of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, the privacy issues that will come with the arrival of Google Glass wearable devices are highlighted; many of...Categories: Security, Search, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Leadership & Management, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Computers -
Tech start-up of the week: Search4less News
14.04.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is Search4less.ie, a new online business information service that’s aiming to disrupt the online company search space by pushing out relevant... -
Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler inspires interactive Google Doodle News
15.04.2013 Internet search giant Google has given mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler the Google Doodle treatment today, on the 306th anniversary of his birth. -
Don’t let digital dirt derail your career (infographic) News
13.04.2013 Most job-seekers are probably aware that having a good online presence can help them secure a job offer or two, and a new infographic goes even further to outline how job... -
Apple close to signing iRadio deals with major labels Universal and Warner News
12.04.2013 Apple’s rumoured rival to Pandora – dubbed iRadio – is taking a step closer to becoming a reality if reports are to be believed about a deal that is close to being signed with...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushes for immigration reform News
12.04.2013 Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Silicon Valley leaders, has launched a new initiative called FWD.us aimed at reforming the United States’ outmoded immigration...Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Science, Recruitment, R&D, Legal, Internet, Hardware, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Digital death: Google’s new tool helps you decide what happens to your data when you’re gone News
12.04.2013 Like taxes, death is inevitable. But the question of what happens to a person’s data after they die has been answered by Google, which has developed a new tool to give people...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Security, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Internet, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Tech -
HP seeks to shake up data centre market with Moonshot server News
11.04.2013 HP believes it can disrupt the data centre market with its newly launched Moonshot server which uses 89pc less energy, occupies 80pc less space and costs 77pc less than a... -
Google Ventures teams up with Andreessen Horowitz and KPCB to fund Glass projects News
11.04.2013 Vice-president of Google Ventures Bill Maris has announced that Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) will join the venture capital investment arm of...Categories: Investments, Development -
Google Play Music goes live in Ireland, Europe, NZ and Oz News
10.04.2013 Google will today introduce music to its Google Play mobile and cloud store in Ireland and other European countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The new service makes...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce, Digital Media, Apps -
Google to rollout high-speed broadband in Austin, Texas News
09.04.2013 The city of Austin, Texas, is to receive a boost in the form of the rollout of Google Fibre, the same high-speed fibre network the internet search giant has been rolling out... -
Google’s Android competitors make formal antitrust complaint to Europe News
09.04.2013 A group of Android competitors, including Nokia and Microsoft, have sent a formal complaint against Google to European antitrust regulators who are in the final stages of an... -
WhatsApp denies rumours of sale to Google for US$1bn News
09.04.2013 Popular cross-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp has quashed rumours that it is in discussions to sell the company to Google for up to US$1bn.Categories: Web, Social Media, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Weekend news round-up: Why Bitcoin is minting it; Google's US$100m man News
08.04.2013 In our trawl through the weekend's most popular tech stories, we learn about Neal Mohan, Google's US$100m digital advertising genius; how Bitcoin is making banks and governments... -
Pirate Party founder warns 10pc of private equity gets wasted in patent defence News
05.04.2013 A considerable portion of business angel and private equity investment in promising young technology companies – as much as 10pc – often gets wasted on defending against patent... -
Apple plans to overtake Google Street View with outdoor 3D panoramas News
04.04.2013 Apple is working on its own Street View-like mapping feature that merges position tracking with 3D panoramas.