Tagged: Google
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Newspapers are wrong – Google is not your enemy News
07.05.2010 New media pioneer and one of the UK’s leading tech writers Bill Thompson told Siliconrepublic.com he believes newspapers are misguided if they think paywalls will save them and... -
Facebook eats crow over the ‘death of privacy’ News
06.05.2010 Facebook’s credibility as a safe place to keep personal data has been brought into question after it emerged a glitch allowed users’ chat messages and pending friend requests to... -
Deals done this past week News
10.05.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector, including internet search giant Google’s acquisition of BumpTop, creator of a 3D desktop system.Categories: Business, Mergers & AcquisitionsTags: Google, -
Technology brands most valuable globally News
04.05.2010 The value of the Top 100 brands in the world now stands at US$2trn, up 40pc in the last five years, a new survey from Millward Brown suggests.Tags: Google, -
How the computer giants could become the new media moguls News
06.05.2010 Anyone who kept an eye on the spat last week between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and digital media software company Adobe would realise that a seismic shift is happening in the... -
FleetMatics sets out new standard for GPS fleet tracking News
05.05.2010 Dublin tech firm FleetMatics, whose technology is used globally to track thousands of vehicles, has unveiled the latest version of its GPS software, FleetMatics GPS Vehicle... -
Flash for Android coming in June, Adobe confirms News
30.04.2010 Adobe has responded to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ lengthy rant about the decision not to include Flash in the iPad and iPhone OS 4.0 by saying it has already begun to distance itself... -
Did HP pay too much for Palm? News
04.05.2010 HP’s purchase of Palm raises as many questions as it does answers, an analyst firm has railed, arguing the Palm brand is virtually unknown outside the US and has limited... -
Google goes 3D with acquisition of BumpTop News
04.05.2010 Google’s plans to become an even bigger force in the computing world are becoming clearer now that the company has acquired BumpTop, the creator of a 3D desktop system that runs... -
Apple’s Jobs: Flash drains batteries, causes Mac crashes News
30.04.2010 Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has taken the unprecedented step of writing a full letter explaining why the company is not putting Flash onto the iPad and future iPhones....Categories: Consumer Tech, Hardware, Mobile, Open Source, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Web Development, Multimedia -
Microsoft shelves ‘Courier’ tablet PC, e-book combo News
30.04.2010 An innovative two-screen tablet computer code-named ‘Courier’ has apparently been shelved by Microsoft. The internal team working on the project have been told it will no longer... -
Deals done this past week News
04.05.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector, including news of who will sell Google's Nexus One smartphone in Europe.Categories: Business, Mergers & Acquisitions -
Is Apple creating the hottest real estate in advertising? News
29.04.2010 Advertising on the new Apple iPad tablet computer and iPhone 4 devices may attract rates as high as US$1m and big brands that become first movers in the area may pay as much as...Tags: Apple, HP, Intel, Google, Advertising, Palm, Netbooks, Atom, Smartphones, iPad, Tablet Computers, -
Google ranks as most reputable company in Ireland News
28.04.2010 Google has taken the top spot as the most reputable company operating in Ireland – that’s according to the Ireland RepTrak 2010 study, released by Corporate Reputations today.Categories: Business, Private Irish BusinessTags: Google, -
Vodafone to sell Nexus One in Europe News
26.04.2010 Vodafone has become Europe’s first mobile operator to be given a chance to sell Google’s own-branded smartphone the Nexus One, it emerged today.Tags: Google, Smartphone, YouTube, Europe, Google Maps, Applications, Android Market, Street View, Nexus One -
Search's future to be in eye of beholder News
22.04.2010 Last week, Plink, an early-stage visual-search company behind the PlinkArt mobile application, which allows people to identify a work of art by taking a photo of it, was sold to...Categories: Digital Life, InternetTags: Google, Google Goggles, -
Google reveals governments requesting user data News
21.04.2010 Brazil tops the world as the government requesting the most data on users with 3,663 requests, followed by the US with 3,580 and the UK, where authorities have made 1,166...Tags: Google, -
The digital business week News
19.04.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.Tags: Google, Sony Ericsson, -
Weekend news roundup News
19.04.2010 A quick glance at some of the technology stories breaking in the weekend papers. -
Data thieves target Google password system ‘Gaia’ News
20.04.2010 Among information stolen from Google during Chinese cyber attacks last year was a top secret password system code-named Gaia after the Greek goddess of earth.