Tagged: Amazon
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Cork virtually in driving seat as VMware targets US$50bn cloud market News
28.05.2013 Ireland’s efforts to position itself at the centre of the cloud computing revolution are paying dividends faster than anyone can have predicted considering the country is now... -
Irish greyhound racing board invests €1.1m in cloud services News
23.05.2013 A new €1.1m cloud investment by the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) will enable more international streaming of greyhound racing and data worldwide, it has emerged. -
Cork tech event to focus on robotics, cloud and big data News
13.05.2013 Not-for-profit tech industry group it@cork is hosting a technology summit in Cork this Wednesday to home in on future trends in areas such as cloud computing, robotics, big data...Tags: Cyber security, Big Data, Digital Media, Robotics, Amazon, Trend Micro, it@Cork, Cork, Cloud Computing -
Amazon reportedly working on new devices, including 3D smartphone News
10.05.2013 If Amazon does indeed decide to enter the smartphone race – as has long been speculated – it could be with a great deal of aplomb and impressive technology if the latest rumours... -
LivingSocial cyberattacked – users urged to reset their passwords News
27.04.2013 Amazon-owned daily deals site LivingSocial has been hacked, with hackers gaining access to the private details of potentially more than 50m people, including their names, email... -
Amazon plots a move into the living room with Kindle TV set-top box News
25.04.2013 Keen to exploit opportunities in the streaming business, online retail giant Amazon is set to take on the might of Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Hulu in the battle for the...Tags: Smartphones, Tablet Computers, Kindle Fire, Kindle, Apple TV, Apple, Netflix, Streaming, Amazon -
Amazon branches out into original TV programming, viewers decide what shows live on News
23.04.2013 The first pilots from Amazon Studios, Amazon’s original film and TV series production arm, went live on Friday and, in their first weekend, became the most-watched shows on... -
Financial results this week News
22.04.2013 Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.Categories: Financial Results, Financial -
Microsoft strikes at Amazon’s cloud infrastructure heartland News
16.04.2013 Amazon’s status as the enabler of cloud infrastructure for start-ups and organisations striving for flexibility is to be threatened by Microsoft, which has just announced its...Categories: Web, Virtualisation, Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, R&D, Internet, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Digital Business, Data Centre, Apps -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The technology business week: two other offers for Dell, Yahoo! to buy Summly News
02.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Amazon acquires bookish social community Goodreads News
29.03.2013 E-commerce, gadget and cloud giant Amazon has acquired Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations which has a community of 16m who have added 530m... -
Review: Samsung Chromebook (video) News
20.03.2013 The first time I saw a Chromebook – that is a notebook that uses Google’s Chrome browser as its operating system – about two years ago I remember being completely stumped. No...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Energy, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
One-third of all page views in UK come from mobiles and tablets News
15.03.2013 Around 44.8m people in the UK used the internet in December 2012, up 5pc on last year and around a third of these accessed the web from mobile phones and tablet computers – an... -
Darrell Mann: 98pc of innovation projects fail, how to be the 2pc that don’t News
23.02.2013 Former Rolls-Royce chief engineer Darrell Mann has spent much of his working life trying to understand why 98pc of R&D projects end in failure and has come up with an approach... -
Google ranks as best place for interns - Glassdoor News
15.02.2013 Intern hopefuls wanting to work for a highly rated company should try and land themselves an internship at internet search giant Google, ranked No 1 in Glassdoor’s second annual... -
Amazon to roll out Amazon Coins virtual currency News
05.02.2013 E-commerce giant Amazon is hoping to cash in with its own virtual currency, Amazon Coins, that Kindle Fire users will be able to spend on apps, games and in-app items.