Tagged: Amazon & News
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The week in gadgets: Wii U, Kindle Fire HD, Stephen Fry and Qugos vs Segways (video) News
19.11.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Nintendo’s latest console reaches the US, the large-screen Kindle Fire HD arrives earlier than expected, Stephen Fry prepares to wow us with the... -
IDA Ireland’s Pat Howlin: building a cloud ecosystem (video) News
09.11.2012 IDA Ireland’s senior vice-president in charge of ICT Pat Howlin says Ireland is building a considerable ecosystem around the cloud in order to be in an unassailable position to...Tags: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Infrastructure, Data centres, Energy, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, EMC, HP, Intel, Apple, IDA Ireland -
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Apple gets ready to ship 10m iPad minis in Q4 News
08.10.2012 Apple is reportedly preparing to ship 10m iPad mini machines. Apple, which initially eschewed the 7-inch tablet form factor, has ordered double the amount of components from...Categories: Operating Systems, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Computers, Phones, Software, Wireless Communications -
The rise of e-reading: are books going to become an endangered species (infographic) News
21.09.2012 Amazon UK’s latest figures in August revealed that for every 100 books sold on Amazon.co.uk in 2012, 114 e-books have been sold. The advent of e-readers has only helped bolster... -
TelecityGroup’s Maurice Mortell – prepare your economy for the digital wireless future (video) News
19.09.2012 By 2016, more people will be connected wirelessly than via wired technology and the implications for businesses in Ireland already playing catch-up with e-commerce needs to be... -
Kindle Fire HD: a closer look News
07.09.2012 Amazon’s latest tablet family was unveiled yesterday and, since the initial presentation, we’ve taken a closer look at all that the new Kindle Fire HD has to offer, how Amazon... -
Is it a smartphone? Is it a TV? No, it’s the new Kindle readers and tablets from Amazon News
06.09.2012 Amazon has just wrapped up its press event in an aircraft hangar in Los Angeles and though the rumour mill had us expecting something truly disruptive like a smartphone or... -
Amazon expected to unveil new tablets and smartphone today News
06.09.2012 E-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon is expected to reveal today a new smartphone based on the same Android OS it developed to power its Kindle Fire tablet devices.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Houses of the Oireachtas Service puts out tender for 300 tablet computers News
04.09.2012 Ireland’s House of the Oireachtas has put out a tender to equip Ireland’s TDs and senators and various staff with 300 tablet computers in a project worth between €150,000 and... -
Career Zoo organisers anticipate about 4,000 jobs on offer at event News
03.09.2012 Career Zoo is set to take place in the Convention Centre Dublin later this month, and the event director is hopeful there will be thousands of jobs on offer, with a section...Categories: Recruitment, Careers and Employment -
Amazon about to unleash brand new 7-inch and 10-inch Kindle Fire tablets News
31.08.2012 Existing models of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet devices have sold out leading to speculation that the e-commerce giant is about to unleash a new generation of devices. The...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Amazon to host press event on 6 September, new products expected News
24.08.2012 Amazon is planning a press conference to take place on Thursday, 6 September in California. Could this be the launch of a new Kindle Fire? Or are we about to see the big reveal... -
Bogband tales - poor internet access ‘CAN’ adversely impact on business News
21.08.2012 While head in the sand politicians and senior businesspeople still can’t distinguish broadband from 1970s show bands, new research indicates just how poor quality internet... -
Amazon Web Services launches pay-as-you-go data storage service, Amazon Glacier News
21.08.2012 Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, has introduced a new pay-as-you-go storage solution specifically designed for data that is infrequently accessed but still... -
Microsoft revamps SkyDrive, reveals Outlook.com has hit 10m users (video) News
15.08.2012 Microsoft has repurposed its SkyDrive cloud storage service for the smartphone, ultrabook and tablet computing age just ahead of the official rollout of Windows 8. The new...Categories: Web, Storage, Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Tech -
Amazon and ‘IT’s Happening Here’ join Career Zoo line-up News
07.08.2012 E-commerce giant Amazon and Irish software initiative ‘IT’s Happening Here’ have joined the line-up of employers at Career Zoo, Ireland’s career event for graduates and... -
Ebook sales overtake books on Amazon UK News
07.08.2012 Amazon UK’s latest figures show that sales of ebooks for its Kindle devices are now higher than sales of the physical product. -
Amazon has a new game studio, and a literary Facebook game (video) News
07.08.2012 Amazon has revealed its new games team, Amazon Game Studios, along with the release of a new social game for Facebook, Living Classics, that sees gameplay take place amid the... -
Fifty Shades of Grey books outsell Harry Potter on Amazon.co.uk News
01.08.2012 The popular Fifty Shades of Grey triology has overtaken the seven Harry Potter books to become the best-selling book series on Amazon.co.uk.