Tagged: Social Networking & News
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Weekend news round-up: Facebook phone speculation; the future of computing News
14.01.2013 In our round-up of some of the top tech coverage over the weekend, the death of 26-year-old internet folk hero Aaron Swartz stuns the computing world; Facebook's big phone...Categories: Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
LinkedIn reaches 200m members (infographic) News
09.01.2013 LinkedIn now has 200m reasons to smile – that’s the number of members the business social network has amassed in more than 200 countries and territories, at a rate of two people... -
Facebook invites media to ‘come and see what we’re building’ News
09.01.2013 Social networking giant Facebook has something up its sleeve, but it won’t reveal what it is until a press event at its Menlo Park, California, headquarters on 15 January. -
2013 will be the year conventional approaches to IT security will be abandoned News
04.01.2013 It is the dawn of a new year and with the certainty with which you could set your watch, IT security firms are making somber threat predictions. The only thing they can agree on...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Mobility, Mobile, IT Management, Intellectual Property, Data Management, CIO -
Facebook brings ‘walkie-talkie’ voice to its iOS and Android Messenger app News
04.01.2013 Users of the Facebook Messenger app on Android and iOS phones will now be able to add voice messages to messages they are sending to their friends, the social network has revealed. -
Pinterest acquires recipe-sharing network Punchfork News
03.01.2013 Punchfork CEO Jeff Miller today announced the company’s acquisition by Pinterest. The two-year-old start-up will now join one of the fastest-growing online communities to date. -
Tributes pour into Twitter and Facebook for adventurer Ian McKeever News
03.01.2013 Tributes have been flooding social media sites in honour of well-known adventurer, mountain climber and charity fundraiser Ian McKeever from Co Wicklow, who was killed yesterday... -
Is Ireland’s political establishment braced for the impact of social media? News
03.01.2013 Late last year, US President Barack Obama tweeted ‘four more years’ on his active Twitter page in what has to be the most retweeted post of all time. By comparison, Ireland’s...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Government, Economy, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Facebook: Best days to post – segmented by industry (infographic) News
03.01.2013 When it comes to posting content on Facebook Pages for maximum reach and audience interaction, the timing varies for each industry, reveals a new infographic that lists the best... -
75pc of world leaders have presence on Twitter - think tank News
02.01.2013 Three out of four heads of state now have a presence on microblogging site Twitter, an international and non-partisan ‘think tank’ on 21st-century governance has revealed. -
Twitter passes 200m monthly active user milestone News
18.12.2012 Twitter revealed today that it has now more than 200m monthly active Twitter users. This is an increase of 60m – or 42pc – on the 140m monthly active users it confirmed in March.Tags: Twitter, Social Networking, -
Interview with Facebook’s head of small business Dan Levy (video) News
13.12.2012 Facebook’s head of small business Dan Levy was in Dublin yesterday at the social network’s international headquarters, where the company now employs 450 people. The Facebook...Categories: Social Media, Online Business, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Business, Apps -
The Facebook economy: ‘SMBs will create a Facebook page before they’ll build a website’ News
13.12.2012 Facebook is ramping up its focus on small and medium-sized businesses and revealed that more than 300,000 business-owned pages have promoted more than 2.5m posts since June.... -
UL launches new social media module for undergraduate students News
11.12.2012 University of Limerick (UL) is launching a new module in social media for arts undergraduate students, starting from January. According to the university, the new module will...Categories: Social Media, Multimedia, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech, Computers -
UPDATE: Facebook users flood 2Day FM’s Facebook page after death of nurse in prank call News
07.12.2012 Facebook users are leaving scathing messages on the Facebook page of Australian radio station 2Day FM following what may be the suicide of a nurse who answered a prank call from... -
LinkedIn reveals profiles’ most overused words of 2012 News
05.12.2012 Would you describe yourself as creative? Well, apparently a lot of others describe themselves that way as well, as the word is LinkedIn’s most overused word of the year in... -
Student group europe-v-facebook threatens to challenge DPC's findings News
04.12.2012 A student group that has been campaigning for better data protection by Facebook for more than a year is willing to go to court to contest the the Irish Data Protection... -
High Court grants orders to identify firm’s anonymous online accusers News
29.11.2012 The High Court has granted court orders to an Irish-based oil exploration company allowing it to seek the identity of people who allegedly posted defamatory material on... -
Weekend news round-up: Facebook's Photo Sync data grab; battle for the future of the web News
03.12.2012 In our trawl through some of the tech stories from the weekend, we look at coverage of Facebook's roll out of its new Photo Synch feature that puts every pic you take onto its... -
Couple names their baby Hashtag - reports News
28.11.2012 An apparently Twitter-loving couple have taken to Facebook to announce they have named their brand new daughter Hashtag, various media have reported.