Tagged: Internet & News
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Two-thirds of UK internet population on Facebook – on a par with TV News
16.01.2013 Facebook says two-thirds of the UK’s internet population use the social network and 18 to 34-year-olds spend as much time on the social network as they would watching TV. The...Categories: Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Enterprise, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
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 -
National Newspapers of Ireland outlines position on use of hyperlinks News
04.01.2013 National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) said today it made a submission to the Copyright Review Committee to the effect that it believes the display and transmission of links under... -
Tech stars reveal all they want for Christmas (video) News
24.12.2012 In a series of cutaways from interviews recorded at the Dublin Web Summit and the GAME conference in recent months, tech entrepreneurs and industry visionaries tell all they...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Media, Funding, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Investments -
Online gender divide: women waste less time online than men News
18.12.2012 While the internet in the workplace has led to greater efficiencies and capabilities, it has also led to a greater propensity for workers to waste time. Although half of all... -
The unlikely internet heroes of 2012 News
21.12.2012 The beauty of the internet is that we can all get to know characters that would have otherwise been lost to obscurity. Here’s our countdown of the top 10 internet sensations of... -
IEDR to help small businesses develop their websites via €150k fund News
11.12.2012 Ireland’s .ie Domain Registry (IEDR) will make €150,000 available to 20 SMEs or micro-enterprises via its OPTIMISE fund in 2013 to help qualifying companies develop their online... -
Eircom launches Junior Spider Awards for young online innovators News
11.12.2012 Eircom is now accepting entries from primary and secondary school students for its 2013 Junior Spider Awards to showcase innovative ways they are using the internet in their...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
McAfee hospitalised in Guatemala after suffering heart attack News
07.12.2012 Silicon Valley entrepreneur John McAfee has been hospitalised in Guatamala after suffering a heart attack. He is due to be extradited to Belize where he is to help police... -
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... -
Syria cut off from the internet News
29.11.2012 Amid fighting between the government and Free Syrian Army, reports are emerging that Syria has been cut off from the internet as of 10.30am today (12.30pm Irish time). -
UK workers more likely to use pen and paper than tablet when working on the go News
15.11.2012 An online survey of over 2,000 office workers in the UK has revealed that tablets are not tops for the mobile workforce, and many prefer the traditional old pen and paper to get... -
Irish mobile internet users willing to pay for premium cloud services News
01.11.2012 An above average number of Irish mobile internet users (66pc) are aware of cloud data storage services and 77pc of this group is willing to pay for cloud applications, according...Categories: Storage, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Economy, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter launches in the UK News
31.10.2012 As of today, people in the UK will be able to launch their creative projects on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, as the website is now open for UK registrations. -
Blacknight’s Michele Neylon elected secretary of ICANN Registrar Group News
24.10.2012 Blacknight’s founding director has been elected to the position of secretary of the Registrar Stakeholder Group of the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers... -
Sea Fibre Networks extends fibre network to Amsterdam News
24.10.2012 Sea Fibre Networks, the owner of the sub-sea fibre network CeltixConnect that links up Dublin with the UK, has expanded its fibre network from Dublin to Amsterdam. -
European Commission threatens Microsoft with massive fine over browser choice failure News
24.10.2012 The European Commission has told Microsoft it faces a fine of up to 10pc of its total annual turnover over its failure to comply with a commitment to enable consumers to easily...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Legal, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Marissa Mayer’s first quarter at Yahoo! goes smoothly – US$1.2bn in revenues News
23.10.2012 Ex-Googler Marissa Mayer’s first quarter as CEO of Yahoo! got off to a fair start with solid third-quarter 2012 results that saw revenues come in at US$1.2bn, down 1pc on the... -
Interview: Yandex CTO Ilya Segalovich on how the Russian search engine is making its way west (video) News
18.10.2012 We spoke to Ilya Segalovich, CTO of Russian search engine Yandex, about the company’s plans to defeat competition from Google on its own doorstep and making its way to the rest... -
Interview: AOL’s digital prophet David Shing on the future of content and social (video) News
17.10.2012 AOL’s digital prophet David Shing talks to John Kennedy at the Dublin Web Summit about development in social in the last 12 months and how we are only scratching the surface on...