Tagged: MSN & News
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What we want for Christmas 2011: men crave gadgets, women cash News
15.11.2011 This Christmas, the prospect of shiny tablet computers and smartphones shine brighter than tinsel or baubles, it seems. But you can beat cold hard cash. New surveys reveal boys...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Consumer Tech, Computers, CompetitionsTags: Gadgets, iPad 2, Xbox, Computers, Smartphones, MSN, Kindle Fire, Tablet Computers, Skype, Kinect, iPhone 4S, iOS, Android -
Most internet users afraid privacy won’t exist in 2020 News
13.06.2011 Loss of privacy by 2020 has been cited as the No 1 concern amongst a study of 10,000 internet users in 12 European countries. The majority fear companies will track and trace... -
Facebook buys messaging service Beluga News
02.03.2011 Social networking kingpin Facebook has acquired a group messaging firm headed by a bunch of ex-Googlers called Beluga, with the intent of getting its hands on the firm’s... -
2011 tech trends - rise of superfast broadband and smartphones News
26.11.2010 The telecoms industry in 2011 will be dominated a number of key issues – namely the rise and rise of the smartphone and wresting the superfast broadband initiative away from... -
State’s Exemplar network kicks off on a high note News
06.12.2009 A significant piece of history was made last night in a distinctly Irish way. As Irish rock band Snow Patrol played to a packed St James’ Church in Dingle, the world’s first... -
Dingle ‘Other Voices’ content to appear on Xbox and MSN channels News
02.12.2009 The Other Voices TV series which features exclusive performances from St James’ Church in Dingle by acts such as Snow Patrol, Bell X1, The Magic Numbers and Fionn Regan is to...Categories: New Media -
Search wars – Google and MSN brandish new weapons for phone and web News
07.11.2009 A long-running turf war escalated this week with both Google and Microsoft unleashing and previewing new features in the fight to the hearts of users’ digital lives, on the PC...Categories: New Media, Digital Life -
Hotmail users urged to change passwords after list published online News
06.10.2009 Hotmail users across the world have been urged to change their passwords after a list containing more than 10,000 account names and passwords was published over the weekend.Categories: CIO, Digital Life -
Ireland’s cloudy climate an asset for cloud computing News
25.09.2009 I never thought I would see the day that Ireland would be grateful for its cool Atlantic climate, but yesterday the world’s biggest software giant Microsoft gave US$500m worth...Tags: MSN, Software as a Service, Green IT, Data centres, Cloud Computing, Green Tech, Paul Rellis, BPOS, Bing, -
Ba-da-Bing! Microsoft grows search market share by 1pc News
01.07.2009 Microsoft’s new search engine has increased its share of the US search engine market by 1pc, according to the latest research from Statcounter.Categories: New Media -
Surfers can’t live without eBay or Facebook News
21.05.2009 eBay is listed as one of the world’s top 10 website that ‘users can't live without’, according to research conducted by Nielsen Online, while Facebook demands the most online time.Categories: Digital Life -
Online spending falls year-on-year as economic downturn bites News
04.11.2008 There has been a noticeable fall in the amount of products and services bought online since 2007, and online research for products has fallen 10pc due to the decline in economic...Categories: New Media -
Over 10pc of marketing budgets committed to online News
09.10.2008 Geo-targeting online and newer forms of online promotion are becoming standard weapons of choice in the marketing professional’s armoury, and now the majority of Irish marketers...Categories: New Media -
Instant messaging for the iPhone News
22.04.2008 Apple has filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office that describes adding real-time instant messaging (IM) functionality to the iPhone, according to...Categories: Comms -
Bebo and YouTube demystified for parents News
02.04.2008 An event aimed at educating parents about both the dangers and benefits associated with social networking sites like Bebo and Facebook, as well as how they actually work and why...Categories: New Media -
Yahoo! acquires online video platform for US$160m News
13.02.2008 Yahoo! has acquired online video platform provider Maven Networks for US$160m. -
Yahoo! to press ahead with plan to cut 1,000 jobs News
30.01.2008 Internet search and content portal Yahoo! is to press ahead with an aggressive plan to axe 1,000 workers. The company last night reported an 8pc increase in Q4 revenues to... -
Microsoft embraces tree huggers News
30.10.2007 Microsoft today launched MSN Green, an offshoot of its entertainment and media portal dedicated to environmental news and information with content provided by respected...Categories: New Media -
Bullies can’t hide behind Bebo News
24.09.2007 Nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. That is the message to cyber bullies everywhere who use the internet or mobile phones to bully other pupils or abuse their teachers,...Categories: