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iPad owners 'are rich and self-centred'

iPad owners are rich, self-centred and unkind, a survey has suggested.
Publication date: 2010-07-31 more

Irish online display advertising performs strongly

Irish online display advertising bucked the general advertising malaise and performed strongly during 2009, as reported by the first IAB Ireland (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) online adspend study.
Publication date: 2010-07-31 more

Apple sued by users of 'overheating' iPad

Apple is being sued by iPad owners who claim the device overheats too easily and shuts down, making it difficult to use outdoors.
Publication date: 2010-07-29 more

Apple updates Safari 5

Apple has launched an updated version of its Safari internet browser. Safari 5.0.1 now supports "extensions", small widgets that can be added to the browser by users to customise the web-surfing experience.
Publication date: 2010-07-29 more

Record second quarter for .ie namespace registrations

146,000
Publication date: 2010-07-29 more

Google to take on Facebook in battle for online gamers

Google is spoiling for a fight with Facebook over the fast-growing market for online games, part of the search engine giant's latest attempt to build a social networking business.
Publication date: 2010-07-29 more

Microsoft says Yahoo! Japan deal with Google is 'anti-competitive'

Microsoft has criticised Yahoo! and Google’s search partnership in Japan, saying it will give Google total control of all personal search information in the country.
Publication date: 2010-07-28 more

Internet increases its share of advertising market to 10pc

INTERNET advertising is now worth about 10pc of the overall advertising market in Ireland, according to a new survey.
Publication date: 2010-07-28 more

Apple accused of censorship after porn disappears from iPad book chart

Apple has been accused of censoring the iPad book chart after four pornographic titles mysteriously disappeared from the bestseller list.
Publication date: 2010-07-27 more

Irish online ad spend approaches

Online advertising expenditure for 2009 reached €97.2 million according to the first IAB Ireland and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) ad spend study.
Publication date: 2010-07-27 more

Facebook testing

Facebook has rolled out a new feature that makes it easier for people to permanently quit the social-networking website, according to technology blog Slashdot.
Publication date: 2010-07-27 more

Digital Life: Your holiday camera just got tougher

Bend me, shape me, any way you want me -- you don't get many pieces of tech begging to be abused. But Panasonic's Lumix FT2 camera can take a beating and still come up smiling.
Publication date: 2010-07-27 more

Digital Life: Good old-fashioned freak-shootin' fun

Who could forget the intense and creepy brilliance of Bioshock? The creators of Singularity certainly can't get it out of their heads -- producing what you might kindly call an homage to the steampunk shooter that mixed balletic violence with mind-bending superpowers.
Publication date: 2010-07-27 more

What is Wikileaks?

It has just released confidential documents that shed light on the war in Afghanistan, but how has Wikileaks become one of the most important whistle-blowing sites on the web?
Publication date: 2010-07-26 more

New Independent.ie Samsung Wave app

Irish Independent is one of the first publishers in the world to launch a news app on Samsung Wave.
Publication date: 2010-07-23 more

Teen's 'Trojan' app dupes Apple

A 15 year-old boy duped Apple by creating a 'Trojan' iPhone app that allowed users to connect to the internet for free.
Publication date: 2010-07-23 more

Tweeting their way onto the airwaves

A year after Sky News unveiled a Twitter correspondent, a regional radio station has unveiled a TJ -- a Twitter Jockey.
Publication date: 2010-07-22 more

Facebook reaches 500 million members

Facebook has reached 500 million members - the equivalent of connecting with 8pc of the world’s population.
Publication date: 2010-07-22 more

Race for fibre leadership: how Ireland

THE nations that will attract the most foreign direct investment and that will give their homegrown businesses the best fighting chance in the decades ahead will be the ones with the most sophisticated and powerful fibre networks.
Publication date: 2010-07-22 more

The environment to attract investment in Irish telecoms

The Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF) represents the local telecoms industry, which invests over €500m annually in infrastructure. Tommy McCabe is director of TIF.
Publication date: 2010-07-22 more

Google launches new image search

Google Image Search is to be changed to include live enlargement of images as users hover their mouse over them, a denser layour of images of varying sizes and better navigation.
Publication date: 2010-07-21 more

O2 announces data plans for iPad

O2 has announced it will offer dedicated data plans for iPad with Wi-Fi and 3G in Ireland.
Publication date: 2010-07-21 more

Apple shrugs off antenna woes as iPhone 4, iPad drive jump in profits

Apple brushed aside concerns over faulty antennas that have dogged its new iPhone 4 to report a 77pc jump in quarterly profits on record sales.
Publication date: 2010-07-21 more

Smoking hot 'Playboy' now available at work

Playboy yesterday launched a new, non-nude website that it described as being safe-for-work and a "satirical antidote to the drudgery of the work day."
Publication date: 2010-07-21 more

E-books outsell hardbacks on Amazon

Amazon, the online retailer and owner of the Kindle e-reader, has announced that digital books have been consistently outselling hardback books for the last three months in the US.
Publication date: 2010-07-20 more