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Microsoft 'staking its future' on cloud computing

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, said he was 'betting the company' on the move to cloud-based services
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

YouTube adds video captions

English-language video clips will be captioned automatically, in a move designed to make the site more accessible for the deaf or hearing-impaired.
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet

More than 10 billion messages have been sent through Twitter since the microblogging service launched in 2006
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Desktop computers will soon be 'irrelevant', says Google

Google says that the days of desktop computer as we know it are numbered. John Herlihy, the vice-president of Global Ad Operations, told the Digital Landscapes Conference in Dublin that the future of computing was mobile and through the web browser.
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Microsoft sells 90 million copies of Windows 7

Microsoft has announced that it has sold over 90 million copies of Windows 7 since its launch to manufacturers in July. The operating system, which went on sale to consumers in October, had sold 60 million copies by the end of January.
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Educating the innovation nation

WITH EU E-skills 2010 happening this week it's time to look at the ICT picture countrywide and address the skills gap. While many of us use technology on a daily basis and are quite proficient as far as web, software and general computer skills go, 30pc of the Irish population has never accessed the internet
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Check out the social gaming goldmine on your way to FarmVille

Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Tune in for the major changes hitting the TV as we know it

TV3's head of online, Peter Clerkin, has transformed the broadcaster's website into a major 'catch-up TV' hub. He says that, with social media, 3D and the mobile-apps revolution, we ain't seen nothing yet
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Irish businesses need to realise the digital economy is the 'real' economy

The new head of the Irish Internet Association says the imperative is to bring more firms online
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Google stands by HTC

Search giant Google has said it stands behind it's Android mobile operating system and partners who helped develop it after Apple announced plans to sue Nexus One-maker HTC.
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Money transfer service launches on Facebook

Buxter enables Facebook friends to send one another a small payment of €50 or less, and the developers behind the application believe it will become popular among the social networking site's users as a quick way of settling up for dinner bills, nights out or paying for their share of a gift.
Publication date: 2010-03-04 more

Apple sues HTC

Apple is to sue mobile phone manufacturer HTC in a suit that claims the Taiwanese company has infringed 20 of the iPhone-maker’s patents.
Publication date: 2010-03-03 more

Sony PS3 problems fixed

Sony says that its games console problems have been fixed and no data has been lost.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Google buys Picnik.com

Google has acquired the photo-editing website Picnik.com. The purchase, involving an undisclosed sum, sees the search giant further consolidate its move into the online photo market that began with Picasa.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Internet news overtakes printed papers for US readers

For the first time ever, Americans are more likely to turn to the internet for news rather than printed newspapers or the radio, research revealed yesterday.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

New Google Chrome translates websites

Google has launched a new beta version of Chrome, its web browser, featuring enhanced privacy controls and automatic translation.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Apple iPad 'will be in short supply'

An analyst has warned that manufacturing issues could lead to a shortage of Apple iPads.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Digital Life: BioShock sequel puts up a good fight for top spot

BioShock 2, X360/PS3/PC
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Digital Life: Soon you'll be really hands-on

Remember Tom Cruise waving his hands to control images on a screen in sci-fi thriller Minority Report set in 2054? Maybe the future will arrive sooner than we expected if Microsoft can be believed, making everything on your TV from games to movies controllable just via body movements.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Sony PS3 network glitch affects thousands

Thousands of PlayStation 3 owners have been hit by a software problem that crashes their games console.
Publication date: 2010-03-01 more

Twitter to launch new features

Twitter is launching a raft of new features that could rival the services offered by third-party applications, according to a tweet from one of the social network’s engineers.
Publication date: 2010-03-01 more

Microsoft offers computer users choice of browsers

Computer users must now choose which browser they use to surf the internet, after a ruling against Microsoft by the European Commission came in to effect.
Publication date: 2010-03-01 more

Apple admits using child labour

Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones.
Publication date: 2010-03-01 more

'Explicit' category rumoured for App Store

Apple is thought to be considering introducing a new category to its App Store, as the row over 'overtly sexual' apps rumbles on.
Publication date: 2010-02-26 more

Twitter attack affects thousands of users

Twitter users have been warned not to click links in some tweets, after the microblogging service fell victim to its second phishing attack in a week.
Publication date: 2010-02-26 more

Predictive Analytics to drive profitability and reduce costs

The premier event for Predictive Analytics in Ireland gives attendees the opportunity to discover the latest trends and best practices in analytics for successful customer experience, sales and marketing strategies.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Human behaviour '93pc predictable'

Location data from mobile phones has revealed that the vast majority of human movement is predictable.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Facebook status updates to appear in Google

Google has begun indexing status updates from Facebook pages and including them in its real-time search results.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Free data storage will drive the future of the mobile internet

We hear much talk of cloud computing, and free storage of data. Do you see it as a game changer in coming years?
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Internet libel: everyone's a critic, and everyone's online

ONCE upon a time if you had a beef with someone you'd give out about them to anyone who'd listen, but in today's digital world there are many more platforms to help you vent your spleen.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Top contenders to the Apple iPad

There is no doubt that Steve Jobs' iPad is the most hotly anticipated tablet computing device ever, but rein in the Apple hype machine and you will find that there are several more-than-capable competitors waiting in the wings.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

'To sow the seeds of an entrepreneurial nation we need to start in the schools'

THERE is something about the way Microsoft Ireland managing director Paul Rellis describes Ireland's way out of the economic morass that suggests while things aren't perfect, things aren't all bad either.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Google faces EU probe over anti-trust claims

Google, owner of the world's most popular internet search engine, may be the subject of an extended European Union investigation after three companies, including a Microsoft Corp unit, filed anti-trust complaints.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

iTunes song downloads hit 10 billion

Music fans have downloaded more than 10 billion songs from the iTunes Music Store, Apple has announced.
Publication date: 2010-02-25 more

Apple TV 'just a hobby', confirms Tim Cook

Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, says the Apple TV remains 'a hobby', and that the vast majority of his company's revenue comes from its mobile devices.
Publication date: 2010-02-24 more

Google accused of breaching EU competition rules

The European Commission has launched an anti-trust investigation against Google after three online companies alleged that the internet giant's search functions were penalising their businesses.
Publication date: 2010-02-24 more

Twitter users send 50 million tweets per day

Almost 600 tweets are sent every second through the microblogging site, according to its own metrics
Publication date: 2010-02-23 more

Gore blimey! It's all monsters and nudity in Dante's video hell

We're all too familiar with videogames based on the latest blockbuster books and movies but Dante's Inferno must set some sort of record, riffing on the 14th-century Italian poem about a literal descent into hell.
Publication date: 2010-02-23 more

Digital Life: From camera to Facebook, no wires required

Packing more gizmos per square inch than a NASA mission to Mars, the Samsung ST1000 camera seems like a miracle of miniaturisation.
Publication date: 2010-02-23 more

Facebook: 'world's most innovative company'

Facebook has topped a respected list of the world’s most innovative companies, beating the likes of Google and Apple.
Publication date: 2010-02-22 more

Apple removes 5,000 apps from App Store

Apple has removed around 5,000 apps from its App Store, including some that it claims feature "overtly sexual" content.
Publication date: 2010-02-22 more

Happy birthday to Youtube

On the face of it, there is nothing particularly remarkable about a 19-second YouTube clip called Me at the Zoo. A young man stands in front of an elephant enclosure and delivers the following words: "The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really long, um, trunks and that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say."
Publication date: 2010-02-20 more

Value of mortgages falls

THE value of residential mortgages fell by
Publication date: 2010-02-20 more

Is Google gaining a monopoly on the world's information?

It is the nagging fear that has just been given voice in a Manhattan courtroom. Dozens of Google's opponents lined up to damn the internet pioneer as monopolistic, rapacious, and contemptuous of laws that protect copyright and protect consumers from dominant corporations.
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

Website is a 'one stop shop for burglars'

The founders of a website, PleaseRobMe.com, which provides real-time updates on empty homes locations are "irresponsible" for providing a "one stop shop" for burglars, privacy campaigners say.
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

Microsoft, Yahoo deal wins EU approval

Microsoft has won European Union approval to buy Yahoo!’s web-search business to speed up its effort to compete with Google.
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

BBC launches its first apps for iPhones

The BBC is set to expand its online operations with a drive into applications for mobile phones, a business that the broadcaster termed a "top priority".
Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

Microsoft Outlook to integrate Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn

Microsoft is integrating social networking services, such as Facebook and MySpace, into the latest version of its desktop email program, Outlook, used by millions of office workers around the world.
Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

Much aBuzz about nothing

Even if you've never heard of Twitter, or you think Facebook is a silly site used by teens, you've heard of Google and chances are you have a Gmail account.
Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

Smartphones pave the way for the new augmented reality

Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

No free lunch in the online world

Strategic marketing specialist Professor Damien McLoughlin of UCD School of Business explains how the new digital landscape is forcing businesses to rethink how they use the internet to transform their business models
Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

'In a globalised world, local communities not nations will become more important'

Ireland is making slow, steady strides to becoming a digital economy, says BT chief executive
Publication date: 2010-02-18 more

Cyberclinic: Did Google drop a clanger with its new Buzz network?

There was a time, not long ago, when web services would launch promising the opportunity to share photos, videos, our innermost thoughts, and we'd excitedly rush to sign up.
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Eye-controlled mobile phone unveiled by DoCoMo

A new prototype device allows users to make and receive calls, and even play music, just by moving their eyes.
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Google in privacy row over new social network

Google is being threatened with legal action over the launch of its new social network, Google Buzz, amid furious claims that the service breaches users' privacy.
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Puma unveils solar-powered phone

Puma, the sportswear brand, has teamed up with Sagem to create a bespoke mobile phone that can be recharged by the sun.
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Apple vs MWC: Battle of the apps

Apple tends to ignore the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the industry trade show that kicked off in Barcelona yesterday, but its spectre looms as large as the towers of the La Fira exhibition centre which hosts the event.
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

HTC launches three new phones

The Taiwanese handset maker, which has thrown its weight behind the Google Android operating system, unveiled two more devices based on the platform, as well as a compact device running the Windows mobile operating system.
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

It's war on a grand scale with MAG

MAG, PS3: If three's a crowd, what do 256 make? A damn-fine online shooter, that's what. From the people who brought us the PS2 counter-espionage series SOCOM, MAG's big boast is that size matters. For once, it might be true.
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

Digital life: There's music, music everywhere...

Music in every room in the house -- that's the promise of wireless audio systems such as Sony's S-AIR technology.
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 series review

Hats off to Microsoft -- a company that many of us had written off in the mobile phone market has come up trumps with a new operating system and fresh approach to the mobile platform that could -- for the first time in a very long time -- give Apple and Google something to worry about.
Publication date: 2010-02-16 more

Mobile World Congress: Sony Ericsson's Android push

Sony Ericsson showed off three new handsets, including two compact Google Android-based devices.
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Mobile World Congress: Nokia and Intel merge to launch MeeGo Apps platform

Nokia and Intel are joining forces to produce smartphone software that they hope will challenge the dominance of Apple and Google.
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Mobile World Congress: Microsoft unveils Windows Phone to rival iPhone

Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its mobile phone operating system that it hopes will allow it to replicate its desktop dominance on the next generation of smartphones.
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

Mobile World Congress: Microsoft rings the changes

I’m afraid your shiny, new mobile phone could look distinctly old-fashioned by this time next week. Exhibitors at 2010’s Mobile World Congress are set to unveil a huge selection of new handsets, platforms and services designed to cement the mobile phone’s position at the centre of the digital landscape.
Publication date: 2010-02-15 more

'There can be no green economy if we don't sort out our broadband problems first'

The green economy is just a pipe dream if we remain broadband laggards, says Magnet chief.
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Savvy entrepreneur knows how to raise and change the game

Having sold his games-software company, DemonWare, to Activision for $15m three years back, Dylan Collins recently scored another coup when GameStop made a major investment in his internet games company, Jolt Online.
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Reinvent the media with a tech start-up mentality

Dear reader, it would be interesting to see how many of you are reading this column on a physical newspaper and then compare it with the number of those reading it online - for free.
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Windows 8 - coming soon?

Microsoft’s marketing campaign for Windows 8 appears to have begun – the company briefly published a blog on msdn.com, and then took it down almost immediately.
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

MySpace staff 'stunned' at Owen Van Natta's sudden exit

The immediate departure of MySpace's chief executive, Owen Van Natta, has shocked employees of the company.
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

Google Buzz isn't new and isn't needed, say rivals

Microsoft and Yahoo have attacked Google's new real-time social networking tool, Google Buzz.
Publication date: 2010-02-10 more

Cyberclinic: Can a social network be smarter than a search engine?

Those of us who self-consciously style ourselves as "journalists" have long been aware of the power of social networks to obtain elusive information.
Publication date: 2010-02-10 more

Google Buzz takes on Facebook and Twitter

Google has launched a new tool that will allow users of its email service to share their feelings with other users, in an effort to take on social networking giants Facebook and Twitter head-on.
Publication date: 2010-02-10 more

Claim shame: Are insurers making it harder for claimants to switch?

ARE insurers turning their backs on householders who have had to make a claim on their insurance? The question is prompted by the recent floods in large parts of the country and the big freeze at the start of the year.
Publication date: 2010-02-09 more

Gmail status updates 'to compete with Facebook and Twitter'

Google is tomorrow expected to announce enhancements to its Gmail service that will make it easier for users to share links, media and status updates with friends.
Publication date: 2010-02-09 more

Zippy space-opera with mass appeal

Mass Effect 2, X360/PC
Publication date: 2010-02-09 more

Digital Life: Honey, I shrunk the camera. . .

Panasonic Lumix GF1,
Publication date: 2010-02-09 more

Foursquare enjoys surge of popularity

Traffic to Foursquare, the location-sharing social network, has tripled in the last two months, according to Hitwise.
Publication date: 2010-02-05 more

Apple iPad 'to feature camera'

Future versions of Apple's iPad tablet computer could feature an integrated camera, leaked photos and product code suggest.
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

The future sound of music

New digital tools, such as RjDj and MXP4, are set to transform the way we listen to music from a passive to fully interactive experience.
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Wikileaks reaches funding target

WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing site that hosts leaked documents, has taken a step towards becoming fully operational.
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Microsoft confirms new Internet Explorer flaw

Microsoft says that another security issue with its Internet Explorer web browser could leave computers vulnerable to hackers.
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

RTE keen to realise iPhone app ambitions

LESS than two months into its iPhone flirtation, RTE is already experiencing the slings and arrows of outrageous iTunes shoppers.
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

There's life in the old blog yet, says WordPress founder

Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Irish set the app-solute standard for the golden age of mobile

Vodafone is running a Europe-wide
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Brewing up Java skills for the knowledge economy

LAST year's economic downturn had a significant impact on the technology sector: not only did many long-time software engineers find themselves out of work, but they also found themselves out of the upskilling loop, while those still in employment found that funding for training courses had dried up in many organisations.
Publication date: 2010-02-04 more

Digital Marketing Institue: register now for new courses

The Digital Marketing Institute delivers training courses in all aspects of digital and online marketing.
Publication date: 2010-02-03 more

Google Nexus One update adds multi-touch

It means the device can be used in a similar way to the Apple iPhone, with users now able to pinch their fingers together to zoom in or out of a web page.
Publication date: 2010-02-03 more

Apple threatened by Chinese company over iPad

A Chinese company that makes a tablet-style computer is considering suing Apple after alleging that its iPad was a copy of its device.
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

Google tablet concept revealed

Google could be developing its own rival to the Apple iPad, after an engineer at the search company posted a video online showing a mock-up of the Chrome operating system running on a tablet computer.
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

Join forces to bring down the terrorists

Army of Two: The 40th Day, X360/PS3
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

Digital life: When 10" just isn't enough...

Amazon Kindle DX, €440: What a difference a week makes. If this review had appeared last month, it would have had an entirely different complexion. Now we're in the post-iPad era and everything has changed.
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

Is Apple using the iPad to take over the world?

The launch of Apple's iPad highlights the challenge the company poses to rivals such as Nokia, Sony and Samsung.
Publication date: 2010-02-01 more

Windows 7 fuels Microsoft growth

Microsoft’s new Windows 7 software fueled a surge in profit and revenue last quarter, making up for a lingering slump in the rest of its business.
Publication date: 2010-01-29 more

iPad therefore I am

AFTER all the hype, Steve Jobs, the Apple chief executive, took to a stage in San Francisco yesterday to demonstrate his latest toy.
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

Whatever happened to those fabulous techie dreams?

The launch yesterday of Apple's new iPad -- the all-singing, all-dancing gizmo that's expected to change computing forever -- has led many people to claim that we're finally catching up with the visions of the future laid out in science fiction.
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

Is gaming the iPad's 'killer app'?

Opinion is divided as to whether the tablet-style form factor will take off among consumers. But could Apple's plans to transform the iPad in to a casual gaming platform be the feature that wins over the sceptics?
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

Has Apple really changed the world again?

It's called the iPad. It looks like a large iPhone, with just a single button on the front. It has a 9.7in screen and weighs in at 1.5lb pounds.
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

iPad: A marketing triumph from masters of suspense

The things that we become massively invested in without realising it are extraordinary. I have no real interest in who wins the Eurovision Song Contest each year, but at the height of the voting I'll find myself roaring on Romania or Malta for no particular reason.
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

Apple iPad review

Apple's iPad, which resembles a 'giant iPhone', may sound the death knell for netbook computers.
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

Apple iPad: Views from the web

Apple has unveiled the iPad, a touch-screen, tablet-style computer that Steve Jobs has described as 'magical' and 'revolutionary'. But what do the great and the good from the world of technology think?
Publication date: 2010-01-28 more

Apple unveils new iPad

Computer giant Apple launched its iPad device today, claiming it bridged the gap between the laptop and the smartphone.
Publication date: 2010-01-27 more

Yahoo rises after fourth-quarter sales top estimates

Yahoo rose 3.8pc in late trading yesterday after reporting fourth-quarter sales that topped analysts’ estimates.
Publication date: 2010-01-27 more

Computer giant Apple's hits and misses

With Apple announcing record €2bn profits in the last quarter and excitement surrounding Wednesday's new product announcement reaching fever pitch, it is hard to imagine the US computer giant failing.
Publication date: 2010-01-27 more

iLove: Meet the Apple addicts

Tomorrow, when Steve Jobs walks out on stage to announce his company's latest super-gadget, millions of technophiles will watch with excitement bordering on religious fervour. Simon Usborne talks to the Macolytes, for whom Apple truly is the only fruit
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Game on

Bayonetta, X360/PS3
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Bits & bytes

Think you have problems keeping track of your Facebook friends? New Croatian president Ivo Josipovic has hit a snag: he's already at the maximum of 5,000 friends --but says he has 7,000 more he'd like to connect with.
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Nintendo sees red over Greens

Greenpeace has once again accused Nintendo of having the worst environmental record among consumer electronics companies.
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Digital life: Flagship mobiles ring a bit hollow

Sony Ericsson Aino,
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Internet Explorer 'hit with new set of security flaws'

A US security research firm has found another set of vulnerabilities within Internet Explorer, only a day after Microsoft released an emergency software update.
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Apple fans hope new 'tablet' will cure all multimedia ills

SOME have dubbed it the "Jesus tablet". Others say it is the one gadget to rule them all.
Publication date: 2010-01-26 more

Apple tablet to be major gaming platform

Apple’s forthcoming tablet computer could emerge as a major gaming platform, according to reports analysing who has been invited to this Wednesday’s launch event.
Publication date: 2010-01-25 more

Bill Gates launches his own website

Bill Gates, the founder of Windows-maker Microsoft, has launched a personal website for the first time, and is billing it as "An inside look at global matters".
Publication date: 2010-01-25 more

Microsoft releases emergency Internet Explorer patch

Microsoft has rushed out a software update for Internet Explorer after the browser was found to contain a security flaw
Publication date: 2010-01-22 more

Record labels hail biggest ever year for downloading

Digital music sales accounted for more than a quarter of the music industry’s global income in 2009 for the first time, according to a new report.
Publication date: 2010-01-21 more

Top ten internet passwords to be avoided

The ten most commonly used passwords on the web have been revealed as part of an analysis of tens of millions of internet accounts.
Publication date: 2010-01-21 more

Nokia makes every mobile a satnav

Nokia has announced that its free maps software will now include turn-by-turn directions for walking and driving.
Publication date: 2010-01-21 more

Apple tablet 'could be delayed' by six months

The Apple tablet might be delayed from going on sale for six months, according to a new note to investors.
Publication date: 2010-01-20 more

Batteries: The power behind the phone

Technology develops at such an electrifying pace that sometimes it's hard to keep up – just ask batteries, the faceless bricks toiling under the bonnet of our 24-hour, connect-anywhere society.
Publication date: 2010-01-20 more

Apple 'in talks' with HarperCollins over tablet

The Wall Street Journal reports that HarperCollins is in talks with Apple to make many of its best-selling novels available on a new tablet-style computer that Apple is widely expected to launch on Jan 27.
Publication date: 2010-01-20 more

Microsoft pledges to delete Bing user data after six months

Microsoft has bowed to pressure from privacy groups and agreed to delete all user data collected via Bing after six months.
Publication date: 2010-01-20 more

Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

Keep up with the latest happenings on Independent.ie through your social media networks.
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

US tech firm creates 20 jobs in Galway

StreamServe, a leading provider of business communications solutions, is to establish an inside sales and customer care operation in Galway, creating 20 jobs, with the support of the Government through IDA Ireland.
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

'Grave consequences' if web community doesn't switch to new address protocol

The internet is running out of web addresses, with less than 10 per cent of current-generation IPv4 web addresses still available, warns the Number Resource Organisation.
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

Apple confirms Jan 27 event

Apple has invited journalists to a special event in San Francisco later this month, where it is widely expected to unveil the iTablet
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

Sajan Software to create 35 jobs in Dublin

Sajan Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of on-demand translation technology and service provider Sajan Inc., has announced plans to generate 35 jobs in Dublin over a three year period.
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

France warns against Internet Explorer use

France has followed Germany's lead, and has advised computer users to download a different web browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer was found to contain a critical security flaw.
Publication date: 2010-01-19 more

Sony delays release of Gran Turismo 5

Sony delayed the Japan release of its "Gran Turismo 5" video game for its PlayStation 3 console, due to go on sale in March, citing development issues, the company said in a statement today.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Cyberclinic: Are we wasting our money when we buy virtual goods?

It's my friend Penny's birthday today. I've not bought her anything, but Facebook offers me a selection of last-minute virtual gifts: a tiara she can't wear, a whoopee cushion she'll never be able to sit on, or some champagne that she'll never guzzle while sitting on the kitchen floor and weeping bitter tears at the passing of her youth.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Google Street View 'to carry real-time ads'

Google Street View could start carrying adverts which will appear on buildings and billboards, having been granted a new patent.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Google threatens to quit China over censorship

Google, the internet search engine, has threatened to pull out of China in a row over censorship.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 takes $1bn in sales

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become one of only a few entertainment franchises to take more than $1bn (€689m) in revenue.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Google named 'word of the decade'

Google, the verb that spawned a word on how to search for information, has been voted the word of the decade by a group of American speech scholars.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

Facebook's

Facebook’s 350 million "unsuspecting" users are to be offered protection from viruses in an unprecedented multi-billion euro deal to clamp down on cyber hacking.
Publication date: 2010-01-14 more

The weird and the wonderful at CES 2010

Sony Dash
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

3D is on the way to your living room

Hang fast to your wallets, the third dimension is coming. The movie Avatar pushed 3D into mainstream cinema before Christmas and the world's leading electronic giants are determined to do the same for TV in 2010.
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Digital life: Going Ga Ga for gadgets

Greetings from the edge of the future. Fittingly, this glimpse of gadget heaven takes place in Las Vegas, that loveably artificial monument to modernity in the desert.
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Google Nexus Two will be 'aimed at business users'

The next version of Google's Nexus One mobile phone will be designed with enterprise users in mind and might have a physical keyboard, said Andy Rubin, a vice president of engineering at Google and a key figure in the development of the Android operating system.
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

Facebook's founder says privacy is no longer a 'social norm'

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has denounced privacy as a ‘social norm’ of the past as social networking's popularity continues to grow.
Publication date: 2010-01-12 more

'Google tax' to finance French culture industry

France is planning a "Google tax" on search engines to raise money to plough into creative industries weakened by the digital revolution.
Publication date: 2010-01-08 more

CES 2010: Palm unveils new Pre and Pixi handsets

The Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus go on sale in the United States later this month, but Palm has not said whether the handsets – successors to the critically acclaimed Pre, which was launched last autumn – will be available in the UK and Ireland.
Publication date: 2010-01-08 more

Microsoft unveils its rival to mighty Wii

LIVING rooms may never be the same again. In future, people will play video games not with their joypads but by standing in front of their screen, karate-chopping the air, rocking out on a virtual guitar and kicking an imaginary ball.
Publication date: 2010-01-08 more

Digital life: Long battery life from Apple is a real turn up for the Books...

If there's one present gadget lovers could have wished for this Christmas, it's more battery life. From mobiles to iPods to laptops, everything runs out of juice far sooner than we'd like.
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

CES 2010: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer fails to wow

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

Family of Blade Runner author to sue Google over Nexus One phone

The family of the late Philip K. Dick, the author of the book on which the Blade Runner film was based, are to sue Google for infringement of intellectual property rights.
Publication date: 2010-01-07 more

World Cup in 3D

This year's football World Cup will be broadcast in 3 dimensions, allowing viewers to watch the ball as if it were flying out of the screen.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Who owns your e-book?

Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old American student living outside Detroit, had spent several weeks studying George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four when, one morning last July, Amazon ate his homework.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Google Nexus One review

The Nexus One is not a revolutionary device, but it is the first handset that will offer a meaningful challenge to Apple’s iPhone.While Google’s software, called Android, has powered other phones, this is the first one where the search giant has specified the design – that focus means the pencil-thin Nexus One is built to feel like a genuine object of desire.And the Nexus One offers features the iPhone lacks, too – the camera’s resolution is 5mp, compared to Apple’s 3mp, there are satnav capabilities built in that cost Apple users extra, and a fast processor means the Nexus One operates quicker than any phone currently on sale in the UK. Web-browsing is impressive, although in the UK is likely to lack the multitouch capabilities that have been available on previous versions of Android. Automatic online synchronization of camera photos is also impressive. It’s effective voice operation, for controlling the phone and writing emails, however, that is the most surprising feature. This is the first time I’ve seen a version of that technology that is genuinely useable.In the burgeoning market for additional applications (Apps), however, Apple’s iTunes Store offers 115,000 compared to the 20,000 or so in Google’s Android Marketplace. That means that there are currently far more games, tools and clever tricks available to iPhone owners. As more phones start to adopt Google’s operating system, however, Android is likely to catch up fast. And while Android can run a number of Apps at once, the iPhone can’t.Does the Nexus One feel quite as well put together as the iPhone? No, although it’s close enough to make no meaningful difference. What Android handsets can’t do, however, is plug in to your music collection as seamlessly as an iPod or an iMac. And that’s the biggest problem Google faces – an iPhone is a web-browsing, every song in your pocket, phone call making pleasure to own. It’s part of an entire ecosystem, with accessories, covers, speaker systems and even ties that are built to house iPods.But the Nexus One does plug in effortlessly to the web, social media, email, calendar, search and contacts functions; perhaps the company that dominates web search should simply start making the computers as well.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

The 'most awesome' iPhone video game

A video game which allows you to turn your iPhone into a remote control that flies a drone around your house, has been dubbed "the most awesome" use of augmented reality.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

YouTube considers subscription model

YouTube is considering introducing a subscription model to allow access to certain films and popular TV shows.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Head to head: Google Nexus One v Apple iPhone

Google's Nexus One mobile handset is fast, has a super-sharp screen and a great camera but how does it compare to the Apple iPhone?
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Digital life: Game on

Lego Indiana Jones 2, X360/PS3/Wii
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Google vs Apple: the gadget showdown

For the world's gadget lovers, it looks like being a very happy new year, with the two most innovative technology companies of the past decade set to launch eagerly awaited devices within weeks of each other.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Digital life: Long battery life from Apple is a real turn up for the Books . . .

If there's one present gadget lovers could have wished for this Christmas, it's more battery life. From mobiles to iPods to laptops, everything runs out of juice far sooner than we'd like.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

CES 2010: Gadget show begins 'year of the tablet'

Ultra-portable computers designed for surfing the internet and watching movies on the move could be one of the biggest success stories at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, say analysts.
Publication date: 2010-01-06 more

Google Chrome more popular browser than Apple Safari

Search giant's web browser is now the third most popular, behind Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
Publication date: 2010-01-04 more

Search giant Google to unveil its first phone

FOR months, the technology world has been gossiping about Google's most closely guarded secret -- the arrival of its first very own mobile phone.
Publication date: 2010-01-04 more

Microsoft 'plans Xbox Live for Windows Mobile'

Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Live gaming to Windows Mobile phones, according to a range of job adverts the company published just before Christmas.
Publication date: 2010-01-04 more

Furore over guide for tapping into mobile calls

A German security expert has angered the mobile phone industry after he and a group of researchers published a guide for cracking the encryption that keeps the calls of GSM-standard (global system for mobile communication) phone users secret.
Publication date: 2009-12-31 more

Appy days are here again!

More than a billion iPhone applications have been downloaded from Apple's online store -- an eye-popping number that can be expected to soar even higher after thousands of shiny new iPhones were unwrapped on Christmas morning.
Publication date: 2009-12-31 more

Vincent Hogan: Deise-Rebel rivalryone of pure poetry

It should go down as Waterford's decade, albeit the loudest thunder peeled around the story of Cork's strike and redemption.The beauty came in the moments of intersection, when the two collided to toss fireworks at the Heavens. The pick of their games was probably the coruscating '04 Munster final in Thurles, though '03 (remember John Mullane's three goals) wasn't exactly humdrum either. To the end, their meetings were routinely epochal, even dipping outside the province to light up Croke Park with that replayed All-Ireland quarter-final of '07 or, indeed, the nerve-tingling semi of '06. The main gift the rivalry gave us was a habit of always eliciting something resembling a spectacle, of giving primacy to freedom of expression on hot summer days. Cork and Waterford took hurling to a place where tactics became secondary to the sweet and simple joy of hurling at full pelt.We didn't see it coming either. When Gerald McCarthy walked away from Waterford after the '01 Championship, there was easy consensus that he had taken them as far as they were destined to travel. One year later, Cork would rebel against their own county board and initiate the first players' strike in GAA history.unravellingIn both instances, the danger of a group of outstanding players unravelling and slipping away into oblivion was real and urgent.Maybe it was hurling's good fortune then that Justin McCarthy and Donal O'Grady stepped into the respective dressing-rooms. McCarthy took over in Waterford and, within 12 months, they were Munster champions. He had roomed with Gerald as a Cork minor in 1963, ironically the last time Waterford were kings of the province.O'Grady, meanwhile, was the players' choice to replace Bertie Og Murphy in Cork. Murphy had been an innocent victim of the players' war with their county board and would have been pretty hamstrung as a dispirited group fell heavily to Galway in the second round of All-Ireland qualifiers, having already been evicted from Munster. This wasn't a good time for Cork hurling.Since winning the Munster final of '00, they'd now lost four of their last five senior Championship games. O'Grady was stepping into a difficult place then. Yet, within six months, Cork would be the best-prepared team in the country. Three of the next four Munsters titles would fall their way, supplemented by two All-Irelands. They would play Kilkenny in three All-Ireland finals between '03 and '06. Yet, it was their rivalry with Waterford, the sense of two teams casting all inhibition aside and just shooting for the stars that gave Munster an electric glow. Where Tipp-Clare had been full of edge and enmity in the 90s, this rivalry carried the game to a higher realm.Brian Corcoran wrote thus of Cork-Waterford in his autobiography: "It's always been epic and it's always been a game of ball; there's hardly been any messing. It comes down to this. We believe we're a better team than they are and they believe they're a better team than us.power"So, when we meet, it's a case of let's just play and show who's the better hurling team. The odd time, they win. Most of the time, we win. Always, hurling wins. If we're Ali, then they're our Frazier."Corcoran might not like reminding today that, as the decade closes, Cork have lost four of their last six Championship meetings with Waterford. The balance of power has swung. Tipp have, to a degree, been the enigma of the decade. A flawless year under Nicky English brought every bauble possible to the Premier County in '01, yet it took them seven years to add another Munster. Still, they've won the last two and will be short odds to keep on moving forward next summer. Limerick and Clare have both drawn blanks this decade and, if the latter's U-21 All-Ireland win in '09 augers well, the former won't be slow to remind them that three such victories in a row didn't preface a single senior triumph for them. Maybe the minor figures are most sobering. Between them, Tipp and Cork have won all but one of the Munster minor titles on offer this decade. The old oligarchs still stockpile whilst others equivocate. Limerick represent the biggest worry. Since winning that third consecutive U-21 All-Ireland crown in '02, the sum total of trophies won by the county is ZERO. A generation has been lost and the county isn't exactly wintering well as we speak. The senior arithmetic is narrow in Munster for the decade too with Cork (four), Tipperary (three) and Waterford (three) dominating the honours board. Only Waterford's figures rippling with romance.
Publication date: 2009-12-29 more

Digital Life: Game On

The Saboteur, X360/PS3/PC
Publication date: 2009-12-29 more

Digital Life: A little helping hand for all budding photographers

Nikon D3000 and D5000,
Publication date: 2009-12-29 more

Facebook reveals top status update terms of 2009

Swine flu and Lady Gaga were among the terms most used in Facebook status updates during this year, the social network has said.
Publication date: 2009-12-23 more

Microsoft loses appeal over Word software

Microsoft must amend its popular word-processing program in order to remove a feature judged to breach copyright, a court has ruled
Publication date: 2009-12-23 more

BlackBerry network crashes across US

BlackBerry users in the United States have been left unable to send and receive emails after the second network outage in a week
Publication date: 2009-12-23 more

President Obama hires US's first cybersecurity tsar

President Obama has finally hired America’s first cybersecurity coordinator, seven months after pledging to personally appoint someone to the post.
Publication date: 2009-12-23 more

Small firms are being 'crucified' by long delays in payments

SMALL business lobby group Isme yesterday claimed its members were being "crucified" by late payments, after new research showed companies were waiting an average of 75 days for accounts to be settled.
Publication date: 2009-12-22 more

Digital Life: Hero leads the charge in the Google phones revolution

Since the iPhone exploded on to the mobile scene two years ago, rivals have been scrambling to catch up. Now the one competitor we've all been waiting for has finally arrived: the Google phone.
Publication date: 2009-12-22 more

BBC to allow internet through TV

The BBC will be bringing internet services to the television set, it has been disclosed.
Publication date: 2009-12-21 more

Global vision by local fleet-management tech business

TELL me how a Dublin firm has become a global player in fleet management?
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Ireland's opportunity to regain position as a major player in the games business

YOU don't have to be a genius to figure out that video games are now pretty much one of the biggest media industries on the planet. Last year, sales of video games topped $40bn, towering over global cinema box-office takings of $28bn.
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Gadgets of the decade

CAN you remember what you ever did without a mobile phone? Chances are you didn't start using one regularly until 2000 or 2001. Now most of us have at least two handsets and we're using them to surf the web, listen to music, get work done and much more.
Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Cloud firm accounts for growth with a

Publication date: 2009-12-17 more

Google reveals top YouTube clips of 2009

Susan Boyle's debut on Britain's Got Talent was the most-watched video this year, says YouTube.
Publication date: 2009-12-16 more

Google 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button leads to mystery countdown clock

Google has sparked mystery by launching an unexplained countdown that only appears when users press the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on the search engine's homepage.
Publication date: 2009-12-15 more

Game on: 15/12/2009

More than 12,000 zombies were harmed in the making of this review. Left 4 Dead 2 (above) takes up immediately where its splatter-schlock original left off -- a desperate struggle to survive the undead hordes overrunning small-town America.Built around four-man co-op, L4D2 can be played alone with three AI buddies. But it really shines when you hook up online with three other live players. Structurally similar to the first game, in that you work to cover each other as the hordes of fast-moving zombies flood from every direction, L4D2 amps up the gory action. More laughs, different enemies, smarter level design, extra modes and better weapons compete to produce an intense shooter that sets the heart pounding.RATING: 9/10Rabbids Go Home, WiiNo cute bunnies here, these are the creatures formerly known as the raving rabbids (below). Instead of a series of delightfully daft mini-games, as featured in their previous outings, the rabbids want to climb to the moon by collecting trash in a giant pile. Deliberately nonsensical and anarchic, Go Home applies a dab of Katamari's kleptomania mixed with a dash of Mario Kart as the rabbids career around malls and airports in a shopping trolley. Sly digs at consumerism and heaps of visual gags can't hide the repetitive nature of the gameplay but it's hard to resist the rabbids' brand of lunacy.RATING: 8/10Avatar: The Game, PS3/X360James Cameron spent 12 years and more than $200m bringing his epic CGI tale to the big screen. Rather less was spent on the game (above).Shadowing the movie plot of a brutal human force conquering a peace-loving alien planet, it resembles a typical film-game tie-in, cherrypicking elements and mashing them together.Lush landscapes and dazzling creatures help distract from what is a competent but uninspired shooter. True, by letting you choose to play the good guys as well as the bad, the makers effectively give you two games in one. As tie-ins go, it's not a bad stocking-filler this Christmas but the overriding impression is faint disappointment.RATING: 7/10
Publication date: 2009-12-15 more

Digital Life: A technology marriage that's made in gadget heaven

Sometimes in this job you find yourself laughing with glee at the ingenuity of new technology. Somebody takes an existing concept and marries it to the cutting edge to create a gadget that surprises and delights.
Publication date: 2009-12-15 more

Privacy implications have Google running scared

An internet service launched last week by Google to help cameraphone users to identify strangers in the street has been blocked because of alarm over its threat to personal privacy.
Publication date: 2009-12-14 more

Time to transform school into a place where kids go to learn, not to power down

Remember, the
Publication date: 2009-12-10 more

The rise and rise of the laptop

Publication date: 2009-12-10 more

Digital Life: Enjoy social networking any time, any place, anywhere...

Whether you have 10 friends or 1,000, all of them can fit inside your phone.
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

MySpace and Facebook sign real-time search deals with Google

MySpace and Facebook have both signed deals with Google to allow publicly available status updates to be indexed in real-time by the search giant.
Publication date: 2009-12-09 more

Game on: 08/12/2009

Racing games usually force you to choose between reality and fun. True-to-life or outrageous. The Forza series straddles the middle of the track between the two and this third instalment refines the experience to cater for both manic petrolheads and casual fans.
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Digital Life: Enjoy social networking any time, any place, anywhere . . .

Whether you have 10 friends or 1,000, all of them can fit inside your phone.
Publication date: 2009-12-08 more

Trapattoni gets busy

GIOVANNI Trapattoni has been busy. The Irish boss put aside his World Cup woe and went back to work by targeting Andy Reid, Jamie O’Hara and Marc Wilson for some personal attention.
Publication date: 2009-12-07 more

Google in talks on launching free online property listing portal

GOOGLE is in talks with UK estate agents about launching its own online property portal that will be free to use and funded by advertising, the 'Financial Times' reported yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-12-04 more

BT's 21st century network rollout to deliver Ethernet speeds across Ireland

BT has deployed 150 new Etherflow nodes in areas currently under-served with broadband
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Satellite firm shows the way to bridge the digital divide

Satellite Broadband Ireland is creating 30 new jobs after winning a contract to support 3 in rolling out broadband under the National Broadband Scheme (NBS). Kevin Ryan is CEO and co-founder
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

The making of an Irish consumer electronics giant

AS he eased himself into his airplane seat, his aching limbs could not dim Ivan Eustace's elation after completing the recent New York City Marathon.
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Microsoft and The Black Screen Of Death

It would be easy to imagine that Microsoft was cursed. Early adopters of Windows 7 have been told by geeks, experts and journalists alike that the new operating system they’d just bought was safer, faster, better and shinier than anything in the company’s history. Then news emerged of the Black Screen of Death.
Publication date: 2009-12-03 more

Microsoft sees signs of recovery in ads as Bing awareness grows

Microsoft, said to be in talks with News Corporation to obtain exclusive content for its Bing search engine, isn’t focused on paying publishers to keep articles off Google’s site, according to a Microsoft executive.
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

Facebook makes privacy changes as it hits 350 million users

Facebook has changed its privacy settings to make it easier for people to choose who they share their photos, profiles and personal information with.
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

Lavasoft launches database of rogue security software

Anti-spyware developer Lavasoft has announced the launch of a new resource tool, The Rogue Gallery, which is a comprehensive list of current rogue (or fake) security applications, giving users the ability to immediately identify if they are targets of rogue threats.
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

Spammers fined

A GROUP of spammers responsible for a third of the world's junk mail has been fined
Publication date: 2009-12-02 more

Dingle Marina gets Wi-Fi network

Bitbuzz, in collaboration with wireless systems integrator firm iLink, has announced the launch of its first large open-area hotspot.
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Microsoft Windows 7 problem 'could affect millions'

Microsoft said it is looking in to reports that some computers running Windows 7 crash as soon as the user logs on.
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

Video: Irish student invents 'best thing since Sellotape'

An Irish art student based in a warehouse in east London has invented a product already being described as the best thing since Sellotape and Blu-Tack.
Publication date: 2009-12-01 more

10 horror stories to make you think before you click

Abbey Sherwell's tirade was pretty foul-mouthed. "Hey, this guy is a d**k ... Why are all the people I deal with so f*cked in the head???" the account manager at Australian company Frequent Values wrote in an email. But instead of sending it to her friend, Sherwell mistakenly sent it to the subject of her rant -- a client of the company she worked for.
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

O2 creates online business community

Telefonica O2 Ireland has launched a new business blog to encourage small and medium sized businesses to talk to each other in new ways.
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

Twitter Japan to introduce micropayments

Twitter Japan is going to introduce paid for premium accounts from next January, according to local reports.
Publication date: 2009-11-30 more

BBC admits plan to scale back website

The director general of the BBC yesterday indicated that there would be a reduction in the scale of its popular website, and possibly the closure of some of its digital channels or radio stations, following claims from politicians and rivals in commercially funded media that it had grown too big.
Publication date: 2009-11-27 more

Lost the news? There's an app for that...

Here is the news... by iPhone. A BBC Radio 3 newsreader was forced to read the morning headlines from her mobile phone after the Corporation's telephone and computer system crashed as she was about to go on air.
Publication date: 2009-11-27 more

Google refuses to remove racist Obama picture

Google last night refused to remove a racist caricature of Michelle Obama that was the first result presented to users of its search engine.
Publication date: 2009-11-26 more

Enchantress of numbers

Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." The Romantic poet Lord Byron could have been thinking about how his daughter, Ada Lovelace (1815-1862), would become the world's first computer programmer when he wrote those words.
Publication date: 2009-11-26 more

Creator of the world's biggest encyclopedia

Publication date: 2009-11-26 more

How small science will have a big impact on Ireland's economic future

From miracle drugs to super-tiny computers, Ireland could win its share of a $3trn industry
Publication date: 2009-11-26 more

Wikipedia project 'losing contributors in record numbers'

Wikipedia is losing tens of thousands of volunteer editors a month, according to a study that suggests the pioneering spirit of the collaborative encyclopaedia is in decline.
Publication date: 2009-11-25 more

What the web is teaching our brains

Most of us in the developed world now have relationships with computers - and access to information and entertainment - that we could not have dreamt about even a decade or so ago. We spend our days sifting emails and browsing the internet, then relax by tweeting or networking online and playing computer games, sometimes all at the same time.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Game on: GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony

The second of two downloadable add-ons to GTA IV, Gay Tony follows the exploits of yet another gangster in the crime-ridden Liberty City. Structurally familiar (driving and shooting dominate), its power lies in its strong characters and savage parodies.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Digital Life: A Palm in the hand and a Walkman on the wild side

Many have tried but all have failed to topple the iPhone as king of the touchscreens. But ladies and gentlemen, now we have a real contender in the ring.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Game on: Modern Warfare 2

Pulling in $550m during its first five record-breaking days on sale (bigger than the Harry Potter books and movies, don'tcha know), MW2 is already a cultural phenomenon.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Murdoch turns to Gates for website help

JUST AS soon as the outline of a possible new model for newspapers to make a better return from content used by aggregator and search-engine sites such as Google emerged, new doubts surfaced that publishers can do anything to plug a dam that has already burst in trying to limit free access to their product.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Digital Life: Kindle lights the fuse on ebook explosion

By some predictions, it should have died a quiet death years ago. But for supposedly obsolete technology, the book is surviving nicely, thanks very much.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

Google set to buy Teracent

GOOGLE, owner of the most-used internet search engine, agreed to buy Teracent to gain software that helps display advertisements better target web users.
Publication date: 2009-11-24 more

YouTube adds full length TV shows

YouTube has launched a new section of its site dedicated to playing full length episodes from popular series such as Channel 4’s Peep Show and Hollyoaks.
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

Google Chrome OS computers will be available in 2010

Google has announced that its much-anticipated web based operating system, Chrome OS, will be available within a year.
Publication date: 2009-11-20 more

China bans Microsoft from selling operating systems

Microsoft has been banned from selling multiple versions of its flagship Windows operating system in China after breaching a local licensing agreement.
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

Dawn of a new ultra-mobile era

COMPUTING really only 'arrived' when it became personal, when the computer was small, affordable and intuitive enough to take pride of place in the family home and now, as Moore's Law would have it, in most small bags.
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

'Ireland needs to ramp up and fund more internet business start-ups'

Internet Hero and entrepreneur Colm Lyon has built up a global online-payments powerhouse
Publication date: 2009-11-19 more

YouTube launches citizen journalism channel

YouTube has launched YouTube Direct, a dedicated channel for citizen journalism, in an attempt to better connect news organisations with user generated content.
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

A world without cables

For a century the modern world has been caught in a growing web of copper cables. They have become arteries that power the globe, but, from the jumble of cords cluttering our desks to the miles of wires hidden in our walls, they are also an expensive nuisance binding our gadgets to the grid.
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

He's electric: A wireless pioneer

Wireless electricity appears cutting-edge but one man had dreams of a world without cables more than 100 years ago. Nikola Tesla, a pioneering American physicist, saw wireless energy as the only way to make electricity thrive.
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

Apple patent suggests ad-supported OS on the way

Apple fans are calling it the cyber equivalent of the holiday time share sales pitch: attend a seminar for a few hours on our wonderful holiday village and we’ll give you a weekend there absolutely free.
Publication date: 2009-11-18 more

Jimmy Wales interview: Wikipedia is focusing on accuracy

Jimmy Wales is eating dinner alongside Princess Caroline of Monaco. Web royalty has come to meet the real thing. Wales, the man who co-founded Wikipedia eight years ago, is in Monaco to be awarded the Monaco Media Prize at the principality’s annual invite-only media forum.
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 not banned in Russia, says Activision

Activision, the publisher behind Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, says that reports of the Russian government banning the game are 'erroneous'.
Publication date: 2009-11-17 more

Microsoft allows advertising on PC desktops

Microsoft has opened up its Windows 7 operating system to advertising, allowing brands to advertise on PC desktops.
Publication date: 2009-11-16 more

Google clears digital library hurdle

Google and a group of publishers and authors have agreed to scale back the scope of their proposed digital books library, which could resolve a legal dispute and clear the way for millions of books to be sold online.
Publication date: 2009-11-16 more

Google Street View 'holiday' shows man relieving himself on Canary Islands beach

A new Google feature encouraging people to take a virtual holiday in the Canary Islands pointed users to a Street View image of a man relieving himself on a beach.
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

Apple 'more profitable' than Nokia

Sales of Apple's iPhone have helped to make the US technology company more profitable than Nokia, the world's biggest handset maker, according to a report.
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

Eircom invests in a next-generation selling experience

INCUMBENT telecoms operator Eircom has invested an undisclosed sum in kitting out a corner of its new headquarters adjacent to Heuston Station with the latest technology wizardry, enabling it to secure high-end corporate deals.
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

Ireland has the potential to become the world's green data-centre capital

Eco-friendly data centres could be Ireland's winning card to play during the digital age
Publication date: 2009-11-12 more

Nokia begins shipping N900

Nokia has started shipping its flagship N900 handset to customers, the company has announced.
Publication date: 2009-11-11 more

Microsoft cuts off Xbox 360 pirate gamers from Xbox Live

Microsoft is cutting off up to one million Xbox 360 users who modified their consoles to play pirated games over Xbox Live.
Publication date: 2009-11-11 more

'S--- My Dad Says' Twitter account wins television deal

The popular Twitter account "S--- My Dad Says" is to be turned into a television sitcom, in what is believed to be a micro-blogging first.
Publication date: 2009-11-11 more

Rupert Murdoch could ban Google access to his newspapers' content

Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, is considering removing his newspapers’ content from Google’s search index.
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Nokia recalls 'dangerous' chargers

Mobile phone maker Nokia has recalled 14 million potentially dangerous chargers.
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Independent Digital Grand Prix Q3 finalists announced

Independent Digital has launched a new digital advertising award, the first of its kind in Ireland.
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 video game review

Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 arrives creaking under the weight of its own hype. Can it live up to the ludicrous expectations heaped upon it?
Publication date: 2009-11-09 more

Microsoft Windows 7 smashes sales records

Windows 7 has been a bigger seller than its predecessor, Windows Vista, new industry figures show.
Publication date: 2009-11-06 more

Steve Jobs voted

Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, has been voted the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine.
Publication date: 2009-11-06 more

Figuring out the right design for business life in the online world

Dublin-based Strata3 is one of Ireland's longest-standing web-design, strategy and service firms working with SMEs and big brands. John Mitchell is its managing director
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

Internet myths are debunked at the peak of the Web Summit

AT last week's Dublin Web Summit, organised by Paddy Cosgrave, more than 150 people trooped into Bewley's Hotel in Ballsbridge to listen to some of the most influential online Europeans talk about the impact of the internet on business, politics and media.
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

How a corner of Dublin is spearheading the new social age of online advertising

Under the bonnet at Facebook - a driving force in the 21st-century social-media business
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

Google launches Dashboard privacy controls

Google has created a new 'dashboard' control panel to enable people to more easily adjust their privacy settings.
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

Nokia N900: A computer in every pocket

Smartphones are often described as "pocket computers" but, despite advances in usability and processing power, many fall short of providing a user experience comparable to a desktop or laptop computer’s.
Publication date: 2009-11-05 more

Cyberclinic: Why is Facebook asking me to reconnect with a dead friend?

When social networking websites change their layouts, it can feel like someone blundering into your living room, redecorating (badly), leaving the building and refusing to respond to pleas that they come back and sort out the mess.
Publication date: 2009-11-04 more

What's the point of Twitter Peek?

There's lots of coverage on the internet today for a new device that has gone on sale in the US -- the Twitter Peek.
Publication date: 2009-11-04 more

Web could run out of addresses next year, warn web experts

Businesses urgently need to upgrade to IPv6, a new version of the internet's addressing protocol that will hugely increase the number of available addresses.
Publication date: 2009-11-03 more

Yahoo! and Microsoft search deal delayed until 2010

Yahoo! and Microsoft’s search deal has been delayed and will not be competed until "early 2010".
Publication date: 2009-11-03 more

Scientists use computer to 'read minds' on screen

Scientists have discovered how to read 'the mind’s eye' using a computer that can replicate what humans are seeing or recalling by monitoring their brain activity.
Publication date: 2009-11-02 more

Book apps overtake games on iPhone

Books have become the most popular category of apps downloaded on the iPhone, overtaking games, according to a new research.
Publication date: 2009-11-02 more

Now you can log on in Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese

Internet regulators last night heralded a new era of international web use that will no longer be dominated by the Latin alphabet.
Publication date: 2009-10-31 more

Is Google Maps Navigation a satnav killer?

The news that Google is releasing free satnav software for Android handsets that will provide Street View images and turn-by-turn directions has sent the likes of TomTom and Garmin into a spin.
Publication date: 2009-10-30 more

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 leaked footage set to ignite controversy

Leaked footage from Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 showing the killing of innocent civilians looks likely to renew the debate on video game violence.
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Microsoft warns Windows 7 users that popular 'upgrade hack' is illegal

Microsoft has told computer users not to not to try hacking upgrade copies of Windows 7 to get a full copy of the operating system on their PC.
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Nintendo cuts earnings forecasts as Wii sales slump

Nintendo, the world’s largest maker of video-game players, cut its annual profit forecast 23pc after sales of its flagship Wii console slumped and the stronger yen eroded the value of exports.
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Creating a vibrant sonic boom in the Irish start-up scene

Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

Music download service acts local, but has a global vision

The rapidly emerging music service Downloadmusic.ie is bringing more than 1,500 Irish recording artists to a global market. Its founder, Johnny Beirne, explains the genesis of the service
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

'Broadband leadership will be a precondition for economic growth'

Eric Schmidt has brought Google out of the recession, now he wants to conquer the enterprise
Publication date: 2009-10-29 more

2009 eircom Golden Spider Awards short list announced

The eagerly awaited 2009 eircom Golden Spiders shortlist has been announced.
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Yahoo! 'signs' real time search deal with OneRiot

Yahoo! is understood to have signed a search deal with real-time search engine OneRiot, in a bid not to be left behind the likes of Google and Microsoft, which signed similar deals last week with Twitter.
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Internet animation: Draw it yourself

From the bristling fur of Fantastic Mr Fox to the rag dolls of the forthcoming Tim Burton-produced animation 9 and the low-fi puppets of Where the Wild Things Are, directed by Spike Jonze, it seems that you can't move at the moment for animation with a homespun attitude.
Publication date: 2009-10-28 more

Facebook introduces 'memorial' pages

Facebook is to introduce a feature allowing members' profiles to be "memorialised" when they die, after complaints that users were being urged to get in touch with dead friends.
Publication date: 2009-10-27 more

Facebook introduces 'memorial' pages to prevent alerts about dead members

Facebook is to introduce a feature allowing members' profiles to be "memorialised" when they die, after complaints that users were being urged to get in touch with dead friends.
Publication date: 2009-10-27 more

Google Social Search goes live

Google's new feature allows users to include information from other social networks, such as Twitter, and blogs in their search results
Publication date: 2009-10-27 more

Microsoft profit beats estimates after cost cuts

Microsoft posted a smaller drop in profit than analysts estimated after slashing costs to make up for falling sales.
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Nokia sues Apple over iPhone patents

Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, is suing Apple for allegedly infringing patents on technology used in the iPhone.
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Why everyone wants to be Twitter's friend

Twitter was the star of the show at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, with Microsoft and Google clamouring to strike a deal with the hottest property on the web.
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Blu-ray not coming to Xbox 360

Microsoft has backtracked on reports that owners of its Xbox 360 games console will be able to buy a Blu-ray drive for the device.
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Superman builds platform for MySpace success

When Owen Van Natta left his role as chief revenue officer at Facebook last year, his goal was to become chief executive of a major consumer web company.
Publication date: 2009-10-23 more

Apple: 'Windows 7 is antiquated technology'

Apple says that consumers may turn to Mac computers because Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, is 'complex and expensive'
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Social media revolution hits warp speed

The social media revolution may be a well-known phenomenon to those in the 'industry', but among the wider world the speed of social media's expansion, the depth of its reach and the vast advertising potential are still enough to draw gasps.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

eBay

eBay fell as much as 9.3pc in late trading after a shift to faster-growing yet lower-margin businesses hampered its profit forecast.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Ad-spend pick-up puts Yahoo! on line for profit

Yahoo!, owner of the second largest US search engine, rose as much as 4.8pc yesterday in NASDAQ trading after third-quarter profit and sales beat analysts' estimates, bolstered by a pick-up in spending by some advertisers.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Trust, authenticity and Twitter - welcoming you to politics 2.0

IF there is a general election in the near future, you can be guaranteed that social-media platforms such as Twitter will feature strongly in future political debate by ministers, journalists and campaigners. All will be judged by voters.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

The clash of the WiMax and LTE titans: are we witnessing VHS v Betamax déj

Ireland will be the scene of a collision between two emerging wireless broadband standards
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

A new plan aimed at advancing the digital literacy of a nation

The I-CANDO Digital Skills Programme aims to reskill 440,000 unemployed people and boost digital literacy. This is a national imperative, says Neil Leyden of the Digital Media Forum
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Google launches social search

Google is launching social search, a new feature which will allow users to include information from other social networks including Twitter.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Microsoft Windows 7: The best Windows operating system yet

PC World opened the doors to its flagship London store at midnight for customers wishing to be first to get their hands on Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Independent.ie launches first Irish national newspaper iPhone application

The new Independent.ie iPhone application allows you to enjoy the Independent on your iPhone or iTouch wherever you are.
Publication date: 2009-10-22 more

Geek proposes to girlfriend inside Super Mario World level

A gaming fan proposed to his girlfriend by spelling out "Lisa will you marry me?" with gold coins in a specially-designed level of Super Mario World.
Publication date: 2009-10-21 more

Twitter 'Suggested User List' should die, says chief executive

Evan Williams, the chief executive of micro-blogging service Twitter, says it's time to kill the service’s controversial ‘Suggested User List’.
Publication date: 2009-10-21 more

Hollywood film stars banned from Twitter

Hollywood film stars including Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers are being banned from using Twitter because bosses think "tweets" are damaging the industry.
Publication date: 2009-10-19 more

Microsoft to open Apple store rival in Arizona

Microsoft's first dedicated high-street store will open in the trendy US town of Scottsdale, Arizona, on Thursday.
Publication date: 2009-10-19 more

Fake security software 'installed on millions of PCs'

Symantec has warned that millions of computer users have been duped in to installing fake security software on to their machines.
Publication date: 2009-10-19 more

50 most annoying things about the internet

A selection of the trends we wish could be consigned to the waste bin - the most annoying things on the web.
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

Google profits increase 27pc

Technology giant Google surpassed expectations as it delivered third-quarter profits of $1.64bn on the back of continued resilience in the wider economy.
Publication date: 2009-10-16 more

So what does a Google boss surf when on the net?

Mr Herlihy gets up at 5am every day and reads emails as well as visiting his favourite magazines -- which include the 'Economist', 'Harvard Business Review' and the 'Wall Street Journal'.
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Search deeper and it's clear you can't judge a book by its cover

HE may run the Irish operations of internet giant Google, but John Herlihy is also surprisingly old-fashioned in some ways.
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

IT jobs in Irish organisations are set to increase by 8,000 over the next four years

The global IT industry will spearhead economic recovery, with 5.8 million new jobs in sight
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Yes, minister. The people have tweeted; it's social media

Twitter was vital to President Barack Obama's election campaign and is now a tool of choice, particularly among UK politicians. Alberto Nardelli is the co-founder of Tweetminister.co.uk
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Siliconrepublic.com scoops 'Best Technology Website' award

Also taking home an award on the night was IDA Ireland for Best Government and Council Website. Sponsors included iQ Content, BH Consulting, DoneDeal.ie and Beaut.ie.
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Will Google Wave topple the email status quo and change the way we work?

A LITTLE over two weeks ago, the folks at Google began rolling out a preview version of a new web tool known as Wave to a limited 100,000 users. With mixed reviews, it has been labelled everything from "game-changing" to "unremarkable".
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Berners-Lee: forward slashes

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist who created the World Wide Web, has admitted his decision to include two forward slashes in internet addresses was a mistake.
Publication date: 2009-10-15 more

Intel jumps after forecast tops estimates

Intel rose as much as 6.9pc in late trading after its sales forecast beat estimates by as much as $1bn, setting the stage for a broader recovery in technology earnings.
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Apple admits to Snow Leopard bug

Some users of Snow Leopard, Apple's newest operating system, are losing huge amounts of data when logging in to their computers under a guest account.
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Red faces at Microsoft as server failure turns smartphone dumb

Not so smart after all. Microsoft and T-Mobile executives have been humiliated by their Sidekick smartphone, which first lost internet access and then deleted its customers' numbers, photos and other important data.
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Google launches Building Maker for Google Earth

The new tool will enable web users to transform 2D renderings of buildings in Google Earth in to 3D images
Publication date: 2009-10-14 more

Trafigura tops list of Twitter trending topics

Trafigura, one of the world's largest oil traders, was the most used word on the micro-blogging website Twitter this morning.
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Pepsi apologises for 'sexist' iPhone app

Pepsi has apologised for releasing an iPhone app that encouraged men to brag about their sexual conquests.
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Doodle 4 Google: Young artists take up the challenge of national competition

JULIA and Helen Sheehy aged four and six from Sandymount, Dublin, helped to kick off the search begins for Ireland’s top doodler.
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

People 'anxious' when cut off from internet

People are more likely to feel "anxious" when cut off from the internet or their mobile phone than feel "liberated", according to a British survey.
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

Apps: Tapping into the zeitgeist

Here’s an exchange that’ll bring glorious memories of the year 2002 flooding back: "You know my new phone?" "Yeah." "It’s got a camera in it." "You’re kidding me." "Honest. On my mum’s life."
Publication date: 2009-10-13 more

YouTube hits one billion views a day

YouTube is now serving over one billion views per day as it celebrates the third anniversary of being acquired by Google.
Publication date: 2009-10-10 more

YouTube to sign landmark content deal with Channel 4

YouTube and Channel 4 are on the brink of signing a landmark content deal which will see the majority of the broadcaster’s content hosted in full on the video sharing site.
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

IBM faces probe over competition concerns

IBM, the computer pioneer known as Big Blue, is being investigated in the US over allegations that it has been acting anti-competitively.
Publication date: 2009-10-09 more

Microsoft nears EU truce after decade-long battle

Microsoft could close the door on a 10-year legal battle with the European Union, after the regulator backed its moves to open up internet browsing on Windows to rivals.
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Microsoft's man sees Windows of opportunity with lucky number 7

A passing employee inadvertently knocks over a free-standing advert for Windows 7 outside Microsoft's European headquarters in Dublin yesterday morning, prompting a quip from Paul Rellis.
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Dell 'to launch Android smartphone in US'

Computer maker Dell is working on a new mobile phone that will use Google's Android operating system and run on the AT&T network, according to reports.
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Amazon Kindle: a turning point for Ebooks?

When the online retailer Amazon launched the Kindle ebook reader in 2007, it was viewed by many as a an "iPod moment" for the digital publishing industry.
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Behind the making of a

BearingPoint's Irish operation is participating in a major management buyout (MBO) of the Big Four consultancy giant's EMEA practice, creating a
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Placing the spotlight on Ireland's new lean, green R&D territory

Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Debate around broadband infrastructure needs to deviate from speed to quality

Never mind talking about broadband speeds, how well are our connections faring, really?
Publication date: 2009-10-08 more

Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow, says Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's reputation has never recovered from the launch of Vista, Steve Ballmer, chief executive, said as the company gears up for the release of its latest incarnation of Windows.
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Cyberclinic: Why are the batteries on smartphones so unreliable?

One thing is even more astounding than our ability to carry around a lozenge-sized device that can make calls, receive emails, pinpoint our position on a map and play Kate Bush albums: we don't need to wheel along a petrol-driven generator to power it all.
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

How technology drives us to distraction

I'm a good driver. I've been doing it for 10 years and I've never been stopped by police (well, twice), I've never been flashed by speed cameras (at least not for a few months) and, touch wood, I've never crashed – unless you count that time that, driving my Fiesta, I pulled out into the path of a brand new Audi.
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Eircom is ordered to remove

TELECOMS watchdog Comreg has ordered Eircom to remove a
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

RoboDoc ready to get tough on disease

YOU've heard of Robocop, now here comes RoboDoc.
Publication date: 2009-10-07 more

Gmail users latest victims of email scam

Google email users have become the latest victims in an "industry-wide" phishing attack scheme, which has affected thousands of people across several web based services.
Publication date: 2009-10-06 more

Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile 6.5

Microsoft hopes its new mobile phone operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, will enable it to compete more directly with Google's Android devices and the Apple iPhone.
Publication date: 2009-10-06 more

Pirates v the Premier League: a war on the web

England's match in Ukraine this weekend is a major landmark in the history of sports broadcasting: as many as a million fans will subscribe to Britain's first high-profile football match available exclusively online.
Publication date: 2009-10-06 more

Hotmail passwords leaked online

The email accounts of thousands of users of Microsoft's Hotmail email service have been compromised after passwords and account addresses were posted on the internet.
Publication date: 2009-10-06 more

Dog's life: ideas from a crazy future

GREYHOUND dogs transformed into live medical devices, breath-smelling bees and machines able to read emotions are among the brave new world of emerging technology that will go on display this week.
Publication date: 2009-10-06 more

Acquisition not part of Microsoft's strategy to fight Google, says chief

MICROSOFT does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google's dominance in the internet search market, chief executive Steve Ballmer said yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-10-06 more

Drew Carey bids $100,000 for @drew Twitter account in cancer auction

Drew Carey, the US comedian and game show host, has bid $100,000 to buy the Twitter account @drew.
Publication date: 2009-10-05 more

Apple demands Woolworths drops new logo

Apple has launched a legal challenge to the new Woolworths logo, claiming that it too closely resembles its own corporate icon.
Publication date: 2009-10-05 more

Google Doodle: Mahatma Gandhi tribute on 140th birthday

Google is featuring the face of Mahatma Gandhi on its logo to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the birth of the father of modern India.
Publication date: 2009-10-02 more

You want to find Ireland's answer to Google or Facebook? You're looking at it

The internet is slowing down, but Irish company Intune Networks has the solution to a global problem
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Online advertising spend overtakes TV in Britain

Online advertising expenditure in the UK grew 4.6% to £1.75 billion in the first half of 2009 overtaking TV for the first time, according to a study by the Internet Advertising Bureau and Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

The proud worker who chose not to stay sitting silently

Tom O'Mahoney lost his job this year because of the recession. He decided that, instead of being quiet about it, he'd set up a website that would provide a voice for the 430,000 people out of work today
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Cutting edge technology opens up bright new field of research

A RELAXED Brian Cowen officially opened a €16m research and development unit at Citi Bank’s headquarters in the Irish Financial Services Centre yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

How a 'Tweeting' cottage became part of the green-living agenda

MAN is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world."
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Launch of Zapa loyalty label as Insomnia tags on

JOHN Nagle's fledgling Zapa Technology has secured its maiden customer and aims to do another eight major deals before Christmas.
Publication date: 2009-10-01 more

Cyberclinic: Who buys the products advertised in spam emails?

There's one obvious cause, not often discussed, of all that spam informing us that hot women are desperately waiting for a sexually-charged encounter with us in Thornton Heath (they're not, believe me, I've checked). No amount of anti-spam technology can help, either.
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Street in Palestinian refugee camp named after Twitter account

A street in a Palenstinian refugee camp has become the first in the world to be named after a Twitter account.
Publication date: 2009-09-30 more

Vodafone to sell iPhone in UK and Ireland from 2010

Vodafone will sell Apple’s iPhone in the UK and Ireland from early 2010 as the exclusive contract of rival O2 for the popular handset ends.
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Grand Theft Auto 4: The Ballad Of Gay Tony preview

The Ballad Of Gay Tony, Grand Theft Auto 4's second DLC, trades biker leathers for bling as the action moves from skid row to the glitz and glamour of uptown.
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Downloads from Apple

Apple said that downloads from its iTunes applications store had passed two billion and that it now had more than 85,000 applications available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Publication date: 2009-09-29 more

Bank forces Google to close random GMail account over rogue message

A judge has ordered Google to close the account of an unsuspecting GMail user - because a bank sent them a confidential email by mistake.
Publication date: 2009-09-28 more

Palm greased by Bono

Elevation Partners, the private equity firm backed by U2 frontman Bono, is poised to invest
Publication date: 2009-09-27 more

Twitter close to raising $100m, valuing microblogger at $1bn

Twitter, the microblogging website used by US President Barack Obama, is reported to be close to raising up to $100m of fresh capital, valuing the two-year-old business at $1bn (€681m).
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Game on as Nintendo finally follows rivals with price cuts in major markets

NINTENDO plans to cut the price of its popular Wii video game console by 20pc, responding to similar cuts by rivals Sony and Microsoft aimed at kick-starting demand.
Publication date: 2009-09-25 more

Project Natal wins support of major games publishers

Microsoft's Project Natal controller-free gaming system moved a step closer to its rumoured 2010 release after several high-profile video games publishers and developers announced at the Tokyo Games Show that they were working on titles for the platform.
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Google Sidewiki: new tool lets anyone comment on webpages

Google has launched Sidewiki, a tool that appears as a browser sidebar where anyone can share their insights on any web page.
Publication date: 2009-09-24 more

Cyberclinic: Can language translators be trusted

Which online language translator does the best job? A page of text in an unidentifiable language presents few problems for the modern web junkie with little knowledge of French.
Publication date: 2009-09-23 more

FIFA 10: The sound and soul of football

As FIFA 10s release date approaches, we go behind the scenes to look at the intricate process of creating the perfect soundtrack to the beautiful game.
Publication date: 2009-09-23 more

Immortality only 20 years away says scientist

Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years' time through nanotechnology and an increased understanding of how the body works.
Publication date: 2009-09-23 more

Sun Microsystems losing $100m a month, says Oracle's Ellison

Larry Ellison, chief executive of the software giant Oracle, has fulminated against European regulators, saying Sun Microsystems was losing $100m (€67.5m) a month while its takeover by Oracle remains unapproved.
Publication date: 2009-09-23 more

How Google is getting ahead in advertising

Google yesterday struck an important blow in its battle against the parent company of Louis Vuitton over a long-running trademark dispute. It could see the technology giant boost its already dominant position in search advertising.
Publication date: 2009-09-23 more