News from Most Popular

Digital Life: Get WiFi on the move, Jack Bauer-style

Jack Bauer loves his gadgets and thinks nothing of simultaneously driving down a busy street, firing his weapon, yelling into the phone and downloading a terrorist's picture into his car's computer.
Publication date: 2010-06-29 more

iPhone 4: Steve Jobs hints at reception fix

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has suggested that problems with reception on the new iPhone 4 could soon be solved.
Publication date: 2010-06-28 more

Sex domain .xxx approved by regulators

ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for overseeing the creation and distribution of web addresses, finally gave the go-ahead for the special .xxx domain name at a meeting in Brussels.
Publication date: 2010-06-28 more

Apple iPhone 4 users report reception problems

Apple has responded to reports of reception issues on the new iPhone 4 by advising users to hold the device a different way.
Publication date: 2010-06-25 more

Independent launches new site for ladies

HOT on the heels of the success of men's only websites like joe.ie, Independent Digital is launching a new female zone, www.independentwomen.ie.
Publication date: 2010-06-24 more

iPhone 4 in short supply at launch

Apple's newest iPhone was in short supply just hours after its global launch began in Tokyo on Thursday morning as hundreds queued outside stores across the city to become among the first in the world to own the device.
Publication date: 2010-06-24 more

CBS looks at streaming shows online

The US television network CBS is in talks to make its top shows available on the internet streaming service Hulu.com, in the latest sign that programme-makers are stepping up experiments with new ways to distribute their content.
Publication date: 2010-06-24 more

Facebook chief: 'we will reach one billion users'

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, is confident that the social network will hit the one billion user mark.
Publication date: 2010-06-24 more

Apple iPhone 4: Full review

In the three years since the first iPhone went on sale, the mobile landscape has changed irrevocably.
Publication date: 2010-06-24 more

YouTube didn

Google’s YouTube didn’t violate Viacom copyrights when content including clips from its MTV and Comedy Central cable television channels were posted on the video-sharing website, a judge ruled.
Publication date: 2010-06-24 more

Google 'to launch iTunes rival in 2010'

Google is planning to launch a music download service linked to its search engine later this year in a bid to up the ante against Apple, according to a report.
Publication date: 2010-06-23 more

Globrix.ie now available on mobile

Globrix.ie have launched m.globrix.ie specifically designed for viewing on mobile phones. The mobile version of the Irish property search engine can be used for keeping up to date with all properties to buy or rent while people are on the move.
Publication date: 2010-06-23 more

Facebook's Zuckerberg: I paid too much attention to Twitter

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, has admitted that he paid Twitter "too much attention" out of fear that that microblogging site’s growth would outpace that of the social network.
Publication date: 2010-06-23 more

Sales of the iPad take off as three million sold in 80 days

Apple Inc said it has sold three million iPads in the 80 days since the device went on sale in the US, adding to evidence that chief executive officer Steve Jobs is building demand for tablet-style computers.
Publication date: 2010-06-23 more

Amazon cuts price of Kindle

Amazon has cut the price of its Kindle ebook reader in the United States from $259 to $189 in response to increasing competition in the ebook space.
Publication date: 2010-06-22 more

Digital Life: The best of E3

CHILD OF EDEN, Ubisoft, X360/PS3
Publication date: 2010-06-22 more

iOS4: Apple to start collecting user location data

Apple has amended its privacy policy to give it the ability to collect user location data. The changes are part of Apple's new iPhone, iPod touch and iPad operating system, iOS4, and users must give their explicit consent for the data to be collected.
Publication date: 2010-06-22 more

Digital Life: Beam me up, Slim Shady -- it's game on!

'Make some mother f***ing noise," Eminem bellowed to the 10,000-strong crowd as he stood underneath a giant image from the Call of Duty series before launching into a duet with Rihanna.
Publication date: 2010-06-22 more

Charlie Weston: Save money by ensuring you are not overinsured

AT Chez Weston we like to save money.
Publication date: 2010-06-17 more

Save money by ensuring you are not overinsured

AT Chez Weston we like to save money.
Publication date: 2010-06-17 more

Get Kinected

KINETICMALS brings a virtual pet into your living room, enabling you to play with one of 40 cutesy animals. Looking a lot like the PS3's EyePet, it has bags of charm.
Publication date: 2010-06-16 more

Digital Life: Wave hello to the new games

The revolution kicked off by Nintendo's Wii took another giant step this week as Microsoft revealed the final version of its rival motion-sensing system Kinect.
Publication date: 2010-06-16 more

Nintendo unveils 3D games console

Nintendo unveiled the world's first 3D handheld games console - the 3DS - at a press conference in Los Angeles.
Publication date: 2010-06-16 more

How NUI Maynooth is helping to redefine the $1.6trn global IT industry

THE sleepy silence of NUI Maynooth’s leafy campus usually belies the snap and bustle of the busy university town a few hundred yards away.
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

PlayStation 3 games available in 3D

Sony has launched a range of 3D games, including Wipeout HD and Pain, available from today through the PlayStation Network
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

'Huge' Apple iPad data breach in US

Vulnerabilities in AT&T's network allowed a security firm to uncover the contact details of 114,000 high-profile iPad owners, reports technology industry website Gawker
Publication date: 2010-06-10 more

Apple iPhone 4G: Has Apple finally cracked video-calling?

Has Apple done it again? The company, which has a track record of taking much-maligned or under-used technology and reviving its fortunes, may have just made mobile videoconferencing the Next Big Thing.
Publication date: 2010-06-09 more

Arianna Huffington:

Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the popular US aggregator and blog, The Huffington Post, has ruled out selling the site to Yahoo!
Publication date: 2010-06-09 more

Twitter hits two billion tweets a month

Twitter has hit two billion tweets per month, the microblogging website has announced.
Publication date: 2010-06-09 more

Apple iPhone 4: an update on those reasons not to buy one

Prior to the launch of iPhone 4, I wrote a piece speculating on 10 reasons not to buy it. It questioned the ubiquity of the iPhone, the technological advancement, the cost and the distorting effect of one handset capturing all the headlines and development time.
Publication date: 2010-06-09 more

Digital Life: Go wild in the lawless West

Red Dead Redemption
Publication date: 2010-06-08 more

Digital Life: Fuji's 3D camera is a taste of things to come

James Cameron splurged $200m on making Avatar in 3D but you can have a go for €500 thanks to the first consumer camera to shoot in the next dimension.
Publication date: 2010-06-08 more

Apple iPhone 4 - first look

The leaked photos of the iPhone 4 that appeared online really don't do the device justice; it's a beautiful, lightweight device that's a genuine pleasure to use.
Publication date: 2010-06-08 more

Apple's Steve Jobs launches iPhone 4

Steve Jobs has unveiled iPhone 4, the most 'beautiful and precise' device Apple has ever made.
Publication date: 2010-06-08 more

Apple to launch new iPhone

Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, will unveil the company's newest iPhone at WWDC in San Francisco.
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

Another dimension for TV fans

'Wow, this is cool." When it comes to technology, my seven-year-old's opinion is so often more succinct than my own. Indeed, it is cool.
Publication date: 2010-06-07 more

10 reasons not to buy Apple's new iPhone 4G

Apple's iPhone is a triumph of marketing over functionality, and the new model won't be any different.
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

Google Wi-Fi privacy row: Schmidt admits search engine 'screwed up'

Google "screwed up" after its Street Cars wrongly mapped every wireless network in Britain to use the information for commercial purposes, Eric Schmidt, its chief executive has admitted.
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

Ballmer: Microsoft 'number five' in mobile market

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, has admitted that the technology giant is losing the battle in the smartphone space with its Windows Phone offering, saying its currently ranked fifth in the market.
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

Apple showcases HTML5

Apple pushes HTML5 standard over Adobe's Flash technology with an online demo that showcases its talents.
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

Converged fixed and mobile broadband on the way for consumers

You are unveiling a new form of broadband access – DSL Wi-Fi routers that can also use 3G dongles. Why do you think consumers will go for this?
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

10 things we can expect from the new Apple iPhone

When Steve Jobs takes to the stage at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, he is expected to take the wraps off Apple's latest iPhone.
Publication date: 2010-06-04 more

George W Bush joins Facebook

Former US President George W Bush has joined social networking site Facebook, although is clearly not writing his own updates
Publication date: 2010-06-03 more

New iPhone rumoured to quadruple screen resolution

Apple is expected to launch a new iPhone later this month, and reports suggest the device will have a 960 x 640 resolution screen - four times the current offering - and a glowing Apple logo and high quality OLED screen.
Publication date: 2010-06-03 more

Zuckerberg says Facebook is getting 'privacy right on the whole'

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, has said he believes the company has got its privacy settings right "on the whole".
Publication date: 2010-06-03 more

US woman sues Google 'after Maps directions caused accident'

An American woman, Lauren Rosenberg, is suing Google, the search engine giant, because she was hit by a car after following its "safe" online mapping service.
Publication date: 2010-06-02 more

Ireland

Digital Times magazine and Alchemy Event Management have announced the launch of Ireland’s first dedicated awards ceremony for mobile application development and design.
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

Digital Life: The flag's up for the great race!

ModNation Racers, PS3/PSP, RATING: 8.5/10 - Musicians hate it when you try to pigeonhole their work by comparing them to another artist. Coldplay? Early Radiohead rewritten by bedwetters. Lady Gaga? Madonna without the tunes. See? Too easy.
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

'Quit Facebook' protest day flops

Just over 30,000 of Facebook's almost 500 million users deleted their account in protest over security concerns
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

Digital Life: Capture the high on camera

High definition has become the buzzword of the last five years, with everything from TVs to DVDs touting stunning resolution. Hell, there's even a mobile phone claiming to record high-def video!
Publication date: 2010-06-01 more

Google in privacy row over its wi-fi mapping

Google was accused of intruding into people's privacy yesterday after it was disclosed that the company had mapped every wireless network in Britain.
Publication date: 2010-05-31 more

Gadget fans in the North greet iPad launch

Gadget fans who queued all night outside Belfast's Apple store today became some of the first people in Ireland to buy an iPad.
Publication date: 2010-05-28 more

Google holds on to disk in German Street View probe

Google hasn’t fully complied with a request for information on data it said was erroneously gathered for its Street View mapping service, a German regulator said.
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Facebook backs down on privacy settings

Facebook, the world's most popular social networking site, backed down last night and introduced simplified privacy controls after a storm of protest from users.
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Apple overtakes Microsoft to be biggest tech company

Apple, inventor of the iPod and iPhone, has become the world’s biggest technology company - eclipsing arch-rival Microsoft in size.
Publication date: 2010-05-27 more

Twitter to charge publishers

Twitter has announced that it will no longer allow third parties to pollute the Twitter stream with messages advertising products and services.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Google Pac-Man doodle 'cost economy $120m'

Animated Google logo designed to mark Pac-Man's 30th birthday caused millions of dollars in lost productivity, according to one analyst.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Game on: Thriller in need of a wake-up call

First unveiled five years ago, Alan Wake's protracted gestation hasn't augured well. Deadlines meant nothing and the original plan for a free-roaming world was jettisoned for the tightly scripted, strictly linear trek of the finished product.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Digital Life: Add a new dimension to your TV

The stampede toward 3D TV is gathering pace as all the big manufacturers race to bring an extra dimension to your sitting room.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Dell Streak

Computer giant Dell today sought to steal a march on Apple’s iPad launch by announcing the release of its Google Android-based Streak tablet in the UK. It will be available on O2 from early June, and then later in the month via Dell.co.uk.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Eircom targets illegal music-sharing

THOUSANDS of Eircom broadband users caught illegally sharing music will be targeted each week as part of a major clampdown.
Publication date: 2010-05-25 more

Facebook chief makes privacy change pledge

Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said that Facebook sometimes moves ‘too fast’ but is working to fix mistakes made on privacy
Publication date: 2010-05-24 more

Facebook: 'people don't want complete privacy online'

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, has said that people do not want complete privacy online, in a new interview.
Publication date: 2010-05-21 more

Google in sexism row amid claims it 'censored cougar dating site adverts'

Google has become embroiled in a sexism row after reportedly censoring advertisements for a so-called "cougar" dating websites for women despite taking no action against similar sites for men.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Bricks-and-mortar retailers cannot ignore web presence

Indigenous Irish company Buy4Now Technology Group is set to create 20 new jobs over the next two years in a major R&D and export programme, with support from Enterprise Ireland. Michael Veale is CEO
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Broadband wars

THIS autumn, broadband providers are set to compete aggressively for the hearts and pockets of Irish businesses and consumers, offering speeds that would have been undreamt of even three years ago.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Dell on a mission to evolve from pure-play PC maker to global services giant

IT’S almost a year and a half since Limerick was struck with the harsh news that computer-manufacturing giant Dell was pulling out of the city, with the loss of 1,900 jobs, and transferring manufacturing to Poland.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Is it possible to have online privacy?

There’s a storm brewing in cyberspace. Internet users who, until now, have been perfectly happy to share their most intimate thoughts online, are questioning whether things have gone too far.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Facebook block over Mohammed caricature competition

FACEBOOK was sucked into a growing row over Islam and freedom of speech yesterday after a Pakistani court ordered the site to be blocked over a page advertising a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Publication date: 2010-05-20 more

Hewlett-Packard lifted by corporate demand

Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest personal-computer maker, reported second-quarter profit and sales that beat estimates after corporate buyers replaced aging server computers and consumers took home new PCs.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Google plays down privacy fears

Google has played down concerns about user privacy, arguing that pictures and personal information shared on social networking sites could be more damaging than the data it collects through its search engine.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

Microsoft gives Hotmail a makeover

Microsoft is updating Hotmail, its free email service, in a bid to retain and grow market share over its major rivals: Google’s Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.
Publication date: 2010-05-19 more

YouTube hits two billion views a day

YouTube has exceeded two billions views a day as it celebrates the fifth anniversary since first launching in beta in 2005.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Google cars picked up private data from homes

INQUIRIES by German data officials led to the inadvertent discovery that Irish people's private online information had been collected by internet search giant Google.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Digital Life: They shoot, they score

FIFA World Cup South Africa: Is there any game that is more doomed to obsolescence than FWCSA?
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

Digital Life: Re-charging just got easier

Imagine the delicious scenario: you stop off for a cuppa at your favourite coffee shop, put your phone down on the counter and 20 minutes later it's charged up without ever plugging it in.
Publication date: 2010-05-18 more

New 'secret iPhone 4G prototype' discovered in Vietnam

A second 4G iPhone next-generation prototype has reportedly been discovered, this time surfacing in Vietnam and apparently without permission from Apple.
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

Using laptops or iPads just before bed 'increases risk of insomnia'

Computer users should turn their laptop or Apple iPad off at least two hours before going to bed if they want a good night’s sleep, scientists say.
Publication date: 2010-05-17 more

A combined effort is needed to

Irish Internet Association (IIA) CEO Joan Mulvihill is on a mission – to digitise the nation. She believes the opportunities the digital age heralds for citizens and businesses alike must be grasped.
Publication date: 2010-05-13 more

Facebook: can it open the web to business?

It is not easy reading when you discover that in some large towns 40pc of retailers have closed because of the recession. At the same time, the internet as we know it has sped up in terms of size and complexity.
Publication date: 2010-05-13 more

Start-up promises to get small firms paid on time

Billfaster.com offers an easy-to-use online invoicing and cash-management system, helping businesses create and send invoices and manage payments in just three clicks. Rod Condell is co-founder
Publication date: 2010-05-13 more

Adobe founders criticise Apple

Adobe's founders, Chuck Geschke and John Warnock, have written an open letter defending the freedom of the internet and criticising Apple's "walled garden" approach.
Publication date: 2010-05-13 more

Google 'working on' iPad rival

Internet giant Google is working on a tablet computer to rival Apple's iPad, according to reports.
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

Microsoft and LG bring 3D gaming to Xbox

Microsoft's Xbox 360 console will soon be able to play 3D games, after the company signed a deal with LG.
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

How celebs reacted

Tweets from Twittergeddon -- How the big names took the news.
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

It's Twitterpocalypse!

The love affair between A-list celebs and Twitter may be about to end thanks to the chaos caused by a hi-tech hacker.
Publication date: 2010-05-12 more

Android phones outsell iPhone

Mobile phones running Google's Android operating system have outsold Apple's iPhone in the US for the first time, according to an industry report.
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Digital Life: Angry monsters and giant spiders

Returning, appropriately enough, to the frozen planet EDN III of the first game, LP2 is a shooter itself stuck in time.
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Digital Life: At last, a phone even granny can use!

New ideas emerge at lightning speed in gadget-land and too many of us get caught up obsessing about megapixel-this, WiFi-that or GPS the other. Call it the "ooh shiny" effect -- like magpies we always have an eye on the next thing.
Publication date: 2010-05-11 more

Nokia: Apple is stealing our ideas

Nokia has filed a lawsuit against Apple in the United States, claiming that Apple’s iPhone and iPad 3G infringe on several of its patents.
Publication date: 2010-05-10 more

3D will go mainstream this summer

I think we are finally tiring of this era of on-demand, and often, free entertainment; the instant satisfaction of having entire albums on your iPod literally minutes after they are released or, in the case of pirated content on the web, having movies before they are actually released. But worry not, 3D has come to save the day.
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

With 100Mbps broadband, how fast is fast? Seriously?

UPC reveals that 100Mbps broadband will be available to over 500,000 Irish homes by late summer, enabling consumers to download an entire iTunes album in five seconds. Mark Coan is sales and marketing manager at UPC
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

New iPhone could include HD video

The next generation of the Apple iPhone looks more likely than ever to include HD video. In the developers’ kit for the new device, there is now the option to record at a higher resolution, 1280 x 720, which is otherwise known as 720p.
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

A gripping story but not the last chapter for traditional book shops

It's a cruel irony that tales of our economic woes were among the best sellers last year in Irish book shops, including the now defunct Hughes and Hughes.
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

Adobe: Apple wants to turn the web into a walled garden

Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer, has accused Apple of creating a "walled garden" on the web and preventing competition, in the latest round of the battle between the two technology giants.
Publication date: 2010-05-06 more

Google to start selling digital books this summer

Google has announced its plans to turn Google Editions into a gateway for consumers to buy digital books.
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Apple may face competition probe over Flash defiance

Technology giant Apple is on the verge of becoming embroiled in a US investigation amid allegations it has attempted to stifle competition.
Publication date: 2010-05-05 more

Bits and bytes

Google Earth brings you on a spectacular virtual tour of the world from the air but until now it required loading up a special program on your computer.
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Digital Life: Toy soldiers on a whole new level

Publication date: 2010-05-04 more

Apple sells a million iPads in first month

Critics panned its lack of camera and "ugly touch-screen keyboard" but it is proving a winner with consumers.
Publication date: 2010-05-04 more