YouTube founders acquire social bookmarking site Delicious from Yahoo!

Yahoo!’s once seemingly ill-fated social bookmarking service Delicious has been sold to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen for…

13 years ago

Full text of Sony’s explanation to PlayStation Network/Qriocity customers about the hack

Following the hack which brought down its gaming networks for over three days Sony has begun contacting users who have…

13 years ago

Broadcast media check-in service IntoNow acquired by Yahoo!

Only twelve weeks after launch media check-in service IntoNow has been acquired by Yahoo! for a speculated $30 million dollars.…

13 years ago

Crowdsourcing creativity for business with the blur Group

While crowdsourcing has almost become a household word its perception as an advertiser's novelty, suitable only for advertising mobile phones,…

13 years ago

Facebook introduces contextual sharing with new Send button

On the first anniversary of Facebook’s now ubiquitous Like button, Facebook have introduced a new Send button. The Send button…

13 years ago

What happened in Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor 25 years ago?

This year marks the 25th anniversary of world's worst nuclear disaster. In the early hours of April 26 1986 a…

13 years ago

How radioactive is your home?

Following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan which crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant it is surprising to…

13 years ago

Less than 1% of Firefox users activate “Do not track” feature

Less than 1% of Firefox users have activated the "Do not track" option in the latest version of the browser…

13 years ago

Social networking may “come back to haunt teachers”, says teachers’ union

Teachers who friend students or their parents on social networking sites may find their activities "come back to haunt them",…

13 years ago

Sony confirms hackers are responsible for PlayStation Network outage

Sony have posted an update to their European PlayStation blog confirming that hackers are to blame for the on-going PlayStation…

13 years ago

Prolonged PlayStation Network outage enters second day

Sony PlayStation 3 owners are experiencing a prolonged PlayStation Network (PSN) outage that has more persisted for more than twenty-four…

13 years ago

Amazon “all hands on deck” but many social networking sites still down

Amazon says that they are "all hands on deck" try to resolve the massive cloud server failure in North Virginia…

13 years ago

How did Amazon bring down some of the world’s largest social networks?

Amazon's outage has brought down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, paper.li, Hootsuite, LiveFyre and possibly Publishers Weekly website as well as many…

13 years ago

Friendly for Facebook iPad app attracts 3 million monthly users

Friendly for Facebook, the unofficial Facebook iPad app developed by Oecoway and first released in August 2010, now attracts over…

13 years ago

Apple continuously tracking and storing iPhone location data

The Apple iPhone and iPad with 3G connectivity constantly record and store location data to a file on the user’s…

13 years ago

Irish & British teens safest users of Facebook, but many breaking law to use site

Ireland & the UK have some of the most secure teenage users of Facebook despite having some of the highest…

13 years ago

RTÉ Player coming to Android and iPhone later this year

RTÉ will release Android and iOS versions of their popular video-on-demand RTÉ Player service later this year. According to Silicon…

13 years ago

Twitter picks London over Dublin for its European offices

Dublin has lost out to London as Twitter’s European Headquarters. The news came as Twitter announced that it will begin…

13 years ago

Of course there is royal wedding iPad, iPhone and Android app

Do you want to take Kate Middleton down the aisle (or the nave if you want to be pedantic)? Well…

13 years ago

Smartphones disruptive technology for teens, replacing Nokia; Arekibo report

Smartphone such as iPhones and Blackberries are changing how Irish teens communicate, socialise and even sleep; a white paper released…

13 years ago