Irish Rail: Twitter, social networking and keeping commuters updated

Following on from our article on Wednesday we talked to Irish Rail spokesman Barry Kenny about Twitter, user comments, and…

13 years ago

How Europeana, crowdsourcing & wiki principles are preserving European history

As the Europeana digitisation roadshow starts in Germany this week we spoke to Jonathan Purday, Senior Communications Advisor at Europeana.eu,…

13 years ago

Microsoft to introduce NFC mobile payment technology into Windows Mobile

Microsoft are rumoured to have plans to introduce near-field communication, or NFC, technology into future versions of their Windows Mobile…

13 years ago

Irish Rail’s signal and points failure and its failure to make point

According to Irish Rail today's delay on the northern line was caused by a signal failure but this was not…

13 years ago

Interview with Gary Delaney, CEO of Loc8 Code – Ireland’s smarter addressing system

To coincide with the launch of the first independent mobile phone application harnessing the power of Loc8 Code, we spoke…

13 years ago

Consumer Agency warns of email phishing scam targeting internet bankers

The National Consumer Agency is warning AIB and other bank customers to be wary of convincing spam emails circulating at…

13 years ago

New Irish awards ceremony, the Irish Social Media Awards, announced

While the announcement of the death of the Irish Blog Awards last week in Belfast may have disappointed some, the…

13 years ago

Google’s Near Field Communication phone retail system adds partners

Google is rumored to be rolling out a smarthpone based real-world payment system using Near Field Communication technology. Well, the…

13 years ago

Social networking through Earth Hour – did we miss the point?

According to Google’s Realtime search results the greatest number of tweets about Earth Hour from Irish users came at exactly…

13 years ago

Google releases imagery update in Google Earth

The Google LatLong team have released an imagery update which is available now in Google Earth and Google Maps. The…

13 years ago

Smartphone won’t hold charge? Try a solar panel touch screen.

Wysips a young company from Provence have created a paper-thin photovoltaic film which can generate an electrical charge from any…

13 years ago

Crowdsourcing history: European museums need your help to digitise World War One records

Europeana (@EuropeanaEU), a Europe-wide digital archive consisting of over 1,500 museums, galleries, and institutions has launched a multinational drive to…

13 years ago

Twestival 2011 kicking off in Dublin, Galway and Belfast

Twestival 2011 is kicking off right about now across Ireland, bringing Twitter users together in tangible form and raising money…

13 years ago

The Sociable’s Irish broadband speed test. Tell us how fast your internet connection is

Believe it or not Ireland ranks as 13th in the world for broadband quality speed, ahead of our European friends…

13 years ago

Chrome 11 beta introduces speech to text capabilities

As news of Firefox 4’s five million downloads in the first 24 hours of public release emerges, Google have pushed…

13 years ago

Commuting in Ireland: guide for @BusAthaCliath & @irishrail customers

Was your @irishrail train delayed? Didn't have exact change for the @BusAthaCliath bus? Well scenes from this classic Irish Film…

13 years ago

Ireland’s first crowdfunding network, fund:it, is launched

Fund:it encourages social networking users and others to donate small amounts of money to groups and organisations who wish to…

13 years ago

Google fined €100,000 by French privacy watchdog

Google have received their first fine for illegally gathering and storing users’ personal data while using Google Street View vehicles.…

13 years ago

Social Networking crowdfunding group, Fund:it, to launch on Tuesday

Fund:it uses, to borrow a phrase from Chirs Andersen, “the long tail” of the web to create enough start-up capital…

13 years ago

What was the first ever tweet?

Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, is celebrating its fifth birthday today. While much can be said about the platform's phenomenal…

13 years ago