Why is Google building driverless cars? #robots

Sebastian Thrun is an expert on AI, Artificial Intelligence, and he is on a personal mission. As director of the…

13 years ago

Save 90% off call costs with “virtual landline” iPhone app

Dublin based internet telephonics company Blueface have recently released an iPhone app, known as Banter, that claims to save customers…

13 years ago

Luas passengers get free iPhone app, free Wi-Fi coming soon

Luas operator, Viola, will install free Wi-Fi on Red and Green line trams "in the coming months," the Railway Procurement…

13 years ago

In conversation with Mark Krieger, President & Co-founder of TweetRoost

You may call him defiant, or foolhardy, but in one week Mark Krieger will do something that would make most…

13 years ago

iPhone 5 may include an 8-megapixel camera built by Sony

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer may have inadvertently admitted that Sony image sensors will be used in the iPhone 5.…

13 years ago

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