Internet outages in Bangladesh may soon become a thing of the past

13 years ago

National Internet outages in Bangladesh may soon become a thing of the past as recent evidence suggests that the country…

Rainbow shooting unicorns & the Super Bowl – bringing your #YourBigIdea to the web in 2013

13 years ago

GoDaddy and .CO have gone all out on their ad campaign for this year's Super Bowl - featuring dancing unicorns.

Unprecedented recruitment campaign from Twitter, Google, Facebook & others to entice tech talent to Dublin

13 years ago

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, Twitter, and Intel launch a major joint recruitment campaign because they need you to work…

Keeping your info off Facebook’s Graph Search is easy, unless your friends have other ideas

13 years ago

If you want your data to be kept off Facebook's Graph Search then you're going to have to ask your…

Social media measurement conference to be held in Dublin next month

13 years ago

Measurement, a social media measurement conference due to be held in Dublin next month, has announced its final lineup, with…

Twitter warns of “serious chilling effect on free expression” posed by governments

13 years ago

As more governments request access to Twitter's data the company warns that such requests are having "a serious chilling effect…

How Trustev is fighting fraud with social data

13 years ago

One Irish start-up is fighting fraud with with the social web. We speaking to Trustev to see how they're doing…

Google+’s very basic photo analytics can be quite useful

13 years ago

Social networks don't give you many options for analytics but with Google+ you can get an impression of how popular…

New video format, H.265, to ease Internet bandwidth burden

13 years ago

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved a new video coding standard known affectionately as H.265, and informally as High…

Twitter gets animated with its latest acquisition, Vine

13 years ago

Twitter has announced its first acquisition of the year - a short video creation service called Vine.

Google Street View & Photo Sphere reveal what it’s like to work in Google

13 years ago

If you've ever wondered what it's like to work in Google then have a look at these Photo Spheres and…

Google calls on governments to be transparent about how & why they request access to citizens’ data

13 years ago

Google has asked international governments to be more open with how they use legal means to get access to users'…

Update: Cuban Internet speeds vastly improve today but access still limited

13 years ago

Updating news from last week, Internet traffic in Cuba was vastly improved today but the country is still far behind…

The Tweeties: an awards night for top Irish Twitter talent

13 years ago

Our regular readers may have become accustomed to us raving about the Web Awards, Social Media Awards, or Blog Awards…

Profile: bitSmith Games. How one start-up is gaming mythology on its road to success

13 years ago

One gaming start-up turned to ancient Celtic mythology for the inspiration for its most successful release - and plans to…

LG: The Nexus 4’s poor release isn’t our fault, Google completely underestimated demand

13 years ago

LG blames Google for the delays in the Nexus 4's roll out but "doesn't want to throw stones." Expects shipments…

Has Cuba activated a dormant undersea cable connecting it to the global Internet?

13 years ago

Has Cuba activated a dormant two year old undersea data cable, connecting the island directly to the global Internet? if…

NASA just beamed the Mona Lisa to the Moon – and this is a good thing

13 years ago

Why did NASA and MIT send a copy of the 500 year old Mona Lisa into space? And how can…

Facebook photo uploads double during New Year 2013, new record set

13 years ago

New Year 2013 set an all-time Facebook record as 1.1 billion photos were uploaded during the 48-hour period beginning New…

Bing brings five times more of your friends’ Facebook to search

13 years ago

Following on from Facebook's Graph Search announcement Tuesday, Microsoft has given its second-rate search engine, Bing, a social update with…