IIA ‘overwhelmed’ by record number of entries to the 2011 Net Visionary Awards

14 years ago

The Irish Internet Association was 'overwhealmed' by the record number of entries to this year's Net Visionary Awards, the organisation…

Amazon admits lightning didn’t strike its Dublin Data center, but a series of errors did

14 years ago

Lightning was not responsible for the service outage which brought down Amazon's AWS cloud servers last week. A series of…

Google Earth imagery update helps uncover part of Scotland’s hidden heritage

14 years ago

The Google Earth and Google Maps team published an imagery update earlier today which, as usual, contains some really interesting…

The National Heritage Council looks to the future with its first smartphone app

14 years ago

Ireland's National Heritage Council has taken to the future with the release of an iPhone app, for National Heritage Week.

Google plans to “supercharge” Android with €8.73 billion Motorola acquisition

14 years ago

Google has today announced that they've entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Motorola Mobility for €8.73 billion ($12.5 billion).…

Detailed renderings of Apple’s new circular HQ in Cupertino, California

14 years ago

The official website for the city of Cupertino, California has posted new renderings of Apple's planned circular headquarters, first revealed…

Twitter RSS feed generator

14 years ago

Use our Twitter RSS generator to create RSS feeds for Twitter users, Twitter lists, and Twitter search.

Book scanning for $1 anyone?

14 years ago

A novel service, 1DollarScan, launched in the US last week and builds on the successes of their Japanese counterpart Bookscan.…

Wolfram Alpha comes alive with new Computable Document Format

14 years ago

Computational knowledge search engine Wolfram Alpha has announced that their recently introduced Computable Document Format (CDF) has been integrated with…

Twitter vows to purge spammers with “predictive” spam technology

14 years ago

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has vowed to counteract spam accounts with "realtime" and "predictive" spam technology that the company is…

Google Ireland’s Dublin staff put on a performance for the Google Street View cameras

14 years ago

Google's latest update to its Street View imagery of Ireland shows Google's entire Dublin staff come out to put on…

Amazon launches Kindle Cloud Reader to bypass Apple’s App Store restrictions

14 years ago

Amazon today, Wednesday, unveiled the Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5-based version of their Kindle book reader app that works on…

Twitter doesn’t want you looking at Google’s cache of its pages, but it can be done

14 years ago

Viewing Google's cache of a Twitter profile can be more difficult than it first seems but it can be done,…

Facebook launches standalone Android and iPhone messaging app

14 years ago

Facebook has just launched a standalone messaging app, Facebook Messenger, for Android and iOS devices. The app allows Facebook users…

HTC’s Android-powered Wildfire S [Review]

14 years ago

We've got our hands on the HTC Wildfire S, the successor to the hugely successful HTC Wildfire smartphone that originally…

Early speculators estimate iPhone 5 will be cheaper than previous model

14 years ago

As the iPhone 5's inevitable launch date in late September or October draws ever closer, speculators have begun to estimate…

“We need to encourage business to use reputable, qualified web developers,” says the IIA

14 years ago

Businesses need to recognise the importance of professional web development, according to the head of the Irish Internet Association, Joan…

BBC launch new TV-friendly iPlayer

14 years ago

The BBC has today launched a new TV-friendly version of its video on demand iPlayer service which aims to improve…

Doom 3 source code to be open sourced by the end of the year

14 years ago

The entire source code for Doom 3 is to be opened to the public for armchair game developers to play…

iPhone users almost twice as likely as Android users to click on ads

14 years ago

According to a report by US-based mobile ad company Jumptap, iPhone users are almost twice as likely to click on…