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We live in the information age and technology is an aspect of our daily lives, but it is seemingly lacking...

The Tutu Project donates $100,000 to 11 grant recipients to provide support and care for families affected by breast cancer....

Google has begun to pilot a new mobile app called One Today. The app highlights a new charity each day and facilitates the donation of $1 to a particular nonprofit should the user choose to contribute.

If you've just gotten a new smartphone or tablet here are some of the best apps you can download, & what you can do with your old phones and tablets

International charity Camara has launched a campaign which hopes to see hundreds of computers delivered to disadvantaged schools in Africa to help teach modern IT skills.

Today, Friday, Sage Ireland is encouraging its social media followers and customers to send a tweet with the hashtag #SageXmasGiving. For every tweet published that includes the hashtag, Sage will donate €1 to St. Vincent de Paul, the largest charitable organisation in Ireland.

Many of Ireland's national and international technology leaders were sleeping rough in Dublin City to shine a light on homelessness for Focus Ireland.

ESB Electric Ireland's 'Tweet 'em Home for Christmas' will try to get 3 cars, including a DeLorean, across Ireland using tweets as fuel.

A mass army of the undead has invaded Dublin city, attacking Dubliners and tourists, local news reported moments ago.  A hoard of the flesh eating scourge was fist spotted in the city's central St. Stephen's Green Park at about 2pm.

Social entrepreneurship has the ability to become a sustainable platform for economic change in Ireland and around the world, the Mindfield festival heard today.

O2 Ireland wants you to share a happy thought on Twitter or Facebook to help promote young people’s mental health in Ireland. The telecommunications company has parntered with the Dublin-based charity Headstrong, @HeadstrongYMH work to raise awareness of mental health issues in young people who are at risk of suicide or self-harm.

Twestival 2011 is kicking off right about now across Ireland, bringing Twitter users together in tangible form and raising money for charity in the process. Tonight's Twestival events in Dublin, Galway and Belfast promise to provide entertainment, a chance to meet like-minded people, and of course help their respective causes.

The International Red Cross, Red Crescent has warned email users to be vigilant of hoax emails purporting to be from, or in aid of, victims of the Japanese earthquake.

Several of the UK and Ireland’s largest publishers will be giving away 1 million free books to members of the public this Saturday in what is being described as “the most ambitious and far-reaching celebration of adult books and reading ever attempted.”

Irish charity Trócaire is inviting Facebook users to give up something they love for just one day, to raise money for charitable causes across the world. From March 3 to 4 this year Trócaire, which runs over 124 programmes in 38 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, is challenging Facebook users to sponsor their friends who give up using one of dozens of items or activities, including Food, The Web, Coffee, Music, Texting, Make Up, Chocolate or TV for 24 hours.

Amber Alerts, a US initiative designed to find and protect missing children, has turned to Facebook in its latest drive.

If your New Year’s resolution is to donate more to charity than you could do worse than by giving free internet access to some of the world’s poorest people. All you have to do it buy an entire satellite, something a US charity is attempting to do this year. A Human Right plans to raise over $150,000 so it can buy the largest communications satellite in earth orbit to provide free internet access to billions of people.