Most European languages “unlikely to survive in the digital age”
Dozens of European languages are threatened by a lack of technological supports, a major international study called Languages in the European Information Society has found
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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 such as the UK and Germany. But is number correct? More often than the not broadband speeds promised in the telecom’s ads or websites don’t reflect what the average home or business receives.
Tell us how fast your internet connection is.
Fine Gael and Labour’s Programme for Government #infographic
"Government", "new" and "public" were the most mentioned words in Fine Gael and Labour's Programme for Government released this week.
Geolocation apps causing new privacy and safety fears for smartphone users
Smartphone users are becoming more concerned about their privacy when using geolocation apps, according to a survey released by Microsoft this week to coincide with Data Privacy Day. The survey found that users have a host of concerns for their privacy when using location based phone apps Some 84% of respondents said that they fear such applications could be used to help unknown people steal personal information or identities.
Foursquare records check-ins from every country in the world, and also 1 from space
Foursquare users checked in over 380,576,305 times in 2010, including once from the International Space Station, the company announced today. Describing 2010 as “an insane year” the three year old smartphone social network released some information (in infographic form, of course) about their userbase.
Chinese to overtake English as the dominant language of the internet
Chinese will overtake English as the dominate language on the internet in the next five years, according to data collated by TNW. TNW says that there are over 400m Chinese language internet users, a number approaching the 530m English language internet users. Along with this already large number Chinese has also seen a 1,277% increase in online use in the past decade.
Watch live tweets from the #ictumarch
Despite plummeting temperatures, the Irish political landscape will heat up on Saturday as thousands of people are expected to take part in the planned Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) march.
Bing Maps Ireland’s #bailout Tweets
Bing Maps showing Twitter overlayFor a second consecutive week only one topic has been occupying Irish Twitter users – the €85 billion EU/IMF #bailout.
