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The internet is home to many crazy ideas, however, some of them aren't always that crazy. In fact, some of...

The World Wide Web has given its users a prodigious amount of information at their fingertips. Our ability to learn new...

With Christmas right around the corner, the millennial enigma continues to baffle many when it comes to gifts this holiday...

SponsorPay interview - smartphone & tablet users want more control over the ads that are served to them, & that's a good thing for advertisers.

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

Nexflix will launch in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland by the end of 2012 but won't be called on an official release data just yet.

Netflix, the film and TV episode streaming service, has officially launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland as of today, complete with one-month free trial. While some users reported early access to the service yesterday, both netflix.co.uk and netflix.ie are officially available from this morning.

Figures published today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that more and more Irish businesses are getting online, with consecutive yearly increases in enterprise internet subscriptions, and an increase in online commerce with regard to both the selling and purchasing of goods and services.

Irish consumer are expected to spend €257 million online this Christmas, with today, Cyber Monday, set to be the single busiest day in terms of online trade during this holiday shopping season.

You would think that the Irish would have little reason to celebrate the son of a European tax collector but, come March 17, that is just what the country, and the world, will do. To find out what is happening online we spoke to the organisers of the 2011 St Patrick’s Festival to see what digital events are planned this March.

Ireland’s Digital Times published a great article yesterday about the ever-present influence that print media still holds over the technology industry. The article cites a survey by Eurocom Worldwide and reports that the printed medium is still very much used by technology executives in the industry.

Traffic to The Irish Times website has seen an increase of 82% for the twelve months prior to November 2010, when compared to the previous year. This figures highlights the growing trend of users wanting to source news information online.

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.