As other EU countries look on, smartphone and tablet users in Sweden, who don't own a TV, will have to pay the country's national TV license from today
The Irish debate over the use of social media might be new but the issues & grievances are not, so why are we stuck in the past when discussing the future?
The Irish Government has announced an investigation into whether "regulation" is need of public social media comments & their use by the mainstream media
Most of the population of Ireland has not upgraded to DTT, Saorview, but this might be a good thing as modern devices can view Saorview & Freeview together.
The American College Football season will kick off in Dublin Ireland and YouTube will be there to live stream the opening concert from the city's O2 Arena.
RTÉ.ie is Ireland's largest online media property serving 4.4 million monthly unique visitors, that's according to the recently published ABC Island of Ireland report.
In exactly 100 days Ireland's television network will no longer be broadcast in analogue form, instead replaced by digital, marking the most significant change in Ireland's broadcast history since the coming of colour television in 1969.
Over one million Irish adults, or 42% of the Irish online population, have used RTÉ Player, that's according to the broadcaster. The player was made available on the iPhone, iPod and iPad in December last year and has been downloaded over 200,000 times.
Social media and changing search habits have broadened our appetite for more graphic news content but present difficult editorial decisions for reporters.
As promised by RTÉ's director of platform development Aisling McCabe at October's Dublin Web Summit, the RTÉ Player app for the iPhone and iPad has been released in time for Christmas. The universal iOS app made its way through Apple's App Store approval process last weekend, and was made available for free download as of this morning.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 has been set as the official date of completion of the switchover to Digital TV in Ireland. On that date analogue TV signals across the island of Ireland will be no longer be broadcast.
A new online Irish TV service, aertv, launched yesterday, allowing viewers to watch 11 Irish and international channels in one place, directly within the browser. What's more, the service requires no registration and is absolutely free.