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There are more tablets on the market this Christmas than ever before, so if you're a parent, which should you get for your little one?

Google's been in Ireland for 10 years, so here's show the company's Irish staff decided to celebrate.

RTÉ Player is to include movies for the first time later this week, the national broadcaster announced in a tweet earlier this evening.

Twitter tells the Irish government why a state-funded social media ombudsman would be unworkable as the country looks at new laws for social media.

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

Car maker Volvo has turned to Shazam to make its latest ad and car, the Volvo V40, more engaging to second screen users.

TV transmitters in Northern Ireland have started broadcasting Freeview ahead of the digital switch over. Some channels are available in the Republic.

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.

Netflix's UK & Ireland audience has grown faster than any other territory but it still has a long way to go until it catches up with TV.

Google search results for the London 2012 Olympic Games reveal we have a new Olympic obsession - the medal table.

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.

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

Aisling McCabe, director of platform development at RTÉ, took to the stage at the Dublin Web Summit this evening to announce RTÉ's plans to launch RTÉ Player iPhone and iPad app in the coming months. More specfically, before Christmas.