Less than 1% of Firefox users activate “Do not track” feature

Less than 1% of Firefox users have activated the "Do not track" option in the latest version of the browser…

13 years ago

Social networking may “come back to haunt teachers”, says teachers’ union

Teachers who friend students or their parents on social networking sites may find their activities "come back to haunt them",…

13 years ago

Sony confirms hackers are responsible for PlayStation Network outage

Sony have posted an update to their European PlayStation blog confirming that hackers are to blame for the on-going PlayStation…

13 years ago

Prolonged PlayStation Network outage enters second day

Sony PlayStation 3 owners are experiencing a prolonged PlayStation Network (PSN) outage that has more persisted for more than twenty-four…

13 years ago

Amazon “all hands on deck” but many social networking sites still down

Amazon says that they are "all hands on deck" try to resolve the massive cloud server failure in North Virginia…

13 years ago

How did Amazon bring down some of the world’s largest social networks?

Amazon's outage has brought down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, paper.li, Hootsuite, LiveFyre and possibly Publishers Weekly website as well as many…

13 years ago

Friendly for Facebook iPad app attracts 3 million monthly users

Friendly for Facebook, the unofficial Facebook iPad app developed by Oecoway and first released in August 2010, now attracts over…

13 years ago

Apple continuously tracking and storing iPhone location data

The Apple iPhone and iPad with 3G connectivity constantly record and store location data to a file on the user’s…

13 years ago

Irish & British teens safest users of Facebook, but many breaking law to use site

Ireland & the UK have some of the most secure teenage users of Facebook despite having some of the highest…

13 years ago

RTÉ Player coming to Android and iPhone later this year

RTÉ will release Android and iOS versions of their popular video-on-demand RTÉ Player service later this year. According to Silicon…

13 years ago

Twitter picks London over Dublin for its European offices

Dublin has lost out to London as Twitter’s European Headquarters. The news came as Twitter announced that it will begin…

13 years ago

Of course there is royal wedding iPad, iPhone and Android app

Do you want to take Kate Middleton down the aisle (or the nave if you want to be pedantic)? Well…

13 years ago

Smartphones disruptive technology for teens, replacing Nokia; Arekibo report

Smartphone such as iPhones and Blackberries are changing how Irish teens communicate, socialise and even sleep; a white paper released…

13 years ago

Google to permanently shut down Google Video by May 13

Google have announced via an email sent to Google Video users that it is shutting down the service permanently next…

13 years ago

YouTube Copyright School – Lessons for pirates

YouTube is sending copyright infringers to school, copyright school that is. The video sharing site has set up an online…

13 years ago

Free live TV from Magnet WebTV available to stream on 99% of devices

Live TV streaming service Magnet WebTV have recently extended the availability of their service to 99% of all devices. Launched…

13 years ago

BBC confirms reduced online services with revised service license

Following on from budget cuts announced by the BBC at the start of this year regarding the national broadcaster’s online…

13 years ago

RunCoCo’s Alun Edwards tells us about crowdsourcing World War One history in Germany

At the start of the month we spoke to Jonathan Purday, Senior Communications Advisor at Europeana.eu about the organisations forthcoming…

13 years ago

Microsoft’s Streetside coming to European cities soon

Streetside, Microsoft's answer to Google Street View, has begun to gather street level imagery in Europe. Microsoft's Streetview service currently…

13 years ago

YouTube film of Yury Gagarin recreates 50 years of man in space

YouTube is celebrating 50 years of manned space flight by premiering a feature length film which recreates Yury Gagarin’s first…

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