Android will power half of world’s smartphone market by 2012

According to market research firm Gartner, Android will power almost half of the world’s smartphone market by 2015. Android, Google’s…

13 years ago

ESA astronaut photographs the International Space Station in 3D

A European Space Agency astronaut, Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli @astro_paolo, has been on tour in the International Space Station since…

13 years ago

Digital democracy – Google Transparency Report gets realtime updates

Google Transparency Report, the search giant's server analysis tool has added realtime analytics and added data about local outages, the…

13 years ago

MediaSift brings realtime sentiment and text analysis to Twitter search

Under MediaSift’s DataSift brand the freemium service will allow users to search and filter Twitter’s full firehose of content according…

13 years ago

View your location history with Google Maps 5.3 update for Android

Google have just released Google Maps 5.3 update for Android that introduces a Google Location History dashboard, allows users to…

13 years ago

Why is Google building driverless cars? #robots

Sebastian Thrun is an expert on AI, Artificial Intelligence, and he is on a personal mission. As director of the…

13 years ago

Save 90% off call costs with “virtual landline” iPhone app

Dublin based internet telephonics company Blueface have recently released an iPhone app, known as Banter, that claims to save customers…

13 years ago

Luas passengers get free iPhone app, free Wi-Fi coming soon

Luas operator, Viola, will install free Wi-Fi on Red and Green line trams "in the coming months," the Railway Procurement…

13 years ago

In conversation with Mark Krieger, President & Co-founder of TweetRoost

You may call him defiant, or foolhardy, but in one week Mark Krieger will do something that would make most…

13 years ago

iPhone 5 may include an 8-megapixel camera built by Sony

Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer may have inadvertently admitted that Sony image sensors will be used in the iPhone 5.…

13 years ago

Irish Rail: Twitter, social networking and keeping commuters updated

Following on from our article on Wednesday we talked to Irish Rail spokesman Barry Kenny about Twitter, user comments, and…

13 years ago

How Europeana, crowdsourcing & wiki principles are preserving European history

As the Europeana digitisation roadshow starts in Germany this week we spoke to Jonathan Purday, Senior Communications Advisor at Europeana.eu,…

13 years ago

Microsoft to introduce NFC mobile payment technology into Windows Mobile

Microsoft are rumoured to have plans to introduce near-field communication, or NFC, technology into future versions of their Windows Mobile…

13 years ago

Irish Rail’s signal and points failure and its failure to make point

According to Irish Rail today's delay on the northern line was caused by a signal failure but this was not…

13 years ago

Interview with Gary Delaney, CEO of Loc8 Code – Ireland’s smarter addressing system

To coincide with the launch of the first independent mobile phone application harnessing the power of Loc8 Code, we spoke…

13 years ago

Consumer Agency warns of email phishing scam targeting internet bankers

The National Consumer Agency is warning AIB and other bank customers to be wary of convincing spam emails circulating at…

13 years ago

New Irish awards ceremony, the Irish Social Media Awards, announced

While the announcement of the death of the Irish Blog Awards last week in Belfast may have disappointed some, the…

13 years ago

Google’s Near Field Communication phone retail system adds partners

Google is rumored to be rolling out a smarthpone based real-world payment system using Near Field Communication technology. Well, the…

13 years ago

Social networking through Earth Hour – did we miss the point?

According to Google’s Realtime search results the greatest number of tweets about Earth Hour from Irish users came at exactly…

13 years ago

Google releases imagery update in Google Earth

The Google LatLong team have released an imagery update which is available now in Google Earth and Google Maps. The…

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