A quick tour of this year’s Eircom Spiders awards and nominees

The nominations for this year's Eircom Spiders was announced today. There are 20 categories this year so join us as…

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South Park and the perils of Facebook

A funny sketch from South Park where Kyle has to deal with Facebook issues and associated peer pressure.

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Rainbow add-on for Firefox records audio and video

In keeping with Mozilla’s vision of innovation and progression around its popular browser Firefox, Mozilla have extended the browser’s media…

14 years ago

3 quick and nerdy ways to browse the web more securely

We have published a few stories about security and privacy threats recently so we felt it was time to have…

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Dublin Web Summit (#dws4) kicks-off tonight

The fourth event in the successful Dublin Web Summit series has commenced in the Chartered Accountants House, Dublin. This summit…

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PlayStation introduces PlayStation Rewards – A new way to gain exclusive status and recognition

Today PlayStation launched their newest venture PlayStation Rewards, a new program that recognises and rewards users for simply doing what…

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Google donates $5 million to encourage innovation in digital journalism

Google are donating $5 million in grants to non-profit organisations in an effort to encourage innovation in digital journalism. The…

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Google launches Boost, local business advertising solution

In an official blog post Google have announced the availability of Google Boost, an online advertising solution that aims to…

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And now you’re done: Amazon’s $269 million tax bill

The state of Texas is persuing online retailer Amazon for $269 (€192.61) million in unpaid taxes according to Publishers Weekly.…

14 years ago

#newtwitter is down, again [Breaking News]

Twitter's status blog reports that the social network's new interface is down. Users currently logging into Twitter are seeing blank…

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3 simple ways to protect your privacy on Facebook

From accusations that it has outed gay users to poor security that allowed apps to leak user information to advertising…

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Irish Data Protection Commission to quiz Facebook over user ID leaks

Speaking in response to an information request from this site the Irish Data Protection Commission said that as Facebook's Europe,…

14 years ago

Is Facebook Places about to launch in Ireland?

Rumours have been circulating around Twitter in the last few days speculating that Facebook Places is about to launch in…

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Microsoft announces new browser-based game marketplace

Microsoft have announced Games for Windows Marketplace, a new browser-based PC game store that combines Microsoft’s Windows Games on Demand…

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Bloomberg: Google’s Dublin offices saving Google billions in US and Irish tax

Bloomberg has published a damning article accusing Google of using “a complicated structure” of overseas accounts, including its Dublin offices,…

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Google’s 1 gigabyte broadband trial

In a blog post today, Google announced their plans to trial an ultra-high speed broadband network on part of Stanford…

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Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event in brief

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled several new products at the “Back to the Mac” special event in California yesterday. We've…

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There is Mozilla App store for that

Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, have released specifications for an open app store standard in the hopes to combat Apple’s…

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Google to digitise and publish Dead Sea Scrolls

Google and the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) have reached a deal that will allow Google to scan the complete collection…

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Your Facebook privacy questions answered

As you have no doubt read Facebook is in the middle of another privacy scare, but what exactly happened and…

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