20.05.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as Xbox celebrates 28 months as the top games console in the US, HP unveils two new hybrid laptops, and Dell gets ready to ship its thumb-sized PC device.
19.05.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week’s selection features Facebook in real life, an autocue prank, an easily spooked cat, a surprise encounter between a deer and a bus, two men undergoing labour pains, and the internet as toys.
17.05.2013 Videos of gameplay on Nintendo video games uploaded by YouTube users will, in some cases, be accompanied by advertising that generates revenue for Nintendo only, with nothing going towards the content creators, as the games company exerts its rights under YouTube’s terms.
16.05.2013 Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon which appears in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide in 70 countries and 25 languages, wants someone to build him a mobile video game. And he doesn’t care if you are a 12-year-old Irish coder or a seasoned developer, he just wants it to be good and he’s willing to offer the opportunity of a lifetime to make it happen.
16.05.2013 Apple has revealed that Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, as the person who downloaded the 50 billionth app from the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch.
16.05.2013 Eircom has gone live with the first phase of its €1.5bn fibre network which will deliver speeds up to 70Mbps to some 300,000 homes initially. By the time the network rollout is complete, it will reach more than 1.2m homes across Ireland.
16.05.2013 It’s official: the latest instalment from PlayStation’s best-selling franchise will arrive in time for the holiday season later this year.
16.05.2013 Microsoft’s next computer, the Surface Pro - a machine that looks like a tablet computer but has the full power of a Windows 8 notebook computer - will go on sale in Ireland and the UK on 30 May.
16.05.2013 Google’s social network Google+ has been given a bit of a facelift, moving away from the linear stream to a more progressive multi-column layout. Google senior vice-president Vic Gundotra said there are now 190m active users on Google+.
15.05.2013 Google has formally revealed its new streaming-music subscriptions service which will sit on top of the existing Google Play Music service. The on-demand song-streaming service will be known as Google Play Music All Access and follows on the heels of Google striking deals with Sony, Warner, and Universal.
