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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:54:01 +0000 30 http://siliconrepublic.com/img/silicon-republic-logo-144px.gif http://siliconrepublic.com/news/section/17/new-media 144 18 Internet search giant Google is understood to have been collaborating with Intel, Logitech and Sony to create a new family of internet-enabled TV sets powered by its Android operating system. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15601/new-media/google-is-working-on-tv-project-with-intel-logitech-and-sony http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15601/new-media/google-is-working-on-tv-project-with-intel-logitech-and-sony Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:56:00 +0000 New Media Driven by the next wave of apps and services like Presence, Geolocation and Social Web, revenues from mobile access to Web 2.0 apps and services will be worth US$18.9bn, analysts have forecast. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15598/comms/mobile-web-2-0-apps-market-to-be-worth-us-18-9bn-by-2014 http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15598/comms/mobile-web-2-0-apps-market-to-be-worth-us-18-9bn-by-2014 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:01:00 +0000 Comms Facebook has overtaken Google in the US to be the most visited website, according to analysis from Hitwise. In related news, Twitter is exploding in terms of upstream traffic to social media sites over news and media sites. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15597/new-media/facebook-overtakes-google-twitterers-prefer-social-to-news http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15597/new-media/facebook-overtakes-google-twitterers-prefer-social-to-news Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:53:00 +0000 New Media Twitter has taken its already open technology a big step further with @anywhere, a new framework that will allow the microblogging service to be embedded anywhere on the web. First stop, YouTube. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15585/new-media/twitter-spreads-further-with-anywhere http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15585/new-media/twitter-spreads-further-with-anywhere Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:57:00 +0000 New Media Acclaimed software developer and entrepreneur Tim Bray who until recently was Sun Microsystems' web chief, has become "developer advocate" at Google and has hit out at Apple's Disney-fied vision of the mobile internet's future. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15575/new-media/xml-inventor-joins-google-jabs-apples-mobile-web-vision http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15575/new-media/xml-inventor-joins-google-jabs-apples-mobile-web-vision Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:44:00 +0000 New Media Regulators in the US are set to roll out an ambitious broadband policy plan that will see the average American experience increases in speeds up to 25 times faster than what they currently experience. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15562/comms/major-us-broadband-policy-plan-to-be-revealed http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15562/comms/major-us-broadband-policy-plan-to-be-revealed Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:46:00 +0000 Comms As it emerges Apple has begun taking early orders for its eponymous iPad, estimates are figuring orders at the rate of 20,000 per hour are being sustained. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15559/new-media/ipad-insanity-as-apple-takes-early-orders-for-new-form-factor http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15559/new-media/ipad-insanity-as-apple-takes-early-orders-for-new-form-factor Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:12:00 +0000 New Media Independent licensed telecoms providers in Ireland have added their voice to the call to prioritise the introduction of postcodes which will be vital to future GPS and location-based e-commerce services. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15541/comms/telcos-warn-post-codes-essential-to-future-of-comms http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15541/comms/telcos-warn-post-codes-essential-to-future-of-comms Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:36:00 +0000 Comms Software company Opera has released a version of its speedy mobile web browser for the Android phone and Opera Mini 5 is now available for download in Android Market. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15535/new-media/opera-mini-5-arrives-on-android http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15535/new-media/opera-mini-5-arrives-on-android Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:14:00 +0000 New Media In a move aimed at fueling the momentum so far with 2m businesses now adopting Google Apps, the internet giant has opened a new Apps Marketplace chock-full of third party cloud apps like payroll and productivity software. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15534/cio/google-opens-new-apps-store-for-businesses http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15534/cio/google-opens-new-apps-store-for-businesses Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:03:00 +0000 CIO Top-right-oriented-graph-itis is a particularly nasty condition, prevalent amongst many busy middle and senior managers; it gives them symptoms of a warm and fuzzy feeling that all is well, when actually they don't know if all is well or not. It manifests itself in a desire to view graphs which generally rise from bottom left to top right, with the issue of what is being measured, and how, simply secondary to have a graph conforming to the correct shape. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15476/new-media/urgent-need-for-new-online-metrics http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15476/new-media/urgent-need-for-new-online-metrics Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:05:00 +0000 New Media Samsung Mobile has captured 20pc of the global smart-phone market. Country manager Gary Twohig wants Irish app developers to vie for a share of a major $2.7m apps competition. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15527/new-media/irish-developers-have-a-chance-to-lead-the-smart-phone-wave http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15527/new-media/irish-developers-have-a-chance-to-lead-the-smart-phone-wave Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000 New Media Samsung Mobile has captured 20pc of the global market. Country manager Gary Twohig wants Irish app developers to vie for a share of the global US$2.7m apps competition. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15492/special-events/irish-developers-have-a-chance-at-leading-the-smartphone-wave http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15492/special-events/irish-developers-have-a-chance-at-leading-the-smartphone-wave Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 +0000 Special Events A new social-networking player has entered the scene to take on micro-messaging player Twitter with a service that enables macro-messages of 300 characters. The Whispurr social-networking service promises to bridge the online world with the offline world. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15496/new-media/twitters-nemesis-arrives-as-a-whispurr-rather-than-a-bang http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15496/new-media/twitters-nemesis-arrives-as-a-whispurr-rather-than-a-bang Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:17:00 +0000 New Media Former senior executives from Accenture and RTE have rolled out a new, free online service in Ireland called GetitKeepit.com that allows users to gather all their utility bills in one place and help to analyse, organise and retain them securely. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15495/new-media/online-service-helps-irish-consumers-analyse-utility-bills http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15495/new-media/online-service-helps-irish-consumers-analyse-utility-bills Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:58:00 +0000 New Media New trends from ultra-thin portable PCs to next-generation tablet devices like the iPad will change the shape of the personal computer as we know it in 2010, IDC says, as consumers are prepared to get more experimental. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15494/new-media/the-new-form-factors-that-will-reshape-the-pc-forever http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15494/new-media/the-new-form-factors-that-will-reshape-the-pc-forever Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:01:00 +0000 New Media A sex offender who used a fake Facebook profile to lure a student to her death has been sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in prison. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15490/digital-life/facebook-killer-gets-35-years-for-murder-of-teenager http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15490/digital-life/facebook-killer-gets-35-years-for-murder-of-teenager Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:08:00 +0000 Digital Life There is strong evidence of pre-launch demand for the Apple iPad greater than that for the iPhone. According to a survey, Amazon and its Kindle e-reader are poised to take a big hit when the new device enters stores on 3 April. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15480/new-media/apples-ipad-will-cannibalise-current-e-reader-market http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15480/new-media/apples-ipad-will-cannibalise-current-e-reader-market Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:08:00 +0000 New Media The worldwide market for touchscreen mobile devices will surpass 362.7 million units in 2010, a 96.8pc increase from 2009 sales of 184.3 million units, according to Gartner. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15479/comms/touchscreen-mobile-phone-sales-to-grow-almost-100pc-in-2010 http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15479/comms/touchscreen-mobile-phone-sales-to-grow-almost-100pc-in-2010 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:16:00 +0000 Comms Citizens need to prepare for the future jobs market and engagement in society through enhanced web skills, the European Commission said today. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15477/digital-life/citizens-need-web-skills-for-future-jobs http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15477/digital-life/citizens-need-web-skills-for-future-jobs Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:00 +0000 Digital Life Video sharing site YouTube is introducing closed captions with many videos, including speeches by US President Barack Obama already featuring this option. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15469/new-media/youtube-introduces-captioned-videos http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15469/new-media/youtube-introduces-captioned-videos Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:01:00 +0000 New Media Less than five months after reaching 5 billion "tweets", microblogging site Twitter has now chalked up some 10 billion tweets. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15461/new-media/twitter-hits-10-billionth-or-so-tweet http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15461/new-media/twitter-hits-10-billionth-or-so-tweet Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:46:00 +0000 New Media Technology is the gift that keeps on giving and cloud computing is one of those gifts, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last night told students at the University of Washington as he outlined his vision of where the cloud is going. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15460/cio/the-us-3-3trn-cloud-computing-opportunity-steve-ballmer http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15460/cio/the-us-3-3trn-cloud-computing-opportunity-steve-ballmer Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:55:00 +0000 CIO Virtual currency on Facebook has the potential to be a bigger revenue maker than the ads business on the social-networking giant's site, the head of its European operations Colm Long told a digital conference in Dublin this week. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15459/business/facebook-could-earn-more-cash-from-virtual-currency-exec-says http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15459/business/facebook-could-earn-more-cash-from-virtual-currency-exec-says Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000 Business TV3's head of online, Peter Clerkin, has transformed the broadcaster's website into a major 'catch-up TV' hub. He says that, with social media, 3D and the mobile-apps revolution, we ain't seen nothing yet. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15437/new-media/tune-in-for-the-major-changes-hitting-tv-as-we-know-it http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15437/new-media/tune-in-for-the-major-changes-hitting-tv-as-we-know-it Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:00:00 +0000 New Media When social networking site Facebook assessed the most popular topic its 350 million users wrote about in their status updates in 2009, the answer was clear: farming. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15440/new-media/check-out-the-social-gaming-goldmine-on-your-way-to-farmville http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15440/new-media/check-out-the-social-gaming-goldmine-on-your-way-to-farmville Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:59:00 +0000 New Media The latest security threat to hit Facebook is a malicious application that spreads quickly by enticing users to create their own app that then inadvertently clones one of the template spam applications. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15435/new-media/malicious-facebook-app-does-the-rounds http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15435/new-media/malicious-facebook-app-does-the-rounds Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:21:00 +0000 New Media New research from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) indicates that digital mobility is making its way into the mainstream. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15428/new-media/digital-mobility-opportunity-for-marketers-eiaa http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15428/new-media/digital-mobility-opportunity-for-marketers-eiaa Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:03:00 +0000 New Media Top technologists from the world's second-largest mobile manufacturer, Samsung, are to hold a Developers Day in Dublin on 25 March to show Irish software developers how to build apps for the forthcoming Samsung Apps Market. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15427/new-media/samsung-invites-apps-developers-on-us-2-7m-wave http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15427/new-media/samsung-invites-apps-developers-on-us-2-7m-wave Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:30:00 +0000 New Media Internet giant Google has acquired photo-editing site Picnik, which allows internet users to edit and touch up their photos without leaving their web browser. http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15415/new-media/google-acquires-photo-editing-site-picnik http://siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15415/new-media/google-acquires-photo-editing-site-picnik Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:06:00 +0000 New Media