• DIGITAL MEDIA

  RTÉ’s new digital strategy revealed

  21.05.2012 On the way is a new-look RTÉ Player and a RTÉ Shop for buying digital content

  

• DIGITAL MEDIA

  Mobile adult subscriptions could be worth $1bn by 2015

  02.05.2012 The increasing user base will mean greater revenues

  

• APPS

  Instagram now has 50m members

  02.05.2012 5m new users are joining Instagram each week, say reports

  

• SECURITY

  5 steps for a safe ROUTE

  02.05.2012 Information security association ISACA has five steps for geolocation safety

  

• DESIGN

  'Father of neuroscience’ celebrated in Google doodle

  01.05.2012 Ramón y Cajal is the subject of the latest Google doodle

  

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  Tourism Ireland’s British base has kicked off a new business tourism promotion offering senior executives a chance to win a tour of Ireland by Twitter.

• Facebook denies under-13s will be able to join network 21.05.2012

  Facebook is not changing its rules and allowing children under the age of 13 to join the social networking site, the company said in response to a contrary report.

• Newsletter.ie Facebook apps add email sign-up and surveys to pages 21.05.2012

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• RTÉ’s new digital strategy revealed – new Player in works 21.05.2012

  Siliconrepublic.com got a first look at RTÉ’s new digital strategy that will see every facet of Ireland's national broadcaster utilised for digital products. On the way is a new-look RTÉ Player and a RTÉ Shop for buying digital content.

• Is Microsoft’s new social network So.cl a direct attack on Google? 21.05.2012

  Microsoft has launched its own social network called So.cl. The new network appears to be more of a threat to Google+ than Facebook, featuring video parties to rival Hangouts, and ultimately is a share-and-search facility for students.

• Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan 20.05.2012

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• Meet the Irish Facebook engineer who was part of clever NASDAQ bell hack 19.05.2012

  Irish Facebook engineer Colm Doyle was one of the team of Facebook engineers who devised the clever hack that saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline automatically update the instant he rang the NASDAQ bell yesterday signalling the start of the social network’s IPO.

• Tech tweets of the week 19.05.2012

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• Harvard Business Review publisher: relevancy is key to digital age 18.05.2012

  The key word of the digital age and in a time of social sharing and algorithms is ‘relevancy’, the publisher of the Harvard Business Review Josh Macht told publishers this week. He said we are now in an era where marriage of big data with an editorial voice offers an opportunity to create a community around online publications.

• Blacknight, Vodafone and more honoured at Social Media Awards 2012 18.05.2012

  Vodafone Ireland scored a hat trick while Blacknight’s Michele Neylon put his company’s social media success down to a personable approach at the second annual Social Media Awards.

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