New Media

BSkyB to launch Sky 3D on 3 April

19.03.2010 Europe’s first 3D TV channel Sky 3D will launch on Saturday 3 April with the Manchester United and Chelsea Premier League match as the first show broadcast. More »
YouTube claims Viacom manipulated video takedowns

19.03.2010 The ongoing legal spat between YouTube and Viacom following the US$1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit slapped on the video-sharing site has become heated with the release of court documents from both companies. More »
Facebook partners with anti-bullying orgs for web safety

18.03.2010 Following a meeting with the UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson Facebook says that it plans to add an extra layer to its reporting function in order to better protect younger users against cyberbullying and sexual predators. More »
Digital Hub offers students a taste of their dream jobs

18.03.2010 Final-year college students could get a taste of their dream job – and be in with a chance to win €1,000 – through a competition launched by the Digital Hub Development Agency. More »
Google is working on TV project with Intel, Logitech and Sony

18.03.2010 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. More »
Facebook overtakes Google, Twitterers prefer social to news

18.03.2010 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. More »
Twitter spreads further with @anywhere

16.03.2010 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. More »
XML inventor joins Google, jabs Apple’s mobile web vision

15.03.2010 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. More »
iPad insanity as Apple takes early orders for new form factor

13.03.2010 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. More »
Opera Mini 5 arrives on Android

11.03.2010 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. More »