New Media

Steve Jobs awarded a Grammy for his contribution to music

13.02.2012 The late Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who spearheaded the consumer computing revolution and deftly followed this up with the digital media revolution on iPods, the iPhone and the iPad, has been awarded a posthumous Grammy. More »
Eason is the first Irish brand to hit Pinterest

13.02.2012 Eason is the first Irish brand to bring its presence to social pinboard site Pinterest, using it to highlight its business and product range. More »
Tech tweets of the week

11.02.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. More »
Germany postpones decision to sign controversial ACTA treaty

10.02.2012 As thousands of people in 200 European cities prepare to march in protest tomorrow against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Germany has delivered a potentially devastating blow to the pro-treaty faction by delaying its decision to sign the treaty. More »
Dad shoots daughter's laptop after Facebook rant

10.02.2012 A dad in the US state of North Carolina shot his daughter's laptop computer nine times and posted a video of the shootout on YouTube after she ranted about her parents on Facebook. More »
Path CEO apologises over iPhone address book debacle

09.02.2012 The CEO of live journal app Path has apologised over the revelation that the app takes all a user’s address book information from their iPhone and uploads it to its servers without permission and has released a new update, Path 2.0.6. Dave Morin says Path has deleted the entire collection of user uploaded contact information from its servers. More »
Ireland’s SOPA: no reprieve - SI not going back out for consultation

08.02.2012 Last-minute hopes for a controversial statutory instrument dubbed Ireland’s SOPA going back out to the public for consultation have been dashed. The instrument is due to be signed shortly. More »
Social technologies bridge generation gap - study

08.02.2012 Some 83pc of people ages 13-75 consider going online to be a “helpful” form of communication among family members, a new research report suggests. More »
Google unveils Chrome for Android Beta

07.02.2012 Internet giant Google has launched Chrome for Android Beta that will bring the browser to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphones or tablets. More »
Kinect Star Wars to enter Earth’s orbit on 3 April

07.02.2012 The much anticipated Kinect Star Wars game from Microsoft and Lucas Arts is due to go on sale on 3 April next. More »