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Day two of the Dublin Web Summit [Gallery]
Day two of the Dublin Web Summit has ended with another great line-up of speakers and startup presentations. The Electric Ireland Spark of Genius competition came to a close with SmartThings announced as the overall winner and recipient of a €100,000 cash prize. Here's our image round-up of the second and final day of the Dublin Web Summit.
Darren McCarra
18th October 2012
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Day one of the Dublin Web Summit [Gallery]
Day one of the Dublin Web Summit has almost ended. Now the largest tech conference in Europe, the scale of this year's event is evident - over 200 speakers, 370 exhibiting startups and 4,000 in attendance. Our day one gallery should give you a flavour of the day's proceedings.
Darren McCarra
17th October 2012
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Microsoft unveils new "all-in-one" music service
Microsoft has unveiled its "all-in-one" music service, Xbox Music, that it hopes will rival the likes of already established players Spotify, Amazon and iTunes.
Darren McCarra
16th October 2012
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Blog Awards Ireland 2012 winners – meet the 30 best blogs in Ireland
Bloggers and blog owners from all over the country packed-out the Osprey Hotel in Naas, Co. Kildare tonight to witness ?? take home the Grand Prix at the first-ever Blog Awards Ireland event, designed to recognise the "passion and enthusiasm that blogging brings to the Irish media landscape".
Darren McCarra
13th October 2012
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Dublin introduces new fleet of Wi-Fi-enabled buses
Ireland's National Transport Authority has funded the introduction of a fleet of 80 new Wi-Fi-enabled buses to Dublin city, representing a €26 million investment in the Dublin Bus fleet replacement programme.
Darren McCarra
11th October 2012
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Google.ie and Yahoo.ie unavailable after "unauthorised change" to nameservers
Both google.ie and yahoo.ie became unavailable for a prolonged period this afternoon after an "unauthorised change" was made to the domains' nameservers.
Darren McCarra
9th October 2012
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BBC launches standalone iPlayer Radio app, expands video partnership with YouTube
The BBC has launched a new standalone iPlayer Radio app for iPhone, iPad and desktop that grants users access to live audio streams of all of the BBC's radio stations, as well as on-demand archive content.
Darren McCarra
8th October 2012
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Finalists announced for next weekend's Blog Awards Ireland
Almost 150 finalists for this year's Blog Awards Ireland have been announced, with the categories Best Newcomer, Best Personal and Best Fashion/Beauty amongst the most popular.
Darren McCarra
7th October 2012
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As expected, Facebook reaches one billion monthly active users
A few weeks later than this site previously suggested back in January, and again in July, Facebook has reached one billion monthly active users as of September 14, 2012.
Darren McCarra
4th October 2012
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Google taking full advantage of Apple Maps debacle, Street View mobile web app arriving tomorrow
Google is taking full advantage of Apple's recent Maps app debacle (yes, the one that gifted south Dublin a shiny new airport), and rightly so. While there's still no announcement to be made regarding a native Google Maps app for iOS yet, its browser app is excelling ahead with the introduction of Street View tomorrow.
Darren McCarra
3rd October 2012