Darren McCarra, Author at McCarra.co

Bing brings five times more of your friends' Facebook to search Following on from Facebook's Graph Search announcement Tuesday, Microsoft has given its second-rate search engine, Bing, a social update with "five times more of your friends' Facebook" displayed alongside normal web results. No responses 17th January 2013
WordPress.com courts photographers, graphic artists WordPress.com is courting photographers, videographers, illustrators and other artists to its publishing platform by launching a dedicated portfolio section on its website. No responses 16th January 2013
Google introduces Zavers, a relevance-based digital coupon solution Retailers and manufacturers will receive a first-hand demonstration of Google's new digital coupon solution - Zavers by Google - that allows them to rewards loyal customers with targeted and relevant digital coupons. No responses 14th January 2013
Google Shopping will begin paid-for transition this February Google Shopping is beginning its transition to a commercial model in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil, Australia, and Switzerland next month - a transition that was completed in the United States in October 2012 - meaning that, for the first time, merchants in said 10 countries must pay to have their products listed on Google Shopping. No responses 13th January 2013
PlayStation 3 surpasses Xbox 360 in number of shipped units for first time As Sony officially ends production of the PlayStation 2 and all eyes shift towards the two big next-generation game consoles expected to be announced and possibly made available before the end of the year, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720, Sony's current console, the PlayStation 3, is making headlines of its own. No responses 11th January 2013
30 new jobs at payment processing firm based in Ireland OmniPay, a payment processing company that established itself in Ireland in 2000 has announced, with the support of IDA Ireland, that it is to create a further 30 jobs at its headquarters in Dublin over the next six months. No responses 10th January 2013
Irish businessman sets precedent with Twitter defamation case Prominent Irish businessman Declan Ganley has set a precedent for legal proceedings involving defamation and libel on social sites, including Twitter and Facebook, as he reached an out-of-court settlement yesterday with blogger Kevin Barrington over defamatory tweets he published in December of last year. 2 responses 9th January 2013
Sony announces the Xperia Z – a Samsung Galaxy S4 competitor Sony has announced its new flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z - a device that it hopes will help keep the company relevant among the emerging leaders of the high-end smartphone market: Apple and Samsung. One response 8th January 2013
Sony officially ends PS2 production, now concentrating on PS4 After earlier unconfirmed reports that Sony had ended production of the PlayStation 2 - the most successful games console of all time - the Japanese consumer electronics giant has now officially confirmed this to be true. No responses 7th January 2013
Google Play will hit one million apps this June After the single busiest week in terms of new device activations and app downloads in Android history, we study the size of Google Play's app directory and predict when it's likely to reach the magical one million app milestone. 2 responses 4th January 2013