- The Cooneen Ghost The Cooneen Ghost is perhaps one of the most famous ghost stories in Ulster, and indeed Ireland. The story describes how the Murphy family was plagued by a poltergeist at their home near Cooneen in Co. Fermanagh between 1913-1914. The Cooneen Ghost House even featured on the BBC series ‘Northern Ireland’s Greatest Haunts‘. The following […]
- Irish company lets you pay for Xbox purchases using your mobile phone Irish mobile services company Phonovation has expanded its mobile payments service to include the purchase of Xbox LIVE Gold membership and Microsoft Points. Microsoft Points are the universal coin with which users can purchase games, movies and TV shows on their Xbox.
- Google pilots One Today, a new app that makes charitable donations simple Google has begun to pilot a new mobile app called One Today. The app highlights a new charity each day and facilitates the donation of $1 to a particular nonprofit should the user choose to contribute.
- Dropbox gets serious about business, introducing added security features Dropbox is busy cosying up with businesses, having recently introduced a new admin console giving company IT administrators "greater visibility and control over how their organisation uses Dropbox". Now the cloud storage company is going one step further by introducing single sign-in, or SSO.
- RTÉ Player to include movies for the first time RTÉ Player is to include movies for the first time later this week, the national broadcaster announced in a tweet earlier this evening.
- The Last of Us release date gets closer with first TV commercial The Last of Us, Naughty Dog's forthcoming PS3-exclusive title, is getting closer to its much anticipated release date with its first TV commercial this weekend. What’s more, the commercial will air during the season finale of AMC's The Walking Dead.
- Top ecommerce sites around the world are slowing down A report from Radware, an applications delivery and security firm, suggests that page load times of the top 2,000 online retailers has risen substantially over the past year.
- Free ecommerce accelerator hopes to get more Irish businesses selling online NDRC's Inventorium, a programme that helps individuals, startups, and existing businesses get ideas off the ground, in association with the Irish Internet Association (IIA), has launched Clicktailing, an ecommerce accelerator programme that hopes to get 20 Irish businesses selling along within five weeks.
- Google reportedly developing a unified chat service, Babble, to rival all others We don’t post rumours too often around here but this one, if true, is worthy of mention. This evening’s babble would see Google unify its various chat services (yes, all of them) into a single product, Babble.