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Meet Google's new flagship, and very expensive, touch-friendly Chromebook Google today unveiled its new flagship, and very expensive, Chromebook - known simply as Pixel - for "power users who have fully embraced the cloud". Darren McCarra 4 responses 21st February 2013
More and more spam now comes from people you know, Google says Each day, more and more "illegal, fraudulent or spammy" email messages originate, or at least appear to, from those you know, says Google. Darren McCarra No responses 19th February 2013
Facebook is expanding its workforce in Ireland, 100 new jobs available Facebook is expanding its workforce at its international headquarters in Ireland, adding 100 new positions and growing the company's total head count to 500 at its base in Ireland's capital, Dublin. Darren McCarra No responses 18th February 2013
PlayStation 4 will be backwards compatible, sort of Sony's next generation games console will be backwards compatible, but not in the sense that we're accustomed to. The PlayStation 4 (PS4), Sony’s eagerly-awaited entertainment device, won't play current PS3 optical games discs. Instead, backwards compatibility will be delivered using a streaming service whereby games are delivered in real-time over the internet from remote servers. Darren McCarra No responses 16th February 2013
Opera Web browser reaches 300 million users, adopts WebKit layout engine Big changes are afoot at Opera - the alternative Internet browser software developer - as the Norwegian company announced its "fastest acceleration in user growth" in recent times to 300 million monthly users, and the beginning of a transition to the WebKit layout engine. Darren McCarra 2 responses 13th February 2013
Seismic activity from North Korea's latest nuclear test recorded in Ireland Energy generated from North Korea's latest nuclear test has been recorded as far away as Ireland, with Irish seismometers in Donegal and Dublin picking-up an "explosion-like" event early this morning. Darren McCarra No responses 12th February 2013
Twitter now supports LOLCAT language. KTHXBYE! Twitter has added lolcat to its list of supported languages, bringing an extra layer of localisation and personalisation to the service that many users will undoubtedly appreciate. Darren McCarra 4 responses 9th February 2013
Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner confirms deletion of Facebook facial recognition data in the EU Both the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) and the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Germany have independently confirmed today that all Facebook facial recognition data of European Union citizens has been deleted by the social network. Darren McCarra No responses 7th February 2013
iTunes has sold more than 25 billion songs, 15,000 downloaded every minute Music lovers have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store, Apple, as creators of "the world's most popular online music, TV and movie store", announced recently. Darren McCarra No responses 7th February 2013
Instagram continues to abandon mobile-only approach, further expands to desktop web Instagram is continuing to abandon its mobile-only approach as the company's co-founder, Kevin Systrom, today announced that, for the first time, users' feeds can be viewed on the desktop web. Darren McCarra One response 5th February 2013