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Android fastest growing smartphone platform in Germany According to comScore, Google’s Android is the fastest growing smartphone platform in Germany. The data from comScore MobiLens reports on the three month average period in Germany ending November 2010. Darren McCarra No responses 19th January 2011
Social search with Irish start-up HeyStaks HeyStaks, a University College Dublin (UCD) web start-up that allows people searching the web to collaborate with friends as they search online in a bid to increase productivity, have opened their service to the public. Darren McCarra No responses 18th January 2011
Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! commit to 24-hour IPv6 test flight Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!, along with the Internet Society, have joined forces and announced a 24-hour test flight for the next generation of the internet, IPv6, that they will all take part in on June 8th, 2011. Darren McCarra No responses 12th January 2011
German fallout with Google over analytics privacy concerns Data protection authorities in Germany have ended year-long talks with Google over concerns that they have with the data that Google Analytics gathers on website visitors. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, German companies may face legal action if they are found to be using the free service from Google. Darren McCarra No responses 12th January 2011
The Internet Explorer weekend exodus Looking at statistical web browsing data from StatCounter GlobalStats, a phenomenon quickly becomes evident where users migrate from Internet Explorer in their droves at weekends, and resume the familiarity of browsers like Firefox and Chrome that they’ve become accustomed to. Darren McCarra No responses 6th January 2011
Sneak peak at Android Honeycomb [Video] We confirmed yesterday that Android Honeycomb was indeed Android 3.0. Now, just hours later Google themselves have officially confirmed this at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and have released further details and a sneak peak video of their latest version of the Android OS. Darren McCarra 2 responses 6th January 2011
Introducing Chirpstory, a tool that curates tweets into stories Chirpstory is essentially a Twitter curation tool that enables users to compile and share collections of tweets on specific topics. The tool allows curators to easily pick and choose tweets to include on a particular topic, and to build a continuous, coherent narrative from these. Darren McCarra No responses 22nd December 2010
Ireland receives high resolution satellite imagery update in Google Earth Ireland, among other countries, has received further high resolution satellite imagery updates in Google Earth. This follows a similar imagery release by Google last month Darren McCarra No responses 18th December 2010
Google demos new Google Maps on Nexus S Google have released a demo video of Google Maps 5 on the upcoming and much anticipated Nexus S. The Nexus S is the first phone to run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), which was released at the start of this week. Darren McCarra No responses 11th December 2010
Ireland’s Zeitgeist 2010 – the spirit of 2010 through search queries About this time every year Google publish Zeitgeist; a collection of data and visualisations that help capture the spirit of the year just gone by based on the aggregation of billions of search queries. Darren McCarra No responses 9th December 2010