Paddy Power, the bookmaker, has written to almost 650,000 users of its online service advising them that their personal data was breached in a malicious incident in 2010. They say that they had been satisfied at the time that “no financial information or customer passwords had been put at risk” and they did not make the incident public on […]
Archive | July, 2014
Storyful’s Aine Kerr is an Honest Broker for User Generated Content [Audio]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
“Unskippable” YouTube Ad Shows How to Use 5 Seconds to Make an Impression
‘Pre-roll’ ads on YouTube are annoying. What makes them especially annoying is how ineffective and stupid most of them are. A company called Nail Communications says it’s time to tailor the message to the medium, and they show us how with this “unskippable” YouTube ad.
Maynooth Students Represent Ireland at Microsoft Imagine Cup in Seattle
Microsoft today wished Ireland’s Imagine Cup world finalists, students Matthew McCann, KC Grant and Jack Gallagher of NUI Maynooth, good luck as they prepare to depart to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup world final taking place in Seattle on August 1st. The students, who are national winners in the World Citizenship category of the […]
Uber Launches Business Service
Uber launched in Ireland earlier this year and the company has been in the news quite a bit over the last few months as it has been embattled with regulators and incumbents in several markets. Earlier today the company launched a new service geared towards business users. It’s very similar to the offering that Hailo […]
Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen with the TouchPico Pocket Projector
This looks like a simple idea at first and it is. Then you realise it has a million* unique applications! Touchpico is a pocket-sized Android device without a screen. Instead it has a built in projector which throws up an 80-inch image on a surface such as a wall. But it also comes with an infrared stylus – are you getting […]
Google Streetview’s Off-Road Trekker Could Boost Tourism
Google maps continues to develop, and Streetview is parking the car and going off-road with a backpack. The New York Times accompanied a Google team recently on their tour of New York’s Liberty Island. The results should be online within months, and will also include Ellis Island. Meanwhile, Google is offering to lend the backpack kit, called the Trekker, to […]
VR Version of Joyce’s Ulysses Hits Crowdfunding Target
James Joyce wrote a novel which broke established conventions and broke new ground for literature – or so I’ve heard. But if Joyce had had today’s range of multimedia to choose from, would he have been content with prose alone? The question is moot, but with the expiry of Joyce’s copyright in 2012, the way has been opened […]
Windows Phone Ad pits Cortana vs Siri
Cortana is Windows Phone’s natural language virtual assistant – the counterpart to Apple’s Siri and Google Now. Microsoft have just released an ad demonstrating Cortana on a Nokia Lumia 635 in action against Siri on an iPhone 5S. Of course, any ad will select the scenario which best showcases its product, but Microsoft’s message is clear: they’re proud […]
Bruton Makes No Apology for Ireland’s Corporate Tax Policy
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, has issued a strong defence of Ireland’s corporate taxation regime, amid recent controversy about so-called ‘tax inversions’ by multinational companies. A tax inversion occurs when a company moves its head domicile to a jurisdiction with a lower tax rate. There has been controversy about the practice in […]