Consumer and Competition Bodies to Merge
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD has announced that the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority will merge with effect from 31 October, with the aim of creating a new and more effective consumer
The Bike Lock You’ll Never Lose [Video]
Bicycles are cool - and getting cooler! Here's a prototype electrically assisted bike with some cool features including a removable handlebars which doubles as a lock. It's one of five finalists in the Oregon Manifest Bike
Russian Blogging Crackdown Law Takes Effect Today
If you're in Russia and you've got a blog with more than 3,000 daily readers, you must register with the media regulator, Roskomnadzor, according to a new law which comes into effect from today. The new law also puts
Security Expert Brian Honan on the Paddy Power Data Breach [Audio]
English: Paddy Power - Broadway (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 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.
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
“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
