IRISS have launched a campaign to raise awareness of security among young people. The message is pretty simple. Treat your password like you would your toothbrush. Choose it wisely Use it regularly  Change it often Never share it with anyone There’s also (of course) a facebook page for the campaign You may recall we spoke […]
Google may be a big company with a huge turnover and thousands of staff worldwide, but the company still has a sense of humour. From time to time they insert little “Easter eggs” into the search engine or do something quite playful. Remember the 1980’s style low resolutions graphics on Google Maps a couple of […]
This week we’ll be speaking to a very special guest – Patrick Ruddell. Patrick is the founder and Editor in Chief of ScienceFiction.com. ScienceFiction.com was launched in 2010 and covers all aspects of sci-fi and fantasy, with regular updates on movies, tv shows and a whole lot more. Apart from running one of my favourite […]
Conn and I are old enough to remember the ZX Spectrum, so Google’s “doodle” on Google UK this morning both brings back memories for me and makes me feel a little old 🙂 I remember picking up a secondhand ZX Spectrum 48k a couple of years after their initial release. It was a wonderful machine, […]
Dominos pizzas in the Netherlands have come up with an interesting way to help their delivery bike riders keep safe and also promote their brand. [youtube]http://youtu.be/n17B_uFF4cA[/youtube] The word “lekker” means “tasty” or “nice” Related articles Domino’s Solution for Soundless Electric Scooters Is Rather Brilliant [VIDEO](mashable.com) Domino’s Pizza Safe Sound, A Human-Made Engine Noise Installed on […]
It looks like Paypal is centralising everything under their .com domain name. So if you’re using Paypal to accept payments via your website you might need to check your code. More details on our company blog
Conn and I talked about Memolane on the podcast this week Here’s their video explaining what the service does: [youtube]http://youtu.be/2MMiMTN9swY[/youtube]
I love innovative and fun marketing, so this video from a Belgian TV station really caught my eye. To give it a bit of context here’s their description of the video: To launch the high quality TV channel TNT in Belgium we placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an […]
Even though this week is “shorter”, as Monday was a holiday in many countries (including Ireland) it’s been a very busy week in technology news circles. The announced acquisition of Instagram by Facebook is probably the biggest story this week, but what other stories are people talking about? We’ll be recording this week’s podcast tomorrow […]
News emerged last night that social media giant Facebook was to acquire Instagram. What made the story particularly newsworthy was the amount of money involved – $1 billion So how is Instagram worth $1 billion? I don’t know, but as several people pointed out last night, there will be plenty of articles to help us […]
