Intellectual Property Explained Visually
What’s the difference between a trademark and a patent? What about copyright versus design? The OHIM (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market) which is the trademarks and designs registry for the European Union, has released a nice graphic to help make sense of the various types of intellectual property rights and how you can […]
Buyer Beware: The Consumers’ Association and Fake Followers [Audio]
As reported in The Sunday Times yesterday, the Consumers’ Association of Ireland has more Twitter followers in Brazil than in Ireland, having jumped from about 300 followers to 3663 in a matter of hours last Monday. Blogger Paul Duggan examined their Twitter followers using Twitteraudit: A whopping 1707 of The CAI’s twitter followers speak Spanish, […]
SkyBox HD Satellite Imaging Leaves Nowhere to Hide
A Silcon Valley company has released what it calls “the world’s first commercial HD video from space“, demonstrating its potential as a business intelligence tool. [youtube]http://youtu.be/fCrB1t8MncY[/youtube] SkyBox Imaging of Mountain View, California launched the first of 24 planned SkySat satellites in November, and within days they released the first HD images taken of Perth, Australia. […]
Ryanair’s Party Political Broadcast
Ryanair’s commitment to social media continues as their new head of marketing took to Twitter yesterday for the latest in their weekly series of #AskRyanair sessions. Meanwhile, Michael O’Leary showed up on their new TV ad, produced by TV3 and broadcast during Wednesday’s episode of Coronation Street. [youtube]http://youtu.be/QjfmjznXksU[/youtube] Traditionally Ryanair has rejected expensive TV advertising […]
Poll: Should Irish Airlines Allow Personal Electronics during Take-Off?
The last few months has seen European and US airlines and aviation authorities change their tune on the use of electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Writing in the Irish Independent this week, Adrian Weckler reports that neither Ryanair nor Aer Lingus say they have any plans to submit updated procedures to the Irish Aviation […]
Gene Therapy Cures Blindness
Gene therapy has been found to restore eyesight in patients with Choroideremia, a previously incurable inherited disease which progresses throughout an individual’s life, resulting in blindness. New Scientist reports that a team at Oxford University modified a virus with a copy of the CHM gene, which is defective in sufferers of Choroideremia. The virus was […]
Netflix Announce New Series Based on Marco Polo
Netflix have announced that a new series based on the epic adventures of Marco Polo, a kinetic tale of high politics, masterful manipulation and deadly warfare among clashing empires, will premiere exclusively for its members in all territories in late 2014. The famed explorer’s journey takes him to the center of a brutal war in […]
Down with This Sort of Thing: TD Calls for Crackdown on “Open Source Browsers”
Fine Gael TD Patrick O’Donovan has discovered that our way of life is under threat from anonymous internet users and their nasty “open source” browsers. But never fear, gentle citizens, he’s on the case. Anxious to be seen as a tech-savvy Guardian of All that is Good, Patrick appears to have spent about an hour […]
R.I.P. Pilot Season – Why Technology is Making TV Better
Move over broadcast TV – the Internet is changing your industry! On Sunday, Robin Wright won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Claire Underwood in House of Cards, which was produced and distributed exclusively for Netflix. It’s a first for Netflix which only began commissioning original content […]
Let the Wookiee Take Your Photo
Actor Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca in the original Star Wars movies. He also took pictures – about 1200 pictures in fact! And he’s caused something of a stir on the internet in the last few days as he’s been tweeting some of them. Celebrating Sir Alec Guinness's birthday in Southern Tunisia. April 2nd, 1977 I […]