Spotify For Linux
With Spotify becoming available in Ireland today a lot of the Irish tech community are probably signing up to take it for a spin .. But what if you don’t use Windows or OSX? Fortunately Spotify has a Linux client that they’re describing as a “preview” release, which is unsupported. Since several of our staff […]
Spotify Finally Available In Ireland
Spotify is now available to Irish users. In case you’re not familiar with it Spotify is a digital music service that gives you “on demand” access to over 18 million songs. If you like music then you’ll love it. So now the digital music service seems to have quietly enabled access to Irish users over […]
Australian Court Finds Google Guilty Of Defamation
Google is having a bad week. Rumours are flying around at the moment that the search giant might fall foul of an FTC ruling stateside. Meanwhile down under an Australian court has found the search giant guilty of defamation. In what has been described as a “landmark ruling” the Victoria Supreme Court found that the […]
Gangnam Style – Now On USB
Not sick of Gangnam Style yet? Or maybe you want to annoy your friends? Well now you can get a Psy shaped USB key: Full details here
Google Celebrates Bram Stoker
Google’s homepage today is decked out in celebration of Bram Stoker’s birthday. Bram Stoker was born 165 years ago today in Dublin. He’s best known for his creation Dracula, which has played an important role in popular culture over the last century. You can read more about Bram Stoker’s life here. Related articles Bram Stoker […]
Apocalypse Tech [Podcast #49]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 49 for November 8th 2012, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. Congratulations President Obama – and congratulations to Twitter for handling the traffic! (And dead men get elected too!) Congratulations to the Irish Web Awards winners and thanks for all the fun! US Net Traffic up […]
Keep Warm And Charge Your Gadgets
The Biolite Campstove is a very cool piece of tech. It’s a combination of a stove that you can use for heat AND a charger for your USB gadgets – such as iPhones. And it’s not “pie in the sky” – this is an actual real working device – they were using them in New […]
Obama Breaks Records on Both Twitter and Facebook
The importance of social media and the internet in general during this year’s US Presidential elections is probably going to be talked about for months if not years. But what is really fascinating to see is that Obama’s official social media channels on Facebook and Twitter broke records by themselves. Around 4am this morning (Irish […]
Kiss Microsoft Messenger Goodbye
Microsoft is killing off Microsoft Messenger / MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger. The instant message service is being replaced with Skype and if you’ve already upgraded to the latest version of Skype you’ll be able to access and merge your messenger account and contacts there. It’s not clear how users on other platforms ie. […]
Facebook Harness User Data To Map Votes
While practically every media outlet on the planet is churning out stories about the US Presidential “showdown” we thought we’d have a quick look at what Facebook are doing. On their “stories” site they’re collating anonymous data about US voters. It’s pretty cool to watch, though it won’t give you any indication of which way […]