Like watching music videos on YouTube, but wish you could get rid of the ads? YouTube has announced that its new subscription music service YouTube Music Key is now open for a private invitation-only beta. From a post on the YouTube blog: Today we’re introducing YouTube Music Key beta, a monthly subscription service starting with the promotional price of $7.99/month […]
The Doodle 4 Google competition is returning for its seventh year running. Beginning today, November 3rd, Google is calling on children across the country to grab their pens, pencils, crayons and paintbrushes and get doodling! The theme of this year’s competition is ‘My Perfect Day’ and we will once again ask children to use the Google […]
Nest has launched in Ireland (and in Belgium, France and the Netherlands). The company, which was recently acquired by Google, offers two products: the Nest Learning Thermostat which learns your preferences for home heating as you use it, and can result in significant energy savings; and Nest Protect. a smoke and Carbon Monoxide detector with a number of ‘smart’ features. […]
61% of Irish people aged 15 and over have a Facebook account: more than twice the number on Twitter, its nearest rival at 29%. That’s according to the latest Ipsos MRBI Social Networking Quarterly Survey published today. Twitter membership is slightly ahead of LinkedIn and Google+, which both stand at 24%. However, Facebook is streets ahead in another important metric, […]
![Video thumbnail for youtube video How we grew DoneDeal, by Fred Karlsson [Video]](https://technology.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/how-we-grew-donedeal-by-fred-karlsson-video-140x140.jpg "How we Grew DoneDeal, by Fred Karlsson [Video]")
These days it’s a household name, but DoneDeal.ie started life as an idea in the minds of Fred and Geraldine Karlsson when they moved back to Ireland from Sweden in 2005. Having used a similar site to sell their stuff in Sweden, they wanted to do the same to furnish their home in Ireland, and they […]
Google’s Streetview cars can do more than take pictures: they can map gas leaks as well. New Scientist reported on a project in which three Streetview cars were fitted with methane detectors and deployed in Boston, Indianapolis and Staten Island. The project is the result of a partnership between an organisation called the Environmental Defense Fund and […]
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 […]
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. http://youtu.be/w0pjD4qpIpg Of course, any ad will select the scenario which best showcases its product, but Microsoft’s message is clear: they’re […]
Google announced earlier today that it will be closing down Orkut in September. Orkut was Google’s first foray into social networks, long before social networks were really called social networks. The site was originally launched back in 2004 and over time it gained popularity in Brazil more than in English speaking countries. I’ll be honest […]
Ever wondered how many blog posts were published every minute? How about how many tweets are sent? Or videos uploaded? There are several graphics doing the rounds which visualise an average internet minute, hour or day. However I’d never seen anything that attempted to visualise it in real time. This site does. Click the animation […]
