WhatsApp Acquisition In Perspective
While the announced acquisition price for WhatsApp is significant (ok, let's just say "huge"), how does it compare to other tech industry acquisitions? Here's a nice chart from Statista that puts it in context
British Library Adds 1 Million Free Images to Flickr
The British Library has just uploaded a million images to Flickr, and they're all copyright-free! The images come from books held by the library dating from the 17th, 18th and 18th century which have been digitised
Are You Sure No One Can Guess Your Password?
Thanks to James for bringing this to my attention. If it wasn't made by Microsoft Research, I might be afraid this site is a password stealer. What it actually is is a tool to help you
Google & Bing Block Child Abuse Images
Eric Schmidt (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We talk a lot about freedom of speech and net neutrality on technology websites such as this. Information should be free; search engines should not censor; and people should
Andrew MacAdam of Microsoft Ireland [Video]
[fvplayer src='https://technology.ie/video/sxpress-andrew-lowbitrate3.mp4' width=1280 height=720 splash='https://technology.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/andrewmacadam.jpg'] Here's another video from Startup Express. Andrew MacAdam is Technology Evangelist with Microsoft Ireland and came from Dublin to Cork especially to join the Geek Train on its way to Web
Ballmer by Numbers
Steve Ballmer is stepping down as Microsoft CEO, after 10 years which have seen the stock price stagnate at less than €40, following a peak of €59.56 in 2000. Of course, it's not fair to measure
