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Microsoft has a pop at Google Apps for business
Microsoft doesn’t like Google that much and it doesn’t like Google Apps for business at all if the first video below is anything to go by. Uploading it to YouTube (a Google website) is also a bit cheeky. The big question, however, is this – if Microsoft is so confident that Google Apps are no...
Five more spin out companies emerge from UCD
Five new UCD spin-out companies were established in 2011. This brings to 19 the total number of UCD spin-outs incorporated in the last five years. The five new firms plan to employ in excess of 50 people by the end of 2013. Other key facts about UCD’s commercialisation results and Nova UCD: * 44 new...
Apple’s latest guide for aspiring app developers
Apple’s new ‘Start Developing iOS Apps Today’ guide has been launched. Aimed at aspiring iOS app developers, the 13-step guide splits up the process of app development into five key areas. “The road map provides you with a breadth of knowledge to get you started, and the last page, Where to Go from Here, includes...
Could self-service ads on Twitter kill its soul?
Twitter’s long-awaited ‘self-service’ ad system has been launched in the US. It will now allow small business advertisers to manage their marketing campaigns and budgets without having to deal with sales representatives. However, the service is only available to advertisers who accept or use American Express cards and is only open to the first come...
One billion smartphones by 2016 – app sector to be worth $55 billion
Forrester, a research group known for its solid predictions, believes there will be over one billion smartphones in the hands of people worldwide by 2016. Forrester’s new research also suggests 90% of these phones will have been built and/or controlled by Apple, Google and Microsoft. This trend towards smart mobile will be driven by business...
Google’s first employee leaves to join amazing start-up
You may not have heard of Craig Silverstein but he is in fact the first person Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired as they worked on this little start-up called Google, way back in 1998. Silverstein, obviously now a very wealthy man, has left Google to join another start-up called Khan Academy, a non-profit company...
The passion of desperation – old media lashes new media
A conference on media diversity in Dublin organised by Nessa Childers MEP witnessed what can only be described as an extraordinary outburst of opinion by Alan Crosbie, the chairman of Thomas Crosbie Holdings. Crosbie is the chairman of an ‘old media’ company that owns such newspapers as The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Examiner...
Electric Ireland launches energy saving guide
Who, these days, doesn’t want to save energy and consequently save money? One of the biggest growth areas in the economy is the energy conservation sector and the biggest electrical company in Ireland, Electric Ireland has just launched a new advice tool to help business customers save money by using energy more efficiently. The Office...
EU toughens its stance on web privacy
Digital giants like Facebook and Google are facing another bid by the European Commission to prevent them from using people’s data without their ‘explicit consent’. Companies like Facebook and Google make billions of dollars a year from collecting data on people who use their services. This data is analysed and packaged in such a way...
Irish Government ‘threatens Ireland’s digital economy’
A junior Minister of the current government intends to bring through the Dáil a new law that ‘threatens Ireland’s digital economy’. The law is being enacted by ministerial order. It is not being debated in the Dáil. The law closely resembles the SOPA Bill that was defeated recently in the US. Essentially the legal amendment...
End piracy, not liberty says Google
Google is demonstrating its strong opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by placing a link on its US homepage detailing its concerns about SOPA and PIPA. Unlike hundreds of other websites – including Wikipedia, WordPress and Mozilla – Google will not be shutting down its service in the US in protest against the...
Why Google is poised to dominate the Planet of the Apps
Most people associate apps with Apple. Apple apps. The Appstore. Apple invented the app with the launch of the iPhone … etc. etc. However, Apple’s operating system for the iPhone and iPad may not be the most interesting when it comes to apps. Apple apps (iOS apps) are notoriously difficult to get launched on the...
