Category Archives: Trends

‘Free your film’ competition announced

Friday, 23 July 2010 10:37
Written by Stephen

Actor Sarah Bolger officially launched the ‘Free your Film’ mobile video competition on behalf of the Darklight Festival and Sony Ericsson. The competition aims to find three aspiring film makers in Ireland, and help them make a short film each. The competition finalists will receive a €3,000 budget, a Sony Ericsson VivazTM HD video/camera phone and [...]

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Android apps reach the one billion download mark

Monday, 19 July 2010 10:29
Written by Stephen

The iPhone still dominates the app sector and with over 250,000 apps available for iPhone users, one of the biggest challenges for the other smart phone operating systems (OS) is to create/translate more apps. Google’s Android OS is the clear second runner in the app race and last week AndroLib.com announced downloads of Android apps [...]

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Apps to lead next revolution in news?

Monday, 5 July 2010 09:59
Written by Stephen

As Irish and international publishers struggle to survive in the face of falling ad revenues and copy sales, the boss of the world’s largest ‘publisher’ believes print media will move to mobile digital devices faster than most publishers anticipate. Speaking at the Activate 2010 summit, organised by the Gaurdain last week, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google [...]

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Hulu launches premium service for iPads and iPhones

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 14:41
Written by Stephen

We don’t get access to Hulu.com in Ireland, more’s the pity. However, the world’s largest ad-funded TV show site has begun what is the next phase in the evolution of television. Some have called it the next great experiment of the online TV age. Hulu.com calls it Hulu Plus. The big question is this – [...]

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Collaborative networks – start building them

Monday, 28 June 2010 11:30
Written by Stephen

Building collaborative networks is key to Ireland becoming an innovation island. That was the key message delivered at the InterTradeIreland’s 2010 All-island Innovation Conference. Most speakers at the conference agreed that such network “are essential to drive innovation and to develop a dynamic and indigenous knowledge-based economy”. During the keynote address, Professor Woody Powell, a leading [...]

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