1. Could Facebook become your new video rental store? Warner Bros are trialling a new service where US users have 48 hours to watch ‘Batman: The Dark Knight’ with a $3 Facebook app. http://tinyurl.com/6cb9kms 2. Mentoring programme, Startupbootcamp, is coming to Dublin as TechStars expands its first international affiliate. Applications will open in summer and [...]
Conor Pope is a travel and consumer affairs journalist with The Irish Times. As well as writing the Pricewatch section of the paper he also runs a Pricewatch blog. Here, he discusses his Twitter addiction, how he talks to up to ten PR people a day, as well as his Mexican holiday hell. How did [...]
1. Whether you think he’s deranged or you secretly admire his chutzpah, actor Charlie Sheen has become a media sensation, breaking world records by becoming the fasted followed tweeter ever. He attracted up more than a million followers in one day and now he’s going to be paid for his tweets. http://tinyurl.com/6ytaeae 2. A good [...]
1. Five new RTÉ channels have been given the go ahead by Minister for Communications Pat Carey. They’re set to run on the Saorview free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) network, which will launch in May of this year. http://tinyurl.com/68gjyrn 2. Loss making music streaming service, Spotify, has been valued at $1bn. The company, which plans [...]
1. Rumours of its death have been exaggerated but is print finally dead? AOL’s purchase of The Huffington Post for $315m continues to fuel discussions as to whether free news aggregators finally means the end of old media and if making news content free is a sustainable business model. http://tiny.cc/vjyg7 2. Another Google Vs Apple battle [...]
The latter half of 2010 saw some 100.9m smartphones sold, proving it’s a handset trend that’s very much on the increase http://tinyurl.com/5tx47k7. It’s a trend, however, that comes with some risks, as mobile security firm AdaptiveMobile warns of the security dangers smartphones are open to. http://tinyurl.com/67hoh7q On the online security breaches we are already familiar [...]
1. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but that hasn’t been the case for search giant Google. It claims that Microsoft’s Bing is “copying” its query results. http://tinyurl.com/5tja5kg Some bad news for Yahoo’s Flickr as it accidentally deleted 4,000 photos built up over five years by one user. http://tinyurl.com/5tja5kg Be wary of [...]
Niamh Hennessy is a journalist with the Irish Examiner. As well as writing for the business section, she also manages the popular Talk the Talk business profile. Your educational background is in Government and Public Policy. How did you get into journalism? I did a four-year degree in Government and Public Policy in UCC and [...]
1. You may not know this but if you have two Facebook accounts, perhaps one for business and another for pleasure, you could be shut down. The social network’s terms of service state it and Facebook is willing to enforce it. http://tinyurl.com/4ejo2nq Here are some people who should definitely be removed from Facebook. According to [...]
1. Like pipes burst during the big freeze, the saga of Wikileaks just keeps on trickling through. Now they have a new whistle blower onside, Rudolf Elmer, who has provided them with details of some prolific tax evaders. And so we wait for the next installment… – http://tinyurl.com/6zor9by 2. Here are some interesting insights into [...]
