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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...

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...

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....

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...

1. 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...
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