Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
Competition: Win a Samsung Wave from Three »
Next up in the teic.ie 1st birthday giveaways is a Samsung Wave, courtesy of Three mobile. The Samsung Wave is a cracking Bada-based touch-screen phone with a beautifully sharp 3.3" SuperAMOLED screen, a 5mp camera and a solid and slick design and interface. This competition is now closed - a winner will be announced shortly. The ...Read On »
Teic.ie is one year old today! »
Teic.ie is turning one today. Teic.ie has come on leaps and bounds since its soft launch on Monday 5th October 2009, with hundreds of articles now on the site covering news, reviews and opinion. The site's regional newspaper column - The Teic Bit - has also been a great success, with 5 newspapers across the country already carrying it ...Read On »
Feature: Cyberpsychology »
Facebook's success is purely psychological according to an Irish academic and it may be its undoing too. Adam Maguire finds out more. Changes to its privacy policy has led some Facebook users to threaten to quit the site for fear of having their personal information made public without their permission. However many other users seem ...Read On »
Opinion: Microsoft need not fear Apple’s market »
Microsoft may have lost much of its sheen but it is far from a company in trouble, says Jason Walsh. Once the belle of the technology ball, Microsoft has been having a tough time of it lately. Never-ending problems with its X-Box hardware, internet initiatives continually eclipsed by Google and Facebook and now its old enemy Apple has ...Read On »
Opinion: People aren’t as bothered by privacy as »
For all the hand-wringing about Facebook's privacy changes it appears that very few users actually care all that much, writes Adam Maguire. Today is 'Quit Facebook Day', the moment when the anger against Facebook's privacy chances comes to a head in the form of a mass exodus from the website. Or at least that was the plan. Looking at the ...Read On »
Facebook to simplify privacy settings from tomorrow »
Facebook is to roll out "drastically simplified" privacy settings from tomorrow, according to TechCrunch. The change was flagged by Facebook’s vice president of products Chris Cox who was speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York. No details are yet known of the changes, though it is understood they will aim to centralise ...Read On »
Hotmail to get new features & facelift »
Microsoft has announced that its free mail service Hotmail will be given new features and a face-lift in the months ahead. The change will help the client integrate better with other web services and Microsoft's own Office applications and will renew the battle between the service and its rivals Gmail and Yahoo Mail. As part of the overhaul ...Read On »
Microsoft unveils Kin handsets »
Microsoft has unveiled two much-anticipated phones under the new 'Kin' brand. Both the Kin One and Kin Two are touch-screen devices with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and run on an operating system unique from the company's existing Windows Mobile platform. The phones - which will launch in May in the US - come on the back of Microsoft's ...Read On »
Opinion: A Facebook panic button would be pointless »
The murder of Ashleigh Hall was tragic but blaming Facebook shows just how ignorant some people are, says Adam Maguire. Depending on your age you may recall the surge in popularity enjoyed by chat rooms in the 1990s. In the age of the social network services like IRC seem archaic and clumsy but at their peak they were an innovative way to ...Read On »
Feature: Ten trends for 2010 »
February is already upon us but as fast as the months seem to go, the tech world moves ten times faster. As January has already suggested, 2010 is shaping up to be an interesting techy year. Here Adam Maguire lists the ten tech trends that are likely to catch people's attention in the months ahead Computing in tablet-form Apple's big ...Read On »
