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Electric Picnic 2010 Line-Up Announced

by Hugh O'Carroll on March 24, 2010

in Internet, The Future Internet

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Electric Picnic has announced details of its annual get-together held in Stradbally, Co Laois on 3rd, 4th & 5th September. Now in their seventh year, here’s a quick glance at who’s been confirmed for EP Twenty-Ten:

Roxy Music; Leftfield; Massive Attack; Lcd Soundsystem; The Frames; Public Image Ltd; The National;Imelda May; Mumford & Sons; Seasick Steve; Modest Mouse; Hot Chip; Gil Scott-Heron; Fever Ray; Jonsi (Sigur Ros); Fat Freddy’s Drop; Bad Lieutenant; Crystal Castles; Afro Celt Soundsystem; Booka Shade; Bloody Beetroots Death Crew77; Steve Earle; The Waterboys; Beach House; The Big Pink; 808 State, Low Anthem; Redneck Manifesto; The Horrors; Monotonix; Liquid Liquid; Here We Go Magic; Field Music; Steve Mason, Cymande; The Alarm; Messiah J & The Expert; Dublin Gospel Choir; Caribou; Adrian Crowley; Villagers; New Pornographers; Edan; Breakestra & Chali 2 Na; Mr Scruff; Memory Tapes.

What do you think of the 2010 line-up? Who are you looking forward to? Let me know by posting  a comment below.

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Wired Magazine shows off upcoming iPad Version

by Hugh O'Carroll on March 23, 2010

in Apple, Internet, Mobile Internet, The Future Internet, iPad, iPhone

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At this year’s South by Southwest Event (SXSW) held in Austin TX,  technology bible, Wired Magazine took time out to present its upcoming  iPad App:

Check out Wired’s product review iPhone App at the following url.

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Google, coming to your TV soon!

by Hugh O'Carroll March 18, 2010 Facebook

Google have partnered with Intel, Sony and Logitech for a project which is being called Google TV. The companies involved want to create a technology to facilitate easy navigation of the web through your TV set.
Citing sources with “better knowledge about this tie-up”, The New York Times has reported that Google intends to open its [...]

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Bebo Founder to speak at Dublin Web Summit

by Hugh O'Carroll March 18, 2010 Mobile Internet

Michael Birch, who sold Bebo for $850 million, will be the first keynote speaker at the third Dublin Web Summit on Thursday June 24th.
You can reserve one ticket now at no cost by simply clicking “Add to Waitlist” or wait until they go on sale in the coming days. The next summit has been redesigned [...]

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Visits to Facebook surpass visits to Google for first time in U.S.

by Hugh O'Carroll March 17, 2010 Apple

Social-networking giant Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the United States for the first time last week.
For the week ending March 13, Facebook’s homepage was the most visited site in the country according to industry tracker Hitwise.
The “important milestone,” as described by Hitwise director of research Heather Dougherty, came as Facebook [...]

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Twitter seeks to embed itself in every webpage

by Hugh O'Carroll March 16, 2010 Bing

Twitter has unveiled a new set of tools for embedding the social media tool in third-party websites.
Dubbed “@anywhere” these JavaScript-based frameworks were announced yesterday with a company blog post and a keynote from Twitter CEO Evan Williams. With @anywhere, developers will be easily able to add Twitter links and data to their sites using “a [...]

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Apple airs new iPad TV Commercial during Oscars

by Hugh O'Carroll March 9, 2010 Apple

During Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony, Apple launched a television advertising campaign for its new iPad device (I bet you’d forgotten about it already). Here is it:

The iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of [...]

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Why the iPad will not use Adobe’s Flash

by Hugh O'Carroll February 19, 2010 Apple

At a recent iPad demonstration to Wall Street executives, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs claimed that running Flash video on the iPad would slash its battery life to 1.5 hours. (Apple are claiming the iPad will have an impressive 10hrs of Battery life)
While these claims may be correct, it ultimately boils down to which version of [...]

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100 yrs of Fantastic Technology Predictions

by Hugh O'Carroll December 30, 2009 The Future Internet

When will Facebook hit 1 billion users? Will Twitter ever make money? At this time of year its nice to reflect on past and future technology predictions with a nice cup of tea, always taking care not to spill it on one’s ‘device’ of course.

This is a concept film developed by the team at [...]

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Prediction: 1 Billion Mobile Internet Users By 2010

by Hugh O'Carroll December 9, 2009 The Future Internet

Mobile web browsing is growing exponentially according to technology analystss, IDC. Based on usage data currently available, mobile devices are predicted to “Eclipse the PC” in 2010, becoming the primary source of web browsing with many users.
They expect that the number of mobile web users will pass the 1 billion mark in 2010, while the [...]

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