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• Mobile World Congress: Universal charger for mobiles

  February 18, 2009 @ 5:33 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  Well it’s about time. Apparently manufacturers have agreed on a standard charger for mobile phones, meaning that tangle of cables and old chargers could be a thing of the the past.
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• Pull the other one…

  @ 5:19 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  Companies threaten legal action over some strange things, but a row over using the phrase “pull my finger” in advertising has to be one of the more ridiculous cases.
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• Irish Times journalists nominated in blog awards

  February 17, 2009 @ 12:49 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Four Irish Times blogs have been nominated for blog awards.
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• Mobile World Congress: Nokia’s Ovi store

  @ 11:49 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  With so many online stores hawking applications and content for your mobile, there needs to be a new angle for people to take notice of yet another one.
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• Reason #565 to never meet anyone from the internet

  @ 10:51 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  Football fan gets scammed and publicly humiliated [the Register]
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• ‘Blackout’ hits the web

  February 16, 2009 @ 8:05 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Interesting . Perhaps Eircom customers could register some sort of similar protest against it’s “three strikes” agreement.

  Stephen Fry is one of the people joining the protest on Twitter.

• Facebook creates etiquette minefield

  February 15, 2009 @ 6:30 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  It used to be getting dumped by a text was bad enough. The faceless, can’t even be bothered with a phone call kind of brush off that would take up more than 30 seconds of your time.
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• Everyone wants in on Twitter

  @ 10:28 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  A month ago, I didn’t have a Twitter account. Well, not a proper one anyway. Now I’m hooked.
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• Newsbytes

  February 14, 2009 @ 9:39 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Microsoft is planning to go directly to the customer with a chain of retail stores. [Information Week]

  The fight against the Conficker worm heats up [Washington Post]

  Could Twitter be about to branch out? [VNUNet]

• Ebooks – a lot done, a lot more to do

  February 13, 2009 @ 3:00 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Gizmodo explains why there is no “perfect” ebook reader at the moment.

  As a self-confessed book worm, I have to admit I love the Sony Reader. Particularly for going on flights where space in your hand luggage is precious. I have yet to figure out what happens if I drop it in the pool though, so maybe it’s not quite a replacement for paper just yet.

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