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• Computer says: No

  October 12, 2011 @ 8:14 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  Well, this isn’t a great start.

  

• Google Instant goes live

  September 9, 2010 @ 8:58 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  In case you missed it, Google has put the foot down on its search engine and ramped up the speed. Google Instant shows results as you type, predicting what you want to search for and displaying the results instantly.

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• Vodafone unveils 360 service

  September 25, 2009 @ 1:32 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Vodafone unveiled its new 360 service yesterday in Dublin, with the help of chief executive Charles Butterworth and Dita von Teese.

  Personally, I was disappointed that DvT didn’t explain the finer points of the service. But moving along.

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• Newsbytes 25/09/09

  @ 1:23 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  The Google Book hearing has been delayed.

  O2 will launch the Palm Pre on October 16th.

  Twitter is raising €67.7 million in funding.

  Microsoft has opened a €341 million data centre in Dublin.

  The Wii becomes the latest console to drop prices.

• MyHome gets realistic/depressing (delete as appropriate)

  August 7, 2009 @ 5:10 pm | by Ciara O'Brien

  Weirdest email of the day: from MyHome.ie just after lunch today with the subject line “Record Number of Homes Repossessed: Could you be next?”

  Half an hour earlier and I would have been choking on my cheese sandwich. Maybe they knew something I didn’t.

  Anyway, slightly odd for a company that are trying to sell you property to warn you of potential repossessions.

• Microsoft, Google competition steps up a gear

  July 14, 2009 @ 8:07 am | by Ciara O'Brien

  Google and Microsoft are trampling all over each other’s territory lately. If it’s not Microsoft trying to creep up on Google with its search engine Bing, it’s Google offering word processing and other productivity software.

  This week, it seems the line between the two has got a whole lot fuzzier. Google is talking about operating systems, and Chrome netbooks. Microsoft is now talking about a web-based version of Office.

  Good thing? Bad thing? Competition is usually a good thing but we’ll have to wait and see how these new ventures pan out.