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.
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.
I’ve been peeling bananas wrong my whole life.
Who would win if Miss Universe and a crocodile faced off.
The five-second rule may not work.
What a Twitter purge is.
Getting something free is usually a good thing. So here’s some for the weekend.
Three Ireland have gone the way of Vodafone and O2 by offering customers free webtexts to Irish mobiles – 333 to be exact. Three customers can register on the site for their free text service.
In keeping with the same theme, I’ve been having a poke around on Apple’s App Store. Lots of free stuff there, some more useful than others.
Jelly SMS, which allows you to make use of your free text allowance through your handset whether you are Vodafone, Three, O2, blueface or other providers, is available free of charge until Sunday. Developed by Finbar Brady, it’s made it into the top 10 app list on iTunes Ireland.
I’ve got to the stage where I do most things online - pay bills, shop, keep in contact with friends. So I’m used to logging on at 1am to pay my ESB bill, or transfer money for my mortgage.
That’s the beauty of online self-service, isn’t it? Not if you’re buying insurance, it seems.
So there you have it. Michael Jackson is dead. By all accounts it was a heart attack – a pretty ordinary end to a very strange life.
And it was a website that broke the story first – TMZ.com. Not broadcast media or print. Within minutes, the topic was all over Twitter. Each update was tweeted as it happened. Looking at Twitter as I’m writing this, I have an entire page of Jacko-related tweets.
It wasn’t all good for new media though. Websites creaked under the strain of the number of people logging on to get the latest updates. Michael Jackson managed to crash Twitter. TechCrunch has the screenshots here detailing the major meltdowns but I experienced the Twitter fail for myself. Frustrating, but common enough when a major story breaks.
Anyway. The end of an era, and the death of an icon, whatever you thought of him.
I may have been laughing at Wikipedia yesterday for Brian Cowen’s apparently well-hidden UN family connections, but today’s news is no laughing matter. Apparently Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology and its members from making edits to entries on its site.
Google Chrome and I have a volatile relationship. It promised all sorts of exciting things, from faster browsing to easier searching. I installed it, full of anticipation, and was hooked. I had high hopesThen came the crashes. The nice page freezes where Chrome flashes up a little animation and informs you, as if you didn’t know, that something has gone wrong. But at least it only crashes the tab you were using, and not the entire browser, right? Er, yeah. Sometimes.It went downhill from there. (more…)
To ease you into the weekend, have:
some sort of strange Christian pop. See the Marilyn Manson reply for extra weirdness.
An online game that will suck your free time.
Things I will never bake but like to drool over. Fits in nicely with the current craze for cupcakes.
I have never been a fan of Jade Goody. The recent media attention surrounding her illness was distasteful at best, regardless of whether she courted it or not.
But this type of reaction is not only over the top, but if you check out the source code of the page, is just plain nasty.
