iKydz, a leader in parental internet control solutions, releases its annual Irish Internet Usage Index for Safer Internet Day
Online gaming on the rise - 40% of total internet usage is now online gaming
Facebook usage declines
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KAL ATM Software has announced the immediate availability of a whitepaper that details an innovative new approach to solve the banking industry’s long-standing dilemma of mandated ATM hardware upgrades to migrate to new versions of Microso…
Azuri Technologies, a leader in affordable pay-as-you-go solar technology, today unveiled its new 32-inch solar satellite TV system specially designed and customised for off-grid customers in Africa.
The 32-inch Azuri TV is the latest p…
A crowd has gathered on Juma, an island in Tanzania's Lake Victoria, the world's second largest freshwater lake.
The local people are standing behind makeshift nets which cordon off an area where a small group of engineers are consultin…
After falling sales, Apple boss Tim Cook has hinted the firm could be about to reduce iPhone prices.
Apple has seen a 15% fall in revenue from the handsets in its latest financial quarter.
But can you remember how we got to a point w…
Pupils should be banned from taking smartphones into school, the minister for school standards in England has told the BBC.
Nick Gibb spoke out ahead of the government publishing new guidance for schools, expected to address internet sa…
As of September 2018, the top 10 tech companies in the U.S. had spent a total of $4.7 billion on healthcare acquisitions since 2012. The number of healthcare deals undertaken by those companies has consistently risen year-on-year. It all p…
New research out of Stanford and New York University took a look at what happens when people step back from Facebook for a month.
Through Facebook, the research team recruited 2,488 people who averaged an hour of Facebook use each da…
I know first-hand how frustrating it is to get locked out of your Google account and to lose access to much of your online life. I’m hoping this simple work-around will help get you get through the account recovery process much faster th…
Fourteen years after unveiling its first location in New York, Nintendo is finally opening an official store in Japan, too. Nintendo Tokyo will be located in Shibuya Parco, the new flagship of the Parco department store chain. Nintendo To…
Google is working on a way for Chrome to do a better job of spotting fake websites that seek to trick people into handing over personal information.
It is concentrating on websites that use letters and numbers to approximate a recognise…
A web browser warning that said the Daily Mail's website failed to maintain "basic standards of accuracy or accountability" has been changed.
The newspaper had complained that the NewsGuard plug-in gave its Mail Online website a negativ…
Apple revoked Google’s ability to offer its employees internal-only iPhone apps, likely causing significant disruption to the search giant.
Apple was punishing its rival for breaking its developers' policy, a day after it took the same …
Nokia warned of a soft start to 2019 before a better second half for its fifth-generation (5G) mobile network technology, sending its shares sharply lower on Thursday.
The outlook eclipsed fourth-quarter results that beat profit and sal…
"We haven't been paid for three months."
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, Jesus Jones were a successful indie band, with hits like International Bright Young Thing and Right Here, Right Now.
Now older, the band have other jobs but…
Sprint Corp on Thursday reported fewer-than-expected losses for phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill on a net basis and beat quarterly revenue estimates, as the U.S. wireless carrier has focused on improving profitability.
Sprint, w…
Uber is suspending its professional taxi service in Barcelona from tomorrow almost a year after it re-entered the Catalan capital.
The move follows the regional government agreeing new regulations for the vehicle for hire (VTC) secto…
In the wake of TechCrunch’s investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook’s Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down. The Research app asked users for root network access to all data passing through their…
American Airlines and Apple Music have closed a deal that would give passengers access to the full library of Apple Music songs on AA flights.
Apple Music’s more than 50 million songs will be available on any domestic American Airli…
A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the help of a sophisticated spying tool called Karma, in a campaig…
Apple Inc plans to cut the price of some of its flagship iPhones for only the second time in the device’s 12-year history, pegging its retail value to past prices in local currencies outside the United States instead of the rising U.S. dol…
Ford Collaborates with Gravity Sketch to Explore New Tool for Designing Vehicles to Meet Customers’ Needs
* Ford is the first automaker to work with Gravity Sketch – a 3D virtual reality tool that enables designers to come up with…
Children "remain an afterthought" for leading social media companies, England's Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has said.
And she has written to the biggest companies, urging them to commit to tackling issues of disturbing cont…
Facebook is halting a scheme that gathered highly personal data from paid volunteers, after it was exposed.
TechCrunch said participants - including those aged 13-17 - had been paid up to $20 (£15.30) a month to open up their phones to …
IN 2013, when Creative Arts was added to the Ministry of Tourism and culture by the NDC administration, it was welcome news for players in the sector because they felt it would finally bring attention to the industry after years of neglect…
SAP will take a restructuring charge of up to 950 million euros ($1 billion) to reshape its business after growth slowed in parts of the software maker over the last three months.
SAP, Europe’s most valuable technology company, will rea…
A co-ordinated global cyber attack, spread through malicious email, could cause economic damages anywhere between $85 billion and $193 billion, a hypothetical scenario developed as a stress test for risk management showed.
Insurance cla…
Verizon Communications Inc on Tuesday missed quarterly revenue estimates, but added almost twice as many new wireless subscribers as analysts expected.
The company forecast that adjusted earnings per share for this year would be similar…
Facebook's popularity among children fell during 2018, according to the media regulator Ofcom.
It has published its annual report looking at the types of services and devices children in the UK are using.
Its report suggests 72% of 1…
Apple has acknowledged a flaw in its FaceTime software that allowed for brief eavesdropping - even if the recipient did not pick up.
In some cases the target iPhone could send video without the receiver's knowledge.
The company said …
WeChat isn’t the only one doubling down on lite apps. Ever since China’s messaging titan introduced “mini programs” two years ago, a handful of its peers including Alibaba and Baidu have followed with their own manifestations.
Ali…
Samsung Electronics said Sunday it will replace plastic packaging used for its bevy of products from mobile phones and tablets to home appliances and wearables with paper and other environmentally sustainable materials like recycled/bio-b…
More than £190,000 a day is lost in the UK by victims of cyber-crime, police statistics show.
More than a third of victims in that period fell prey to the hacking of social media and email accounts.
Action Fraud said £34.6m was repor…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveying solution enables quick and easy collection of detailed data on busy highway in Hungary
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that the YellowScan Surveyor from YellowScan has utilized Velodyne’s gro…
nCipher Security Delivers Trust, Integrity and Control to Business Critical Information and Applications
Newly formed organization preserves competition and ensures continued innovation in general purpose HSM market
nCipher Security,…
Hundreds of popular cars - including four of the five best-selling models in the UK - are susceptible to "keyless theft", new research claims.
Consumer group Which? found the Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Golf, Nissan Qashqai and Ford Focus w…
Former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg has told BBC News Facebook should pay more tax outside the US, at his first public appearance as the tech giant's head of communications.
It was "unbalanced" that most of Facebook's $4bn [£3bn…
A Volvo Cars joint venture has won approval to begin hands-free testing of its software for self-driving cars on Swedish highways, partner Veoneer said on Monday.
Veoneer said the Zenuity joint venture’s software for Level 4 autonomous …
China’s fast-paced growth has resulted in it being one of the most extremely flexible nations in terms of technological integration into existing infrastructure. With its relatively newer institutions and organizations, China can easily ad…
Smartphone numbers are down. In 2018, global shipments dropped 3 percent, and while the long-promised arrival of 5G will help numbers get back into the black, IDC predicts that even then growth will be in the low-single digits.
With a…
French startup Lydia now lets you share your Lydia sub-accounts with other people. The company wants to make it easier to manage money when you’re traveling with friends, sharing an apartment with someone and more.
When Lydia introdu…
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that resurrected a billion-dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp that dates to 2010.
Google urged the high court to rule its copying of Oracle’s J…
Blocking ads could become much harder if Google makes proposed changes to its Chrome web browser, warn developers.
The changes could "destroy" ad-blockers, said one maker of widely-used blocking software.
Others said the update would…
A trove of internal documents have revealed how Facebook was concerned children were spending large amounts on in-app payments without parents’ permission - but seemingly chose not to act.
Discussions showed the firm decided not to impl…
China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on Thursday said it could become the world’s biggest-selling smartphone vendor this year even without the U.S. market and as global scrutiny of the firm intensifies.
The bullish forecast contr…
Twitter is testing a new tag that will make it easier to parse who started a thread. The new feature, which is starting to pop up for some users, makes it easier to find posts from the original tweeter within a thread, but may also help cu…
A year ago, Facebook-owned WhatsApp officially introduced its standalone app aimed at small business customers. Today, the WhatsApp Business app has grown to reach 5 million business customers, the company says. And now it’s making the app…
US tech giant Microsoft has confirmed that its search engine Bing is currently inaccessible in China.
Social media users have expressed concern that the search engine might be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
Chin…
Amazon is experimenting with delivery robots, starting with a little truck called Scout which is taking to the pavements in Washington State.
Six of the autonomous electric trucks will deliver parcels "at walking pace" round Snohomish C…
China’s cyber watchdog said on Wednesday it had deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps, and it criticized tech giant Tencent’s (0700.HK) news app for spreading “vulgar information”.
The Cyb…
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