Category Archives: technology
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
Acer’s latest laptops have byte
In the week that the Apple Ipad finally went on sale Piers Dillon-Scott reviews the best new laptop on the market…and surprisingly it isn’t the Ipad Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, is no fan of netbook laptops. Back in January, when he introduced the Ipad, Jobs made one simple point about netbooks, “They’re slow, [...]
New Media, New Responsibilities?
Some three years after The Guardian redeveloped its website to include new media the site is still leading the way in online reporting. But this does not mean that it always get it right. In 2007 a Reuters photojournalist, Namir Noor-Eldeen, was killed in Iraq after being fired upon by a U.S. helicopter gunship. The [...]
Online Journalism
Surprisingly online journalism is nothing new- in 1981 the San Francisco examiner went online. At $20 to download the paper (most of which which was spent on just the phone call) it was not a revolutionary it was not revolutionary it was an important step online. Thirteen years later in January 1994 the Palo Alto [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
Three Screens and Glowing Rectangles
An article in Time Magazine some years ago reported that new media will “make radio as obsolete as the horse” and destroy the American cinema industry. Children will not need to go to school as classes will be brought directly into their homes and Presidential candidates will use it to win elections. The article was [...]
Viruses attacking Irish Websites
Irish websites are being attacked by a series of sophisticated viruses, the website hosting company Digiweb warned today. The company has advised customers, whom it believes have been attacked, that their website passwords have been compromised. In an email sent to customers who have been attacked the company said, “As part of an ongoing investigation, [...]