Sixty-four per cent of businesses intend to upgrade their online presence in the next 18 months, with the Irish online market predicted to grow to €21bn by 2017.
With photos shared on social media and down-to-earth video interviews, Commander Chris Hadfield is surely inspiring many young people to become astronauts and to work in other areas of the space industry, writes Colm Quinn.
Breaking via The Mire wire: Leinster House goes wild photocopying arses, free GP care for healthy citizens, and FG TDs insult each other for Twitter practice.
Google is the first major company to let people decide what happens to emails, photographs, blogs and social networks if their account becomes inactive.
Some of the numbers are staggering, such as how social media discussion of certain brands grew nearly 1500% after ads for those companies ran during the London Games.
IRELAND ISN’T GENERALLY known as a country of protesters but in recent months rallies against abortion legislation and ongoing austerity have become more common.
A new tactic has brought demonstrators to the the homes of politicians, seen most recently outside Enda Kenny’s Castlebar house. The Irish Independent reports that 15 people – some of them clad in white shawls and wearing skeleton masks.
Speaking in Cork at the weekend, Sinn Féin’s deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald condemned the practice. According to the Irish Examiner she urged campaigners against household and water charges not to present themselves at the family home of a politician.
But at the same meeting one demonstrator argued, “These people have brought the war to every single home and family in this country. We’re bringing the war right back to them.”
What do you think? Should protesters demonstrate outside politicians’ homes?
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