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7digital Launches Music, Video Download Store in Ireland

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 9, 2007 - 3:36pm.

London - Digital media delivery firm 7digital on Wednesday announced the launch of a dedicated digital music and video download store in Ireland. The store will offer songs from major and independent label artists in MP3, WMA and AAC formats, at bitrates up to 320kbps. The company partnered with Universal Ireland on a launch promotion that will see over 700 back catalog titles reduced in price to about $10 (Euro 7.77), a discount of about $4 (Euro 3.00). London-based 7digital also provides digital music delivery for O2, MSN, Last.fm, Yahoo and others.

tags: Video | Music | DRM | 7%% | Ireland | Universal Ireland |

Activision to Acquire Game Development Software Firm DemonWare

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 20, 2007 - 11:29am.

Santa Monica, Calif. - Video game publisher Activision will acquire Ireland-based DemonWare, a developer of game creation software, Ireland's Sunday Independent reported.

tags: Games | Deals | Acquisitions | Activision | Ireland | DemonWare |

Napster Mobile to Launch on O2 Ireland Next Month

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2006 - 12:16pm.
Los Angeles - Napster announced on Tuesday that its Napster Mobile service will debut in Ireland next month for O2 Ireland's 1.6 million subscribers. The service is hosted by Ericsson and will offer Napster's catalog of over 3 million songs, artist images and ringtones. Napster Mobile is also slated to launch in Portugal with mobile operator TMN.
tags: Launches | Mobile | Mobile Music | Music | Europe | Ericsson | Napster | Ireland | O2 |

Ireland's Magnet Broadband to Offer Ruckus Wireless IPTV Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 6, 2006 - 6:17am.
London - Ruckus Wireless, a provider of wireless digital video delivery over home networks, said on Monday that Ireland-based broadband provider Magnet Entertainment will deploy the company's wireless digital TV service. The Magnet service will offer 66 channels of IPTV in addition to video-on-demand that can be streamed over a wireless home network.
tags: Ruckus | Ireland | Magnet Broadband | Wireless IPTV Service |

Casual Games Developer PopCap Opens Offices in Ireland

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 1, 2006 - 7:41am.
Seattle - PopCap Games, a developer and publisher of casual games, announced on Wednesday that it has opened an international office in Dublin, Ireland. Seattle-based PopCap said the new facilities will host a development studio and also serve as a hub for its European and Asian business activities. Localized versions of PopCap games are slated to launch in some foreign markets this quarter, and international versions of its website will launch in the first half of the year.
tags: Games | Developer | Open | Office | Casual | PopCap | Ireland |

Ireland's High Court Says ISPs Must Identify Music File-Swappers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 27, 2006 - 8:12am.
Dublin - The High Court of Ireland this week ruled that Internet service providers in the country must turn over the identities of subscribers alleged to have used file-sharing networks to commit copyright infringement, according to a report from Digital Rights Ireland, a digital civil liberties group. The Irish divisions of the major record labels monitored file-sharing networks using a program called MediaSentry and obtained the IP addresses of suspected file-swappers. They then asked the individuals' ISPs -- Eircom, BT Communications Ireland and Irish Broadband -- turn over the identities of these subscribers. Justice Peter Kelly called file-sharing "a modern form of thieving," ordered the ISPs to turn over their subscribers' identities to the record labels, and suggested the labels pass on that information to criminal prosecution authorities.
tags: Law | Music | ISP | Ireland | File-Swappers |

Media Lab Founded by Ireland and MIT to Close Doors

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 18, 2005 - 8:23am.
Dublin -- Media Lab Europe, an Ireland-based research facility founded by the Irish government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recently announced that it will shut down due to financial difficulties. The lab said it made the decision after failing to raise another $13 million from the Government, which has already poured more than $45.6 million into the project. In the past, the lab has relied investment from both the public and private sectors, securing millions of euro from the likes of Orange, Eircom, AOL and Ericsson. It was hoped that the lab would be eventually become self-sustaining using revenue from patents and licenses, but financial support has dwindled. Industry experts say the news could strike a serious blow to Ireland's efforts to attract more technology investment, as the lab, established five years ago to promote Irish research, had been set to become the centerpiece of the capital's digital hub business zone.
tags: Ireland | Media Lab | MIT | Close Doors |

Yahoo U.K., Ireland Offer Free Space to Boost Internet as Ad Vehicle

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 14, 2003 - 7:35am.
London -- In a move to entice advertising agencies into spending more money on online adverts, Yahoo UK & Ireland is offering 30,000 pounds worth of free advertising space. The move builds on efforts by the Internet Advertising Bureau to drive further growth in the sector. Last week, the IAB launched an advertising campaign in the U.K. to attract marketers not yet involved with the online world.
tags: Internet | Yahoo | U.K | Ireland | Vehicle |