Monday, March 1st, 2010
We’re moving away from video for this piece but as you’ll see images will still be quite important. Sony Playstation sent out a press release earlier today declaring it had tested the public’s honesty as part of the launch of it’s new game PS3 game Heavy Rain. Any kind of research story by a corporate [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Canon opted for an Oscar inspired theme for the launch of their latest line of cameras, Villa81 didn’t dress for the occasion but we did bring our own camera along to see what they had to offer.
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Villa81 headed over to BETT, the top dog in educational technology trade shows. Samsung, Ricoh, and O2 were among the exhibitors at the event.
BETT concludes on the 16th of January.
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Villa81 proudly announced the launch of a new interview segment through our Twitter page last week. The Blitz is a new rapid fire interview segment where we will ask questions submitted by our viewers to leading figures in business and IT.
The first subject facing the camera will be Ronan Gallagher who is the Strategy & [...]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Villa81 dropped down to the Piano Bar in Dublin for the launch of the Samsung Pearl White. The phone, which is being branded as the Cara White in Ireland, is available exclusively on 3 and is clearly aimed at the female market.
Our girly gadget reviewer Kate Fitzgerald will be taking a closer look at the [...]
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Sony gave a sneak peak of Heavy Rain, a narrative driven game due out next year. We were able to try out a couple of scenes in the game before sitting down with the game’s executive producer Guillaume de Fondaumiere.
The game is due out early next year, by which stage hopefully Sony will release more [...]
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Central Data Bank has launched a new online back up service for mobile phone data. The service, which uses software developed by Funambol, was launched in the Conrad Hotel yesterday and our cameras were there to get the low-down on the offering.
The service is available from the 29th of April onwards.
This report can also be [...]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Dell launched their 11g range of servers, which feature Intel Nehalem technology, but there was a limit to what the PC maker was able to say about the technology’s impact on their products.
So there’s still an element of uncertainty of the impact Nehalem will have but Dell’s announcement only furthers the hype its receiving from [...]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) launched the Stokes Cluster at the Royal Irish Academy on Thursday. Villa81 was there to find out why this new supercomputer, Ireland’s largest, is important to Irish researchers.
To put it bluntly this is a big device. There’s a whole host of large numbers to scare you with but [...]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Canon launched its new range of products at the Radisson in Dublin on Wednesday and Villa81’s cameras were there to see the best of the new cameras on offer.
You may have noticed that we didn’t make Matt take that camera out of the goldfish bowl. That’s because we have something better in mind.
Canon claim the [...]
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