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The Arcade Awards ’14 – Nominations

Forget the Oscars! What’s a Tony? Emmys are so last season! The Arcade Awards make their triumphant return and we’re kicking things off as always with the nominations. It’s important to us here at TheArcade.ie that you the reader have your say and we’re keeping it that way – you can nominate three candidates per […]

Entrepreneur Swallows Pill For Data Tracking

An entrepreneur from Melbourne is willing to put his health at risk for the love of his new app. Chris Koch has consumed a device inside a tablet this afternoon as part of a competition to promote his business Pop! and to prove a point: that you can keep track of your data anywhere including your stomach! “It […]

The Google Doc Will See You Now

The internet is a dangerous place to get medical advice but it looks like Google are trying to bring an end to all the misdiagnosis through people searching their symptoms on the internet and arriving at the wrong conclusion. An image posted on Reddit recently shows a Google search for knee pain, with an option for […]

Your Very Own Personal Holodeck

Whether you find gaming on smartphones, PC’s or even  inch LCD screens too confining then Microsoft’s RoomAlive might be for you. It turns your whole room into a gaming environment. Similar to that of a Holodeck. RoomAlive was actually developed two years ago under the less attractive titles Beamatron and IllumiRoom. Microsoft bring together two […]

Would You Give Up Your Child for Free Wi-Fi?

In a strange prank experiment, security firm F- Secure in London offered parents free wi-fi in exchange for their children. This experiment was designed to highlight the trust that people put into public hotspots, with the security form not only succeeding in getting their children, but also their credit card details and their passwords. In […]

Microsoft Announce Windows 10

The Verge have reported that Microsoft appears to be skipping Windows 9 entirely, with the launch of Windows 10 as the latest version of its operating system. Ironically, one of the exciting feature of this new product is one that defined former software, as Windows 10 will include the long-awaited return of the Start menu. […]

iOS 8 Bug Could Delete your iCloud Documents

After a rough few weeks for Apple with Bendgate and the disaster that was iOS 8 rollout it looks like things aren’t going to get any better for poor Apple. MacRumors has reported that a particularly nasty bug in iOS8 could potentially erase iWork documents stored in iCloud. It has also been reported that the […]

eBay to Split up with Paypal

eBay has recently announced that it plans to split its Paypal business into a separate company by 2015. The move has been backed by a minority shareholder Carl Icahn for sometime though his initial proposal failed in April of this year. Once they are separated, Devin Wenig – the current president of eBay Marketplace will […]
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