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• Movie code reveals Iron Man was made of Lego (Irish Independent)

  Published January 14, 2014

  A huge amount of work goes into the sets, costumes and special effects we see in films and television programmes but a software developer’s new blog reveals that, when it comes to technology, corners are often cut. John Graham-Cumming takes screenshots of scenes which include computer code and looks into the software’s real function. What […]

• BT Sport to show FIA World Rally Championship (Recombu)

  Published January 14, 2014

  All stages of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) are to be broadcast exclusively on BT Sport. Coverage starts this Wednesday. The broadcaster has rights to show all 26 stages of the championship including the opener, the famous Rallye Monte Carlo. The BT Sport WRC programming will run across BT Sport’s three channels, BT Sport […]

• BT Openreach hires ex-HSBC exec as new CEO (IDG)

  Published January 14, 2014

  Joe Garner will replace Liv Garfield as the new CEO of Openreach in the coming months, where he will be responsible for heading up the UK’s national roll-out of superfast broadband. Garner previously worked at Dixons and Procter & Gamble but was most recently HSBC Head of UK banking. Garner also chairs the Financial Services […]

• Business leaders make up biggest users of social media (Silicon Republic)

  Published January 14, 2014

  Ireland’s business leaders are among the largest social media users in the country, according to a new report. In the survey by law firm McCann Fitzgerald, people at the top of Irish businesses are much more likely to be active on social media than the average person. The survey of 250 heads of business compiled […]

• Motive Television moves towards US tablet TV service (Digital TV Europe)

  Published January 14, 2014

  UK-based TV technology firm Motive Television is gearing up to launch a tablet TV service in the US, after signing a deal with South Korean manufacturer Ecopro for the production of a proprietary antenna-tuner called ‘T-Pod’. Motive and its partner Granite Television Corporation said they are “progressing further toward consumer testing and launch of Tablet […]

• Creative industries generate £8m per hour for UK (The Drum)

  Published January 14, 2014

  Figures released from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) reveal that employment in the creative industries is increasing at a higher rate than any other sector in the UK economy,. The creative industries, which include advertising, marketing, design and publishing, accounted for 1.68 million jobs in 2012 – 5.6% of all jobs in […]