Google is preparing to launch a photo service that won’t rely on Google+ in any way. Apparently, this standalone photo sharing and storage service will be unveiled at Google IO 2015.

Cork City Hall is to host a major MTV event later this year, it has been confirmed.

A third jobs announcement sees another 100 roles created in the IT field today.

The MTV reality show - which focuses on the lives and loves of a group of hard partying guys and girls in Newcastle - will begin filming eight new 60 minute episodes this summer.

BP PUMPED cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, hoping to start sealing it for good a day after it forced a slow torrent of heavy mud down the broken wellhead and pushed the crude back to its underground source.

P. Diddy is previewing his new material at a free concert.

LONDON taxis are the best in the world, according to a poll of worldwide travellers out yesterday.

CORK-based DigiSoft.tv is set to launch an internet protocol television (IPTV) product next month into a market which will attract up to 100 million subscribers by 2010.

A US chip technology company has chosen Ireland as the location for a top-class research and development centre, creating up to 20 jobs.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Neuralab Limited, a subsidiary of Elan, seven patents for the companies' joint research on immunotherapeutic approaches to the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

Japanese lorry maker Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation today announced it was recalling as many as 45,000 vehicles because of a faulty wheel part which police are investigating in connection with dozens of accidents, including a fatal one.

Fashion giant Calvin Klein have announced that actress Scarlett Johansson will be their autumn fragrance campaign.

e-Security solutions expert, Baltimore Technologies, has announced that it has been awarded a contract to supply Hongkong Post with its UniCERT technology.