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A Bookshare Valentine’s Day Love Story

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

They exchanged more and longer phone calls and emails. One night they listened to the Fellowship of the Ring movie on the phone until 4 in the morning. By then they were collaborating on projects to add more books appealing to young boys, holiday books, books about Ireland, Scotland and Wales, mysteries, and science fiction.

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How to Develop a Cloud-Based Integrated IT System: ENCLUDE in Ireland

Tech Soup

This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. He has spent much of his career doing front-line community development among deprived communities in Ireland and Latin America, mostly with the Jesuit Order. Foundation Nepal: A Case Study.

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Samsung’s new partnership offers another glimpse of a drone delivery future — in only one Irish town

The Verge

In Oranmore, a small town in County Galway, Ireland, you can now get a taste of a possible, instantly-gratifying drone delivery future. A Samsung phone getting packaged for shipping with a Manna drone. Image: Samsung. Image: Samsung. Amazon began testing its drones in the United Kingdom after receiving regulatory approval in 2016.

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Instagram tests letting people run their own personal fundraisers

The Verge

Instagram will soon allow people in the US, UK, and Ireland to raise money for their own personal causes. The company is launching the feature today as an initial test on Android phones, with iPhones to follow, after already making personal fundraising available to Facebook users. Image: Instagram.

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Google faces new antitrust lawsuit over Google Play Store fees

The Verge

The full complaint, which you can view here or at the bottom of this article, lists the defendants as Google, Alphabet, and subsidiaries in Ireland and Asia. Android has typically been seen as less of an antitrust threat than Apple’s iOS, since it does not require Google Play as the sole source of software on the phone.

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Google Pixel’s lock screen Snapchat shortcut is here

The Verge

Quick Tap to Snap, a Google Pixel feature announced in October that lets you open Snapchat directly from your lock screen by tapping twice on the rear of the phone, is arriving as part of the Pixel’s latest feature drop. . | Image: Google. Image: Google. The Sound Amplifier feature in action.

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UK carrier EE introduces EU roaming charges following Brexit

The Verge

Customers will not be charged an extra fee to use their phones in the Republic of Ireland, EE says. The 47 European destinations include EU member states, plus other locations like the Canary Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, and Vatican City. EE’s decision makes it the first UK carrier to introduce roaming charges post-Brexit.