Phablet-touting losers shouldn’t stop the showOpinion: pea-brained owners of devices create rude and relentless distractionThu Sep 18 2014 - 01:00
Hang onto your headsets folks, the virtual reality revolution is almost upon usKen Perlin, who gave us special effects we take for granted today, looks at what will be ‘normal’ nextThu Sep 11 2014 - 01:40
A journalist’s job is not to be a fanThe idea of an audience of journalists and analysts giving a standing ovation at a product launch is, frankly, alarming. The job of a journalist is not to cheerlead, but to ask hard questionsThu Sep 11 2014 - 01:00
The naked truth about the risk of taking nude selfiesCome on, famous people. Simply keeping your clothes on solves the problemThu Sep 4 2014 - 10:51
Postcodes at last but random numbers don’t address efficiencyIreland is to finally get postcodes next year but their illogical format is causing controversyThu Sep 4 2014 - 01:20
Time for compulsory kill switch to deter smartphone thievesThe state of California passed the first law in the US making the feature mandatory on all smartphones sold from July 2015Thu Aug 28 2014 - 01:00
McKennas take the hybrid book and app approach to their guidesThe publishers of restaurant guides say adapting from print to digital offers as many opportunities as challengesThu Aug 21 2014 - 01:15
Digital ‘detox’ is a pointless cop-out – just learn mannersWhy do we need to go retro in this era of technology?Thu Aug 21 2014 - 01:00
Hospital patients are entitled to privacy even in hard timesMedical information is considered sensitive personal data – except in examination roomsThu Aug 14 2014 - 09:16
CTO shows how big data is more than just a numbers gameEven Barack Obama goes to this supremely qualified big data expert for adviceThu Aug 7 2014 - 01:20
Stop blaming companies for using legal tax systemsApple's profits might bypass tax coffers of the US and UK, but it doesn’t mean the money is goneThu Jul 31 2014 - 11:53
Good enough really isn’t good enough for meBlaming technology - skype, iPods and more - for sliding down the quality slopeThu Jul 24 2014 - 09:44
Landmark Safe Harbour case might affect US-European tradeMax Schrems’s case against the Irish Data Protection Commissioner is likely to have profound implicationsThu Jul 24 2014 - 01:10
UK data law is good news for Ireland’s tech sectorPrivacy advocates Digital Rights Ireland succeeded in challenging Irish data retention lawsThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:01
Bong and chips? Silicon Valley’s Intel museum holds a deep, techno archiveThe Intel jingle and artefacts of the firm’s evolution make for a compelling displayThu Jul 10 2014 - 01:20
Forget costly broadband – go roaming with a quality mapUsing mobile data abroad is due to fall by 2016 but I won’t give up on my paper mapsThu Jul 10 2014 - 01:00
Third tech wave reflects vibrant Irish-Silicon Valley linksFounders of tomorrow’s big names are talking up IrelandThu Jul 3 2014 - 13:52
Absence of agreed ‘DNT’ definition means companies keep tracking us onlineSelecting ‘do not track’ means little when there is no legal requirement to observe these settingsThu Jul 3 2014 - 01:00
US ban on drones over parks delights wilderness loversSome 84 million acres are now off limits to remote-controlled aircraftThu Jun 26 2014 - 01:00
Crowdfunding revolutionises venture fundingFunding from the bottom up, via crowdfunding, means many expert eyes can perform due diligence on a company, says Dan MaromThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:10
Aer Lingus offers a new connection: wifi on my transatlantic flightThe price is a bit steep, the service can be patchy but nothing kills time like the webThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
Developers will have to get used to closed mobile ecosystemsThe big three mobile players, Apple, Google and Nokia/Microsoft want to lure users and app developers into locked-down worlds where purchases and services are channelled through their platform offeringsThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:10
Hurrah for Vodafone, boo for the governmentThe Department of Justice has released figures suggesting about 10,000 requests are made to all operators for retained dataThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:00
Ireland could learn the lessons of social entrepreneurshipStudents who opted for a course which focused on Ireland as real-world case study are here to present their findingsMon Jun 9 2014 - 01:10
Google takes first step to enable ‘right to be forgotten’ECJ ruling means Europeans may request to have links relating to them removedThu Jun 5 2014 - 01:00
Cold look at the future sees a very different cast list in businessCisco chairman John Chambers does not expect many of today’s biggest tech firms to surviveThu May 29 2014 - 01:15
Our Foreign Direct Investment people can afford to smile after big swing to UkipAfter last week’s elections multinationals are likely to find Ireland increasingly more attractive in a key area: access to the European marketThu May 29 2014 - 01:00
Transatlantic divide on digital policyIf policy differences on data protection and net neutrality are not resolved, it’ll leave Ireland and Britain in a messThu May 22 2014 - 01:10
Differing definitions of net neutrality spells big troubleThe US regulator is effectively diluting true net neutralityThu May 22 2014 - 01:00
Data protection needs to be taken seriously or we will payPresence of so many established computing, technology and internet companies increases need for actionThu May 15 2014 - 15:08
Analysis: Google takes another hit with EU privacy rulingsTaken with last month’s ruling, this is a serious setback for internet companiesWed May 14 2014 - 01:01
Will investors in Twitter eventually see it as a failure?Karlin Lillington believes we’ll have to wait and see if a business model does eventually emerge for online servicesThu May 8 2014 - 01:00
Halting internet fragmentation tops agendasGrowing censorship, the threat of data controls and unequal access pose serious challenges to webThu May 8 2014 - 01:00
Internet under fire from states seeking to control informationEvents in Ukraine dominate discussions as delegates gather for fourth annual Freedom Online conferenceThu May 1 2014 - 11:28
US and Europe caught in spiral of hypocrisy over SnowdenKarlin Lillington argues nations must recognise they cannot continue to call Edward Snowden a traitor and refuse him a safe return to the US, or an offer of asylum elsewhereThu May 1 2014 - 01:00
Government leaders call for more open and secure internetGovernments have suffered blow to credibility following Snowden revelations, conference toldMon Apr 28 2014 - 15:46
‘Only EU can take a stand on privacy’A recent ruling has ended data retention, says Jan Philipp Albrecht, but digital privacy remains an issueThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:05
Silicon Valley’s time to be satirised has truly arrivedMike Judge’s new sitcom has ruffled feathers in California’s tech communityThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:01
Online fraud – why Heartbleed isn’t the only cyber threatIt isn’t so much what’s being done, as how it’s being doneThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
Back to square one on data retentionBut data retention is likely to return - in a carefully revised formThu Apr 10 2014 - 01:00
European Court of Justice strikes blow for data rightsAnalysis: Irish court challenge central to ECJ decision on EU data retention directiveWed Apr 9 2014 - 01:00
Analysis: ECJ ruling is a true David versus Goliath victoryDecision to invalidate the Directive could not come at a more relevant moment hereTue Apr 8 2014 - 10:52
2013 dubbed year of mega data breaches as attacks soarNew study shows a 62 per cent increase in data breaches last yearTue Apr 8 2014 - 10:32
Civil liberties at risk in the digital ageGarda taping scandal defies quaint old logicThu Apr 3 2014 - 01:01
Armoured malware the latest threat to defencesA more sophisticated form of hacking uses an extra sheath of code to get at your digital informationThu Apr 3 2014 - 01:00
Yahoo’s Dublin move gets it away from UK’s spying eyesCompany has been at the centre of two major Snowden surveillance storiesThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:10
TED’s been keeping it short and sweet for 30 yearsTED began in 1984 and has expanded into two annual conferences, as well as smaller, locally organised talk events in over 150 countriesThu Mar 20 2014 - 01:00
‘Just because it is legal doesn’t mean we should do it’US intelligence figures say Europe is acting ‘mock surprised’ at leaks on NSAThu Mar 6 2014 - 01:10
EU privacy rights derided in land of the free accessNet Results: to many Americans, data protection is a roadblock to enterprise and innovationThu Mar 6 2014 - 01:00
Security experts point to ease of access for bitcoin thievesRSA conference hears bitcoin exchanges are easily compromised by malwareFri Feb 28 2014 - 09:37