The workplace culture that is holding women backWomen make up most of our graduates but remain poorly represented at senior levels in businessThu Nov 14 2013 - 15:11
Intel turned Leixlip into Ireland’s Silicon ValleyIntel was a step-change because of its scale, which would require massive buildings and infrastructureTue Nov 12 2013 - 00:30
Copyright has to change – the hard question is howHuge business issue is also social and cultural milestoneThu Nov 07 2013 - 01:01
Warrior charges towards internet of everythingCisco’s Padmasree Warrior is as good with people as she is with technologyThu Nov 07 2013 - 01:00
Eugene Kaspersky’s roadshow on cyber-nasty woes of modern lifeKaspersky Lab, one of the top four global security firms, warns about the threat of cyberwarfareThu Oct 31 2013 - 01:00
Oversight of spy activity is years behind the technologyAn inquiry will decide if US snooping laws are ‘fit for purpose’Thu Oct 31 2013 - 01:00
Directive to send strong signal on data protectionSince revelations by Edward Snowden, MEPs increased protection on access to dataThu Oct 24 2013 - 01:00
Net Results: Web is not a pet project for animal groups but a lifesaverThe arrival of Facebook has been a transformative animal welfare developmentThu Oct 24 2013 - 01:00
One moment in time for tech storiesNet Results: Finding a little 20-year-old time capsuleThu Oct 17 2013 - 01:00
Academia reaches out into wider worldProblem-solving is a key part of innovation. Some of the most creative solutions are sparked in real contextsThu Oct 17 2013 - 01:00
Fewer than 140 characters in Twitter – chances are they’re all maleNet Result: The misogyny in Silicon Valley has been a prominent topic in recent weeksThu Oct 10 2013 - 15:26
Finding the hidden patterns in big dataFrom medical research to reducing retail food waste, analysis of huge data sets has invaluable applicationsThu Oct 10 2013 - 01:00
There’s gold in them there tweetsIBM’s Californian research centre is finding valuable information for marketers in social media messagesThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:00
Emigration can be lifeblood for the young, and the economyWishful thinking that tiny country can employ all of its young, educated, globalised generationThu Oct 03 2013 - 01:00
Oracle nips off to boat races as iPhone rings up profitOne took to the high seas and the other to Twitter, but Larry Ellison and Tim Cook both kept schtumThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:25
OpenWorld buzz despite missing Ellison keynoteOracle chief opts to watch crunch America’s Cup yacht race instead of attending company eventThu Sept 26 2013 - 01:00
Oracle president says sales of ‘engineered systems’ on the riseServer revenue down 14 per cent to $669m at technology companyWed Sept 25 2013 - 01:00
Oracle president says sales of ‘engineered systems’ on the riseServer revenue down 14 per cent to $669 million at technology companyTue Sept 24 2013 - 08:58
Oracle prospers despite European crisisTechnology giant’s EMEA operations has benefited from drive to reduce IT costsMon Sept 23 2013 - 11:15
As anyone familiar with Oracle founder Larry Ellison knows, he doesn’t like to loseKarlin Lillington: No one in tech industry can count on smooth sailingThu Sept 19 2013 - 01:00
Breaking Moore’s Law – silicon reaches the bounds of possibilitySilicon chips are expected to hit peak performance by the end of the decadeThu Sept 19 2013 - 01:00
Crossing new borders in pursuit of Seamus HeaneyDoctoral study of poet opened the door to technology and the internetThu Sept 12 2013 - 01:22
Has the rock star CEO finally left the tech business?It can be catastrophic for companies to be associated with one name and then lose that leaderThu Sept 05 2013 - 01:00
Corporate venture capitalists return to technologyVCs lose ‘dumb money’ tag after poor investment decisions during dotcom boomThu Aug 29 2013 - 01:00
For the man who thought bigger was better – it was time for Steve Ballmer to goBallmer tripled revenue at Microsoft since he replaced Bill Gates in 2000Wed Aug 28 2013 - 18:54
Internet privacy breaches sound alarm bells for worried businessesDifferences between EU proposals on data protection and those in the US raise a number of questionsThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Irish businesses ignoring potential net profitsSeventy per cent of €3.7 billion spent online in Ireland annually goes to companies outside the countryThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Should we care if Google reads our emails?Opinion: Google automatically parses your private emails to better target you with ads. This act is the subject of a US class actionFri Aug 16 2013 - 01:00
Jeff Bezos could be journalism’s shot in the armEven Carl Bernstein believes there is great possibility in the future of the ‘Washington Post’ under the Amazon founder’s ownershipThu Aug 15 2013 - 01:10
Dropbox sees huge potential in EuropeFast-growing Dropbox, which has its HQ in Dublin and Bono and Edge as investors, has become a tech company to watchThu Aug 15 2013 - 01:00
Dell still eager for battle to remake the company that bears his nameOne-time PC kingpin latest to try to refocus business to make up for past mis-steps in face of decline in demand for PCsThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
Web has all the ingredients to be greatest recipe bookNet results: many of us increasingly turn to the web for cooking ideasThu Aug 01 2013 - 01:00
‘Secret sauce’ for web image searchesSearching for images or video could be about to get a lot easierThu Aug 01 2013 - 01:00
State agencies target Irish phone and internet recordsUp to 10,000 requests for information made annually in Ireland – compared with just 326 for AustriaThu Jul 25 2013 - 01:00
Politicians were derided long before social mediaNet Results: one of the more ludicrous sideshows in the online bullying debate was the regularity with which politicians made the story all about themThu Jul 25 2013 - 01:00
State and business get aggressive in privacy battleCompanies are aware they will lose customers if data is steered into the NSA’s mawThu Jul 18 2013 - 01:00
Dropbox to start hiring ‘aggressively’ in DublinContent sharing company to establish dedicated European support centreThu Jul 18 2013 - 01:00
Douglas Englebart’s mouse lives on even after his passingValley pioneer outlined his idea in 1968, years before the arrival of the PC or the internetThu Jul 11 2013 - 01:15
Data privacy battle plays out before European courtAs Snowden revelations put retention and use of data in the spotlight, case will determine whether European directive is legalThu Jul 11 2013 - 01:00
Facebook policy on friends’ data is no friend of privacyDiscovering that information I never even offered to Facebook potentially has been made available to strangers is infuriatingThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Some European states likely to put pressure on US over breaches of citizens’ privacyWe want to know clearly what has been going on, says justice commissioner RedingThu Jul 04 2013 - 00:00
Rerouting data to avoid prying eyesTwo investigative journalists published articles offering evidence that Echelon also had been used for industrial espionage by the USThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:42
Wayra Ireland: ‘It’s bringing together high-value people. They are raising the bar for start-ups’Telefónica supports entrepreneurship through start-up accelerators in 13 countries and the first Irish group has just graduatedThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
It’s good to talk in public about privacy and data protectionFundamental privacy and data protection rights are not negotiable, says Viviane RedingThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Please, Facebook, enough with the tacky belly fat adsLet’s hope the online advertising market eventually lifts enough to price bottom feeders out of the web ad businessThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
EU says US should use existing rules to request citizens’ dataEU vice-president and US attorney general meet in DublinSat Jun 15 2013 - 01:00
Spamalot reigns: the spoils of Ireland’s EU kingshipProposals for amendments to proposed new data protection regulation overwhelmingly favour business and big organisationsThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:15
It is not the fact of surveillance but its sheer scale which shocks most in the Prism affairIreland falls into ‘less surveilled’ category, but information is gathered hereMon Jun 10 2013 - 00:00
