Crossing new borders in pursuit of Seamus HeaneyDoctoral study of poet opened the door to technology and the internetThu Sep 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 Sep 5 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 8 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 1 2013 - 01:00
‘Secret sauce’ for web image searchesSearching for images or video could be about to get a lot easierThu Aug 1 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 4 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 4 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
‘New era of smart’ focuses on exploiting Big Data to improve the urban living experienceDublin is playing a role in the IBM Smarter Cities initiative which aims to help us better manage our resourcesThu May 23 2013 - 02:00
Release of more data is a good thing for citizensA successful open-data ecosystem, however, depends on organisations releasing useful sets, whether they charge for them and, if they do, how muchThu May 23 2013 - 01:00
Remaking an educational publishing giantFormer White House CIO Brook Colangelo has turned his attention to harnessing technology for educationThu May 16 2013 - 01:01
Chris Hadfield’s use of social media made space seem less alienI don’t think we – the people of Earth – have felt as connected to, or excited about, a space programme since the ‘Apollo’ moon landingsThu May 16 2013 - 01:00
Bright ideas to bring IP into the digital ageProf Ian Hargreaves’ influential report into the UK’s intellectual property (IP) system has generated much discussion globallyMon May 13 2013 - 01:01
What Big Data can tell you about your genome – and why it mattersFaster computing power means that decoding work on the human genome can now be done in hoursThu May 2 2013 - 06:00
Big data is watching youBusinesses are mining huge volumes of data to find out where we are, what we’re like and what we’re doing. In the first of a series, we ask if big data is a benefit or a threatSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Harvesting the songs of nature to plead for its futureUniversity of Limerick computer scientist Mikael Fernström collaborates with humans and bees to make sweet musicThu Apr 25 2013 - 08:02
Mobile technologies can bring cost savings and efficiency gains to policingTechnologies are opening up new ways of on-the-move workingThu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
The more the internet changes, the more it stays the sameMany aspects of an analytical piece about online issues from 1999 could have been written this weekThu Apr 18 2013 - 06:00
My name’s Karlin and I have social media personality disorderOr how I juggle Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+ and the rest – with limited successThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
Project Moonshot: a giant step forward for HP?Road not smooth for HP in recent years, but firm optimistic about new server technologyThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
Bringing tax to books in an online culture battleEbooks are more expensive here than in the US and a European move to change this could have far-reaching implicationsWed Apr 10 2013 - 06:00
Law enforcement agencies learning to tackle challenges of social mediaPolicing social media must be balanced against privacy protections, argues UK expert David OmandThu Apr 4 2013 - 09:00
Net Results: Time for PayPal boss to get a bit more slouchyLouise Phelan’s suggestion that staff should be genuflecting to their employer is disturbingly DickensianThu Apr 4 2013 - 06:00
Net Results: Digital economy begins with teaching kids coding‘Learning how to programme teaches you how to think,’ said Steve JobsThu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00
Hadfield’s space odyssey widens social media orbitThanks to the captain of the International Space Station, we earthlings are getting to know about life in space and gaining a view of our own world from a different angleThu Mar 21 2013 - 12:36
Immigration policy must target entrepreneursOpening the doors to skilled talent will boost economies on both sides of Atlantic, says leading academicThu Mar 21 2013 - 06:00
Businesses alert to major concern that is securityAs cyber threats get ever more complex, the need to address them becomes more pressing, writes Karlin LillingtonThu Mar 14 2013 - 06:00
Time for the EU to forget ‘the right to be forgotten?’What worries the US most, of all the elements in the proposed data protection regulation from Brussels?Thu Mar 14 2013 - 00:00