The perils of operating in a brave new digital worldNET RESULTS : Hacked computers? We all know about that problem, and it’s scary enoughThu Mar 7 2013 - 00:00
Nevada rolls the dice on online gamblingEurope may be debating how best to manage online betting and gambling companies and their profits, but – in what will hardly …Thu Feb 28 2013 - 00:00
Time for jammin' sessions in theatres and concert hallsWe’ve all heard it. During a wedding or a funeral. At a tense point in a play. In a quieter moment of a symphonyThu Feb 21 2013 - 00:00
Helping business to make the most of social mediaFor American social media and business consultant and educator Mark Schaefer, it really all began with a blog and a tweet.Thu Feb 14 2013 - 00:00
Revolutionary use of social media changes Arab worldEver since some people started calling elements of what came to be known as the Arab Spring, the “Twitter Revolution”, the actual…Thu Feb 14 2013 - 00:00
The art of fusing science with music and performanceA section in Douglas Repetto's website is simply labelled "Strange Things"Thu Feb 7 2013 - 00:00
Less money going to start-ups now than in last three yearsFor start-up technology companies, securing venture capital is generally seen as a solid sign of a company's potentialThu Feb 7 2013 - 00:00
US visa reform holds vital lessons for Irish economyI’m not sure what’s in the Washington water at the moment – silicon? – but for some reason, they’ve gone geek-happy on Capitol…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
Ireland turning to data centresIreland is the fastest rising nation in its region for data centre use and sophistication, according to an independently-produced…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
Getting wifi networks up after disaster strikesIrish charity busy rebuilding wifi networks in disaster zonesThu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
In sickness and in health, the webdoc will see you nowNET RESULTS: We’ve all been there, I thinkThu Jan 24 2013 - 00:00
A middleman in the great internet copyright debateRobert Levine is attacked on all sides in the polarised online piracy debate because he’s so reasonableThu Jan 24 2013 - 00:00
Young scientists who inspire faith in the futureNET RESULTS: The cab driver grew animated when I said my destination was the BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition in…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Computer recycling partnership clicks for Oxfam and RehabIf you’re looking for a laptop or desktop computer, but are keeping a close eye on costs, Oxfam and Rehab may have an answer …Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
An old art form gets technology better than many businessesNET RESULTS: I’ll come clean right away: I did not manage to do an ounce of work on Monday.Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
Full on and full up: Digital agenda overflowing for the year aheadTECHNOLOGY: From copyright to patents and from finance to visas there’s a lot to play for in the digital worldFri Jan 4 2013 - 00:00
Boldly going where other gamers have gone beforeIf you want to see a particularly intriguing vision of the future of gaming be sure to get over to the Science Gallery at Trinity…Thu Dec 20 2012 - 00:00
Getting an accurate read on the world of technologyHere’s my pick of the best technology books of 2012 – and a few timeless classics to bootThu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
When dropping out might be right choice for studentsMany university faculty members would be disconcerted to have their doctoral students give up on their degrees, but Stanford …Thu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
Serious issues set to surface at Dubai internet gatheringNET RESULTS: This week promises to be a sticky wicket for the internet. Sorry, but I couldn’t resist the punThu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
Apps are sparking latest computing paradigm shiftNET RESULTS : In Palo Alto two weeks ago, my mother and I joined longtime family friends for a pre-Thanksgiving dinnerThu Dec 6 2012 - 00:00
Keeping the unseen infrastructure behind UK banking on trackIt handles ¤6 trillion annually and pays out 95 per cent of the salaries in the UK, but few people have heard of VocaLinkThu Nov 15 2012 - 00:00
Death of the small ad breathes life into online obituariesNET RESULTS: Once upon a time, the classifieds were surely the most mundane part of a newspaper, those little legal notices …Thu Nov 15 2012 - 00:00
When an endorsement becomes a nuisanceHave you been endorsed? Chances are you have, if you have a LinkedIn accountThu Nov 8 2012 - 00:00
From little Acorn grew an angel investor with an eye for the next big thingAfter playing a pivotal role in the development of personal computing, Hermann Hauser now heads up one of Europe’s major venture…Thu Nov 8 2012 - 00:00
4G mobile broadband will not be a fast track to progressTHE DEATH of 3G has been greatly exaggeratedThu Nov 1 2012 - 00:00
Keyboard players create laptop orchestra in DublinNET RESULTS: ‘WE MAKE music with lots of laptops, hands, golf controllers, a wireless router, and anyone that plays..Thu Oct 25 2012 - 01:00
Women CIOs take the leadWHILE THE number of women in top executive positions internationally remains low, there seems to be a less-daunting glass ceiling…Mon Oct 22 2012 - 01:00
Web Summit must adhere to standards in privacy protectionNET RESULTS: IN JUST two years, the Dublin Web Summit has become one of the top conferences on the technology calendarThu Oct 18 2012 - 01:00
Cloud could deliver a silver lining for OracleOracle may well be about to prove itself a winner in offering a range of public and private cloud solutions to companies searching…Thu Oct 4 2012 - 01:00
Steve Jobs is dead a year but Apple has gained in strengthFOR MANY of the hundreds of journalists attending Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco this week, sitting in the working press room…Thu Oct 4 2012 - 01:00
Oracle makes new move into cloudOracle moved firmly into the cloud computing arena yesterday, announcing new products and services that chief executive Larry…Mon Oct 1 2012 - 01:00
Ireland's part in ensuring tougher standards on data privacyNET RESULTS: THANKS TO an Irish report issued last week, Europe gave its clearest indication yet that companies whose business…Thu Sep 27 2012 - 01:00
Smartening up searchingGOING TO a search engine like Google and typing in a query may seem reasonably straightforward to the person doing the search…Thu Sep 27 2012 - 01:00
Ireland urged to strengthen data protection regulationsTHE STATE was urged to advance regulations on the protection of electronic data during its EU presidency by the European Commission…Tue Sep 25 2012 - 01:00
Politicians in anti-Google street protest should get on their bikesTHE PERNICIOUS influence of Nimbyism – the “not in my backyard” brigade – isn’t limited to upmarket residential neighbourhoods…Thu Sep 20 2012 - 01:00
Technology makes sign language's beauty more apparentNET RESULTS: OVER THE summer my cousin married someone who communicates in a different language and comes from a different culture…Thu Sep 13 2012 - 01:00
Publishers can't afford to lose the e-book plotE-BOOKS MAY BE one of the fastest growing areas of publishing, with online bookseller Amazon reporting it now sells more digital…Thu Sep 13 2012 - 01:00
Phone directories now almost as svelte as our mobilesSoon only businesses and public services will have fixed linesThu Sep 6 2012 - 01:00
The banks were right not to lend to tech firms in the boomTHE CENTRAL Bank’s highly critical report on the Irish banking system was a shocking portrait of just how much money banks were…Thu Aug 30 2012 - 01:00
On course for the cloudA postgraduate course at the National College of Ireland’s new Cloud Competency Centre is one of the few worldwide that focus…Thu Aug 30 2012 - 01:00
Reversal of fortunes at Apple and MicrosoftONE OF the most curious – and telling – juxtapositions in Silicon Valley occurs, rather unexpectedly, in Palo Alto’s upscale …Thu Aug 23 2012 - 01:00
US venture capital spend prompts hope and pessimismNET RESULTS: WHEN IT comes to venture capital investment in the US, it’s one of those glass-half-full versus glass-half-empty…Thu Aug 16 2012 - 01:00
Bidding in web domain auctions is not for the faint of heartNET RESULTS: IT BEGAN with an e-mail from a scam artistThu Aug 9 2012 - 01:00
A parental code that gets adults talking the languageLIKE A lot of adults who have heard about CoderDojo ( CoderdojoThu Aug 2 2012 - 01:00
At home with the idea of fibre-optic cable to every housePresident Obama’s first internet czar, Susan Crawford, wants to ensure that the internet makes it possible to start businesses…Thu Aug 2 2012 - 01:00
Ahead of his time, Turing's pardon is now long overdueTHE GREAT British mathematician, second World War codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing has become one of the heroes…Thu Jul 19 2012 - 01:00
Festival of Science in the City has the formula for fun for allThe film taken by an eavesdropping, camera-mounted drone is mesmerising as well as eerieThu Jul 12 2012 - 01:00
Promoting equality in the workplace pays offNET RESULTS: JUST OVER a decade ago, Richard Florida, then an economic development professor at Carnegie Mellon University in…Thu Jul 5 2012 - 01:00
The $33 billion philanthropistFRIDAY INTERVIEW: As chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes runs a complex, highly visible and…Fri Jun 29 2012 - 01:00