Think before you tweet or risk being a twitNET RESULTS: With your tweets open to all there should be compulsory classes on Twitter etiquette, especially for sporting figures…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Businesses in Ireland caught off guard by 'data explosion'IRELAND AND Russia have scored at the bottom of an independent survey that measures how effectively and efficiently large organisations…Fri Jan 13 2012 - 00:00
Start-up fund attracts interest in the ValleyENTERPRISE IRELAND’S Silicon Valley office is receiving eight times more calls from people in the region interested in establishing…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Facebook faces up to the data commissionerThe Irish regulator’s prompt report called for improvements, but wasn’t overly criticalFri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Looking back, facing forwardAs a new year begins, we asked the founders and chief executives of six indigenous technology companies about how business went…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Patent lawsuits back in fashionLITIGATION IS nothing new as a business tool – even the ancient Greeks had laws protecting trademarks.Fri Dec 30 2011 - 00:00
The year of living dangerously onlineNET RESULTS: EVERY YEAR in the technology sector, certain stories and trends stand outFri Dec 30 2011 - 00:00
I fought technology and technology won. Yet againNET RESULTS : Once more I am defeated by a pile of unread technology books, a crammed inbox and un-updated appsFri Dec 23 2011 - 00:00
Great gift ideas in books for technology enthusiastsNET RESULTS: IF YOU are thinking about books for someone in your life who enjoys technology, or are looking for a good read …Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Your Country, Your Call: 'It would have been easy but wrong to give up'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Your Country, Your Call? The competition developed by Martin McAleese, promising a €100,000 prize and up…Sat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00
Recalling backwater that tech firms love to call homeNET RESULTS: When small I lived in a quiet town with a funny name. Palo Alto later grew into a tech nirvanaFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Limerick brothers have earned their StripeTwo young Irishmen are building a ground-breaking business which allows prompt addition of a payments system to a websiteFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Multinationals' tax filings may be about to get a big shake-upThe search for ways to repatriate more profit to the US could well cause dismay in IrelandFri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
East coast cool, West coast cooler?START-UPS US: Silicon Valley in California and Wall Street in New York are polar opposites, one a centre of money and banking…Fri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
Memory Lane changes as time passes - even for digital archivesNET RESULTS: We tend to think the internet will store its own content forever. We are very wrongFri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
Wired in to developing needsAs NetHope celebrates 10 years, CEO Dr William Brindley explains how the organisation tackles issues of the developing worldFri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
Be warned - there's no such thing as a free appNET RESULTS: Depending on what app you download, your smartphone might send off your Facebook ID, e-mail or phone numberFri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
Laying down my book to discover a virtual collectionNET RESULTS: While the notion of using an e-reader never appealed, I decided one day to take the plungeFri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
Copy this: looser copyright laws make better business senseNET RESULTS: Less confusing and constrictive legislation would encourage homegrown start-ups and foreign investmentFri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
Anchoring theory to a Smarter productA US researcher is looking at better ways of analysing huge streams of data at IBM’s new ‘collaboratory’ in DublinFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Web reveals its real magic as time travel becomes a breezeGenerosity of one woman in Wisconsin helped me trace generations of family historyFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Oracle head scores own-goal in exiling rival from forumNET RESULTS: The ridiculous spat ended up being one of the more talked about sideshows of the eventFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Using new methods to tell Irish science storiesMary Mulvihill is using the internet and apps to bring science stories to a new audienceFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Tiny college capitalising on No1 rankingNET RESULTS: A little institution with a large reputation is enjoying its lead over well-known university rivalsFri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
The serious side to having internet firms based hereNET RESULTS : Expect the Irish data protection office to have to carry out more audits like its current one on privacy on Facebook…Fri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
A prickly and utterly compelling manTRIBUTE: THE FIRST time I saw a Macintosh, it barely seemed possible it could really be a computer.Fri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
Making a virtue of social media strategyBusinesses are advised to convert trading opportunities into ongoing relationshipsFri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
'Fake' reviews on TripAdvisor a real problem for hoteliersNET RESULTS: Many in the hotel industry hate the website, but the public seems happy with its ‘crowdsourced’ review model…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Start-up financing secured for online gaming developmentSERIAL GAMES entrepreneurs Hugh Reynolds and Dr Steven Collins have successfully completed a €2Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Space not so remote as Trekkies turn techiesNET RESULTS: It is no coincidence that many gadgets today look suspiciously like things from ‘Star Trek’Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Doctor Who lands at IntelIntel has assembled a team to figure out what technologies will be like 20 years from nowFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
On the track of those missing e-mails from an old domainNET RESULTS: I have a ridiculous emotional attachment to an e-mail address I have used since we first got ISPs in the 1990sFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Rethinking our search for spin-off successARE WE looking in the wrong places to support the growth of spin-off companies? New Irish research on the biotechnology sector…Fri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Savvy ferry firms wake up to net benefits of free WiFiThe modest cost of providing free internet can be easily recouped in customFri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Visionary at Apple's core leaves void in his wakeANALYSIS: Steve Jobs built great technology into our lives. He made devices that were cool and sexyFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
How Apple's uncompromising frontman held us all in his thrallCOMMENT: FOR YEARS after Steve Jobs’s return to Apple in the late 1990s, people would camp out overnight on the pavement in …Fri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
HP presses all wrong buttons over TouchPadNET RESULTS: The company has seemed confused and unsure of its identity – even more so now after jettisoning its tabletFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
How QR is raising the barcode in marketingIreland is 10th biggest user of the electronic communication code scanned by mobilesFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Taking a trip way down technology memory laneNET RESULTS: FOR CHEAP entertainment, you can't beat cleaning up your home office - although I am afraid that going on my experience…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Keeping medical records in-houseWHEN REPORTS surfaced recently that medical record transcriptions for Irish patients from Tallaght hospital had fallen into third…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Star-gazing and science for all the familyA range of events across the country offers activities both for children and adultsFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Don't blame tools of social media for how people use themNET RESULTS: Technologies are neither good nor bad. They don’t have political opinions, they don’t take sidesFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Ireland crazy about social networking, surveys showWith so many people divulging personal information, safe use of social venues should be a priority in this countryFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
A driving ambition to winWhat do student competitions like Microsoft’s Imagine Cup mean for the winners?Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Sligo students display their imagination in the Big AppleNET RESULTS: A road safety project drove Team Hermes from IT Sligo to a memorable Microsoft Imagine Cup finalFri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Unlocking an answer you won't find on GoogleTrying to clone Silicon Valley, Google’s home, is easier said than doneFri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
Technology has its perks, especially in Silicon ValleyNET RESULTS: The venture folks are feeling flush with the prospect of a string of initial public offerings this yearFri Jul 01 2011 - 01:00
Ushering in era of opennessThe installation of an open source guru has signalled an unexpected U-turn for MicrosoftFri Jul 01 2011 - 01:00
Silicon Valley chiefs in pay gains we can only gag overNET RESULTS: With Ireland steeped in financial woes, chief executives in top US technology firms are raking it inFri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
