Data retention plans cause considerable uneaseThe Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources has expressed grave concerns about the negative impact and high…Mon Jun 23 2003 - 01:00
Multifunctional mobiles open up new realm of possibilities for work and funConsolidation and aggregation - these have been the hype words of the technology industry for some time now.Fri Jun 20 2003 - 01:00
Museum with high-tech attitude invites involvementNet Results: At first glance, the room looks like, well, a roomFri Jun 13 2003 - 01:00
Lobby condemns data storage plansPlans by the Government and others to store records of all phone and mobile calls, emails and internet usage "will result in …Mon Jun 9 2003 - 01:00
Technology shows flair in dealing with disabilityNet Result: Playing around with an "avatar" a computerised, animated character which can represent you onscreen in cyberspace…Fri Jun 6 2003 - 01:00
Court threat for State over data privacyData Protection Commissioner Mr Joe Meade has twice threatened to begin High Court proceedings against the Government for using…Mon May 26 2003 - 01:00
Game on in battle to revive PC salesNet Results Games - often ignorantly derided as solely the weapons-and-gore territory of teenage boys - may well end up as this…Fri May 16 2003 - 01:00
Digital media firms adapt to the new market realityIf you want two signs of how much the digital media business has metamorphosed in the past three years: consider its size and…Fri May 9 2003 - 01:00
Primary lessons in partnershipIrish charity Suas has linked up with Gatoto primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, to introduce technology to its pupilsFri May 9 2003 - 01:00
Techs set for tough yearAlmost nine out of 10 Irish software companies believe growing revenue will remain a difficult challenge in 2003, while three…Thu May 1 2003 - 01:00
Get away from it all with some Net funSo we have a war, a recession, a strange Asian respiratory virus, a health service in crisis, woeful public transport, a new …Fri Apr 4 2003 - 01:00
Geek punishment: are you ready for the Linux test?Until recently, the view was that Linux was too difficult to install and use for the average computer userFri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
Trying to make a living out of open-source softwareThree years ago, a flurry of articles came out weighing up whether open-source operating system Linux could survive its growing…Fri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
State's data website a model of confusionNet Results: Rather quietly, the Department of Justice launched a website this week to lay out its stall on data retention and…Fri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
IBM partnership proved match made in heavenTwo moments in Linux's shift to mainstream corporate operating system stand out.Fri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
Flying the Java flag in high windsIn the world of computing, technology standards bodies are the glue that keeps the user experience a relatively smooth one, writes…Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:00
Dell gets into supercomputers with desktop clustersDell, best known for direct sales of personal computers, has quietly glided into the clustering market, where the big processing…Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:00
Connectivity in the palm of your handNet Results: I know some people will scoff - you know who you are, you killjoys - but there are times when you're on the move…Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:00
Don't believe State on data retentionNET RESULTS: Don't believe everything the Government tells youFri Mar 14 2003 - 00:00
University of Limerick starts to flex its software R&D musclesPlassey House, a serene 19th-century wealthy merchant's home, gazes down quietly on broad lawns and forests that slope towards…Fri Mar 14 2003 - 00:00
Atypical designer aims to create new sort of graduateNothing about Mikael Fernstrom is typicalFri Mar 14 2003 - 00:00
Intel launches new chipIntel is manufacturing parts of its new Centrino family of chips, launched yesterday, at its Leixlip, Co Kildare, microchip fabrication…Thu Mar 13 2003 - 00:00
Project aims to create smarter video DCU centre is researching specialised techniques to search and edit video footageWish you could flop into a chair at home after a long day's work and instruct your television set to show you only the news items…Fri Mar 7 2003 - 00:00
Move to retain phone call data deploredThe Irish Council for Civil Liberties has criticised a Cabinet direction last April ordering phone companies to retain the telephone…Thu Mar 6 2003 - 00:00
State's broadband failings highlighted in new reportThe Republic has sunk to 51st place on the World Economic Forum's global index of broadband availability, according to a new …Mon Mar 3 2003 - 00:00
Open-source software could halve cost of State's technology projectsGovernment could halve its costs for large technology projects by using open-source software, according to the organisers of …Fri Feb 28 2003 - 00:00
TDs vote with their feet as new system is infectedComputer hackers looking for opportunities to sabotage the State need look no further than the Dáil voting system.Fri Feb 28 2003 - 00:00
State secretly retaining phone dataThe State has had a secret data retention regime for almost a year, after the Cabinet confidentially instructed telecommunications…Tue Feb 25 2003 - 00:00
Business forum seeks Irish inputA student-run alternative to Davos that regularly attracts the world's best-known business leaders is hoping to increase Irish…Mon Feb 24 2003 - 00:00
Consultation over data Bill is a farceThe Department of Justice has rather novel ideas about how to conduct a public consultation process.Fri Feb 21 2003 - 00:00
Geek chic is just what a Valley gal needsNet Results: To me, a gal who spent her formative years in the heart of Silicon Valley, nothing brings home the fact that I …Fri Feb 14 2003 - 00:00
Salesforce Foundation linking business to communityFoundation encourages firms to invest time, skills and money to helpothers.Fri Feb 14 2003 - 00:00
You can run but you can't hide from GoogleNET RESULTS: Chances are, you've been googledFri Feb 7 2003 - 00:00
Dublin comes last in e-listDublin lies just one off the bottom of the list as an e-commerce hub when compared to 13 global cities of similar size, according…Wed Jan 15 2003 - 00:00
New weblog software on wayNewbay Software, a privately-funded start-up headed by a former Baltimore Technologies executive, is to offer software that enables…Wed Jan 8 2003 - 00:00
Communication must be Minister Ahern's keywordBUSINESS OPINION: Hands up, anyone who remembers that Minister Dermot Ahern deals with anything other than fish and quotas.Mon Dec 30 2002 - 00:00
Firms focus on putting accounting rules in placeEnsuring responsible accounting rules and procedures is now a core business strategy of British and Irish companies, according…Fri Dec 13 2002 - 00:00
On the 12th day of Christmas my true geek gave to me...NET RESULTS: For the last Net Results of 2002, I spare you a political rant, an overboiled opinion piece, a sniping attack - …Fri Dec 13 2002 - 00:00
McDowell rejects article on data retentionThe Minister for Justice has described as "misleading" an article in yesterday's Irish Times which revealed plans to retain detailed…Fri Nov 29 2002 - 00:00
Space, the final frontier for the tourist adventurerForget canoeing over waterfalls in New Zealand, scuba diving among sharks in Fiji, or white-water rafting in AfricaFri Nov 29 2002 - 00:00
South Korea shows the way on broadbandGovernment spent millions helping create the world's most advanced telecoms network, writes Karlin LillingtonFri Nov 22 2002 - 00:00
War on liberties escalatesSomeone please explain to me why, in the name of freedom and liberty and an open democracy, we should have to watch the superpowers…Fri Nov 22 2002 - 00:00
Camera phones from O2 availableMobile phone operator O2 has officially launched its media messaging service (MMS) and new camera phones capable of taking and…Tue Nov 12 2002 - 00:00
Australian Net libel case highlights need for harmonising lawsWhen a computer user in Australia reads an article on a news website based in the United States, where has the article been "…Fri Nov 8 2002 - 00:00
Broadband better happen soon or you'll never hear the end of itIn Britain, BT has gone after the market in a much more serious waydespite the fact that most people don't yet understand why…Fri Oct 25 2002 - 01:00
The true entrepreneur puts failure down to experienceOne of the founders of Nua, a company whose dotcom era struggles became the subject of endless media interest, Niall O'Sullivan…Fri Oct 25 2002 - 01:00
Chorus licence to be revokedTelecommunications regulator Ms Etain Doyle will revoke Chorus's wireless internet licence and remove some of the wireless service…Sat Oct 19 2002 - 01:00
Electronic vote poses big security riskNET RESULT: Last May, during the general election, the State experimented with electronic votingFri Oct 18 2002 - 01:00
Britain shows way on cheap broadbandHere's irony for you: Microsoft is testing the online gaming capabilities of its Xbox console on its own internal network in …Fri Oct 11 2002 - 01:00